1. RECON. As with most strategy games the need for RECON is obvious, yet still somehow needs to be stated from time to time. Try to maintain solid recon coverage of the areas immediately surrounding your forces. That will help you plan attacks, and offer some warning of enemy attacks and/or ambushes.

....with that one out of the way.

2. LOS TOOL. Whatever you've changed your keybinds to, find the one for the LOS tool (default is the C KEY). Holding that KEY down while moving your mouse around on the screen lets you view the LOS (line of sight) from anywhere on the map. This tool alone is a huge benefit to any armchair commander looking to survive in SD. Use this tool when looking to place your units, as well as when planning where and when to attack/push. It is invaluable when combined with the next tip.

3. UNIT PLACEMENT. When right-clicking to place a unit, keep holding the mouse button down while dragging in the direction you wish the unit to face. In this manner (and with the use of the LOS-tool described above) one can always ensure they are making the best use of the unit and any surrounding terrain.

4. COMMAND UNITS. These units are POWERFUL units for their passive ability to augment (buff) the stats of nearby units. Friendly units perform better when a command unit (no it does not matter if infantry or vehicle etc.) is nearby. Their accuracy, morale, etc. are all buffed so they perform their duties better. One can have a command unit following their units by left-clicking to select the command unit and then right-clicking on the unit to follow. You can also set your command units to follow an ALLY for instance to help out their units in a push/attack.

5. QUEUEING ORDERS. You can queue up movement orders while still in the deployment stage. Take advantage of this as it makes the game-start less frantic. Also on the topic of queueing orders. You can queue the ammo trucks to go to several different units one after the other.

For example. You might left-click select your unit. Holding SHIFT you might then hit F (fast travel), then left-click a destination. Still holding SHIFT you might then hit Y (dismount/unload at X location) and then left-click a location to unload there.

In fact, many (if not most) of the commands that worked in other games with the same engine (wargame series) will/should work here.



Hopefully these few quick tips help saving some time/frustration for new players. Only good things happen when a good game grows its playerbase so here's hoping for a solid launch come May.

CREDIT goes to the player RADIOSHOW for drawing my attention to the fact that so many commands from other games with the same engine (Wargame series) like queueing up the supply/ammo truck for multiple targets etc. also work in this game.

Happy hunting everyone.......and good luck fellow armchair generals! :)