How to Improve Tank Tactics in Steel Beasts

[bobby456]

Hey Steel Beasts Commanders,🥰

 

I have been rolling around the battlefield for a while now, but I know I can sharpen my tank tactics even further.  That's why I'm reaching out to the seasoned veterans here!

 

Here's what I'm looking to improve on:

 

• Teamplay Triumphs: How can I coordinate seamlessly with my squadmates during firefights? Any battle-tested strategies to share?
• Sharpened Situational Awareness: Tips for keeping a keen eye on the battlefield and acquiring targets faster?
• Practice Makes Perfect: Any recommended resources or Steel Beasts scenarios that can help me hone my tactical skills?

I also check this: https://www.steelbeasts.com/topic/17580-prepared-positions-best-waypoint-tactic-ai-assignment-of-specific-tank-to-ssalesforce-developerpecific-position-move-when-under-icm-fire and I have not found any solution. I am looking to elevate my game and become a true tank ace!  Any advice, shared experiences, or battle wisdom would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance😇

[Gibsonm]

Well firstly there are a bunch of resources that come with the product.

 

Have a look here: C:\Games\SB Pro PE 4.379\docs

 

The next question is what level do you intend to play at?

 

You mention "squadmates"

 

Are you expecting to command a vehicle, with others inside it.

 

Are you expecting to command a vehicle, with others commanding other vehicles.

 

Are you expecting to command a Troop (Platoon)?

 

Depending on the answers there are different techniques you can use.

 

Ideally though I'd suggest you attend a multi player event and join in and learn "on the job".

 

How to do that was outlined in response to your question posted on Tuesday of last week.

 

Edited July 22 by Gibsonm

[Bond_Villian]

Tip; The 'Next Engaged Unit' and 'Cannot Identify' shortcuts are helpful at times.

Actually I would recommend that you go through all the key bindings and make sure that you understand them all.

Edited July 23 by Bond_Villian

[Ssnake]

Steel Beasts is designed to overwhelm the player with messages. One important learning aspect is to be able to separate important from less important reports (and in multiplayer, to be efficient in communication).

 

Arguably, the paramount task of the tactician is to have the right unit for the job in the right place at the right moment. So, being good at guessing how much time a unit will need to travel to where it's going to be needed is important. Being able to recognize when you need to give the necessary orders is another. This requires you to pick up clues about what will happen in 10, 15, 30, or 60 minutes from now, and to give suitable orders. When to pull a unit from contact to resupply. When not to do that. To recognize a moment when a unit needs to move out, and when it's too late to do so (and where else to send it).

There are no standard recipes for success. But knowing each units capabilities, their strengthes and weaknesses, and knowing Chapter eight of the user's manual, are indispensable. If you don't know your tools, and the enemy's, how could you possibly be successful?

 

The best ways to learn are

- to play with experienced players in multiplayer sessions

- to use the AAR playback to process what happened in the last hour

[RedWardancer]

I want to add in another learning tool:

 

Watch SB pro PE videos!

 

There is a slew of excellent videos from many of our best players on YouTube that spans well over 15 years.  A tremendous amount of tutorials and action videos came out in the past four years you can learn from.

[DrDevice]

Probably my favorite quote from 66 Stories of Battle Command :  "The joke was: you’re riding along in your track, maps flapping in the breeze and all of a sudden something flys by. And you go, “What was that?” Well, it was a decision point. You were supposed to make a decision back there, OK."

 

As Nils posts above, the real base form of Tactics is about right asset, right place, right time. 

And what RedWardancer said: watch. listen. try. The hardest learning curve in this sim and many others is that you have scarce SECONDS to execute the thing you've been thinking about for hours/days/months. It's a steep, but rewarding curve when you execute.

Edited September 14 by DrDevice
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[wildbillkelsoe]

the keyword here is its a simulator its not designed to be a walk in the park. practice makes perfect. sharpen those gunnery skills first because your AI gunner rating is a derivative from your own rating. next, take the tutorials and understand what the different orders mean and how the tank behaves with these orders. any simulator has a learning curve of sorts. the more you practice, the better you become. And don't let losses frustrate you because there are many lessons you can learn from them with the AAR. 

[Captain_Colossus]

On 7/21/2024 at 11:14 PM, bobby456 said:

these questions are so general. and so i think the first problem is articulating a specific question. otherwise it is 'how do i win'? so it invites a similarly vague response

 

 

Here's what I'm looking to improve on:

 

• Teamplay Triumphs: How can I coordinate seamlessly with my squadmates during firefights? Any battle-tested strategies to share?
• whatever it is you are doing- do the opposite of that.
• Sharpened Situational Awareness: Tips for keeping a keen eye on the battlefield and acquiring targets faster?
• answers its own question. keep a keen eye open and the rest follows
• Practice Makes Perfect: Any recommended resources or Steel Beasts scenarios that can help me hone my tactical skills?
• answer already provided in the question

I also check this: https://www.steelbeasts.com/topic/17580-prepared-positions-best-waypoint-tactic-ai-assignment-of-specific-tank-to-ssalesforce-developerpecific-position-move-when-under-icm-fire and I have not found any solution. I am looking to elevate my game and become a true tank ace! 

 

do you know specifically what is you are looking for other than 'how do i win' and 'how do i avoid losing'. if only any problem were solved that way

 

specifically, if you were setting up fortified infantry positions, in order to dampen the effects of a single high explosive round or fragment or projectile traveling in a straight line wiping out an entire line, where possible, use a zig-zag or square wave or sine wave or saw-tooth wave pattern or some kind of set up which exposes less of the infantry to any single event like that. furthermore those kinds of patterns much like a serrated knife edge offer more pressure against an opponent, so that an attacker will find it more difficult to

bypass, encircle or apply overwhelming pressure against any single point in the trench line; additionally, if you want to take it further, i am constructing a map which intends to further strengthen the defenses by using the raise road tool in the map editor to construct trapezoidal berms, which i later add the infantry trenches to them- so that assault groups are not just firing away down into the trenches, which are placed flush into the terrain and expose the whole group to enemy fire from above, instead the raised terrain provide more cover and concealment and more protection against fragments. and so all of this would have to be taken into consideration in the discussion of your tactics; without all that for clarification other than 'how do i attack trenches' there is no substantive answer