(12-27-2020, 03:08 PM)squarian Wrote: I'm bamboozled and at a loss. Turn 4, Home Before The Leaves Fall, I'm playing German, and I simply do not have an answer to French defensive firepower. German field guns are ineffective, MGs are shot to ribbons attempting to deploy, and any infantry battalion which manages to close to range is disrupted.
The designer notes aren't much help: they refer to the Germans as an "unstoppable steamroller". Oh, yeah? As far as I can see, my best option is to run and hide: fall back out of range of the damn'd 75s and entrench. Is that really how you play this game?
Austro-Hungarians have it even more difficult in some Serbia-scenarios!
What I tend to do is:
1) Approach at night
2) Approach with MGs only within 2 hexes and set them up up. Sounds weird, but as MG companies are very small units, they suffer comparatively few casualties when under fire. So several MG companies concentrated in a single hex have quite impressive fire power and can resist enemy fire really well. Once the enemy is weakened by the concentrated MG fire, charge.
3) Screen and soak up the damage with suicide batallions - have a batalion in front that hopefully draws all the opponent's opportunity fire. Once the opportunity fire is spent, bring forward your attack batalion. However, this tactic only works if you can get really close to the enemy unseen. But remember that unless the opponent is on a hill, you can also use your own units as a line-of-sight screen.
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