I hear you on the 'drowning the enemy in pins using your swarm'. I've drowned out 2 vet squads in 2 or 3 turns with pins alone in a few games now, although using trucks as mobile gun platforms instead of motorbikes is usually the means along with 6 (and possibly 5 or 7) man squads. I've a friend that's taking French now too, so I'll forward this video to him, he'll welcome the advice that's given!
Thanks for reviewing and your opinion on certain units. As I said at the tournament, I didn't really play-tested this list before so yes it could use some finetuning. And I will. Regarding the FT17 tanks, they were very cheap MMG turret with armour, so the only unit who could pin or kill them were anti armour units. This has proven to be annoying units which most people couldn't do anything with them. Because mostly their tanks were too busy shooting at my other units. Also the Motorcycles proven to be more vulnerable than I thought. Somehow these were the only units in my games which were killed allot. My strategy against tanks was to use the Howitzers to either kill or pin down enemy vehicles. I killed a Panzer 3 with a direct shot. The other plan was to just go down and ignore them, because I have so many he can't shoot at all of them. I won 3 out of 5 games with 6th place as final result. Very happy with this! Somehow I don't kill allot of units, otherwise I could have had P5. Mark had the same win/loss games but more order dice claimed. The games that I lost were No Man's Land and Heart Break Ridge. No Man's Land against Mark, the table wasn't suitable for me. And Heart Break Ridge against Kristian where I rolled absolutely terrible, I just killed 1 infantry miniature and assaulted one of this jeeps. His roles on the other hand were really good. My strategy was good but the dice gods were against me. Well, I had fun and that's part of the game. Hopefully until next year, maybe again with the French!
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I hear you on the 'drowning the enemy in pins using your swarm'. I've drowned out 2 vet squads in 2 or 3 turns with pins alone in a few games now, although using trucks as mobile gun platforms instead of motorbikes is usually the means along with 6 (and possibly 5 or 7) man squads.
I've a friend that's taking French now too, so I'll forward this video to him, he'll welcome the advice that's given!
Thanks for reviewing and your opinion on certain units. As I said at the tournament, I didn't really play-tested this list before so yes it could use some finetuning. And I will.
Regarding the FT17 tanks, they were very cheap MMG turret with armour, so the only unit who could pin or kill them were anti armour units. This has proven to be annoying units which most people couldn't do anything with them. Because mostly their tanks were too busy shooting at my other units. Also the Motorcycles proven to be more vulnerable than I thought. Somehow these were the only units in my games which were killed allot.
My strategy against tanks was to use the Howitzers to either kill or pin down enemy vehicles. I killed a Panzer 3 with a direct shot. The other plan was to just go down and ignore them, because I have so many he can't shoot at all of them.
I won 3 out of 5 games with 6th place as final result. Very happy with this!
Somehow I don't kill allot of units, otherwise I could have had P5. Mark had the same win/loss games but more order dice claimed.
The games that I lost were No Man's Land and Heart Break Ridge. No Man's Land against Mark, the table wasn't suitable for me. And Heart Break Ridge against Kristian where I rolled absolutely terrible, I just killed 1 infantry miniature and assaulted one of this jeeps. His roles on the other hand were really good. My strategy was good but the dice gods were against me.
Well, I had fun and that's part of the game.
Hopefully until next year, maybe again with the French!
French are fantastic. The only things to use in the army on AT are the Engineers with FT, arty or the portee with rear facing medium AT gun.