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Clearing out buildings

By AleKKsandros

Clearing out buildings

This guide teaches you how to clear out buildings with less casualties. Clearing out buildings can result in a lot of casualties. Grenades, RPG's, ATGM's... Used by the AI a lot in the base game missions, the dlc missions and they are most times fatal to your units.

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Category: Characters, Gameplay Basics, Maps or Levels, Walkthroughs, Weapons

Languages: English

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26 Apr, 2019 @ 7:41am

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Assault Squads

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Assault Squads

Assault squads will be available in the 3th mission as you will have to clear out a lot of buildings in the following missions in the base game:
- The border of Latakia and Hama
- Damascus Surburbs
- Palmyra

You should use your assault squads when an enemy building can't be cleared out with artillery/tanks.
Or when the enemy has an ATGM squad in a specific building which prevents you from using your tanks in a large area. Now you can think: Uhh well but I can just assault the area with all my available units... There are 3 reasons to not do this:
-It is difficult to know the enemy strenght in the specific area.
-The AI can counterattack at some points in the game. (By event some times).
-The chance is high that this will lead to inrepleaceable casualties.

Use your assault squads their RPO launcher which can kill up to 80% of the enemies in a building. Some times 100% if you are lucky. Get closer to the enemy building, by occupying a building close to the enemy building you want to clear out. See if the building is in range of your RPO launcher. If not use a infantery Squad to occupy the building close to the enemy building to divert their attention to the infantery squad. Now disable all weapons of the assault squad except the RPO launcher so the soldier with the RPO launcher will get closer to the enemy building and fire it. There is a chance he dies before reaching it but if you smoke off the area this won't happen easy (with smoking off I mean to smoke off other enemy units in the vicinity which can potentially kill your RPO'er. Lead all of the assault squad into the enemy building now to clear out the remaining enemies in it.
Now you have captured the enemy building with verry few casualties if you have done everyhing carefully.

Here is an example:
Mission is the border of Latakia and Hama.

Before the RPO attack:

After the RPO attack:

12 Comments

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Teutonicus 25 Aug, 2023 @ 4:05am

Smoke grenades and infantry attack always works well.
BMPs and professional troops can throw smoke grenades. If you use 2x infantry squads they can leap-frog the grenades forwards meaning the enemy can't effectively shoot your guys till they reach the building.

Max dH 26 Jul, 2022 @ 3:40am

Followup. You can Airstrike across the whole map this Way:

Airstrikes are usually marked with two markers, first is the direction from which the plane comes in and the second Marker is where the Strike goes down . Both are supposed to be in Sight of the Guy with the airstrike Ability.

How to exploit:
Set the first Airstrike Marker near the Guy who can call in the Airstrikes as usual.
Now scroll to the target area (anywhere) with the ARROWKEYS . Do not touch the screen borders with the mouse Cursor or the second marker disappears.
Now you can plant the target marker anywhere on the map , even in the Fog of War.

Monarchist 17 May, 2022 @ 3:01pm

wagner is love, wagner is life

Krav Magal 31 Mar, 2022 @ 9:32am

Life saver, dude! Thanks again.

AleKKsandros [author] 30 Mar, 2022 @ 11:45pm

I haven't played in a year but from what I can remember I just put the arrow a little behind the target when using guided missiles in airstrikes. Only those can be aimed precisely at a target. It's a matter of trying and see what works best.

Krav Magal 30 Mar, 2022 @ 6:37pm

Thanks. If it's not asking too much, how do I use properly the aiming while calling airstrikes? Do I put the arrow above the target or a little further?

AleKKsandros [author] 30 Mar, 2022 @ 10:47am

Disable everything except the RPO in the weapon tab of the squad and they will only use the RPO.

Krav Magal 27 Mar, 2022 @ 4:29pm

how can I make them use the RPO?

leha 16 Feb, 2021 @ 2:52am

@Max dH moving marker with keys doesn't work for me, what is actually the procedure?

Max dH 15 Sep, 2020 @ 11:31pm

Just rpo it twice, direct assulting buildings usually leads to losses. Also remember you can flatten Buildings with Bomb airstrikes from across the map, if you move the Airstrike target marker with arrow keys instead of the mouse.

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