Heavy SPG in particular is the highest source of soft attack per width in the game, and the advantage over artillery is non-trivial (more than 200SA in favor of '41 heavy SPG at 8 battalions, compared to ADVANCED artillery!). Converting old tanks into SPG is pretty efficient, and takes very little marginal research (tank variant research is typically in the ~50-70 day range). In an extreme example I overran > 200 divisions of soviet troops with cavalry as Austria-Hungary once. Sometimes that's infeasible, but when you have green air surrounds/air supply/overruns are pretty trivial. In SP I'd prefer air advantage if I can get it. Whenever this happens tanks are basically glorified infantry and that's pretty annoying. To me the main difficulty with this isn't enemy units but that even 1-2 provinces in the game can just randomly decide that you're 12/4 in supply and start heaping stat + speed penalties on you shortly after. Once you shove them off a spot in the line it's not that hard to pin adjacent troops and keep going. Their divisions aren't good enough to survive the damage or reinforce quickly. Really in SP just making divisions with a lot of soft attack and using planning bonus + multi direction attack will tend to break the AI lines regardless of unit count there. This is nice because you can convert pretty lackluster '34 heavy tanks into '41 TD and SPG, doing tons of damage to hard/soft targets respectively.
Not so good vs other infantry unless they can't pierce it though.
Something like 11/9 infantry + heavy TD will absolutely demolish pretty much any tank-heavy division, and costs ~1/3 of the production that a 15/5 heavy tank costs (or just over half of a 15/5 medium tank setup). Tank-heavy divisions have low defense compared to breakthrough and low HP, so attacks against them that pierce + have solid hard attack values will badly damage them/de org/drain lots of equipment. Yes, you get armor and that does help if AI forgets to put support AT on, but otherwise you still have low-ish hard + soft attack, still have low breakthrough (so you will take bad damage vs anything that pierces, and still significant when they don't).Īn exception is if you load up on TD to get good hard attack values and use them to counter-attack pushing armor. TD by themselves aren't that great on infantry.
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