This is true but as a general rule for newer players it better too stick to mediums. Out of of not knowing mechanics or concepts, micro seems to be the biggest downfall for new players. Also if you do not get air supremacy you feked with light tanks. I've seen plenty of Canadian light tanks or Italian light tanks for instance but germanys advances come in quick planning speed and great bonuses on armour. It is generally excepted that mediums are the best bang for the buck.
Have fun in your all welcome no rules game. The rest of us enjoy playing past January of 1936 before the game ends because the host rage quits.
I would avoid giving such extreme advice like "never build light tanks" until you actually learn all the facets of the game. In fact, better advice is only build light tanks. Pre 1943 heavy and medium tanks are useless. Spam 1936 lights until you get 1943 tech. Then switch to mediums if youre Germany or heavies if you are Soviets. Template is 4 SPG (5 gun) 2 SPAA (5 gun) 4 Mot 8 Tanks. If you're Soviets it's 10 Mot.
If you can't break level 10 forts reliably in at most a week of fighting then you still have a lot to learn. If you're building strat bombers as Germany it's an instant lose against a good allies, so dont do that. Build those light tanks (see above), build civs until 1939 and you've already won. A good Germany that knows the ins and outs of the game should have a 100% win rate against allies of any skill.
I don't think it's too hard to use light tanks. In fact it's easier to get half a dozen light tank divisions out for France than it is to get half a dozen medium divisions. Don't waste your time building 1941 lights, just build 36. Then research 43 mediums.
I see no reason to have 3 or 4 separate items to fit the same exact role. If having more just for the sake of having more is something that appeals to you, you might like the BICE mod.
No, it is being elitist. Just the fact that you think you are qualified and are entitled to judge someone else is pretty definitive.
Of course it was not me pushing the 1936 light tanks. Especially since Germany starts the game with the 2nd tier ones. Recommending building the initial ones is, IMO, bad advice.
This is 'not having more for the sake of having more.' Motorized artillery was used extensively during the war. Virtually every motorized and armored division had it. SPA was the exception, not the rule. All it is, is hooking an artillery piece to the back of a truck instead of a horse drawn caisson.
The problem is, i fail to see what role Mot Art would have. Is it just faster regular artillery? I personally havent built artillery at all (other than SPArt) for at least the last couple of months (artillery is bad btw, dont build it). So if artillery itself is useless, how is more expensive artillery any better?
Line motorized artillery would be used for motorized, armored, and mechanized division. Why do you think artillery is 'bad;' I certainly don't.
Well, SPArt can be upgraded to gun 5, automatically making it a way better choice than any artillery piece could ever match. Dedicated Mot or Mec divisions (with only Mot or Mech in them) are really not worth it. Huge supply cost, and Mot divisions are basically infantry. Strategic redeploy your infantry even halfway decently and theyre faster than any Mot divisions for less supply and far cheaper. Mech divisions are excellent, but need to be paired with heavy tanks. 10 Mech 10 HArm and youre good to go.
You already have towed artillery as a support unit which works perfectly well in motorized and armored units. You also have the motorized rocket artillery and you have SPA. Adding another motorized artillery unit would absolutely be a case of adding more just to have more. The game purpose it fills is already covered by other units.
In what way does AA counter light tanks? Piercing? Piercing is irrelevant in hoi except in a single situation. If you stack armor with an extremely high defense (like you would get from 10 HArm 10Mec) then you can effectively counter a tank offensive. If you just throw some AT or AA in your infantry divisions then you'll accomplish nothing other than making your infantry divisions more expensive and even easier to break.
I disagree. Most belligerents nations didn't even use rocket artillery at all, much less a motorized version. Nor is it available in 1936. A 1939 panzer division had an artillery regiment of two battalions of motorized artillery, which is not represented by a support unit. SPA was rare, motorized artillery was common. Germany built less than 1,500 Hummels and Wespes combined, and none were fielded until 1943.
Lol, you clearly haven't played on Skritshell's server before. Strategic bombers in numbers are so overpowered they had to be banned.
Have you tried leaving 200 fighters in every airzone in europe? If you do that stratregic bombers are useless as they will all get disrupted, even if you send 10,000 of them. Then just have your Hungary move some planes over if they leave them there to long. Bam, Strats countered. Better yet, put 15 factories on heavy fighters with agility 5, you will shoot down their Strats by the hundreds with just 200 of them in your most important airzones and fighters on the rest.
the allies can get fighter 3 before the axis can so if youre only see them with fighter2s then theyre just bad
