Overall Strategy

Using cover to your advantage:

By using cover as an advantage like a wall or trench you can defend much more territory with the same number of teams it would take to defend a smaller area without cover. Use bushes as an advantage when moving Recon teams and snipers to ambush enemy units, using cover is important to make your units survive a battle. If troop morale is low making them move through the open taking many hits is likely to make them either run or cower. If at all possible never move units through the open within range of enemy guns. The best way to defend anything is to have good cover for your troops to attack enemy units. Cover provides good protection from enemy small arms fire but is pretty much useless against 20mm and main gun fire from tanks and guns. When hiding troops from enemy tanks it is best to do this in trees where tanks with there limited view are not likely to see the infantry until they are on top of them.

Types of cover:

Buildings:

Good four sided protection from all types of weapons with the exception of large artillery, good lines of sight to shoot at targets. - Deadly to any team inside if attacked with a flamethrower, this is the only main drawback

Walls:

Good protection from enemy fire from one direction, allows a few units to defend a long line of ground. - Very vulnerable to fire from tanks and artillery

Trenches and Foxholes:

Good protection for units in the line of fire and being able to fight back with minimal exposure to enemy fire. - Vulnerable to mortar and heavy guns

Shell holes:

Offers minimal protection but is better than sitting out in the open. - Vulnerable to everything except to a lesser extent than out in the open

Bushes

Offers minimal protection from anything but is good cover when closing in close to the enemy - Small arms fire will destroy your unit if caught in along these bushes

Trees

Trees offer fairly good protection even when the enemy knows the troops are there because trees mess up good lines of fire - Very vulnerable to mortar rounds

Streams

Streams offer a good but slow way to travel through heavily defended areas - very vulnerable to anything when caught with fire from the stream or sides

Defending a Building:

Hiding a unit in the building gives the your troops the best ability to defend the area! If you are playing the German side hide a unit like a MG-42 to mow down attacking infantry. Because of there use of Panzerfausts they do not need a antitank team to support them. If playing the side of the Allies place a unit like a British Bren or American BAR Rifle team along with an antitank team if tanks are expected in the area.

This picture here shows how powerful the units in the building can become when defending a building.

The units are an American Bar team defending a building against a German Sturmgrenadre unit during in Son Town

Launching an attack:

When launching an attack it is almost always necessary to have more units to attack a defended enemy! Chose a good unit with firepower to make the assault, usually a unit like the American Assault or German Sturmgrenadre teams. Move these teams up close to where you plan to attack using cover to get the unit there in one piece. Place another team usually a machine gun team to where the enemy is so they can suppress the enemy and launch the attack with minimal casualties.

American Infantry attacking a German held building with the aid of a Crocodile flamethrower tank

Retreating:

If your forces are pinned down with no way of attacking the enemy it is time to retreat and regroup. To retreat attempt to move another team up close to the pinned one, use this team to attract the attention of the enemy team. Tell the pinned down team to throw a smoke grenade in front of them and have them move backwards using the sneak command until they can retreat to a safe place.

German infantry retreating by using a Tiger tank and a smoke screen as cover

Using the terrain to your advantage by flanking:

Take a good look at the map when you zoom out to see the entire map. Based on what you know about enemy positions and your own look for a weak point in the enemy line with good cover. If you find a place like this send a unit like a Recon team to scout the area and then send heavier units through so they can attack enemy units in a strong point from behind or in all directions.

Flank the buildings at Schijndel Road by using the bush as cover to out flank the enemy

Conserving Ammunition but still being able to win a battle:

If your troops are low on ammunition and you need to win the battle, this is especially important if you are playing the with the Allies. At the start of the battle tell all of your troops to hide and wait until an enemy unit has closed to with in 20 meters and then have all of the units in the area fire at it. This may seem like wasting ammunition but it is not because the enemy team is quickly destroyed with minimal ammunition.