Retreat?...No, just redeploying in a tactical way!

[pdoktar]

Or something like: "first vehicle gets hit by a tank gun in a road, do not push four more through the same exact hex.." This is how usually the AI loses all it´s expensive MBTs and IFVs and the battle is kind of over.

[narwan]

Tactical retreats should be done 'leap-frogging'. The units pulling back should pass by others further back who are holding their position. Since they haven't moved, they can shoot with max accuracy at anything following up the pull back.The units pulled back can now redeploy behind the covering units giving them similar protection.

This is another reason for keeping a mobile reserve force, to allow you to set up a blocking position through which the frontline units can pull back.

[Lt. Ketch]

I've reciently employed the famous "fighting retreat" the Russians used in WW2 in a battle. Set up a position, shoot the nose off anybody that happens to see you and when they wip their head back around the courner, go find a new place to hide. When they come back to take you out, you're gone and they have to do the whole thing all over again. Works great. They can't go charging in or lose tremendous causalties and if they plot artiliery, you're often out of the area before it falls.

[PopskiPPA]

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