Men of War - Planetside mod for Men of War: Assault Squad 2

You might want to check out the effectivness of the gun on the Phalanx Spear turret. It just didn't seem right last night, when I sited two TR Spear turrets to defend a road - against a platoon of advancing NC Lightnings. The Lightnings absorbed dozens of shots from the Spear turrets, before both of the turrets were destroyed - without even one of the Lightnings being disabled.

Luckily, I had a couple of TR heavy squads in reserve, and their rocket launchers extracted a toll on the NC Lightnings - before the heavies were wiped out by the supporting NC light assault infantry squads.

Also, a bit of camo on the Phalanx turrets would be a nice touch.

Well, you asked for it. The uncondensed version of my latest battle.
I had some mixed results from last night's combined arms scenario. By the way, the map is actually called "rustling of sands". I used an NC force of 5 Vanguard tanks supported by a reinforced platoon of heavy assault troops (6 squads, with a rocket launcher per squad). They were in cover along the ridgeline.

The assaulting TR force was comprised of a reinforced tank company (15 Prowler tanks), supported by a reinforced armoured infantry platoon (6 light assault squads) mounted in Sunderer APCs.

The battle started when the right flank of the TR force spotted the enemy first, and moved forward to engage. Soon after the shells started flying, the platoons on the left flank moved moved up to join the fight. It was interesting to watch. Even though all the TR vehicles started the scenario in a rough line formation, the Sunderers seemed to move forward at a respectable distance behind the Prowlers. Moving and stopping as the Prowlers did.

Some of the Sunderers were picked off at a distance by the Vanguards. The Infantry had dismounted from the Sunderers as soon as the bullets started flying. Most of the advancing Prowlers ground to a halt at the foot of the slope up to the ridgeline, and pounded the Vanguards that were in exposed positions. A couple of the Prowlers ventured up dead end ravines, and stopped, with no way out. Pathfinding by the vehicle AI's was very bad. All tanks took unbelievable (unrealistic) amounts of hits from each other during this slugging match. This standoff, and exchange of firepower, seemed to go on for ages. The NC rocket launchers joined in the pounding, when they had direct line of fire. The supporting TR dismounted infantry moved forward to take up fire support positions on the slope up to the ridge.

In the end, I decided to break the deadlock, and moved an unengaged Vanguard (on the far right flank) down to attack the flank of the now stationary TR force. I supported it with 2 squads of heavy assault troops. They literally pounded their way into the rear flank of the TR force. And I mean pounded. Because it took so long to destroy, or even disable, each Prowler. The Prowlers seemed to not want to be distracted from what they were firing at - even when attacked from another direction. The dismounted TR infantry were much more reactive, and moved to engage the NC heavy assaults that were supporting the Lone Vanguard.

In the end, I disengaged a couple more NC heavy squads, and moved them around to support the Vanguard that was pounding it's way across the TR rear. And that's pretty much how the battle ended.

Once again, a bit of a disappointment from the AI. Apart from the AI problems already mentioned, one Sunderer was destroyed by bouncing off a large rock and rolling over. Heavy tanks still seem too heavily armoured - and Sunderers probably not armoured enough. Perhaps a need to make the "non faction" Sunderer an anti-armour Variant - with composite armour, and one of the roof mounted weapons as an AV weapon - that the player can add to any faction they choose.

such an amazing mod, cant wait till the next update

The Phalanx turrets + infantry vs heavy armour + infantry scenario is finished. What a walkover! All these scenarios were played on the same map. I think it was "desert sands" or "shifting sands". The NC Phalanx turrets (4 AT and 2 AI) were dug in along a ridge, supported by a small infantry company (in cover), with several rocket launchers, and a number of Mana turrets. There was also a NC infantry platoon (in cover), with a couple of rocket launchers, and Mana turrets, on the flat ground leading up to the ridgeline. All the Mana turrets were manned by heavy assault infantry.

The assaulting TR had a reinforced Prowler heavy tank company (15 tanks), supported by two full companies of infantry. There was no interference from me.

The TR force crossed the open ground in quick time, smothering the NC infantry platoon with their combined firepower as they advanced. Approaching the ridgeline, they took very little damage from the Phalanx turrets, before neutralising them. The TR tanks took the most damage from NC rocket launchers on the ridgeline. The launchers destroying several of them. But the combined firepower of the TR force was overwhelming, and the TR were soon victorious.

Lessons learned. TR Prowler tanks are a force to be reckoned with! Combine them with massed infantry firepower, and you have a steamroller that is hard to stop. Perhaps the AT Phalanx turrets need some harder hitting AT shells? I expected to see at least half of the Prowlers fall victim to the Spear turrets. I don't think they lost one!

Anyway, the experiments will continue.......

Interesting..........had my first armour vs armour battle last night. A TR Lightning company vs a NC Lightning company, in a meeting engagement in a desert town. Both had 12 tanks each. I had them grouped in platoons of 3 tanks each. And I didn't interfere until one side had sustained heavy casualties. The NC company had half their tanks disabled. I must tell you, each of the tanks had a crew of 4. So their were usually sufficient crew surviving to carry out battlefield repairs.

The tanks were a little "mindless" at times - crashing into the middle of buildings (because that was the direct route to the enemy they had in sight). And when they couldn't move any further, became easy pickings for an enemy that was still mobile. Sometimes, when they still had crew left, and weren't being shot at, they would eject a crew member to repair the vehicle. And sometimes they wouldn't. Enemy crews, that had abandoned their disabled vehicles, took on a role of harrassing crews that were trying to repair their vehicles. Sometimes vehicles being repaired would eject other crew members to protect the crew member who was carrying out repairs. Also, crews who abandoned unrepairable vehicles took on the role of harrassing enemy vehicles as well.

I ended up supervising the repair of some of the NC Lightnings, and directing them into combat positions. Needless to say, the NC eventually won the battle. But once I took control of the remainder of their company, it still wasn't a walk in the park. It would be nice to see an AI that had a bit more intelligence though.

In the end, I even threw in several TR heavy tank hunter teams. The NC lost a couple more tanks, but ended up wiping out the TR tank hunters. Overall, as my first armour only battle, it was quite satisfying. I will probably try a heavy armour engagement next - then maybe a heavy armour vs Phalanx turrets battle. Then some combined arms engagements.

Still lots of fun to be had with this mod !!!!