Erk, Culture shock

[c_of_red]

Originally Posted by Listy

I'm curious, how do you move them through terrain at anything close to a useful speed? Surely advancing at one hex a turn means your attack grinds along and is a sitting duck for arty, and runs the risk of timing out?

Define useful speed. Most players get in to much of a hurry. Even with a max map, you are looking at 160 hexes, which is 80 turns if you can average 2 hexes per turn. Considering you won't start on the near edge nor have to go to the other edge, 30 turns should get you from your LOD to your opponents LOD.
It is like holding the center in Chess. It won't give you a direct win, but it can open up possibilities for other forces.
Does that make it useful?
If you play to the OODA loop, having an Infantry Battalion advancing like a glacier can really mess with your opponents mind. His arty won't be that much of a problem. It will slow you down, but it shouldn't do more then that. Plus you have arty too, I hope.

[Dan_UK]

Yup my M1s got splattered by your airforce. I feel they took out a respectable number of your tanks though considering that the 105 can't hurt them from the front although I did use judicious amounts of smoke and tried to get flank shots where I could.

[secretgeek]

Sounds like there's a good After Action Report here.

[Listy]

Originally Posted by Dan_UK

Yup my M1s got splattered by your airforce. I feel they took out a respectable number of your tanks though considering that the 105 can't hurt them from the front although I did use judicious amounts of smoke and tried to get flank shots where I could.

As I pointed out, your smoke gave my Infantry hiding in the town plenty of cover to sneak up on you.

Originally Posted by secretgeek

Sounds like there's a good After Action Report here.

Sorry I wasn't keeping notes at the time.