48. Seela's Pioneers

[Gerry1]

Hi: Hoping you can give me some tips on winning this. Basically visibility is 5 as it is a night attack. You have some SPW 251/1 with Pioneers but no tanks or artillery. You have one SPW 251/16 Flammpanzer. The town has a bunch of T-34s and ATGs in there so I was not able to overcome them.

1) How far forward do you drive the SPWs? I want to play historically and my understanding is they were mostly to deliver infantry to an area but not get too close due to their weak armor. I read somewhere they should stay say 400m back from the action?

2) How do you use them to scout, if at all, as you don't have armored cars.

3) I dismounted infantry near the town. They have flamethrowers so I went into buildings one hex from the T-34s. But the from the T-34s is very powerful and sometimes routed/pinned etc. the pioneers.

Thanks.