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- # Project Close Combat
- # Bootcamp
- # Script 4 - Armor Tactics
- #
- # Revisions:
- # Doug Walker 3/30/96
- # Penny Atcheson 5/4/96
- # David Hua 5/11/96
- #
- [INTRO]
- * 24 12
- *Armor Tactics
- *
- *Knowing a few basic tactics will be helpful when you begin playing Close Combat.
- *This exercise walks you through some beginning tactics that you can use with
- *armor during the game.
- *
- *In this exercise of Boot Camp, you'll learn how to:
- * Get information about tanks or vehicles
- * Use tactics to defend your tanks
- *
- *To continue Boot Camp, click anywhere on this message. To exit Boot Camp,
- *select Abort Battle from the Game (File) menu.
- ######################################################################
- #
- # Message Display 7 - Tanks/Vehicles
- #
- ######################################################################
- #Begin Lesson 7
- [BEGIN LESSON]
- ?Action
- *SELECT_TEAM 0 0 -1 -1
- ?Steps
- !CENTER_TEAM 0 0 -1 -1
- !ARROW_TEAM 0 14 0 0
- !POPUP 0 12 -1 -1
- *Only a few weapons in your arsenal are effective against tanks.
- *You will want to position teams accordingly, so that tanks are
- *protected yet still available for attack.
- *
- *Select your infantry team and check its antitank capability graph
- *at the top of the Soldier monitor.
- ?Success
- !POPUP 0 12 -1 -1
- *Notice in the Soldier monitor that the selected team has no anti-tank
- *capability as indicated by the small graph.
- ?Error
- !POPUP 0 12 -1 -1
- *To select a team, click on the infantry team indicated by the
- *arrow. Review the Soldier monitor for weapon information.
- ?WDI4U
- [END LESSON]
- #End Lesson 7
- ######################################################################
- #
- # Message Display 8 - Tank abilities
- #
- ######################################################################
- #Begin Lesson 8
- [BEGIN LESSON]
- ?Action
- ?Steps
- !CENTER_TEAM 0 0 -1 -1
- !POPUP 3 12 -1 -1
- *The bar graph in the Soldier monitor gives information about
- *weapons. The top bars show effectiveness against people; the
- *bottom bars are for tanks. The effectiveness is indicated by the
- *size and color of the small vertical bars.
- ?Success
- ?Error
- ?WDI4U
- [END LESSON]
- #End Lesson 8
- #Begin Lesson 7.1
- [BEGIN LESSON]
- ?Action
- *SELECT_TEAM 0 1 -1 -1
- ?Steps
- !CENTER_TEAM 0 0 -1 -1
- !ARROW_TEAM 0 2 0 1
- !POPUP 0 12 -1 -1
- *Now, select your armor team and check its anti-tank capability
- *graph at the top of the Soldier monitor.
- ?Success
- !POPUP 0 12 -1 -1
- *Note that your armor team has both anti-personnel and anti-tank
- *capability as indicated by the small vertical bars.
- *
- *Remember that your infantry team had only anti-personnel
- *capability.
- ?Error
- !POPUP 0 12 -1 -1
- *To select the armor team, click on the team indicated by the
- *arrow. Review the Soldier monitor for weapon information.
- ?WDI4U
- [END LESSON]
- #End Lesson 7.1
- ######################################################################
- #
- # Message Display 9 - Anti-tank weapons
- #
- ######################################################################
- #Begin Lesson 9
- [BEGIN LESSON]
- ?Action
- ?Steps
- !CENTER_TEAM 0 0 -1 -1
- !POPUP 0 12 -1 -1
- *You'll need to know which teams can disable enemy tanks such
- *as the American Bazooka team or the German Panzerschreck
- *team. Equally important is knowing which teams have no anti-tank
- *weapons.
- ?Success
- ?Error
- ?WDI4U
- [END LESSON]
- #End Lesson 9
- ######################################################################
- #
- # Message Display 10 - Defending tanks
- #
- ######################################################################
- #Begin Lesson 10
- [BEGIN LESSON]
- ?Action
- *SMOKE 0 1 25 7
- ?Steps
- !CENTER_TEAM 0 0 -1 -1
- !POPUP 4 12 -1 -1
- *Because both sides value tanks, you'll need to take steps to protect
- *them. Consider deploying smoke to screen tank movements and
- *have infantry teams advance in front of your tanks to target
- *possible enemy ambush.
- *
- !ARROW 0 12 25 7
- !ARROW_TEAM 1 1 0 1
- !POPUP 0 12 -1 -1
- *You can provide smoke coverage before moving your troops into
- *buildings. Issue the Smoke command to the M4A1 Sherman tank
- *team at the tip of the north gray arrow.
- ?Success
- !POPUP 0 12 -1 -1
- *Excellent usage of smoke screens to protect advancing troops.
- ?Error
- !POPUP 0 12 -1 -1
- *Click on the tank team, then select the Smoke command. Fire
- *smoke at the area indicated by the arrow.
- ?WDI4U
- [END LESSON]
- #End Lesson 10
- ######################################################################
- #
- # Message Display 10.1 - Defending tanks
- #
- ######################################################################
- #Begin Lesson 10.1
- [BEGIN LESSON]
- ?Action
- *MOVE_FAST 0 0 23 8
- ?Steps
- !CENTER_TEAM 0 0 -1 -1
- !ARROW_TEAM 0 7 0 0
- !ARROW 1 4 23 8
- !POPUP 0 12 -1 -1
- *Now, move your infantry team to the west side of the small building
- *where they will provide covering fire while you advance your tank.
- ?Success
- !POPUP 0 12 -1 -1
- *Excellent! It's a good idea to issue the Move Fast command
- *rather than the Move command when advancing troops have
- *coverage.
- ?Error
- !POPUP 0 12 -1 -1
- *Click on the infantry team, then select the Move Fast command.
- ?WDI4U
- [END LESSON]
- #End Lesson 10
- ######################################################################
- #
- # Message Display 8 - Tank abilities
- #
- ######################################################################
- #Begin Lesson 8
- [BEGIN LESSON]
- ?Action
- *MOVE 0 1 21 6
- ?Steps
- !CENTER_TEAM 0 0 -1 -1
- !ARROW_TEAM 0 2 0 1
- !ARROW 1 4 21 6
- !TEAM_FIRE 0 0 19 9
- !POPUP 3 12 -1 -1
- *For this exercise, the infantry team will fire at the large building
- *to suppress any anti-tank teams the enemy may have hiding there.
- *While they fire, move your armor team up to the stone wall.
- ?Success
- !POPUP 0 12 -1 -1
- *Excellent! Remember to use this suppression strategy when
- *advancing armor teams in unknown terrain.
- ?Error
- !POPUP 0 12 -1 -1
- *Click on the armor team, then select the Move command. Your
- *infantry team will provide suppression fire as you move the armor
- *team.
- ?WDI4U
- [END LESSON]
- #End Lesson 8
- [OUTTRO]
- *18 12
- *Summary
- *
- *This completes the Boot Camp lesson on Armor Tactics. In this training session,
- *you learned how to:
- * Use tanks to support infantry movement
- * Use infantry to support armor movement
- *
- *This also concludes the complete Boot Camp training. To begin your real
- *battles, click Maneuvers and then select the battle you'd like to try.