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  1. Thank you, JasonC, for your response. I am on my way to work right now but intend to study these tactics you've given more indepth through this puzzle of yours. I have to say after reading some of your messages on this forum on tips, strategies and unite stats you seem to be the person to ask. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that you were a general yourself at one time -or something like that. As for playing a game against myself. I don't know if I have the patients for that. I just want, after reading the online strategy guide, to beat some of these senarios and learn and get better as I go along. Playing against myself seems to be very time consuming and unrewarding.
  2. Any one ever play this senario? In barbarossa to berlin? As the attacker, the sweds? I can only get my infantry and vehicles across the first bridge. And eventually I wind up as "major defeat" and "tactical lose" at best What a B**** it is attacting in this game! Especially when the enemy location is over and down a hill-the enemy is waiting for the minute you reach the top. And how on earth do you attact across a bridge? How do you attact when there is no cover? I've stoped my men to cover near the vehicles and fired back; ran; advanced etc you name it.I even keep some of my machine guns and morter behind with cover arcs for the men and vehicles I have advancing. GRRRRH! (ahhum, sorry) And it seems the only way in this game to get any LOS is to get up close over some dam hill where the enemy is waiting to ambush and where there is no cover?! what's up with all this. Also why are there no hot keys for each unit, just that frustrating and time consuming "+" and "-" a simple thing like this-say numbers to bind them to - would have helped tremendously; most old strategy games have this simply implimented practical feature. why can't I hit a certain key which would show me all my morters, riflemen, tanks etc or just heavy artillery, vehicles and riflemen. Why does it have to be more tedious? So it can be a good war game?? It's actually easier for me to click on each unit than use those "+" "-" keys which when I do the camera is all out of wack. That's something else very important I wish it had: like hit one key to see with the camera where one of your sellected units is in relation to the terrain and the enemy. I have to keep adjusting the camera for this and it is very very sluggish as you know. I'm sorry but I wasted a night with this senario trying to learn the the tactics of this game. I'm trying to focus on attacting through all the senarios right now and I'm finding it very frustrating indeed. I inch my rifflemen out in recon, sharp shooters if I have any, keeping cover arcs with my artillery "move to contact" and "hide" where needed. Then when I discover the enemy I suppress and then attack and from there I can only go so far before my rifflemen are exposed because at some point some of them have to attact and as soon as they do they get eliminated or panic, because there is no cover for them. There is a point where I just want to charge my whole army at the ememy. I get tired of adjust each individual unit one little step at a time. I'd appreciate any answers or advice from any of you who have played and achieved victories with most of the senarios as the attacter. Thanks :mad:
  3. zhligw@yahoo.com yeah, I did get a draw in jager about 2 weeks ago. I could have probably won if I tryed again, but by only a small margin. Currently I'm working on the "battle of minors" senario I was attacking the germans in this one last night. I wound up with a minor defeat, probably because I rushed it in the end. Any suggestions for this one? When playing as the attacter? It's the one with those funny looking french tanks the renault ##
  4. Oh, by the way in case any of you were wondering it was a 80:20 score, which considering how bad I seemed to be doing before is pretty good. I think I had a little luck on my side as well, but nevertheless it was sweet victory!
  5. I just want to say that shortly after writing this message, like two days latter, I played that senario, Gefecht, again and all the way through and wound up with a major victory. That was a relief. I will say that I didn't do it according to the way the strategy guide suggested, but just used some of the general tips and tactics I learned from it. Also, my having delt with the enemy a few times before in this senario probably help me in anticipating where he was going to be- and in what form- and how to avoid having happen what happen before when I was losing. Thank you for being patient with me and giving me some advice and encouragement. I will continue to play. I like turn based games involving strategy and tactics. What's more This is a game one can continue to learn about and develop new strategies and skills, not the typical RTS being the same hasteful button mashing strategies for every level and once its over that's it. This game seems to have endless replay and with enough senarios, mods and one on one to keep one busy the rest of ones life and that's not including the quick senario editor. I must say though, that, I am very eager to get that CM:SF on my harddrive. I can hardly wait for!
  6. How on earth do you play barbarossa to berlin and actually win? I have read the online strategy guide, the manual, and forums here such as tips and tricks and nontheless each attempt I've made has been a wash. My guys always get pinned, shaken and even broken and could not hit the broad side of a barn. they also many time don't do what they are asked, such as a simple instruction like contact and hide a little ways through the trees. I had just played a senerio (Gefechtsaufklaerung) as the germans and these guys where totally useless, no matter how much protection and cover and support I gave them. I mean I had like two rifle plats and a machgunner firing at a couple of guys and a mortor (who did seem to know what to do despite his vantage point) all had excellent cover though and where getting pinned and shaken and eventually had one or two of the russians actually charge them down throught the feild and my guys couldn't even hit them; they where right out in the open! and my guys where in the trees with perfect line of sight! In another incident I had a rifle man run at my tank down the hill and he throw a maltiv cocktail and killed one of my men in the tank and rendered it something drastic like "immoble" or ready to evacuate. How did he even have the balls to do this one rifle man how did he even manage to stop my tank and one of the main guys in it?!!! This is just plan silly. I had high hopes for this game from what I've read about it and what I've played as far as combat mission demos go: afrika corps etc. But after reading other peoples strategies and ways to play this game and aplying them I can see its a very unrealistic and unbalanced game. I don't know maybe you can only win if you are on the defensive or playing another human player, but to be on the offensive and win it takes some kind of to use your expression "gamey" trick something specific to this game not real world tactics definitely not. Now you can either get cranky and conceited ostracize me and tell me its all my fault I'm a hopeless idiot and don't understand how to play (which isn't true I've read enough on how to play) or give me the main secret that will keep my men from being shaken, panicing, breaking, while under cover the minute they make contact and have heavy long range gunners behind them and where they can actually hit something and kill it -maybe there's a patch I don't know about, everthing seems a mystery about this game the guides are full of strategies that seem plausibly and in theory would work well in a real work situations but don't actually when aplied in this game. Also, I tryed the renowned veteran jasonC's tactics for beating the germans in jaegermeister as well as the manuals advanced tutorial and guess what...: it doesnt work! You playing a different game my friend? ( your russians will panic no matter and there simply isn't enough turns and they always see you even hiden way down in the hills; going all the way to the left is too long with too many trees that your tanks can't get through-I've tryed ever possible route through there) maybe it does with something else I don't know about-like a patch or the editor- but really it is impossible. I'm not trying to "flame" or be a "troll". but does anyone in this forum have the balls to say something they don't like about this game- has anyone ever? About some of the obvious stuff such as I've mentioned in this post.
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