Kalinin Raid

[Falcon988]

I'm a bit new to this game so I would like some suggestions on the real life tactics that would be used for this scenario. I'm playing from the German side and simply trying to get my supply columns through the highway and onto Moscow but we're being harrassed by Soviet T-34's. I deployed my AT guns and Panzers on the other side of the lake to engage the enemy from long range but we were simply pulverized. Can't seem to get the right angle, and when I do the gun is quickly destroyed. Any help would be appreciated.

[coe]

you'll get blasted by people telling you to put

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That aside. Look at your AT assets...Historically the Germans were in for a big shock early on with their 37mm and 50mm guns not able to penetrate T-34 armour....you have several 75 mm AT guns which can duke it out... AT guns are far more fragile than tanks of course so even if you have a superior AT gun, as long as you are in range of the enemy it might not be able to get more than one before being destroyed...so set up in stealth, lay a smoke screen...with the 50 mm and 37 mm and 75 mm short (PZIV) you won't be able to do much at long distances, you have to get in close and perhaps not even then....flank shots are key....trading shots across the lake with T-34's will be bad for you...now of course had this been 1944 and you had better weapons and tanks that would be a different story.

With the wimpy tanks you have, try to seek hull down positions when fighting the T-34's...that way they'll have a better chance of getting off more shots before getting hit. It'll be rare that you'll be able to destroy T-34's in one shot...

For your 75 mm AT assets...take them further down the road to near where your advanced platoon is...then set em up in the woods (and never in direct view of the enemey....AT guns are shell magnets...)

Hope that helps....

C.