I have played many axis and allies games and I have never noticed tanks being overpowered. However, in the AAP40 and some AA50 house rules I see people moving tanks price up to 6. Why is this? I haven’t noticed an unbalance in tank power. Would this change be beneficial to AARe?
Because in AAR and AA50 as well as AAE40 people just buy nothing but tanks for Germany. AAE was broken because of this and they were 3-2 tanks costing 5.
I am glad they are 6, but i wish Mechanized Infantry were a 2-2-2-5 unit. I view them as ‘light armor’
Huh, maybe Ill try that and see how it works, and then see if the cost increase is needed.
I know at least that in AARe tanks are fine at 5 (probably because of the closer range)
yes but thats AAR and not many people play that since AA50 and AA42 as well as AAE40/AAP40 coming up.
Because their better defenders now, and also in Africa they’re good to blitz through down to South Africa
Now people will just buy infantry.
Prior to the introduction of mechanized infantry to the game, I used to think of tanks as representing all mechanized forces - tanks, mechanized infantry, and motorized infantry. Even an armored division was typically more infantry than tanks. If I recall correctly, a 1944 German Panzer division had 2 tank battalions and 6 infantry battalions. And Panzergrenadier (mechanized infantry) divisions had self-propelled guns and tank destroyers assigned.
I used to think of tanks as representing all mechanized forces - tanks, mechanized infantry, and motorized infantry.
If that were true than artillery would be also included because artillery are also part of the makeup of armor. Yet Artillery are a different piece
Also, artillery are attached to Infantry too.
True. A typical division in most armies will have its own artillery regiment/brigade. A corps might have an extra brigade or two of corps level artillery in adddition to the artillery units assigned to its infantry/tank divisions. Soviet Shock armies were basically leg infantry with a buttload of artillery (a buttload being an echelon or two above brigade) attached. But, at the scale of Axis and Allies (with each playing piece representing an army - the echelon between corps and army group), independent artillery units would rarely be large enough to be represented by their own playing pieces. But they are.
