Tanks… Outnumber infantry?
Why should Normandy and Berlin be different though since the difference there is that they dont face KTs?
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Tanks should be able to overwhelm infantry. I wanted to say.
Look at the starting tanks in those campaigns.
Look at the end-campaign tanks.
Ask yourself if you would really need anything bigger than a 50mm to destroy a Stuart.
Aids Jumbo, Tiger I and Panther. But dont worry pals, because you only need 50mm for a stupid M5A1, which means that standard 50mm will be enough for Jumbo spam.
The closest US equivalent to the pak 40 is the 3-inch M5- The same cannon used by the M10.
That’s what will be facing off against Tigers and Panthers.
And in regards to pak 40 vs Jumbo, that sounds more like a skill issue. Just aim at the MG port or cupola. You can literally manifest a pak 40 out of nowhere, so unless they were watching you build that AT gun, you would have ample time to aim at frontal weakspots, or, better yet, make it from a flank.
But then you’d have to ask yourself why on earth you’d need to go to that much trouble when you have 3 panzerfausts or ofenruhrs in a squad.
Oh god, here goes “just aim for the one non-buggy pixel at greyzone camper” thing again.
Wel… Wouldnt that make your whole post pointless then as well? Why bother with better AT guns if you can just spam inf AT weapons?
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It’s “a bigger AT gun or a 7th man”. And I’ve already outlined my reasons.
Just because you can’t deal with a single tank isn’t a good enough excuse to include overkill AT guns and ruin things for everyone.
And all of them can be countered by
Why do you need more firepower/ 7th man then? Just use your stupid Panzerfäuste. Its more than enough.
The flank excuse is getting old. You can probably flank a Tiger II with a BT-7 but I guess most people dont really want and can given that you can already do with the Stuart and Tiger and nobody wants and really can.
“Just a single tank”.
Funny enough, one tank is more than enough to break the balance, ask Normandy Axis before they added the Panther, Normandy Allies when they added the Panther and later the Tiger, Moscow Axis when they added the T-50 and later the T-34 before they needed to time travel to make Moscow Axis somewhat playable again…
Please learn to comprehend.
The addition of a the 7th man would make it more in-line with flame, gunner and assaulter squads, where the compromise compared to the other examples would be that it would have a higher amount of AT weaponry instead of SMGs or LMGs. Moreso because these squads can already incorporate AT gunners into their own squads.
What it would offer is redundancy in case, say, one of them randomly gets their brains splattered by stray gunfire on the way to engaging the tank.
It doesn’t even need to be a wide flank. Tankers can have a wide field of view but they are not omniscient.
Why do you think it’s possible to push objectives in D-Day invasion maps even with tigers and panthers up on the hills? No matter how wide your field of view is, you can only engage what your cannon is pointed at, and at long distances, what they can see is often confined merely to what can be seen in sniper view due to the magnification necessary to compensate for their greyzoning.
Anything too troublesome to flank can just be fixed by a plane.