find that it is pretty much obsolete, but want to keep it as a pak,
so they just have it travel from one corner of the map to the other in the truck form to take over cities as other units clear the path?
Does anyone else...
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Keep the pak they are given in the beginning of the DLC, and then
find that it is pretty much obsolete, but want to keep it as a pak,
so they just have it travel from one corner of the map to the other in the truck form to take over cities as other units clear the path?
find that it is pretty much obsolete, but want to keep it as a pak,
so they just have it travel from one corner of the map to the other in the truck form to take over cities as other units clear the path?
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Teleblaster18
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I've got all the DLC available, but have yet to embark on them; I've been too busy completing the main Campaign.
However, unless the DLC is wildly different from the main game, I'd usually disband an early Anti-Tank unit that was assigned to my Core Units immediately...but if it were an Auxilliary/Reserve unit, I'd probably use it the way you are. I've found through hundreds of hours of old Panzer General games that non-self propelled AT units really only work to their full potential in a purely defensive strategy, like "Germany (West)", where they can effective stave off a River Crossing, and don't have to move far to do so.
Otherwise, their lack of mobility and offensive potential uses up a space that I'd much rather have occupied by something that can be where I want, at the time I need it there.
However, unless the DLC is wildly different from the main game, I'd usually disband an early Anti-Tank unit that was assigned to my Core Units immediately...but if it were an Auxilliary/Reserve unit, I'd probably use it the way you are. I've found through hundreds of hours of old Panzer General games that non-self propelled AT units really only work to their full potential in a purely defensive strategy, like "Germany (West)", where they can effective stave off a River Crossing, and don't have to move far to do so.
Otherwise, their lack of mobility and offensive potential uses up a space that I'd much rather have occupied by something that can be where I want, at the time I need it there.
I kept it as reserve and pulled it out only for defensive scenarios or ones where I needed to anchor one point as everyone else moved on. Even in that limited role my AT unit ended DLC 40 with slightly over 100 kills.
Edit: I loaded my saved game and double checked that AT unit I started DCL 39 with. It had 272 kills by the end of DCL 40. Quite a bit more than I initially guessed. It became much more useful when it became mobile, but still, not bad for a unit only occasionally used.
Edit: I loaded my saved game and double checked that AT unit I started DCL 39 with. It had 272 kills by the end of DCL 40. Quite a bit more than I initially guessed. It became much more useful when it became mobile, but still, not bad for a unit only occasionally used.
