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Old 19-03-2006, 10:14 PM   #69
laiocfar
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Nice tips privateer,
I should add something to them

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3. Level bombers are very ineffective in destroying enemies, but they are still very useful. All units suppressed by a level bomber attack stay suppressed for the rest of the turn. So if you are about to go for a very hard fight trying to displace that heavily entrenched 10-strength Engineer unit, if you send in a level bomber and it suppresses 3, when your infantry finally attacks, that unit will fight as if it was a strength 7. Many level bombers, like Ju88A and HE177, have naval attack capability and are great for killing and suppressing enemy ships. Having at least 1 level bomber in your core is a good way to make sea battles in shore scenarios go your way, especially since the Allies often have a superior navy. Finally, level bombers destroy some of the unit's ammo when bombing. Coupled with high ground defence ability of later bombers like HE177, it can be a good way or cracking those annoying air defence units. Bomb it with a level until it has no ammo, then move in a swarm of Stukas and blow up the artillery all around, allowing your tanks and infantry to finally move in on other units, including that AD.
You all must have looked that when level bombing units inside villages/towns/cities u lose some of your prestige. Well, by this last most of people only use level bomber to bomb units in trenchs, hills, forest, open or naval units. But the real use of lever bombers is to bomb cities and airfields even when unocuppied, whit two or more bomb runs you can disiable the airfields, making impossible to enemy aircraft to refuel or rearm there. The same counts to cities but u will need more bombs runs and sacrifice some of your prestige. I found that level bombers are very usefull to disrupt the enemy air forces by making unavaible some "beyond the lines" airfields forcing they to make a choise between retreat to fuel sure zones or fight risking the chance of be out of fuel cuz your aircraft slow they movements or beacause u taked the airport that is in the core of battle.


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4.Bridge Engineers and Pionieres have equipment specifically geared for assaulting heavily fortified positions. They never get caught on a Rugged Defence and so are great units for kicking deeply entrenched units out of their 'happy place' biggrin.gif. Once the unit has been forced to retreat, it's no longer entrenched and can be chased down with other units.
Yep, Engineers and Piponieres helps your tanks to avoid be killed by a rugged defence. I also wach that they got a lower penality by fight being over a river square. So they can open some beacheads in the middle of the enemy fortification taking him by suprise. Anyway, cuz the cost of movement to and from a river hex is the maximiun of the unit, the sames units forcing the beachhead should cover other units crossing by one turn minimiun so too heavy loses expected or a total failure. The only solution is make this type of assault on bridges.
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