 During 1994, Croatian army was mostly inactive and the period was spent in training and refitting.Status and equipment of the brigade meant that it was always used in the worst fighting.Once the Croatian Army went from defensive to offensive strategy in 1993, the army doctrine was based on a variation of blitzkrieg strategy in which weaker units would hold lines and Guard brigades - like the Tigers - would be used as line breakers to penetrate defenses, then isolate and destroy enemy formations.