Der Kuenstler Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 When meeting infantry in the woods - a few crack troops or a lot of regulars? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WindyCity Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 Define , "a few",and "a lot" for that matter :confused: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonC Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 The regulars, if used right. If you don't know what you are doing, the crack guys will work better at least at first. The thing that wins in woods is differential LOS. Meaning, you creep 2-3 units into LOS of one, without being in spots all his friends can see. He may pin one of them, but the other 1-2 pin him back. That releases the first, in a minute or two if he isn't crack. The other key thing in woods is that ammo expenditure is very high, because the units fire rapidly at the close distances. And they don't wipe each other out rapidly enough because the cover is good. Also, they spend ammo finishing off the last 1-3 men in a broken unit. The result is a platoon that wins a firefight is still halved in ammo terms, sometimes nearly out. So, if you know what you are doing and don't try to pack them in and bowl the guy over too fast - which doesn't remotely work - nor just sit there and let his better men roll through yours one on one, thus making yours cower first and lose the firefights - then you can kill the few good with then many not-so-good. The formula is just to send waves of them, waves not meaning a big mass all at once, but intelligently seek differential LOS with short advances. Break or wipe out who you can. If that regular platoon gets killed, feed in another, held completely outside LOS until then, using the same short advance tactics. Front guys, in LOS, go stationary, back guys advance for many on ones. And the less numerous guys will run out of ammo as well low on men. And fall to the second wave. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Der Kuenstler Posted March 17, 2006 Author Share Posted March 17, 2006 Thank you! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 It also depends on what you meen by 'meet'. Having moving troops clash in wood is always brutal. Men and ammo just evaporates. If you can have your guys sitting while he walks up to you his casualties will be much higher. An advantage of more 'regular' troops over fewer veterans is maneuver. If one platoon keeps your opponent's attention while a second swings round to catch him from behind that's much better than having s single veteran squad fighting head-to-head 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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