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Tom Clancys: EndWar UbiDays 07 Trailer

Man I love the Internet – sometimes you hit a treasure trove of useful info… here’s such a cache of tips & hints for Tom Clancy’s EndWar straight from the developers… My edits and changes are in [brackets] below.

Developer’s Top 10 Tips

Study The Battlefield
Open battlefield without much cover favors heavy armor. Urban battlefields favor infantry.

Stay Out of the Enemy’s Line of Sight
The enemy only knows your unit’s locations if they are within line of sight or securing an uplink.  Stay hidden and stay alive.

Know Your Prey
Each unit type is strong against some enemies and week against others. Choose your fights wisely and retreat from fights you can’t win.

Combined Arms Tactics
Use the combat chain to create hard-to-kill groups; for example, give your artillery anti-air defense with transport.

Special Paper Beats Scissors
Don’t waste [powerful] secondary attacks on prey you will defeat [easily, instead] use them to turn the combat chain around against predators.

Take Cover
Get your infantry in cover or garrison them in buildings to receive both defense and attack bonuses.

Keep Moving
Units standing still in the enemy’s line of sight are sitting targets for artillery or off-map support.

Phone A Friend
Uplinks are a valuable resource. The more uplinks you [use to upgrade one support] the more powerful it will be.

Reserves in Depth
You don’t have to call reinforcements [as] soon as you have enough command points.  Wait until you know [what the enemy forces are then] call multiple reinforcements in a wave.

Live to Fight Another Day
Order your units to evacuate when they are close to being killed. Surviving units maintain their rank and will be ready to fight in your next battle.

Other General Tips

Don’t Be Predictable
Vary your strategy from mission to mission so the enemy can’t discover patterns in your strategy.

Know Your Role
In multiplayer it can be a good idea to specialize in a particular unit type or battlefield role; for example, focus on securing uplinks.

Killing Fields
Use a combination of minefields and garrisoned engineers to defend choke points.

Riflemen as Forward Spotters
Concealed riflemen can be used as forward spotters, allowing artillery to fire their secondary weapon anywhere on the battlefield.

Hold Your Ground
Engineers can deploy sentry drones to guard uplinks you have captured. This will slow the enemy down and help you hold the uplinks.

Command and Control
The command vehicle can deploy UAVs and drones to any location on the battlefield.

Synchronize
Hold fire with your artillery until your other units have engaged the enemy to provide fire support.

Group Your Units
Use groups to organize and access your units faster. Groups also move together across the battlefield.

Area Denial
Use Force Attack with your artillery to bombard a location even if there is no hostile unit there. This can deny access or damage nearby structures.

Hostile Uplinks
You can destroy uplinks to disable your enemy’s upgrades and off-map supports.

Crash With Care
If you are going to crash an enemy uplink, disable the one with the most dangerous upgrade.

Eye In The Sky
Deploy your off-map support from within the battle headquarters to target locations that are out of sight.

Dismount Your Infantry
Remove your infantry from the transport units if the vehicles are taking considerable damange. Infantry inside a destroyed transport are killed.

Recon The Map
Use the UAV to spot enemy troops in advance.

Artillery And UAV Attacks
Artillery can fire farther than they can see. Used with the UAVs or concealed riflemen they can hit targets across the battlefield.

Use the Cover Bonuses
Infantry are much harder to kill while taking cover or garrisoning buildings.

One-Two Punch
Electronic warfare reduces hostile vehicle’s shields and immobilizes the vehicles. This sets them up perfectly for an air strike or WMD.

Fortify Your Position
Use your engineers to deploy drone guards on secured uplinks to stop enemy conquerors from recapturing an uplink.

High Ground
Garrison tall buildings and use [zoom to recon] the terrain or spot distant hostile units.

Save Time While Securing
Use transports to get your infantry to uplinks faster.

Use Drones
Use the drone guard ability on your units to gain an advantage on the battlefield.

Change Your Front Line
Change your landing zone according to the battlefield situation or desired strategy.

Ambush Your Enemy
Attack your enemy without revealing your position using the snipe ability or the target designator of artillery.

Secure Uplinks Faster
Use riflemen to secure distant uplinks; they move and secure faster.

- from the Official Tom Clancy’s EndWar Developer Strategy Guie & Tips page