#1: Function of light vehicles Author: Cheomesh, Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 8:00 pm — So I've been playing this game a lot lately (just manged to throw the US back to the sea in one of the Campaigns - Utah Beach. I noticed that as the Germans, I didn't have a whole lot of armor, but then again I think that might have been the reality on the ground in that region at the time.
Then, playing one a one-off battle as the British, I was surprised to find a Bren Carrier! I think that's the lightest vehicle I've seen at all in this version of Close Combat.
It was quickly killed.
So I have a couple questions:
1) Where are the lighter vehicles? Do they simply not feature in this rendition? I know when I played Cross of Iron they were in spades - Pumas on down to half tracks. And they were fairly useful, too, given the point cost of heavy armor.
2) Having realized there's rarely a shortage of heavy armor in the scenarios I've played in The Longest Day and having only so many slots to select from, I've begun to wonder what the usefulness of anything lighter than a Sherman is. The Bren Carrier was swift and I -think- it had greater LOS than a tank, but it was fragile - more fragile than a squad in that an incoming AT round usually only gets one man in a squad. So...why pick one of these over something heavy?
Any case, thanks for any help!
M.
#2: Re: Function of light vehicles Author: southern_land, Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 11:01 pm — Sometimes I find the best use of light vehicles is to park them somewhere where you want to block enemy armour from passing through and park them there ~ one way or another tthey'll block that road hahaha
Seriously they're slightly usefull as fire support against infantry so long as you keep enough range between the vehicles and the enemy infantry. Also they're fast to stem enemy infiltration and don't tire. I keep them in reserve and use them with care
#3: Re: Function of light vehicles Author: US_Brake, Location: USAPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 12:15 am — Leaving a light vehicle behind solid cover in reserve until the very end of a battle can be an effective tactic. Once the enemy is weakened, they can move up and take a VL or grab some quick ground.
