What makes a good MBT?

[pdoktar]

In WinMBT the priorities when purchasing a MBT are following IMO

1. Armour

-When advancing I use my tanks as mobile armored boxes in breakthrough points. So they have to be able to resist frontally as heavy AT weapons as possible. Who needs firepower, if you´re dead when you stick your nose first time out of the bushes. Generally I prefer high CE armor values over KE values because HEAT AT-Weapons are cheap and numerous. And ATGMs are a PAIN.

Active protection systems are cheap in game purchase points and can give you an extra life just when you was about to be lit up by that incoming TOW-2B. Don´t count on it though.

2. Vision

-Now who doesn´t understand the benefits of TI in WinMBT? Go and find out yourself.

3. Firepower

-Preferably a main gun that can fire true HE shells. Although nowadays the HEAT shell can double in HE role. Also good KE pen is somewhat important, however sometimes you still don´t need that 90 pen figure a 60 will do since it can frontally take out any but the heaviest opponents, who must be left to be dealt with specialized equipment (like a section of tank-killing specialized Leo2A6 or heavy ATGM, perhaps of the TA-kind).

4. Mobility

-It´s nice to have speed of 26 hexes per turn. But you don´t use this mobility as you use the three above in a WinMBT game. A few full dashes in a single game is in my tactics mostly utilised then slow advancing.. the main gun might be utilized for a full 50 times so you get the point. Okay you get faster to a hilltop or down from it but you still have to kill those two companies of advancing enemy infantry.

-Hey ho to the armored foe-