Company of Heroes

If you are sending a lone MG squad into uncontrolled territory, move your screen ahead of your squad and listen for footsteps. Also units sometimes talk and your can hear them through the fog of war. If your hear footsteps or voices deploy your MG so that it wont get caught with its pants down. By doing this you surprise your enemy, probably killing some of the squads members and saving your MG from death/retreat. When the enemy squad retreats or dies, move your squad to its intended position.

This is very useful in the beginning of the game where loosing your first MG squad or retreating it can be devestating.

By: fujiX

you can also hear and identify incoming tanks.

And MCs, and barbed wire being put up.

Perhaps the tip should be called "Zounds!"

.. and howitzers shooting

.. and howitzers shooting

Nice tip.. reminds me of RA2 where if you were looking at shroud you could hear things like Terror Drones.. & back off your tanks accordingly... nice

Hmm I can never hear any footsteps in the game.

Your sound settings should have 128 sounds. Anything less might take away from your ingame sound effects =o

yep very usefull in the very start so you can place you mgs correctly and make him retreat

Good tip .

only possible in the first 2-3 mins of the game tho... then all hell break lose and its bam bam bam for the rest of the game

Wow yea I didnt know I needed 128 bit, thanks for the tip. This shouldbe a whole new battlefield.