When arranging an attack, try to get your units to attack during daylight together. To assign each unit a time to arrive in combat. It may be more exact (though more time consuming) YouвЂ™re trying to coordinate the arrival of units. Those cases, your units will each move at their Divisional top speed. If youвЂ™ve used a Select Box, however, the units youвЂ™ve selected may have different top speeds. Or land unit to move at high speed, detach any units which will slow it down (and find another home for them вЂ“ donвЂ™t just leave detached brigades hanging around). The speed (and other attributes also) of your leastД¬apable unit will determine the speed (and other factors) for the whole unit. Pay attention to the speeds of land, air and naval unit types which mightД«e mixed in with your divisions or groups.

Units can be selected with a select box to see each of their destinations (at the end of its movement orders) you can click on the unit. If you want to see the ultimate destination Indicator says it will, because the combat throws indicators off.

Sometimes, inД¬ombat, youвЂ™ll notice these indicators are not quite correct вЂ“ a unit whichДЄdvances in combat may occupy the enemy held province before the They are to moving forward and reaching their objective. You should regularly check your unitsвЂ™ arrival times, to see how close See: Command organization strategy Execution Movement If you have time, you also should arrange the right infrastructre is in place - ports, air bases and province infrastructure, so you don't run out of supplies or places to put your air support. The holding troops can then be used in the mop-up phase. armour and motorised troops) will penetrate his line, and others (light, fast troops) will exploit the penetration. infantry) will hold the enemy, some (e.g. This means that you should build and organise troops on the basis that some (e.g. Never give one province orders, always tell your troops where to go at least three provinces ahead. You should decide to have areas where no attacks occur so you save supplies and the enemy wonвЂ™t be pushed back before the enveloping troops arrive in their rear, though you may need to pin him in those areas so he canвЂ™t escape your trap. Short penetrations and envelopments are possible even with infantry units. To do this, you should aim for as deep a penetration as possible, in order to evade his defences. You should always try to envelop your enemy as it is difficult to destroy his units in any other way. Try not to always take the enemy head-on. Depending on the terrain and the units available to you, you will have to choose between a broad front, or envelopment strategy. Draw your plan of attack and stick to it after combat starts.

For this purpose, the plans editor is excellent. The first step in combat is to plan where you are going to go and what you are going to do.

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