Assault frustration

[plloyd1010]

Fred, this is an odd complaint when it comes from you. It is more like I would expect from the “walk with heroes”, Rommel syndrome types. Anyway, I usually have the best results when I use the army the way it was historically designed.

The WW2 British army is designed for attrition battles. Not attrition as in I shoot your guy, you shoot mine, and we see who can put up with it the longest. It is a you if you twice, I shoot trice. You throw 10 lbs. of dynamite, I throw 20. BtW: The Americans are using that model at the time, but with extra vitamins. Even though PG tends to blur the lines between assault, maneuver and attritional armies, the basic design seems to hold true.

So, basic plan, don’t press assaults you don’t have to. Work on spreading the Germans and concentrating firepower on specific points. That said, there are 2 disrupters that need to be located and dealt with. That 88AA gun is number 1. Lead with an infantry screen, and make sure it is 9 hexes away, and when you find it, kill it with artillery (arty won’t much else for you in this game anyway). Second is the AT gun, not as bad, but could be a problem. Your first killer group is the ARVE, 2 RIF and a WPN, leader with a CM goes with the ARVE stack. A couple other teams are helpful. Put all the mortars together in 2 adjacent stacks, with another CM (lower moral).

Basic plan: Mortars suppresses primary target. ARVE team buries primary target under fire. Infantry scouting finds disrupters, artillery suppresses/kills them. Secondary fire teams support as they are able. Only assault easy targets (not many), but never with the ARVE team.

Working objective: Consolidate board 57. Get another net 18 points. Short order of the day, kill Germans, then kill some more. No dancing! (Takes too long.) Probably not marching off board (Not likely to have enough time.)

See how that sort of a battle works for the British. (You know the British are on the short end of this one, right?)