Allieds in Normandy. Need help with combined arms tactics.

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Originally Posted by Stratos

Any series of tips I can follow in order to improve my combined arms tactics? I find really hard to fight in Normandy with all those houses full of enemy troops or the Bocage hiding AT guns. Other closed areas like Italy or Germany itself share the same problem. How should I move on areas like that? Infantry and Tanks at same pace sharing the same HEX? Or infantry a bit forward? If I use the tanks forward I normally lose some them, the same with infantry, the squad gets pinned and normally chopped down. I can't find the aproppiatte tactic by myself so will apreciatte a bit of help on this.
Thanks a lot!

You are right that combined arms tactics is the key. What should go in first?

I'd say a whole barrage of artillery! Artillery is extremely useful in closed terrain fighting. I find mortars good for the purpose since they are accurate enough to avoid (too much) friendly fire. After artillery comes the infantry but with tanks/fighting vehicles working in very close conjunction. Infantry goes in for spotting purposes and to take the first hit the hard way. Artillery helps with both those jobs. Suppressed enemies are easier to spot and shoot much worse. Then the tanks come in to finish the job.

If the enemy don't have good inf at weapons, i.e. hand grenades only it's easy. Then you just need to pin them to avoid close attacks and can safely move up a tank next to it and fire away with good hit percentages. With pzfausts or schrecks, pinned units can be deadly too, which gives the infantry a greater share of the work.

Real life tactics work very well in SPWW2 (that doesn't go for all SP versions though).