How do you improve PzB???

[ComradeP]

The Nepkhaevo game with Pijus Magnificus has just been completed.



The game with Dog Soldier is a quiet affair compared to that thus far, as both of us are keeping our good tanks out of sight for the moment.

In a 1 or 2 hex fight, the Soviets can do a lot of damage to the German tanks, but they're still likely to lose a firefight when evenly matched due to superior quality and guns of the Germans in the end, particularly if the Germans move back. The Katyusha's are likely to destroy a tank or two as well.

There was little opportunity fire most of the time.

One of the vehicle losses is an armoured car and about three others were destroyed by artillery. The rest was from tank vs. tank combat. I also lost two tanks to breakdowns.

German: 8 Panzer IV G's, 1 Panzer IV F1, 4 Panzer III M's.
Soviet losses: 24 T-34's, 21 Churchills, 20 T-70's and the armoured car. Only a single breakdown loss for the Soviets it seems.

I would say that tank vs. tank engagements can work fine, but if the Germans are seriously outnumbered, things will quickly get ugly for them due to ineffective opportunity fire. It isn't possible to stop an enemy tank unit in its tracks when it's moving unless it just happens to get disrupted.