How do I "smoke" effectively?

[tjalla]

How do I use smoke to my advantage, especially when building p00ntang-bridges on a certain annoying map Right on top of the pioneers or on the other side of the river?

[Adrian Taylor]

I gather you have seen the Strategy Guide for using Smoke, also the thread under Ostfront Barbarossa?

Anyway, smoke can be quite tricky to master and actually in some situations not that effective. Basically the way the game engine works as long as any of the enemy AI troops can see your troops they can fire at them even through a smoke screen.

Thus you need to be sure that you are covering your troops from "all prying eyes". This means you need to know exactly where the enemy is (or have a good guess). Also to form a really good screen you will need more than 2 fast firing mortars. With the mission you are talking about none of the above situations are in place, so its best putting your mortars to other use.


Adrian