Wargame Campaign Guide

In this guide we will look at how the campaign works and how to beat it. This guide is done assuming you will always play on the hardest difficulty. If you play on easiest settings this will come far easier for you.

This guide focuses on a few core concepts to the game. The first is your tactics and the unit types you will use. How exactly can you win a battle in which you have very few units, what do you have to worry about from the computer, and some cheap tricks to get some easy victories on a lot of bosses.

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In this guide we will look at how the campaign works and how to beat it.

The campaign comes in four possible scenarios, they are:

Die Hard
Fortress Oslo
Zhukov-2
War in the North
Each advancing campaign makes the map larger and thus makes the game longer. The overall difficulty of the computer however does not increase. Each campaign is balanced around a default difficulty level, this can be adjusted at any time however.

As a tactical view there are many entry points in which the enemy can enter from. For NATO they enter from the western Atlantic. For the PACT they enter from the eastern Baltic Sea.

Most tiles have two places that it can attack from. Strategic points on the map are those that can attacked as a border (still attacked from two sides but from completely opposite directions).

The overwhelming map goal is to create borders in which you have as few battles as possible. Each zone will grant points. These points per turn can be used to deploy new armies.

These armies lead to micro engagements. Each micro engagement is fought with a pre-designed military group. At the outset of the battle you are given a set number of deployment points. The number of deployment points you are given is based on the size of the army, with the minimum deployment points being made available is 500.

Your goal will be to gain a certain number of points in a very short amount of time. Alternatively if the enemy has no command vehicles on the map you can also win this micro engagement.

If you are unable to win the engagement it ends in a Draw. The match is re-done next turn. Any units you lost in the previous round will be unavailable in this next round. Each zone you controlled in the previous round will be one you control at the start of the next battle.

Strategically if you destroy a lot of computer armor and infantry in the previous round expect mostly to see helicopters and aircraft in the next. Draw situations create stalemates at strategic zones and buy time to field more armies in the next round.

The goal of the game is to always deal more damage to the enemy each micro battle than they deal to you. So if you swipe 40 points off of the computer that is fine. If the score ends 0-0, that is fine too. If you are losing points you are losing ground.

There are a few tricks to beating the computer.

If you notice the computer has a significant number of bombers you can bait the computer into running into a line up of AA. Simply locate their infantry, place AA near it and run empty vehicles towards the infantry. The computer won’t be able to resist bombing these 1-point vehicles.

Another tip, any bases that are close to each other the computer will always place units at the tip. You can deploy units at the tip to destroy massive numbers of his units very quickly. The computer will not centralize his units.

If you are particularly weak on units make sure to strap down a position with as much AT and AA defensively as possible.

If you do really well and don’t want to risk another push simply rally out another command to take another forward position closer to one of the enemy’s bases. This way when you start the next round you will be closer to the enemy’s base and will be able to deploy another big push.

Final tip, be aggressive when you can. The computer starts off with a lot of high point bases and however 20 minutes will gain massive army advantages over you, potentially overwhelm you and destroy your army.

[RedOctober]

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