Wargame: AirLand Battle

[Nefaro]

Nine?!  That's a lot of artillery.. and costly in such numbers!  Do you purchase all those from the start?  :o

[Tinkershuffle]

Spammer!  ;D I've noticed mortars to be much more cost effective than heavier arty pieces. Do you have rocket artillery in your decks?

[republic]

I should probably clarify this is my 10v10 deck and im often the only arty on my half of the map so it isnt as overkill as it sounds.

[Nefaro]

I should probably clarify this is my 10v10 deck and im often the only arty on my half of the map so it isnt as overkill as it sounds.

I seeee noww.

[undercovergeek]

im an airborne commando specialist - fly up to the mid point areas and secure with lynx mounted ATG troops and AAA troops, move up the command vehicles and main force behind them, capture the points on the way and on arrival and then move up the sas and commandos to the rear areas and destroy the enemy supply

[Huw the Poo]

im an airborne commando specialist

I can confirm this - Geek does indeed go commando frequently.

[undercovergeek]

lmao - with style and grace too

[Nefaro]

I've had some decent uses from helo-delivered special forces/spetsnaz used as recon in wooded areas.  They tend to stay hidden and survive longer than most recon units.  Sometimes they even manage to put up a decent fighting delay against superior numbers moving through.  Kinda pricey, perhaps.

I've never tried a full-on airmobile attack, though.  That seems pretty risky, putting such a point investment into that.  I'm sure fortune sometimes favors the bold but I'd be real wary of flying them anywhere near the front line.

[Kushan]

I've primarily been playing with a focus on armor.  My raven seems to do ok against radar guided launchers but I normally lose it to gatling cannon fire. I'm even worse if I'm using a/c for air defense. Only way I can keep them alive is to have them patrol behind the front and hope the intercept a MIG as it approaches.

I have better luck with attack helicopters. They still require a little bit of babysitting to make sure they don't stray into enemy AAA fire but keeping them alive seems much easier.

[Nefaro]

I have better luck with attack helicopters. They still require a little bit of babysitting to make sure they don't stray into enemy AAA fire but keeping them alive seems much easier.

Same here.. far better loiter times too.  They're nice against Normal AI but the Hard skirmish one will send fighters to shoot down your helos, along with regularly bounding their ground forces forward with AA units mixed in.  I've had my hovering attack helos get nailed by the AI that way before I could react.  It gets pretty aggressive.  8)

[Kushan]

Same here.. far better loiter times too.  They're nice against Normal AI but the Hard skirmish one will send fighters to shoot down your helos, along with regularly bounding their ground forces forward with AA units mixed in.  I've had my hovering attack helos get nailed by the AI that way before I could react.  It gets pretty aggressive.  8)

I noticed this afternoon one of the cobra variants, one of the two sea cobras I think, has 2 AIM-9 AA missiles. I may try swapping them into my deck. I try to keep my helos within range of my own AAA missiles/guns. Doesn't always save them if a few MIG's are launched at them but it seems to help make them more survivable vs one or two.

The hard AI is pretty brutal. I can usually hold my own with my AI team mates assisting me. I find most of the reasons I lose are because I got too aggressive or did something stupid. Depends a lot on the map to. It can be pretty brutal on the big opens maps with only a few trees and buildings for cover. In one of my last games, I forget the map, I tried hold a tree/hedge line. Problem was it didn't offer enough protection and the fire lines sucked. Instead of pulling my units back to a more defensible position I held out and ended up losing most of my initial force. Then I threw good money after bad when I just kept pumping more and more replacements into the fire.

[Tinkershuffle]

I'm playing nowadays almost exclusively with US Marine deck. LAV 25 autocannons shred everything (although everything also shreds them).. and Seacobras and Avengers provide excellent support. The selection of tanks is of course limited but M60A1 are decent if you give them enough veterancy.

[Jarhead0331]

Stupid question...hoe do you get replays to work? I go into the replay screen and I see the play button and speed up buttons but when I click on the play button, nothing happens...how the heck do you start the playback?

[Kushan]

Stupid question...hoe do you get replays to work? I go into the replay screen and I see the play button and speed up buttons but when I click on the play button, nothing happens...how the heck do you start the playback?

If you haven't already, try fast forwarding. The game records pre-battle unit set up, so if you or your opponents took a few minutes to do this it may seem like nothing is happening.

[Jarhead0331]

By George, I think you've got it. Will confirm tonight when I get home.