Points for Assault battle ?

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Narwan re mobile forces

I was not talking on the strategic level but about how a Panzer Battalion would deploy.

Map is not quite big enough to do properly unless lucky with terrain but lets assume terrain & flags allow & give a typical setup.
Full width map so defender gets 80 hexes to set up in.

Places troops & ATG a mile or so forward of flags. ATGs generaly set up in kill groups once that tactic developed & the line has holes left in it purposely with routes to flags.

Tanks setup concealed furter back than flags if possible so will not be hit by arty. In a position where they can move to cover the routes to flags.
A few troops set up as spotters to watch for enemy exploiting these routes & inform the tanks its time to roll.

If enemy takes the bait tanks do not counter attack till he has fully commited. If enemy tries to be clever & encircle part of the line rather than pushing on launches attack then encircling the encirclers.

Tanks are not dug in exept in rare cases were the terrain suites as they are then vulnerable to arty air & cannot use their best defence against, moving. The ATG is the static defence against armour.

In reality the best (most sucsesfull) Commanders broke the rules & would set up a lot further forward of the flags to let the Soviets run deep before destroying. This will not work in the game because the player will not do it he will probably go for encircling. But in real life the Soviets were very slow to react & would stick to the plan.

Using the deep plan though the guy I am talking about said he needed 30 MkIVs to wipe out an entire Soviet Tank Regiment on the counter attack with acceptable loses.

For game purposes just launch the attack once the enemy is commited & in the kill zone due to trying to encircle or heading for the flags.

If you think about it a Panzer Battalion only has 3 options on the defence for its tanks
1) Hide them
2) Dig them in
3) Roving force
The Germans normaly choose option 3

The other thing they would do & that is still current German Doctrine is hit & run with the tanks in hopes of gaining the initative as attacker reacts & diverts part of force to where they attack. They have now relocated in the hopes of attacking where the forces have been diverted from.
Rinse & Repeat.

So yes if the unit involved has armour a mobile defence is always the prefered option.

Set this up right with the routes just tasty enough & once he discovers its mine free will tend to run at speed to get chance to encircle & kill your force. Devastating when you pop up & say hello.