Updated Normandy'44_Alt (third time, 13 AUG)

[Elxaime]

How does one fight enemy tanks under the McNamara values? This has always flummoxed me. I am talking about real tanks like the PzKw IV, not the French 1940 make-shifts. Under the McNamara values, it seems that tanks can only be affected by:

- other tanks with decent hard attack values
- decent enemy AT guns
- the heaviest naval guns

As to the others:

Infantry - is it a valid tactic to assault enemy armor in close terrain if they don't have infantry supports? The armor assault values are pretty high and I am confused as to how the "0" hard values work under the alt assault rules. Maybe an example or two would help. Otherwise, it seems that a valid tactic is to mass huge stacks of tanks, even in bocage or cities, without infantry support and they basically become invulnerable to anything except another enemy tank super stack.

Artillery - except for the super heavy guns, artillery seems to have no impact at all on enemy armor. This seems strange since battle reports from history report time and again US medium artillery breaking up German armored thrusts by forcing them to button up, dismount or by disabling tracks, communications or other vehicle systems (you can make a tank combat inefficient without holing its main armor). Isn't the anti-tank properties of artillery given short-shrift under McNamara? Or am I missing something?

Thanks for any guidance here. I have had mixed feelings on the way McNamara works with armor, especially how it makes Tigers and Panthers invulnerable Gods of War, but maybe I am missing the bigger picture.