[kongxinga]

Pre 1936 Chinese theatre is my favourite, but I usually play as the Nationalist Chinese. Pretty much the only theatre where a tankette is a BIG deal, unlike European theatres where anything less then a T-34 is yawn inducing, and quickly finished with Inf-AT or nice AT guns like 88s.

Back on topic, the FT-17 TG is the workforce of the armored force, but the one of the things I am really worried about is Japanese Air Strikes. For good reason, Japan almost always gets complete air superiority, so load up on some air strikes. These tanks are really vulnerable to being strafed and bombed, and you can easily get a catastrophic kill, and mobility kills are very common, after which you can hit them with arty. Or leave them to be mopped up by engineers. Nat Chi only has really wimpy anti air MGs (and in previous patches lacked AA completely!), and these anti air MGs are not going to follow the tanks around, so you can bomb with impunity.

On a side note, the FT-17 TG has the same problem killing enemy tanks as the Japanese do, so I often switch them with the T-27 Mg tank with 3 frontal armor, and leave my mobile tank killing to the Shanghai armored cars (the ones that look like a railroad car with a gun screwed on), which can reliably kill all Japanese armor even from the front. Perhaps there is something similar that the Japanese have.