How to win | Basics Heroes & Generals Guide

Capturing control points is a lot more important than killing enemies.

What the whole game is about? To defeat the enemy, of course. This can be done using various methods, which turns every battle into something more than a simple bloodbath. The easiest, theoretically, way to win the game is to capture all the objective points. They differ from "normal" control points with the letter they are associated with(Ox - O1, O2, O3), and the symbol itself resembling a star. If the attacking team manages to do so, the game will be automatically finished with the victory of that team.

However, killing enemies can give you some experience points as well!

Battles can also be won by using the "war of attrition" method - your team will have to reduce the amount of lives of the enemy team to zero, making sure that your own team has plenty of them. What are those lives all about? Each soldier respawning on the battlefield reduces the total amount of lives a team has by 1 - after the lives pool is reduced to zero, every killed enemy won't be able to respawn anymore and will have to simply leave the game. After that happens, your team will quickly gain a tremendous advantage over the enemy one - 3-4 people can't win against a full, 15-man team, no matter what they do.

There's also another, although rather indirect method of winning the game - exhaustion of the enemy equipment. Similar to the case with lives, each team is given a certain amount of resources, like vehicles / tanks / planes / etc. they can use on the battlefield. There are numerous types of those resources, such as:

• Infantry - which are basically lives
• Terrain Vehicles
• Motorcycles
• Light Armor
• Medium Armor
• Heavy Armor
• Tank Destroyers
• APCs
• Fighter Planes
• Transport Planes (for paratroopers)

Not all of them, of course, are present on every battlefield (especially in the case of missions played in the War mode). If one of the resource types is exhausted, the team won't be able to use this type of equipment, and the enemy will have a significant advantage. A good example is a sudden lack of Heavy Armor - you can, of course, destroy the enemy Heavy Tanks with mines and / or bazookas, but it's extremely difficult without direct support from your own Heavy Armor. The same applies to Fighter Planes - if one of the teams lacks them, the enemy team will be able to relentlessly drop bombs on the battlefield and you won't be able to do much to counter it.

Exhausting enemy resources won't guarantee your team a victory, but it sure makes defeating enemies a lot easier, because they won't be able to defend objective points as effective as with it, and they will be losing their lives a lot faster.