Tank size

[Lichterfelder]

I know it has been asked somewhere before but i can't find the Thread anymore.
Why are the tank sprites so small compared to infantry and cav? Not a game braker for me or anything but they just look so weak that way. Is there a good reason for that?
If not... Make Tanks great again!

 

[Vonboe]

I know it has been asked somewhere before but i can't find the Thread anymore.
Why are the tank sprites so small compared to infantry and cav? Not a game braker for me or anything but they just look so weak that way. Is there a good reason for that?
If not... Make Tanks great again!

My guess is because the length of a tank is much bigger than a horse or infantry so if you had a tank as the the same "size" as infantry, the model would probably overlap more than one province ( disclaimer, just a guess )

 

[Lichterfelder]

Not really

 

[Wyrm]

I can sense a "proportional scaling"-mod coming eventually...

 

[Vonboe]

Not really

If that's not the case you could try and PM Podcat or Iarre, could be interesting to know the reasoning being it.
Though in that screenshot ( hard to see ) it seems like the horse and the tank have about the same length

 

[safe-keeper]

I agree trucks and tanks could probably be bigger, or infantry a tad bit smaller.

 

[Axe99]

Looking at that picture, blowing the tank up in size to match the infantry would comfortably push it outside province borders, and even moreso when there was a need for 2 or more models in a provinces. Could always shrink infantry down though - I guess they wanted to show the models off?

 

[Nicolas I]

Maybe that was part of a plan to save material by making tiny tanks operated by crews of dwarfs ?

 

[Zaku]

Maybe that was part of a plan to save material by making tiny tanks operated by crews of dwarfs ?

Or to conscript giants with giant horses to stomp on the enemy.

 

[The Lord Drake]

Just checking with @podcat to see if there is a reason for this? It's been bugging me too.

 

[safe-keeper]

It's aggreviated by the fact that tanks are longer than they are tall, while infantrymen are taller than they are long. Hence we have soldiers towering over tanks, which in turn would have to take up a lot of space in a province if they were to be taller than the troops. Or the troops would have to be shrunk pretty drastically. I can see why neither would appeal to the devs.

Then again, a slight reduction and increase in size, of 5% or something, shouldn't hurt, surely. I guess we'll see mods for this soon enough either way.

 

[keynes2.0]

Maybe that was part of a plan to save material by making tiny tanks operated by crews of dwarfs ?

Goliath OP plz nerf

 

[Orlunu]

NATO icons to the rescue! \o/

 

[Damiani]

Yeah I think the problem is less the tanks size as it is the infantry size. They're bloody enormous

 

[MGL 86]

It looks like infantry is stronger than tank from the screenshot.

 

[CharlieFox]

Also infantry rifles have bigger caliber than tanks guns XD
We should a star a petition to rename the game to Hearts of irons IV: The attack of the Titans

 

[KalZakath]

Also infantry rifles have bigger caliber than tanks guns XD
We should a star a petition to rename the game to Hearts of irons IV: The attack of the Titans

With a whole series of DLCs...

Union Jack and the Beanstalk
Magnifying Crystalin
Gigantoratoratora
The 2-ton Frankfurter
Honey I Shrunk the Troops

etc.

 

[The Lord Drake]

Also infantry rifles have bigger caliber than tanks guns XD
We should a star a petition to rename the game to Hearts of irons IV: The attack of the Titans

We also need a giant wall to defend the tanks from them. Plus a whole cast of tanks to die gruesome deaths to motivate a whiny protagonist tank that turns out to be infantry in disguise.

 

[Caesar15]

We also need a giant wall

And Mexico is going to pay for it

 

[The Lord Drake]

And Mexico is going to pay for it

Aw, you Trumped my perfectly good Attack on Titan reference.