About river crossings...

[Mobhack]

There is no "helpful hint" to remember to take engineers if attacking, since the AI may be inconvenient and place field defences either. Neither is there one to remember to buy flak, just in case the enemy is unsporting and buys air.

The River Crossing assault message is given to you up-front, plus it's available on the "Mission" key on the purchase screen as a reminder, and if you actually look at the game map with the "View Map" key - which is just above the mission key on the purchase screen, then you should notice the great big blue thing smack in the middle of the map?. (I cannot think of any reason to not examine the game map prior to purchase, and simply buy blind! )

Andy

[Warhero]

I understand your point Andy. But sometimes you can't remember to check all things at least once before start. Maybe I'm going too old for SP? Why not to choose whole new map from maplist too instead generated river map? Some modified river maps have even 1 ford for crossing... And how about river crossing battle with "land" map too?

[Wdll]

More like too lazy if you ask me :-p

[Marek_Tucan]

Mobhack said:
(I cannot think of any reason to not examine the game map prior to purchase, and simply buy blind! )

Adrenalin?

[Randy]

Just think if you were a battalion commander and you forgot to check your map!

[Warhero]

Btw, how many barges you guys choose for your tanks (let's say 1 tank company)in this case (river crossing)? Just curious...

[Suhiir]

Personally I'd only buy about a platoon worth (4).
But then I tend to play the USMC a lot and other then tanks a goodly percentage of what they use is amphibious.

[Wdll]

How do you guys deal with streams (one hex rivers)? I get a high number of units immobilized there.
I know that there are bridge building units in real life (even in the greek army), but I haven't noticed any such units yet.
Suggestions?

[Marek_Tucan]

Forget bridgebuilding, takes time. Instead:
-avoid stream/swamp combination
-drive slowly
-search for hexes with -1 height - standard stream gets -2, -1 means ford, ie muchless sticking.