Thresh1642

I find that waiting to commit my tanks to Battle, no matter which side I am playing or what type they are, works best. Never lead with them, and posistion them (if the terrain allows) to get to either the flank or the center from where they are placed. If the points are high enough, I buy two platoons and usually (depends on the map) end up putting one on a flank with a couple of scout cars in the middle. One of the things I forced myself as a newer player to do was to commit to playing longer games. My expierence has been games are more often than not won or lost in the last 10 turns than the first 10 turns. By waiting for things to develop and then committing your armor, you are more likely to be able to recover from a bad posistion. Playing Early War Soviets will also force you to become more adept at running armor, especially if you don't take T-34's.

To quote Murphy's Law: Suppressive Fire Isn't I've played numerous games since getting CMAK, and no matter how many weapons systems you have targeted on a platoon of infantry in any terrain other than open, they still fire back. In a recent game as the Brits I had 3 Vickers section, a Valentine, and a 25pdr using direct fire against a platoon of Germans in rough terrain. I fired at them for 5 rounds, and was still firing at them when they stood up and threw a grenade bundle at a Stuart that was passing 20M away. Same thing happened against some Italians in a trench...I had 3 MG sections, two mortars and 2 6 pounders in direct fire at a trench. Moved a platoon of Infantry up the the left flank of the trench (most of my support fire was on the right), sent my assault in and was repulsed at 50m. These Italians stood up in their trench with 7 different wepons systems on a yellow line to them, and managed to put out such a volume of fire that my Veteran Infantry went to grund and crawled away. I am sorry, I have a hard time believing that...