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Just saw this AAR for the first time yesterday. Nice job. I will have more questions later, but my first question is: how do you "guard farm?" (Keep in mind I am new to this game, so some of the well known tactics are unknown to me.)

Guard farming is where you check on the Commander's Report for units that have a reasonable number of victories and you arrange for them to be in attacks you are going to win so they get enough victories to convert to guards. Depending on your options, that can be anywhere from 5 to 9 victories for infantry or cavalry units, like 12 for armor, 15 for corps, 50 for armies - it's in rule section 7.6 in the manual. You can send guys to sectors where the enemy's defenses are weak and pick on Rumanians and such to pick up cheap victories. Guards units have better TOE's than non-guards and also get a morale boost.

One thing - if you are making an attack against a strong enemy defense, you want to have all the attackers under the same HQ if possible to reduce the penalty for cooperating HQ's. But if you are guard farming, one attack can get you a victory for a bunch of HQ's if you can handle the penalty and still win. Also, pile it on. Each participating unit gets a victory even if the odds were a million to one.