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I tend to over-react. If see more than one squad, I assume I've found their main thrust and direct every arty piece and reserve I have at the poor guys.

My impatience leads me to cheat in solitary. On the first turn, I move eveything as far as I can until they get blown up. I make note of anthing I stumbled onto, exit, and reload the scenario

You?

I tend to rush in to quickly, I'm not a very patient person when it comes to battle.

I tend to be over-cautious, especially when it comes to my tanks. When I spot enemy armor, it takes me forever to dare venture out in that area. Which only helps the enemy.

I keep too little in reserves. Usually I make the main strike immediately. I also often have very misanthropic view on my soldiers - "you are meant to fight and die, so do it, no matter whether it helps us or not".

I have little concept of reserves (ages of Koei games will do that to you (their one downfall), but it's getting better since SPWAW has suppression), and my tanks don't want to wait for the legs. "Aww, but they're not going to assault us in the smoke and trees like they have the other six thousand times! Let's just roll right in there!" Baka baka.

Taking that last shot, while you should be pulling back into cover.
Getting scouts killed by putting them in harms' way.

I rarely think ahead, and I always rush the high ground. I also need to think work on my flanking attacks.

Originally posted by Belisarius
I tend to be over-cautious, especially when it comes to my tanks. When I spot enemy armor, it takes me forever to dare venture out in that area. Which only helps the enemy.

Yeah, I have this problem too. Sometimes I end up going sooo slowly, I lose the game for lack of obtaining the objectives.

I also get too wrapped up in 'bring back the boys, alive' mode. I've got to remember that if you're going to make an omlette, you've got to break a few eggs.

I always play with op-fire turned off so I can wander around while the AI does its thing. If there is a lot of artillery, it is a good time to go fill up my coffee cup. Costs me points, I know.

My big weakness, hmmmmm never wondering why the first shot didn't kill the target.

Never questioning the game. Never worrying if the design sucks.

If it ain't dead shoot it again. Or three times, 4 times 5 times, boooom that go it.

Always assuming I am going to win heheh.

Playing to many games at once and mixing up the tactics of who I am playing against

I'm not very cautious with my tanks and very often I have a half of my tanks destroyed while my opponent have only lost couple of tanks.
I take the stupid aims sometimes and I don't give up until it is finished....So, we all need to develop ourselves:)

in addition to being overaggressive, and not caring if troops buy it (especially recon vehicles) i have a tendency to not bring enough (im working on it)....a lone tank or even 2 with support units is usually just gonna find its way into trouble


-jedimessiah

VikingNo2

Originally posted by JediMessiah
in addition to being overaggressive, and not caring if troops buy it (especially recon vehicles) i have a tendency to not bring enough (im working on it)....a lone tank or even 2 with support units is usually just gonna find its way into trouble


-jedimessiah

Heh heh you certainly have overcome it in our game.

Committing too many units to one target, even to the point of pulling them from other missions. It happened again in a PBEM turn last night: one of my PzIII's finds a suppressed T-34 and fires all its shots, causing no damage. After bringing another PzIII up with the same result I'm now determined to kill it so I move a couple more AFV's, which were supporting a separate attack, over to engage the T-34. Kind of like 'throwing good money after bad' since I only managed to immobilized it.

Another is what Katana mentioned: taking that 'last shot' instead of moving the unit back into cover...even worse is when that shot triggers an op-fire!

Well I will know what to look for now if I find I have an immobilized T-34.

...:rolleyes:

But I have a lot of bad habbits I'm trying to break. I tend to leave my on-board artillery in one spot, one turn too long. I fire the last shots instead of pulling units back. I walk into positions I know are clear and watch as a dozen units pound the daylights out of the squad.

There are more, but I'm working on them. Soon I will make no mistakes, but I will have that one bad habit I didn't think about when I wrote this...

Originally posted by nelmsm
Well I will know what to look for now if I find I have an immobilized T-34.

Ummm...I was referring to another battle involving T-34's and PzIII's

I find in the course of pbem games I tend to overestimate the amount of enemy forces I have killed and underestimate my own losses ... this combined with my tendency to "borrow" stuff from my reserves leads to problems in longer games ... especially since I (as others have also mentioned) sometimes get carried away trying to kill that one AFV and pile too many units into a bad situation. Before I know it, I'm short of forces and calling for reinforcements!! I'll have to start listing my own and enemy losses and use more discipline and less emotion when playing...