Forcing Bridges against ZOC

[Dog Soldier]

The difference in PzC (compared to FWW F14) is the defenders can bring up a counter attack force of armor and keep it out of LOS of the enemy crossing the river. Holding back precious air strikes by the defender will help, if they become available at just the right time.

The critical thing for the defender to do is to disrupt all attacking units crossing the river in that first turn when they are vulnerable in travel mode, The defender must weigh whether his counter assault on the enemy stack will be effective enough to disrupt any remaining good order enemy units. The key to this assault on non-disrupted enemy units is a judgement how strong those crossing units are defending at 1/4 of their assault value.

The same principle described above in this thread for the attacking side to soften the defenders first applies to the defenders to repel those units crossing the river. As much artillery, air strikes, and direct fire as possible needs to be directed on the crossing units so the final assault will at least leave all of them disrupted and unable to mount assaults in their own turn to widen the bridgehead.

As in real war, it just depends on the situation, what you have at hand, and how much of a wager you want to make on that final assault. You will only get one shot against a good attacking player.

Dog Soldier