Issues with hard difficulty in skirmish mode

[jorxe33]

let me tell you that I've played the game in heroic level and it was easy for me. You only have to atack the enemy tanks by the flanks, accumulate points and little by little buy tanks and rangers or sas, then when you have a good army, atack simultaneously all the "checkpoints" or "flags" like an avalanche. You win easy ¡in the heroic level!

[Bliep]

Then you've to explain me how you managed level 2 of the americans scenario like that. That 88's will simply rip anything you send over the fields apart.

The only way I managed that scenario was by digging in capturing 5 tigers and flanking on the left and sacrificing loads of rangers to get my Mustang to simply blow up half the map.

To the topic starter:

My tips for heroic level (individual) gameplay:

- Learn how enemy armour moves over the map.
- Ambush with infan, repair armour move it to the back.
- Rince and repeat till you have enough armour to make an armoured fist.
- Flank till a point you can bufffer the enemy and dig in.
- Reinforce
- Repeat the above

This will cost you ages and many sleepless nights *sigh*

[jorxe33]

the heroic level is easy but the trick is destroy all the enemy static arty before advance far in the map. This is due to you need to flank the enemy tanks in order to destroy them easy. In that case several of the 88s can be destroyed by landing paratroopers near and throwing grenades (be sure of destroying them, not only kill the crew, because other enemy infantry could take it again)
This is possible until you can reach the airstrike, then with the airstrike will be more easy destroy them

[Bliep]

Could you upload some savegames for me to check that tactics (as well as some of the start of Carentan), cause the only way I manage second level of the yanks is with stealing armour. 101st gets shredded before they even touch the soil since the whole map is literally crawling with infan.

For me Carentan is an epic fail since enemy armour seems to be able to rip anything apart in my base from the other side of the river and you stand no chance to get to it cause there is to much enemy infantry around.

As stated in my other mail the problem with this game is an absent AI next to some other absurdities like omnipresent field of view for enemy units. I wonder if the devs ever sat in a Sherman or Panzer IV and marvel at the field of vision you don't have.

[Bliep]

No need for the savegames anymore.

I figured out that when using flamethrowers in direct control their useable range is drastically increased. This makes them actually horrible effective units.

Now I can blitz on most maps and establish a decent "beachhead" far enough from my main base to survive.

And another "-" for the already great AI. *sigh*

[jorxe33]

I'm back, please excuse my absence, Here are the savegames:
http://www.4shared.com/folder/QXh2-da-/_online.html

[Bliep]

Thx,

I'll have a look at them. I manage the levels now but still have to reload a lot cause of those bloody Tigers killing of my armour through 4 buildings cause a enemy grunt spotted it and communicated it's position telepathically *sigh*