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PlasmaKrab said:
Pergite, open the game, launch a battle in "tank heavy" mode with enough points to have at least one tank squadron on each side. Place both on ridges at gun range. How many shots per kill? Last time I tried this (M1 IP vs. T-80b), there were about 4 shots for one hit and 5 hits for one kill.
Now try that on medium armor, even the best of IFV (NOT Strf-90C, that's cheating  ).
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I could try that IRL in a war and that would be devestating. You cant afford waging war like that anymore and the modern battlefield would probably not even allow it. You cant just dig your tanks in on a hill and wait for the enemy to come rolling and start up a big tank duel a´la potential Fulda Gap. There wont be one big front and if you stay too long in one place, you will soon have something with a rather high Armour penetrationg value dropped on your roof, while the enemy effecivly have taken another route around your position.
I would never compromise firepower, I would rather increase it (more atgm´s). But a lighter fast moving tank could be effecitve anywhere on the battlefield and be depolyed where ever it would be needed without a enormous logistics train.
But that is just my philosophy, and I have never been that much fond of tanks anyway
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