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TI ATGMs. These weapons system platforms (especially top attack) should be, in my opinion, increased in cost by at least 50%,
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I think the cost of these & modeling are fine, late era ones are expensive & compared to armour they have serious problems.
Limited shots
Poor mobility
Very vulnerable to suppression or the loss of a man.
The early ones are not very good more a deterent than a threat lucky to get a 50% hit rate technology moves on & they become very dangerous.
They are the modern equivelant of an ATG & guess what over the years they have improved to be a bigger threat.
But in some ways they are worse than ATGs, low rate of fire & ammo with a small team get a man or lightly suppress them & they can't fire it. Because of this arty on likely areas often means they can't function. Also while the easy way to find them is when one takes a shot its rare unless the firer moves them to safety they will ever get off a second unless of course they can't destroy your vehicle when you might let them. That makes the cost just about right 4 ammo & they still do not get to use them all without putting some thought in to it.
Without them tank tactics would be far easier because just like ATGs before them charging about with vehicles gets em killed & from a game point of view while combined arms seems far easier in MBT than WW2 due to several factors it is also harder in some ways due to others like ATGMs. If anything I think it is the infantry who have a tougher time of it in MBT compared to WW2 rather than the vehicles. Maybe thats because my infantry multi role taking on & worse finding most threats but they do it because they rule the battlefield. Generalising but a normal game poor old foot slogger takes heavy losses gets an area relativly safe big boys help out losses virtualy stop & we move on. Its not RTS charging about without engaging brain only has one result.