Yes, but heavy tanks were kind of built to do same thing, as KVs, Tiger and IS series of heavy tanks prioritised the strength of their HE ammo over armor peircing, and were supposed to break heavy opposition. They were not tank destroyers, nor were they supposed to exel at that. Tiger 2 is probably the only exeption in WW2 timeframe.
If I`m reading the specs of Matilda, 2 pounder had 93 armor piercing shots.
Actually with the Matildas, it was the other way round. They had a 2 pounder gun which could only fire AP ammo, not HE. They were reasonably good against other tanks, but not very good against infantry positions, for lack of HE shells.
Well, KV(it`s 85mm gun version anyway) was more or less on par with Tiger and it is 1941 USSR heavy, as was shown in tech tree in game by somebody, some time.
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Cheers, my feeling is the KV would be '41, but I have a memory of them kicking around in '39 (noting my memory's not so flash), which was why I wasn't sure. Cheers for clarification - if we've seen it in the tech tree for '41, that's a pretty good sign it's the Soviet 1941 model
For the '36 tank if they have one, maybe the Matilda and the French heavy (name escapes me)?
1940 actually as trials are not same as serial production, but HOI4 has all sorts of inconsistencies, like Pz4 only being 1941 model, despite being built from 1937 and extensively participating in 1939-1940 campaigns.
It is 1934 slot. There aren`t good candidates for 1936 soviet heavy, aside from rejected multi-turreted projects from which, KV emerged.
But the Panzer IV was not a battle tank until they fitted the long 7,5 cm gun in the turrent. Before that, it was an Infantery support tank and the Panzer III was designed as the standard battle tank. So this is actually a almost perfect fit.
Well the focus also reduce the tech cost for Panther so they can maybe get that tank in 1941. However Germany will probably need all help it can get and the other nations also have poweful tech cost reductions such as British RADAR focus.
