Most fluid PzC East Front games?

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Thanks again for the comments.

One is to isolate a unit and hopefully get it to go low ammo as Rick suggests, but then before I assault it, I move back to allow a retreat path for the defenders. They are still down two morale levels at this point and that will usually induce them to probably retreat when immediately assaulted.

This is a clever idea, I hadn't thought about that they'd still be isolated even if they have a retreat path.

If in the open, the unit is now vulnerable to artillery, so this is an ideal time to hit them.

My standard SOP is to open the artillery dialog and fire off all of my artillery at the beginning of the turn against the bunkers, but maybe I will have to reserve a few batteries for this kind of attack.

Engineers can also have a big impact in any assault, but if there is one thing you could use more of its engineers in Fall Kreml. Keep the non-combat engineers for only mine-clearing - never use them in assaults.

heh, I didn't realize that the bau-pioneers sucked at assaulting for a couple of turns--sorry guys!

Finally, if you know there is a single disrupted enemy unit in a bunker, you can break down your battalions into companies (or pairs of companies) to increase the number of assaults on the hex. Each assault will induce half the defenders to surrender and a couple of broken down German battalions can kill even a full Soviet battalion in fortifications in a turn or two.

Interesting...my experience has been that there has to be a certain "critical mass" during these assaults, or they have little effect, although I'm generally talking about assaults where there are 2-3 defenders, rather than single units. Also, I have been generally reluctant to break down units during these huge campaigns because it is so easy to lose track of the subunits in the huge scrum of units, but I will have to experiment with this.