Newbiew question about Infantry firefights.

[Mobhack]

Originally Posted by Hawkeye Fierce

Great post, Andy, thank you. I hadn't realized that the manpower difference in squads was so great. A follow-up question on using tanks/ACs as mobile machine guns - should they be kept in the open or in ambush points? I'm never sure how to have my armor deal with enemy infantry.

If there is no anti-armour response then you can stand out in the open. For a while anyway till the arty starts to arrive.

Unfortunately, you only find out about hidden ATG when they fire in the enemy AI turn, usually. It tends only to opfire hidden ATG in your turn if the to-hit chance is good enough to bother - ie at rather short ranges.

Defensively, then I tend to deploy the support tin cans at coy HQ and fire-brigade them to where needed usually via the road network. Currently fighting a Nationalist Chinese LC, and I use BA-20 or such. Fast on roads, and I regularly shoot off all 120 rounds in a game against the other warlords and Communists. I have even reloaded these from arty ammo trucks on occasion!.

Andy