Hour long battle on Semois (2v2)

My defensive strat (sandbags and mines) I wrote about in one of the last replays I posted finally lost today after netting me 7 straight wins with random teammates. Good news is that it held up quite well against (they said they were ~100) very high level Germans. Ultimately I still lost this game though. My strat did get beat up a bit by an elephant like I feared it finally would, but it still held well - just had to sag my su85's back a bit further than normal.

Feel free to comment, hope you enjoy it.

Thought it might be worthwhile to just post the general strategy I was using.

"I'll do a quick bullet point rundown of essentially what I do.

*Conscipts cap points and build sandbags (free green cover!)

*Sandbags are either built while capping the point (saves time) or built behind important points to gain line of sight

*Engineers when they have a chance build mines at choke points in front of sandbags to create a kill zone or built on the flanks to keep the sandbags from being flanked

*Get the doctine that has guards rifle, 120mm mortar, mark vehicle and the two T34 85's.

*120mm mortar is built to keep mg42's from creeping in and to keep enemy mortars from shelling you out of position

*Guards rifle built to help control early scout cars and P4's

*su85 built to counter armor, keep it sagging between defensive positions and bring it to the front only when enemy armor shows up

That is essentially it. Focus on just holding 2 VP points and 1 set of the major resource points. Don't worry too much about pushing forward and snagging extra ground unless you just repelled a major attack. One extra control point (I've been finding out) is not worth the manpower loss you might sustain for having out of position units.

Let me know what you think and good luck trying it out. I have not faced an elephant using this strategy yet but I'll jump that hurdle when I get to it."