Using and Killing 88's

[schnurbart]

hmmm...if all i have to do is take out the gun i might like t34 85 and just over run it.

Nice. This strategy depends upon whether you are playing the AI or a human player. Against the AI is easier (surprise!) as the AI will choose a target and keep firing at it regardless of whether it is disrupted or not.

It takes three moves to overrun the 88s. This allows the 88s three turns of shots - the first being opfire. You end up with a roughly 2/3rds success rate though your expected losses are higher than the previous strategies (typical ruskies!) as those mechanisms succeed most often when the 88 is disrupted before it can fire at all, whereas the "bullrush" allows the 88 to do its worst.

Against a human opponent the chance of success falls significantly, to below 50/50 as the disruption results on the approach really hurt.

umbro

hmmm..t385 is pretty fast..but i chose this tank because i figured they could be over running the position from within 20 hex vis in two turns. as far as disruptions go there are reasonable chances i think for rallys assuming 50% and two out of the three disrupted. even against a player i think the odds will be roughly even that 2 out of the three will be available on a given turn and once that 88 fires it has fair chances of only being half as good on turn 2.