cdrCorvusKeil

Hi! Love the first mission of the american campaign! Some hints: **** SPOILER WARNING **** 1. Properly placed footmobile scouts will reward you with early warning of enemy mechanized movement. Try to position OPs with diagonal LOS across the map, this yields contacts deeper in enemy rear than just what's immediately ahead. Scouts hidden inside woods with no line of sights may still reveal auditory contacts to good effect. I dismount at least one of the scout humvees to enable me to man an additional OP, information is the most valuable contribution to the fight from these units. 2. Use UAVs to observe dead ground or suspected lines of advance. I use mostly 400 m lines perpendicular to enemy axis of advance. UAV-operators will be more successful employing precision artillery than scouts, as the scouts more often see moving targets. Hand off control of UAVs to the most proficient spotters and JTAC as they come into play, this may decrease artillery response-time. Use precision artillery for attrition of enemy armor. 3 precision rounds from Paladin usually guarantee a tank kill, IFVs usually require only one. Employ helicopters with area targets in suspected enemy tank positions or lines of advance. The helicopters take time to deploy but can stay on station for some time, and may rack up several kills over time. Deploy them just behind where you plan to engage enemy armor with your tank platoon. Be sure to stay well away from the helicopters target area, I believe I've had some friendly fire from them when I strayed too close. 3. Scout Humvee is real fragile. It will not survive even a fleeting contact with MBTs or IFVs. If mounted, stay out of open areas and keep to the valley floor. Hunting at range towards a narrowly exposed area suspect of enemy infantry may induce them to open fire with small arms. RPGs often miss at long range. Retreat and allow bradleys to deal with enemy infantry. 4. Scout Bradley works well detecting and clearing enemy recce units in the early game provided it's supported by the tank platoon. This seems to induce the enemy to stay hidden or retreat rather than engage with AT-weapons. 5. I fight Bradley platoons mostly mounted in the early game, dismounting mid-game only to mop up resistance and take possession of terrain. 6. Abrams platoon works well in supporting the advance in the early game, transitioning to stalking enemy armor when this is detected. 7. Keep your Bradley platoons and tank platoon in close formation , this aids spotting, engagement and rapid achievement of fire superiority. The AI rarely masses IFVs or MBTs for assaults, and keeping together affords the best chance of winning engagements by spotting and shooting first. I may split the tank platoon into two elements with limited objectives, but try to reunite it as soon as possible. As mentioned earlier, you don't have to take all objectives if you destroy the majority of enemy tanks, IFVs and vehicles, thus forcing a surrender. I would love to hear how others perform this mission. Best regards cCK

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Thank you for your answers and suggestions! In my current game I think I'll just have it guard the insertion point of my recon teams, and use as a battle taxi if/when they need redeployment forward. K.

Hi! I've started the US campaign and doing OK at 20 minutes in. Killing russian recce and a few tanks with presicion artillery with no friendly casualties so far. Footmobile recon-units are deployed and still surviving. The recon bradley too. However, I'm having difficulty utilizing the recon humvee for any kind of observation after having transported the the scouts to their OPs. Any attempt at observation from hulldown invites immediate fire regardless how carefully it inches into position. Scouting routes for IFVs and tanks invites swift death. Would anyone like to share how to get the most from this unit? Thanks, K.