Molotov Cocktails, Whats the deal?

[Demtrek]

So here I am playing a huge epic campainge against the computer as Germany, of course, how can you resist all the different options you have.

Anyway, my tank force is mainly Panzer 3e's and 4e's.


I get Yugoslavia as an oppenet. I run into the main bulk of there forces which is pretty much all infintry with rifles and molotov cocktails. So hell, I decide to retreat my panzer grenadiers and up come the tanks.

I am not historian on the effectiveness of molotov cocktails, but if they work that good why did any army ever use anything else.

Out of 30 tanks 23 were destroyed. Now, it got to the point after the first 10 or so I was starting to experiment a little to see if it was just luck, so I would just move them up to the hex on purpose. But what the heck I think they only failed on assults once or twice. Otherwise it was bye bye panzer. Were bottles of flamming gas really the effective vrs tanks? Keep in mind these were top of the line tanks for 1941-42.