[troopie]

Some general advice: If you can lay hands on them, get some real world tactical manuals. The stuff they prescribe really works.

Recce. I cannot overstate the importance of recce. Scouts should precede your advance. If you are defending, have scouts between your positions and the likely enemy arc of advance. It is important to know where the enemy is, it is also important to know where the enemy is not. Scouts should SCOUT, not tangle with the enemy. They're your eyes and ears. If you were a boxer would you lead with your ear? No. They why lead with your scouts.

Maintain a mobile reserve. You will need them for the following reasons: As a fire brigade to plug holes and help where things are going kaklike. To exploit holes in the enemy's line when you are advancing. (Make blerrie sure it is a hole. The AI can be tricky. Here's a good glass of Single malt to Andy and Don for that.) To pursue a broken enemy. It may be only a troop of cavalry or a platoon of footies in lorries, but have a mobile reserve.

Artillery. The Sovs were right, you can never have too much. And ammunition vehicles, even if only ammunition mules. Ammunition is expensive, but men are more so.

Hope I haven't bored you.

troopie