skirmish on hardcore impossible

[Todt]

so i am on a achiement run right now and so i have to play on hardcore and playing skirmish on hardcore is but being forced to bite off one zone and then to dig in fast to face multiple unending massive counterattacks that include the hardest of armor with no reliable way to take it out until you reach the heavy art point and these counbter attacks being supporte by spawned in emplacments like enemy arty is just not fun i have played every mission in this game on hardcore appart from 2 all off them were challenging but skirmish is the absolute worst. The skirmish could simply be improved by limiting the scale and number of counterattacks

[Khaled]

Cheese them. Capture airstrike point ONLY(!!!) and hide your soldier. Then do game speed 3x and just bomb everything. Second option is arty point and do same as before. Just remember, capture only one point and then clean up the map/

[kampfer91]

Enemy not trigger serious counter until you touch 4th CP .

After you got your 3rd one , you should start spending points fortifying your position with AT guns or anything that can take on heavy tanks .

Some nation may have harder time but it is not impossible to take out enemy heavy tank , may be you can tell us which country / mission you are playing .

And that is if you try to play the game the way the dev intended . But if you are being cheeky you can just sneak cap either heavy arty or airstrike CP with sniper .

[SpartanViperz]

I've managed to complete every skirmish on hardcore and currently re-running through them for achievements. As Kampfer said, you have to fortify your positions well, build a solid defensive line (using the defensive doctrine with engineers can help this but not a necessity) with infantry, machine guns, mortars and AT guns and make sure to keep it all resupplied. Also buy tank crewman and repair as many of the enemy vehicles as you can. Even if its a terrible vehicle, it can be used as 'bait' allowing time for other units to engage and destroy the enemy. It's definitely a little grindy at points (especially towards the end of the mission) but they are doable.

I also find it better to spread out your time across multiple sessions rather than trying to complete a skirmish all in one sitting.