When do you enforce bravery?

Comrade Volorkey · When do you enforce bravery?

I love the commissar’s bravery enforcement, (no mercy for cowards!) I love to use it when a Kuomintang rifleman has a face down disruption, who cares he's about to run away anyway. I will also use it to get a bonus by executing a anti tank rifle or anti tank gun when enemy armor is taken care of. I'm always hesitant to execute a perfectly good squad when there are still lots of enemy troops around.

When do you enforce bravery?
Got any good stories about when you commissar "inspired" your troops to victory?

"If you will not serve in battle then you will serve on the firing line!"
Imperial Guard Commissar warhammer 40k

EDIT!: if an admin thinks it nessicary could you move this or copy it to the general discussion forum I'm not quite sure how it wound up in the army builds. Question

Piemaster

I use my commisars in a situation like this: (only works if your assault is second!)

Commisar is adjacent to a DP, PPSh, and Mosin-Nagant. Say the PPSh gets a face-down destroyed counter. On my assault, instead of attacking with him I will "kill" him with the commisar. This gives the Mosin and DP a +1. I feel this is better in some situations. I mean he was going to be destroyed anyway so...

Cpt. John Miller

The basic way the Russians are set up is this:
Commissar - Cheapest Commander in the game(get more than one)
PpSh - 10 dice at close range, very cheap!
Mosin - Close Assault 8, very cheap!

So...It's all about the swarm effect, get your mob on top of the enemy, then start sacking the appropriate units. Eat the Mosins to pump up the PpSh's against infantry. Eat the PpSh's to pump up the Mosins for close assaults. Trust me 10 dice AI with Bravery is deadly even against 5/5s, and even heavy tanks will avoid CA 8 with the same bonus.

The Russians are all about the mob. Not a lot of finesse, just scads of cheap soldiers and tough tanks.

Piemaster

Exactly

Comrade Volorkey

Agreed

I think it was Stalin that said

"Quantity has a Quality all its own."

Piemaster

He also said "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic."

CaptainBigMike

it's an underhanded move and my crew and i banned it but take 3 or 4 M1 81mm Mortar squads and hide them in the back. drop in a few screaming eagles right next to your enemy and let the mortars loose. with the improved indirect fire any american unit can call in attacks not just spotters. planes work for this too.

now the real shady part is when you place a commissar and a few 2 point units (Kuomintang Riflemen, Fortress Defender...) right next to the mortars and use the commissar's Bravery Enforcement. this allows your mortars to hit with 4's or higher. it will distory any infantry on the board.