Points for Assault battle ?

[Imp]

Okay I misunderstood your post in that case
"For ww2 games in particular you should not forget that mobile formations have little place in a defend battle. The vast majority of defend missions are static battles which should be fought with infantry and supported by non-mobile units. You don't need many AFV's at all."

Good grief now I think we are nit picking a bit as you know the flags could represent many things depending on placement.

I would say the groups forward are there to channel into the kill zone & track them, perhaps with some units that remain quite & close the exit the general idea is once they get in thet dont get out & would require a book or 2 to go into in detail with the options.

The simple answer is sitting on the flags is the safe sensible option.
The higher risk in my view option is what I described. But if pulled off correctly is far more destructive, they can't quite & run.
Remember time is often a factor & hence speed of destroying as Soviets regulary attacked in waves, once first is exausted the next takes over. But if the first wave is vapourised human nature might cause them to rethink & those few minutes let you regroup. But now we are heading into the strategic realm.

As my final comment on the subject if the terrain allows & obviosly it is tailored to it you can indeed win with this strategy, its slightly riskier but hey its a lot more fun than just sitting there. Also you get some amusing e mails when things seemed to be going so well & you just destroyed a tank company in one turn. Then got most of another one in his following turn. Sort of blunts the attack.

It is actually more effective/easier in MBT especially if have a few troops with decent RPGs to support & tanks have a greater choice of terrain they can hide in as more accurate so can be further away. If dont have TI & opponent has Smoke Dis have to plan more carefully.
Because you can set up so somebody has a flank shot it is also an effective way of killing tanks you can't touch from the front. If done properly & one of his tanks moves or fires at least half a dozen of your units will open up from all angles.
They are now in the kill zone.
The added bonus is many players divert much of there arty to you but as kill fast when it hits you are gone, very important after 1980.

But you are obviosly very good at tactics & may not fall for it most do. I am new to the club & working my way up the ladder. If I do well against current opponents I will be reasonably on the way to feeling I could give you a decent game. A while away yet as have picked up some bad habits from playing easy players before joined the blitz but I am sure we will have a game he says confidently. I am expecting to get slaughtered at some point & find a lot of tactics suddenly wont work. Sort of like playing the AI then having your first PBEM & realising most of the stuff you knew just went out the window.