WW2 Artillery vs. Armor

[Volcano Man]

Hello Elxaime,

As Huib said, you must take everything as a whole first and not just one change. You mention players massing tanks usupported to hold built up areas, bocage and forests but this is clearly not possible with the McNamara based db, or else you will end up with a lot of dead armor when infantry assault you in these places.

So the question is, is anyone actually playing the ALT scenarios or are we just doing what we love to do; sharp shooting the numbers?

Armor is still plenty vulnerable. I think the problem is that some people may need to unlearn some ahistorical habits in order to play the ALT scenarios. You cannot rely on massed artillery alone to stop enemy armor but lone armor units are vulnerable to infantry assaults and AT guns, tank destroyers and other armor is an effective counter as well. If anything, armor is stronger in the stock scenario OOB because their high assault values allow them to take and hold objectives where as in the ALT scenarios you need infantry support.