What are your most hated "Gamey" Tactics

[Listy]

I must stick my hands up to one silly game, although I've known the guy I was playing for years, we first started out PBEM games on the MkI SP..

as a Joke I did an Airdrop, with a Challenger 1 being kicked out the back of a Hercles...

[MacGalin]

What about laying massive suppresion fire on defenders, then driving APCs to adjacent(is that the right word?) hex, or even the hex occupied by defenders, and immediately asaulting with infantry? Is that considered gamey?

[troopie]

MacGalin said:
What about laying massive suppresion fire on defenders, then driving APCs to adjacent(is that the right word?) hex, or even the hex occupied by defenders, and immediately asaulting with infantry? Is that considered gamey?

No that's the way Koevoet operated. The cars open fire on the target with everything they carried, and if you've ever just seen pix of Koevoet in action, that's a hang of a lot, and come in close. Then they leap down from the cars, Casspirs or Wolf Turbos, and go in close with R-5s grenades and everything else. The shock of getting that much fire from so close usually made the Swaps bombshell or surrender.


With Koevoet type vehicles, that is NOT recommended against tanks.

troopie

[DRG]

MacGalin said:
What about laying massive suppresion fire on defenders, then driving APCs to adjacent(is that the right word?) hex, or even the hex occupied by defenders, and immediately asaulting with infantry? Is that considered gamey?

No, that's considered a mech infantry assault. Suppressing your enemy then moving in for the kill is SOP.

What used to be "gamey" was players who would do that then hop back in their APC's and pull back afterward. With the changes to the loading/unloading code that's now pretty much impossible

Don

[FJ_MD]

Ask the Chechens in Grozny how to get the upper hand against mech infantry and tanks attacks! Poor Russian soldier and tankers....

[MacGalin]

Heh, I thought so, but one time my opponent called me a cheater for doing that, so i just wanted to be sure . Besides, loading the units up and driving away was stupid, and led to much higher loses - i checked that agains the AI. Good that now it's impossibe.

[mscano]

Capturing victory hexes with trucks or crews.

[Pergite]

mscano said:
Capturing victory hexes with trucks or crews.

Well, if you cant defend them I guess it doesnt take much effort in capturing them then?

Most gamey tactics I guess stems from poorly determined objectives. Putting a unit in a special hex to earn victory is gamey in it self, unless the hex represents a objective. A special building, a bridge, hill or intersection.

[Dan_UK]

Listy said:
I must stick my hands up to one silly game, although I've known the guy I was playing for years, we first started out PBEM games on the MkI SP..

as a Joke I did an Airdrop, with a Challenger 1 being kicked out the back of a Hercles...

Darn sneaky of you it was too

[IanWilliams]

Versus the AI on the defense I often use the flamethrowers or m202 flash rockets as "perma-smoke" against an oppenent lacking TI.

Is this "gamey" or a legit tatic?

Ian