Once they see their point is under attack, the first units to respond are generally light vehicles, medium vehicles, and infantry squads-weapon teams, Snipers, heavy tanks, and AT guns are too slow. Players typically capture territory on flanks with individual infantry squads and defend them with infantry or HMGs garrisoned in buildings. I look at a group like this as a highly mobile and highly versatile assault force particularly suited for capturing points in lightly defended territory (usually flanks) where you’re unlikely to find a combined arms force. It’s also not a concern that the Panzergrenadiers give up some of their offensive power against infantry when they get the Panzerschreck upgrade because both the Half-track and Pioneer squad can make up for it. It’s not important that Pioneers are ineffective at destroying vehicles because their role in this group is to clear infantry from buildings, repair the Half-track, and attack infantry that try to rush the Panzergrenadiers or Half-track. Now, consider a group of units that consists of a Panzergrenadier squad with Panzerschrecks, a Pioneer squad with a Flamethrower, and a Half-track to carry them both. It can acquire an LMG42 upgrade to increase its effectiveness against infantry so long as it remains stationary, which allows it to excel at its main role but provides no increased flexibility, and incentivizes you to use it more defensively. Its Rifle Grenade can be useful against Snipers and HMGs if it manages a good hit, but it’s not something to rely upon. A Grenadier squad suffers against Snipers, it is shut down by HMGs, it has limited effectiveness against vehicles, with its Panzerfaust primarily disabling rather than destroying them. It can beat Engineers one-on-one, it can beat Conscripts at long range, it can beat Mortars and AT guns. You can analyze a Grenadier squad as an independent unit. In Multiplayer, the tactical decisions available to you are expanded through the use of Commanders that provide access to unique units and abilities.
Understanding a unit’s capabilities and how to employ it alongside complementary units is an important skill to develop.
In Company of Heroes 2, victory is largely determined by the quality of tactical decisions you make throughout a battle.
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