Newbie mistakes I still make

[Randy Stead]

Using all of a tank's available movement to get to the top of a hill and have none left to back down from the enemy fire that greets me there.

Placing AT guns but forgetting to check what they can see. Hey Hans, the grass is too tall in front, we can only see three hexes away!

Moving every available tank instead of using overwatch tactics.

Buying all that nice arty but forgetting to buy forward-observers.

Placing 88s on a hilltop which can see all the way to the enemy objectives and then having them all blown away by enemy 40mm AA guns on turn one.

[skukko]

Forget to buy any arty, mortars this time, and FO...Quite frustrating to waite them as reinforcements when enemy infantry plays with Tigers...

mosh

[RockinHarry]

All of the above and
forgetting I´m always playing
with "limited AMMO" on. (of course)

Ah....now we have nice soft targets
to bomb....Huh?...no Ammo Left???

Offboard Arty knows no Ammo trucks...

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RockinHarry

[troopie]

Using armoured cars as if they were tanks. "Hey, we did it in the SADF all the time." "Ja, but the terrs didn't have tanks, stupid. Here the enemy has tanks."

Conversation with myself.

troopie

[Greg McCarty]

Not taking time for effective recon.

The words of an old Elvis Presley song
continue to echo in my mind:

"Fools rush in; where wise men never go..."

[Major Ed]

Thinking I've figured out where Wild Bill puts mines.

Forgetting how loud the mine .wav file is. At 1 o'clock in the morning it wakes everyone up.

Forgetting that artillery supresses several hexes, particularly when I call it in "danger close".

Forgetting that half tracks and light tanks still want to cut through building, instead of going around them.

[murx]

Deploy units
Campaign defense, ah, there is a good position to get the SU with pants down ...
Start battle
Preplotted arty, uh, forgot that the SU uses masses of it and focuses on the victory areas with it !!!!

=> never place 88mm AT/AA at hill tops near victory points !!!!!! (never until next time at least )

murx

[FrankyVas]

Where are the carriers for the 88's???

There's a mine field in that hex. Let's move the best tank I have and see if it can get through cuz I forgot to buy engineers.

Patience and prudence is for the weak! CHARGE!!!!

Paratropers, jumping right in the middle of the enemies tank farm. No more paratropers (happens too ofen, should know better by now).

[B52g]

Thinking that I am "massing" my forces for an attack when all I am really doing is making it convienient for the enemy arty to kill all my men in one turn.

[Pack Rat]

Originally posted by B52g:
Thinking that I am "massing" my forces for an attack when all I am really doing is making it convienient for the enemy arty to kill all my men in one turn.

ROFLMAO <tears rolling down cheeks> oh yeah, what you said. Been there, done that and will do it again. LOL. I can still hear my drill sarge yelling not to group up and the higher ups telling us to space the armor line.

[Panzer Capta]

Avoiding confrontation when it is in the best interest of reaching an objective.

(just like to "lock n' load" too much)