I tried to produce armor, but I could only get half-tracks with 75mm guns. I kept producing the basic squads and pumped them out, but since the enemies typically seized more territory than I did or just pushed me back, I didn’t generate as much firepower.

Then you use those resources to upgrade the infantry you can produce, like enabling the HQ to deploy Browning machine gun squads. You have to take and hold enough positions to start earning more resources.

It’s always pretty hard to judge how large the enemy forces are, as they are hidden by the “fog of war,” meaning you can only see your own troops until the firefights start.Īt that point, whether you’re playing solo or playing with a partner, it becomes a race. Then I had to retreat and concentrate my forces in places like buildings that overlooked the victory points. My strategy was to try to produce a lot of rifle squads at my headquarters and then send them out to capture as many victory points, ammo dumps, and fuel depots as possible early on.īut inevitably I ran into German squads that ripped my infantry to shreds. When a typical German squad goes up against an American squad in the game, the Germans usually win. The Germans had the Americans beat on a tactical level, both with veteran soldiers and with better equipment like Panzerfausts and MG42 machine guns.

side, and therein lies some of the problem. But that wasn’t enough training for the multiplayer combat, where I played both 1-versus-1 and 2-versus-2 modes. I played about 10 hours of the campaign and enjoyed battles like taking the Pomigliano airfield from the Wehrmacht using a combined British and U.S. I played the single-player campaign slice that focused on the invasion of Naples earlier in the summer.

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