Any good strategies for Tannenberg 1914?

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Spectre195
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Any good strategies for Tannenberg 1914?

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I am new to TOAW in general, and working my way through the tutorials. I beat Kasserine with a significant victory as the Germans, now I am trying to beat Tannberg as the Germans (against the PO)....but there is so many damn Russians. I don't know what to do. Also so many angles they come from. I can't seem to cover all the approaches.

The description of the scenario sounds like I need to be on the offensive to beat them back before I build up, but then I get pushed out and they find a hole in my line and slide in. Then I fall back and everything is a mess. The Northern part of the map is where I am really struggling. I think I am fine down south around actual Tannenberg, and Whillamsburg(?). But I just don't have enough troops up North.

Are there any good typical strategies for this scenario?
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When you select the Tannenberg scenario, the rightmost button below should become active, showing a clipboard. It will open the scenario documentation that discusses the strategy to follow.

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Oh didn't know that! Will have to take a look tonight. Thanks!
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Oh didn't know that! Will have to take a look tonight. Thanks!
And some more insights from some post war (WW1) USAAF college studies paper...

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a144263.pdf

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Oh wow this is really cool. Will have to check it out.
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Oh wow this is really cool. Will have to check it out.
In fact... I am more than inclined to PBEM challenge you. I can play the Russen. Alas, we have to do it the old way; dropboxing the .SAL files because... for some reason, I can't access the PBEM server :D

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Oh my haven't played a real person yet. If you wanna stomp a noob, I would be glad to provide the ego boost haha
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Oh my haven't played a real person yet. If you wanna stomp a noob, I would be glad to provide the ego boost haha
Ain't about 'stomping a n00b'... It's more like to give you also insights from a person and what we call in German 'Manöverkritik' (joint military debriefing) at the end of it. I barely play the game, hard to believe, eh? Just creating tutorials LOL.

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ORIGINAL: Spectre195

Oh wow this is really cool. Will have to check it out.
In fact... I am more than inclined to PBEM challenge you. I can play the Russen. Alas, we have to do it the old way; dropboxing the .SAL files because... for some reason, I can't access the PBEM server :D

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Dan

I grew up with the C=64 and my 1st SSI title was Kampfgruppe :P~

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