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Four Ways to Dislodge Entrenched Infantry
Patience is required in many Memoir 44 scenarios. This would include especially the scenarios where each side is firmly embedded in strong defensive positions, such as hedgerows, towns, forests, and especially sand-bagged versions of each of these.
It is very difficult to disloge these forces quickly.
Four of the best ways to dislodge heavily entrenched forces are:
1. Long-distance armor attacks
This is where patience is required, because you can typically only attack this with 1D at a time, which means that if the dice percentages play out, if will take 8 rolls to dislodge a full-force infantry unit.
2. Special Forces
These would include Engineer Infantry units, which can ignore terrain restrictions when battling the enemy.
3. Infantry Assaults
Cards which will allow a mass of infantry to surround a heavily entrenched position can dislodge them in one or two turns.
4. Artillery Bombardment
This is, of course, the weapon of choice when you want to dislodge entrenched forces, as it always ignores any terrain considerations. The only question is if you can get your artillery close enough to hit them with enough firepower.