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Old July 19th, 2022, 03:47 PM
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Default Re: A new player wants to share some of his thoughts

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Hello. Infantry are hard to hammer with machine guns when they move slowly. Machine guns must fire from a distance greater than 10 or 12 hexes, depending on the range of enemy weapons.
Artillery is effective when guided by a spotter.
Most of my experienced Merkava IV tanks spent all their machine gun ammo and explosive rounds firing direct fire upon infantry and that had very little effect. Imagine shooting all the ammo that a modern quality tank has at common grunts in packed formations, in the desert, and seeing that it was pretty useless.
The Merkavas are deadly. It would be necessary to see the conditions of the terrain, against which infantry was faced, distance.
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