- TACTICS: URBAN WAR -

Fighting in a city is the opposite of fighting on open terrain. Here you don't have good LOS and guns aren't very effective, unless if you put them in some well hidden spot where they can ambush tanks or defend some small area. In cities, you'll realize how important infantry is - ambushing tanks, taking and holding victory locations, scouting... these are just few of  jobs which must be performed by infantry. Fighting in a city actually means fighting house to house - you have to check and clear every place. To do that, and to keep your infantry alive, that's the art of urban combat!

INFANTRY is the most important element in urban war. There is no way you can take VL's in houses with tanks (guns?!). Make sure you don't expose your infantry too much, and always keep a command team nearby, otherwise the enemy won't have much trouble to defeat them.

Probably the most lethal are FLAMETHROWERS. Because of their small range, they have to come  close to enemy to attack him. You can use them to kill large units in very short time, to ambush tanks... In other words, adding a flamethrower team to your roster is always a good idea when you have to fight house to house.

INFANTRY AT WEAPONS (Bazooka, Panzershreck, Panzerfaust) are also great for taking out enemies tanks. Try to shoot on the side or back of the tank, where it has the thinest armour. But be careful - your enemy can do the same with your tanks. So DO NOT send your armoured vehicles far ahead without the proper infantry support!

You must define the balanced mixture of infantry and support teams. Use infantry to find enemy, and armour to destroy him. In this role you can apply tanks, or even better - SELF-PROPELLED ARTILLERY (assault guns), such as: German StuH'42, Brumbaar (RR), Wespe (RR), Bison (RR), and Russian: SU122, SU152, JSU122 & JSU152. Especially these Russian assault guns are terrible effective against infantry hidden in buildings, AT guns and tanks. The best thing is that you can destroy or seriously damage any German tank just by shooting on the house next to it! This means - you don't need a direct LOF on the tank. This is really a great advantage!

SOME EXAMPLES OF TACTICS IN URBAN WAR:

1) AMBUSHING is tactics number 1 in cities. Hide your infantry and AT weapons and wait for the enemy to attack. When he comes close enough... BOOOM!. Do the same when you ambush enemy tanks with yours. On the picture bellow: T-34/85 mm is waiting for Pz IV to drive just in front of it and expose its weak side. Chances for German to survive the hit at this distance - zero!

2) ATTACK FROM TWO DIRECTIONS AT THE SAME TIME: very good trick when you're hunting enemy tanks. Expose your infantry on one side and when the hunted tank turns to kill them, come with your tank to its back. Aim and fire! For example: see a JagdPanther which gets suddenly killed by JS-2 while trying to hit infantry. Infantry was a kind of "decoy" here.

3) CLEARING THE STREETS AND ADVANCING: if you want to clear whole town (or a part) of enemy, you'll have to start an offensive. How to do that? If you have MUCH greater firepower, you can launch a frontal assault, but this happens rare on the Internet playing. The most safe thing is slow advancing and clearing street by street (house by house). What tactics you should use, depends on your roster - if you have many infantry and just one or two tanks, you can attack with infantry, and use tank(s) to support it. If you have more tanks, you can consider launching main assault with tanks supported by infantry. If you have plenty of armour, you can make two groups and attack from different sides. Don't forget to use support weapons and COMMAND teams!

- If you can sacrifice some infantry unit in order to get a clear shot on enemy's tank, do it!

- Don't let the crews of destroyed vehicles and guns to run of the map! You can still use them for scouting and distracting the enemy.

- Flamethrower tanks kick ass!

- Don't expose your tank's side! Use infantry to cover both sides of your vehicles.

- Always scout with infantry, and support it with assault guns or tanks from behind.

- Shoot on houses where you think the enemy might be.

- When fighting head to head with enemy tanks, remember that the first shot can make the diferrence between winning or loosing your tank! Be the one who fires the first!