Defensive Fire ?

[Strela]

I would like to hear your opinions on defensive fire if you are like me and dont fire much at all because it seems to me gives the attacker more opportunity to inflict casualties on your units and when everybody and their brother that has  a line of site to you can fire multiple times at you.

That's one of the challenges - who can bring more guns to the party. This is one of the dilemmas the weaker player has to face, when to reveal himself, when to fire, when to run away.

Think of firing as a macro action, with the intent to stop the enemy from moving forward, there are consequences to trying to do that and it's defensive fire.

I played a number of test games with Dog Soldier of Bluecoat and in one I chose to fire as little as possible to reduce his ability to attrit me. Ultimately it reduced my losses but allowed him to advance further as I didn't activate my zones of control. Everything is a trade-off.

As the attacking player, defensive fire is your friend and it can be the threat of it that forces the other player to decide when to stand and fight and when to not.

David