How do I run over enemy troops?

[travisdead1]

NOD is running over my infantry and mashing them. How do I make my cavalry mash enemy infantry?

[Panic Fire]

ALT left click.

[Empiro]

The AI tends to dodge pretty well on an alt-click though. I usually run over enemies by simply moving past them.

[Nyerguds]

First shoot at them so they drop to the floor in defense, then alt+click. They're much slower when crawling ;)

[VolnuttHeroP64]

Originally posted by travisdead1:

NOD is running over my infantry and mashing them. How do I make my cavalry mash enemy infantry?

This only works with Tank Vehicles

[jcdenton666]

this is really the bottleneck crippling this game the most. enemy vehicles run over your men without fail, while you cannot defeat a couple of infantrists with a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ TANK because they are dodgier than Donald Trump

[Gummiel]

Holy smoking necro, and no it is not even cripplling the game in anyway, you can do the same with proper micro.
And you can make it easier to squish infantry again by making the go prone with a few shots first, or have enough tanks, that they wont have anywhere to go, that they wont be squished by one of your tanks etc.

[garrett.thief.69]

Originally posted by travisdead1:

NOD is running over my infantry and mashing them.

Mwahahahaha! For the Glory of Kane!

[Cat]

Originally posted by jcdenton666:

this is really the bottleneck crippling this game the most. enemy vehicles run over your men without fail, while you cannot defeat a couple of infantrists with a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ TANK because they are dodgier than Donald Trump

You can scatter your infantry to avoid getting crushed and you can crush enemy infantry with your tanks, use the force move key.

[jcdenton666]

only that the enemy infantry avoids overrun attempts, and mine doesn't!!! and even the low "normal" speed doesn't help as all movements are sluggish as hell (and some 10% of commands are not even executed in the first place). you simply aren't given the tools to micro these situations. I uninstalled

[Garrec]

Some players rely too much on crushing enemy troops. Or relying too much on infantry versus enemy tanks.

If your tactic is failing, you need to think about what's wrong.

Easy solutions:
Don't send masses of infantry against tanks.
Don't send a few tanks into masses of infantry.

Even if your units survive, splash damage will wreck your own infantry and your own tanks. You'll take far more damage, and lose far more units.

Position your units correctly. Bring some anti-infantry units. Sometimes the best strategy is just let your tanks shoot normally instead of trying to crush every last minigunner.

[Cat]

Originally posted by jcdenton666:

only that the enemy infantry avoids overrun attempts, and mine doesn't!!! and even the low "normal" speed doesn't help as all movements are sluggish as hell (and some 10% of commands are not even executed in the first place). you simply aren't given the tools to micro these situations. I uninstalled

Try sending more vehicles, they can't dodge being runovered if there are vehicles coming on multiple lanes. Or stop relying on crushing to kill infantry. I actually build rangers in skirmish and singleplayer to defeat infantry. The computer plays terrible anyway, so making them omniscient and capable of inhumanly multitask perfect to evade getting crushed is something to make up for its lack of human skill.

As for your infantry not evading incoming tanks, you can just give them orders to scatter or move aside. There's no such things as "not given the tools", the loading screen hint even mentioned about the scatter command. Tiberian Dawn enemy vehicles will drive over your troops if you attack too close so this is usually not an issue if you use bazookas. I do find it annoying as well that your infantry will automatically get crushed if you don't watch over them but I got over it and used tanks or make sure my infantry keeps scattering.

[Nyerguds]

Originally posted by jcdenton666:

this is really the bottleneck crippling this game the most. enemy vehicles run over your men without fail, while you cannot defeat a couple of infantrists with a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ TANK because they are dodgier than Donald Trump

They only run over your men under specific circumstances. And you can kill enemy tanks with just a few soldiers too, if you simply avoid those circumstances.

Have a guide.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2757302516

[Overseer]

I know its frustrating but them the rules. If you want to increase your odds pair an APC with a tank and as they dodge the tank squash them with the APC.
They also don't fire as they dodge. So your infantry can take them out while the tank keeps them busy.
The game is old and uses plenty of dirty tricks on you. But everything is tied to specific conditions and sometimes units even bug out and do absolutely nothing. I even had a tank sitting right on top of an infantry unit and they shot at each other, because the crush simply never triggered.