Steel Panthers: World at War

[nonconformist]

I just downloaded the new version, though I'm an old time player.
Anyone else have it, and wanna share any tipe and tricks?

Firstly, if you are defending (especially as allies against the much stronger Axis armour), you should posityion youself in cover, and wait until the enemy gets very close, almost point blank before firing and revealing yourself. Not only does this mean you have a higher chance of hitting, but at this range, you have a chance of taking a Tiger out, or at least stunning the crew, or making it break a track.

Another trick is if you havve a machine gun, but can't hit anything to kill, then there are a couple of different things you can do.
If defending, don't use up your firepoints, but lure the enemy out before shooting them in the open.
If attacking, fire at them anyway, and they wil.l be more suppresed, and unable to react.

 

[Captain Carnage]

I got it last year and it's great. The one thing I like is the way you can confirm to use Op-fire or not.

Also you can use only a specific weapon by pressing T then choosing an enemy unit as your target, then press C and choose the weapon. I have used this to burn a few enemies with one of my flamethrower units.

One random tip - don't fire at an enemy that is retreating or routed (unless they're Japanese) because their status will go back to pinned or buttoned and then they won't retreat during their turn. There are some exceptions, like if you have many units surrounding the enemy unit, you can usually just keep shooting untill you've killed them.