In the example of the Normandy campaign it was found that the aggregate kill reports of all arms would place more tank losses in Normandy than German records have in Normandy, and the airforce alone claimed to have killed 3x the German armour present. Now you could attribute this to Air power, but that would fly wildly in the face of ground attack effectiveness surveys of the USA army (based on their own plane sorties conducted after the war, also sorry no link) in which they determined the Air force was woefully inadequate at engaging and destroying ground targets. Often cases, these units were the aforestated KV or T-34 battalions. This inconsistent reaction, coupled with the vast majority of Red Army forces being either on par with the German forces or vastly inferior in most metrics allowed the Germans to overrun and encircle any military unit they could not defeat in a direct engagement. In the case of Barbarossa the Red Army was reeling from the Surprise attack and the various Corps and Division commanders reacted with a huge variety of actions, some going straight into a counter offensive, some withdrawing, others staying put and fighting. Yes, both of those are important but they are never required, in game or IRL. Under normal (major nation) circumstances you are in 95% of all battlefield cases much better served by the tank, both have comparable costs/production times (the destroyer even uses more Tungsten).You are really overrating air power, and the ability to frontally penetrate the enemy armour is also heavily overrated. I have never seen even the Soviet Union building better than light tank II in 1941/42 in 8 game starts a Germany. Look at the piercing value of the tank destroyer - it is MUCH higher than the one of the tank on which chassis the tank destroyer is built.īut said condition will only apply to minors starting way backwards. Yes, in exactly one situation: The enemy fields tanks a class higher than yours. Originally posted by egp_2401:So I am producing medium tanks to make them my main tank but I saw the tank destroyer variant and researched it, I see that the breaktrhough value(I am talking about the first medium tank for Germany)is MUCH lower and soft attack is also quite lower, I want to use tanks as independent units that do not neccesarly need infantry support, so are tank destroyers worth producing?
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