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[HotRider543]

Nearly all units in RUSE have their places even the french advanced fighter, not used much rightly so but can become very useful in an air face off backed up by AA. Bunkers on the other hand are defiantly not useless and as france can be a very useful asset, and in 1v1s i use bunkers very often to lock down flanks quickly and inexpensively, the key thing to remeber is that their not designed to be a stand alone by itself e.g. the bunker line.

And Gamedude can testify to the efficiency of the artillery position

It does equal the YAK-3 and the ME109 so the DS520 isin't too bad and I 100% agree with you on the bunkers:
Yesterday, I go onto Operations and decide I'll try the Maginot line (Fail in about 8 minutes last time). I place two Maginot bunkers in the front of my base and two Fortified positions behind my base, 3 B1 Bis and I hold off until the nuke arty comes and during it fires and destroy everything! I had to sacrifice all but one supply dump and two secondary HQ's to be able to hole up into my base but I still won !

[TJG1966]

I would definately agree with everything you just said, but sometimes i feel like i see to many ruse players just waste to much money and time with them. I feel like they are overused in this game to an extent for example i see players just put a random AT bunker when there arent even any armored units on the field yet like what the hell is that, its not serving a purpose,it is doing absoluetly nothing, a random bunker just randomly placed in ur base is just bad. also the scenario you have mentioned above is yes that is a great time for a bunker, very useful and effective and helps control the air and is hard to take down. Great, 20$ well spent. Or securing a flank, yes the bunker isn't serving a purpose in the moment but it's doing its job, securing the flank. that is when you use a bunker when it is able to provide you with a job that isn't covered, or isn't being covered enough.

[HotRider543]

I would definately agree with everything you just said, but sometimes i feel like i see to many ruse players just waste to much money and time with them. I feel like they are overused in this game to an extent for example i see players just put a random AT bunker when there arent even any armored units on the field yet like what the hell is that, its not serving a purpose,it is doing absoluetly nothing, a random bunker just randomly placed in ur base is just bad. also the scenario you have mentioned above is yes that is a great time for a bunker, very useful and effective and helps control the air and is hard to take down. Great, 20$ well spent. Or securing a flank, yes the bunker isn't serving a purpose in the moment but it's doing its job, securing the flank. that is when you use a bunker when it is able to provide you with a job that isn't covered, or isn't being covered enough.

Some people who like to turtle prepare for a battle of attrition by raping the bunker buttons but it is useful as building trucks moving to secure an area might be too late and you might be ****ed by the time it gets there, or you might have your trucks get strafed, so bunkers being used as a precaution are not always a waste of money, but I agree with the RUSE players raping bunkers thing. Infact, this is such a good debating topic I'm gonna start a thread about it!

[TeamCoby]

Blast the hell out of them with artillery OR, build a massive horde of Shermans and charge.

[Tomguy1988]

Bunkers are great to defend against early tank rushes as you don't have to build an anti tank base if your preparing for a counter attack straight after.

I have known people to build bunkers at the opening of my bases at the start of the game and I have not had a clue, I have had my supply trucks and building trucks plus Artilery weapons taken out.

Building bunkers can force your opponet into delaying attack ( If he has or can't afford ) building artilery bombers heavy tanks which gives you that much extra time.

A bad move which n00bs tend to do is focus on just buying bunkers and wasting there money as on there own they are easily counter, If you do build a bunker close to there base I suggest building an armor base ( with recon) to support the bunkers but thats only if you intend on taking the fight to the enemy.