the Steel Beasts Anti- Frustration Kit. - The 29th Armored Regiment

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1. Installation 2. Finding online games 3. Tactics 4. Sharpening your skills 5. Goodies 6. Etiquette 7. Credits It happens fast. One moment you're a modern-day leviathan rolling across the plain, lord of all you survey, your 120mm gun scanning restlessly from side to side, sniffing, looking for something to bite. Then abruptly, a spike of metal smashes through your armor plate and hammers you into oblivion. What went wrong? Hard to say, but I can give you a few ideas. I'm an average player and definitely not a natural at this, but maybe the fact that I have to think about it a little more will make me a better teacher. :) First, a paradigm shift. Everybody knows that tanks are invincible, they knock down buildings, explosives make about as much impression on them as a match flame, et cetera. Well, get that out of your head. In most multiplayer scenarios, the enemy has a highly accurate, high-velocity gun firing one of the five best tank-killing rounds ever devised by Man. Aside from the machine guns, every weapon on the Steel Beasts battlefield is optimized for killing tanks. The M1A1's front turret armor might absorb a hit, but for the most part hit=death. The only things that will keep enemy fire away from you are ● Invisibility ● Hard cover ● Doing unto them before they do unto you
Let's talk about those three. Invisibility is hard to come by - you can spot a tank turret 3km away through the TIS - but it is possible. If you think about the way infantry - or gophers - move, they get down low and dash to someplace safe, then pop up for a quick look. During a game, go to the map screen and press the space bar and the colors will be overlaid to help you interpret it - look for valleys and use them. There are three good saddles (low spaces between two peaks) in the map image at left. (Do you see where they are? Roll your mouse over the image to see the saddles.) If you must go over the top of a ridgeline, this is the place to do it. I left out a marginal saddle in the north because it looks a little too flat - being exposed that long, at high elevation, is probably not worth it. Trees give a mostly false sense of security. While in woods your own vision is hopelessly obstructed, and from outside you're not as hidden as you think. The slightest glimmer on the TIS will draw fire from human gunners, and even if you hear the first shot (which means it missed - sabot rounds are supersonic so you'll never hear the one that kills you) you won't be able to find the shooter. Bursting through a thin line of trees can provide an element of surprise, but it's generally not worth it. Late in the game, all woods in the battle zone are potential havens for enemy infantry, and they will butcher you with ease if you wander too close. Finally, be careful with the Defend, Guard and Hold commands. Tanks with these orders sit a little too high for my taste, and are sometimes easily picked off. You may be better off just parking your tanks on the back slopes of hills (with no orders) and periodically peeking over the crest yourself. Hard cover and invisibility go hand in hand, and both require you to study the map and stay out of the bad neighborhoods. Wide open areas are bad news - if a round goes screaming past you, all you can do is go to Top Speed, zigzag and try to find a hole to hide in. Plateaus are bad news, especially if there's a higher plateau nearby. Woods are bad news. The Guard command is good news. It causes units to "embark on the first attached, non-conditioned route if under fire". This doesn't correct the AI's tendency to expose itself a bit much, but it does mean that if the first shot goes astray and you've created a retreat route from its battle position, it will duck behind cover. (And send a "taking fire" message.) Generally speaking, if a position doesn't have some solid dirt that you can vanish behind in five seconds or less, maybe you shouldn't be there. Doing unto them is the ultimate solution if you can arrange it, and the best way to arrange it is through teamwork. When moving through the battlezone, try to leapfrog your tanks so that one is sitting still covering while another moves. Human players (and the AI, a little bit) will sometimes roll forward to take a shot at an exposed target, and in so doing expose themselves. A great feeling of brotherhood will well up inside you the first time one of your overwatching tanks kills a vehicle that was about to fire on you. The same tactic can be applied by two human players, although unfortunately the common practice is to give each player a distinct corridor, making cooperation difficult.
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