If you are weak where your opponent is strong, then launch a diversionary movement or attack somewhere else. You might just divert their attention away from your point of weakness.

Like Distraction and Diversion, however, this is stronger. You are launching an attack that is threatening your opponents figures, or possibly even an entire hex unit.
This may cause them to pull away from an area where your forces are weak, and attempt to answer your threat.
This may buy you time, in the hopes of getting cards needed to shore up your weak defense.

Mobility – the ability to get your troops where they are needed.

Like in a chess game, control of the center will often work to your advantage.  If you can get across the central section quickly, you will be able to bring your forces to bear where they are needed.

The goal is to maximize mobility in order to capitalize on opportunity. If your troops can get quickly to where you need them to be, you can quickly respond to any battlefield conditions, or card-based attack opportunities.

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. 

You must always ask yourself, what will happen if my attack fails? Where will your units be placed? Will they be surrounded by enemy forces which you thought you would destroy?

Three “chess player” questions to ask yourself:
1. What happens next? And next after that?
2. What happens if it fails?
3. What happens if it succeeds?

Responsiveness – the ability to answer the enemy’s threat immediately w/o needing to wait for the cards you need.

An old war aphorism is:

Tactics win Engagements.

Strategy win Battles.

Logistics win Wars.
( In Memoir 44, the equivalent for logistics would be the cards you hold in your hand, which supply you with your means of attack.)

Do you have time to seek your VP objectives? Or are you too busy responding to enemy threats?  If you do not have time to form your own plans, but are constantly countering enemy attacks, then you do NOT have the initiative. The tempo is against you.  If you find yourself in this situation, you need to apply the principles of Counter-attack, Distraction & Diversion to the game.

Treat the game as a whole. It is not just a series of hits against troops. You need to factor in everything happening in the game.  Every game is a combination of troops, on a battlefield, seeking to achieve certain objectives (and not just destruction of units). 

The game has an opening, a middle game, and an endgame. There are different objectives in each. It is a combination of maneuvers, card management, and dice rolls. There is less luck involved than you may imagine.