Too late tech for armored cars, amphibious tanks maybe but those would fit in better with the mechanized tree. Hm... we shall see.
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Well if they add those I hope they add some Marine Corps generals as well.
e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Vandegrift & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland_Smith
The blurry picture does look like some form of tank, not like an armoured car. Airborne Tanks would be a good guess, but considering Podcat is even hinting on the doggo, which is looking through a bullseye and is wearing a hat with "H.M.S.", amphibious tanks are probably the better guess.
I'll go with amphibious tanks because this a naval DLC and because of the start year is too late for armoured cars.
The blurred shape looks a bit like an LVT. With the tracks that go all around and the box shape
And I think around 1943 was also when they became actually used in combat, instead of just ferrying?
And I think around 1943 was also when they became actually used in combat, instead of just ferrying?
I cannot believe no one has come up with tanks with dogs driving them. I mean the picture, come on it's right there.
I created a couple threads a while ago about how amphibious tanks should be a thing, looks like that is probably what it will be!!!!
British funnies? They were used for D-Day, clearing up land mines and tank traps. Some barbed wire too, I believe.
Should make repelling marines a lot more challenging IF the AI will actually build/deploy them.
Indeed, Germany got a huge buff to repel the allied invasion last patch with the Atlantik wall focus, now a buff to naval invasions is more than in order.
Hopefully they will change something mechanically as well, like adding amphibious experience to the nations, so that the historical progression can be followed with Europe being basically impregnable at first, but with XP gained from smaller invasions in Africa and the Pacific, then with larger invasions in Italy and island hopping, eventually it will culminate into a massive invasion into mainland Europe.
Tweaking the AI into using its navy to scout for weak points before launching an invasion to not suicide its troops would also be great.
Well massive invasions in Hoi Terms would be like a simultanously invasion of Normandy, Calais and Britanny with 24 divisions in late '42, that is atm totally doable, but irl something like that would probably been unthinkable. If I recall correctly the initial landings in the Normandy were done with 7 divisions from the naval side (and 3 from air) and are considered the largest amphibious landings in human history. In the Hoi provinces it would be 2 provinces. Such an operation would be considered rather small in Hoi, lets face it. I hope that the naval landings site gets some love and balance.
Actually, I meant massive in terms of effectiveness, not necessarily in size.
The "amphibious experience" I mentioned could be the determining factor there, perhaps with having little giving some penalties to invasions, while having a lot would give great bonuses, possibly even overcoming coastal forts, so even a small force could pack a punch.
In fact, you bring up a good point, having 150 divisions assigned to an invasion sounds ridiculous to say the least.
I feel like that was done for balance, as keeping it plausible would make invasions impossible in the current system, but with that XP in place, that would no longer be the case.
So in that case, techs could be balanced to give 2/5/10 Max divisions instead of 10/50/150.
Just throwing an idea out there, maybe it could even be done with a mod.
Edit: also, deception: I feel like that'd also be an interesting thing to add, like assigning divisions to a "fake invasion" order that would, with encryption and decription taken into consideration, give a false alert of "dangerous invasion" to the enemy, and possibly hide the true location of your landing.
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They kind of don't really use any kind of tank properly. It's a shame.
Hopefully they will also be adding Landing ships (Tank), the chronic shortage of which almost delayed D Day ,and would have done so if any had been lost during their Atlantic crossing.