France 14 Offensive Tactics

[jim pfleck]

One other point to make is to ensure that you use long range fire to disorder the defense as much as possible. As the Germans, don't stack more than one infantry battalion at a time unless you plan to melee OR if the 75's are at least 3 hexes away--two German battalions shooting at French infantry wears them down quickly.

Like Grumpy was saying, soften up the opponent before you move to melee. You are already rotating your attackers an that is key- over time, it will be harder for the French to keep undisordered infantry in the front line than it will be for the germans, with better ratings.

Also, the campaign scenarios are very different than the shorter ones---the short (30 turns and under) scenarios require attacking hard the whole scenario. The longer ones give you more time to maneuver and wear down your opponent.

The French can be formidable on the attack too, so beware. They melee better and if they have good fields of fire they can wear down the Germans and then smash forward. You see this in part of the Ardennes scenario and Marne scenarios.