Assaulting tanks

[Jeff Conner]

The relationship between armor and infantry in this game series was always one of it's pitfalls. Any armored vehicle with an armor rating higher than than hard vehicle value is almost impervious to assault. If the value is lower, the vehicles are pretty fragile. I'm not sure of the math behind the calculations of the defense value of tanks, but I have tested this more than once and I never had an infantry unit destroy a tank, regardless of whether it was attacking or defending. I seem to recall that in one of my games, I lost a Sherman in an assault on an infantry position, but that was a long time ago and my memory isn't what it used to be.

I also never understood why the armor value was part of the assault value. Armor doesn't kill you; bullets, fragments, blast and crushing do. Once the armor is thick enough to stop a rifle bullet, it shouldn't be important in an assault.

It might be possible to adjust the hard vehicle value to a point where tanks are more realistically portrayed, but it would require quite a bit of testing and even then, I am not sure it would provide the desired results.

Just my two cents worth.