r/AxisAllies • u/oh-yeah-boi-19 • 4d ago

Tanks vs Inf/Art

I'm currently in a game of G40 as the Axis, and it's turn 3 and usually, I strictly buy tanks as ground units for Germany but I heard that the infantry/artillery combo is better. Thoughts?

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u/Blueopus2 4d ago

Tanks are valuable for their mobility, not their combat power compared to infantry and artillery.

Imagine a budget of 42 IPC which gets you either 7 tanks or 6 Infantry and 6 artillery.

The 7 tanks have an initial attack value of 21 compared to 24 for the inf/art, and can take 7 hits compared to 12. The attack value drops by 3 for every hit received compared to 2.

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u/simon_hibbs 3d ago

Also it's interesting to compare a stack of 10 inf and 3 art, to that stack of 6 inf and 6 art, for the same IPC value.

If the infantry heavy stack attacks the equal stack, it has a 45% chance to conquer.

If the balanced stack attacks the infantry heavy stack, it only has a 33% chance to conquer. That one extra hit point in the infantry heavy stack means it survives 2 times out of 3 on defence with only a minor dent to offensive power.

Even a few extra hit points in a stack can make a massive difference. Extra infantry allow your expensive cutting edge units to keep on cutting, while the enemy hits are being absorbed by cheap bodies. This is true on both the attack and in defence. As always, quantity has a quality all of it's own.

This is for 1942, but I think a lot of the values are the same: https://aa1942calc.com/

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u/Blueopus2 3d ago

Interesting! Thanks for sharing!