TheRussianLord

It has come to my attention, from talking to players on b.net, that first off there are quite a few people who read this forum without actually posting, and secondly that the understanding of the WWZ combat system is quite poor amongst most people. So this is a thread for discussing tactics in WWZ. I'm going to start off by going over the basic anti-air tactics.

S-400 Triumf - built in the munitions depot, it fires 2000 range missiles that are a cast spell. This is a very effective vehicle at base defense. Build a munitions depot and park 3-4 of them by it for constant recharge.
Weak Points - requires mana to fight, requires manual attention.

Tunguska M-1 - this is a short range vehicle carrying less missiles then the S-400, but also has it's own attack. The advantages are clear. Much less dependent on mana, and capable of carrying out attack move orders to support advancing tank forces.
Weak Points - short range, a rather weak attack.

Rocket Trooper - this is the low-tech alternative. They are rather weak in AA roles, and in small numbers are easily taken out, however a decent amount of them patrolling your base is an effective deterrent to enemy aircraft.
Weak Points - expensive, relatively weak.

Mig-31 - this is the top of the line for anti-air. This is an aircraft that carries 4 missiles at 2000 range. Support by an AWACS a group of 4-6 Mig-31's can annihilate an enemy airforce before the opponent even realizes what is happening.
Weak Points - Rather pricey, and vulnerable to S-400 and other Mig-31s. Also requires advanced tech.

WWZ

wow bout time soeone made this. Ok you want tactics or basic grouping's i'm the one you should ask. If anyone has ever used creative and effictive tactics its me. Imma start off with basic groupings followed by the more expensive and powerful spec unit groupings.

Name Simple yet effective
Units infantry and machinegunners
Requiements:around 50-100 gold
How to create: first off get 3 tents(if your playing X you probaly spawned with 3) get all tents in one group and click on inf two times and mg's two times. you end up with 6 inf for moderate anti-spit and 6 mg's for moderate anti-zomb.
Weakness:almost nothing if en'mass. Although mutants easily kill them.

Name:Ranged overkill
Units: gats inf and mg's
Requirements:200+gold
How to create: first off you need to get enuff cash for 6 gatling gunners. After that you need 3 inf and 3 mg's. If all goes will in this group, your gats will massacre incoming zombs while your inf and mg's blow down the weakened ones.
Weakness:flanks kill it, if 1unit moves from the group its dead,extremly costy.

Name:Balenced overkill
Requirements:210 gold, more if using gats
How to create: get 3 tents, click on flamethrowers 1 time,then click on mg's 1 time and inf two times. you end up with 3 flamethrowers,3 machine gunners, and 6 infantry. trust me unless a zombie knows how to micro its powerful.
Weakness:unless backed by healers, its useless. The infantry MUST be with the flame's AT ALL TIMES.

Name: German Spec ops(me personal fav)
Units: german snipes, UK combi's, gs and german hero
How to create: first off if UK allows you to capturate one of his city's and your germany DO SO. Create 3 german snipers,3 uk combi carbines, 5 gatling gunners, and your hero. Back it up with artillary and you got yourself german spec ops.
Weakness: surrounding it would most likely kill it. If sent in without artilllary its useless due to its slow movement. EXTREMLY COSTY IN BOTH FOOD AND CASH. I suggest if your first time playing or even your tenth, do not use this group unless your expert in microing.

Name: Turkish Royal Forces
Units:flame's, turkish swordsmen, turkish hero and inf
How to make it: get 6 turkish swords,3 flamethrowers, 2 inf and your hero. Your hero must have endurance aura maxed out if you want this group to preform to its ultimate zenith.
Weakness: spitters need i say more?

This is all for now i'll post others later plus some tactics later.

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TheRussianLord

Heres a strategy that will leave most opponents imponent and annihilated in humans vs humans wars. You will need 3-4 AWACS to hang up over the battlefield from safe locations. They will provide you with superior line of sight. next you need a squadron of 6-12 Mig-29. They need to clean up the enemy air force and any anti-air the enemy has. First knock out the enemy Raptors and Migs, then his AWACS and finally his AA. You should be able to do this fairly easily if you're on the offensive and have AWACS hanging in the area. Then you take a 2 groups of 3 tanks and 9 militia each and send that into his base. Support this force by using the Migs to take out enemy tanks and artillery which should be easy because you have air superiority. If the enemy manages to recover from this then a) it's me :P b) you did something wrong

The weak point of this is the enemy AA. When launching your initial offensive with the AWACS and MiGs make sure that the enemy AA is not in a position to kill your air.

Halakbalakbalak

Heres one for zombies normal version.

In the normal versions ther eis one smart thing to do... abandone breaking out in russia and waterbound your middle east zombs and hop the caspian... on the other side there will be atleast... 10 15 nuetrals to kill... ounce yuove done this youll have around 20 zombies and jsut take the city beside you or if you want walk past the sniper tower there and get the other neutrals just north of that area... if you don't do this then you can easily rage/dog rush turkey and he wont be able to defend.

In 1.15x there arent any realy reachable nuetrals to send zombies at so i suggest just doing the usual rage/dog middle eastern rush :/

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TheRussianLord

Here's a little bit on effective artillery usage.

M-270 MLRS - built at the munitions depot, this is an excellent artillery piece against humans and zombies alike. It fires missiles to stun in a large area and with 2000 range. Best used in groups of 2-4 with an AWACS to give them line of sight. Use them on groups of enemy tanks during a tank battle, this will most likely let your tanks destroy them easily, or on advancing zombies.
Weak points - does little damage, needs an AWACS to be fully effective, and needs a Munitions Depot nearby to reload.

Nona Self-Propelled Howitzer - (same as the D-20 152mm Towed Howitzer) fires a single long range shot doing high damage in a small AoE. Best used in a group of 6+ and an AWACS. The large group and short cooldown allows you to fire them nonstop, at a machinegun rate. when combined with a chokepoint, or infantry support can easily annihilate zombies. Also excellent for taking out enemy tanks at range.
Weak Points - requires AWACS to be effective, hard to aim, requires Munitions Depot although it does carry 50 shots before it has to reload.

NoMexicans

i got one that actually won me a game before

hit and run-get some heli transports and some tanks for taking out buildings(demos if ur poland) and go around taking out infested cities if used effectivly can take out 6 cities a minute
weaknesses-spitters and birds

Halakbalakbalak

um..... How about this.... get a chinook and transport 6 demos if you can... take them around and jsut kill the cities ^^.... ever snuk into the catacombs with a few lol... its so funny.

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halak remove that post. Thats demo abusing and i hate it and see it as a glitch/cheat.

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TheRussianLord

Nah its a legit strategy. When they lose 300 gold of units to one 5 gold bird I'm going to laugh my ass off :P

Heres a strategy that I totally got owned by. I was impressed. I was Russia with 78 income. I invadede Germany who had 24 income. He used S-400 Triumf to clean the skies of my airplanes, Navy in the Baltic Sea to kill off my tanks, and then his own tanks to take my cities. I got annihilated clean and had to go for an embarassing peace because the zombies showed up on my southern doorstep.

Halakbalakbalak

um when did i say airleft....THERE IS A loveING ENTRENCE YOU KNOW.... AND ITS NOT THAT HARD TO SNEAK PAST IN A BVP/BMP




Uh Halak wtf are you talking about. You clearly said Chinook. And keep the caps down please. - TheRussianLord

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