Patch?

[ComradeP]

I thought we disagreed on how losses are currently suffered in terms of the time it takes to destroy a tank unit/make it combat ineffective. Fatigue comes into play at some point, but the amount of stress from long range fire without accurate return fire is normally much less than a chaotic <500 meter tank battle. Combat effectiveness for the defending force firing at an attacking force from a (for them) comfortable distance isn't likely to decrease by much.

Currently, tank vs. tank combat can be a drawn out affair that takes a long time to resolve, which has a spill effect of sorts where it has a direct effect on the outcome of the battle as you can't reliably use the tanks for anything else until they take out the opposing tank force. This becomes more problematic as the enemy number of tanks increases as at some point, you just can't knock out enemy tanks quickly enough. That by itself is historical at a certain quantity, but not at the numbers it happens at in game (where the Germans have difficulties with dealing with a similar number of T-34's as their own forces).

A situation where a company is destroyed/knocked out in a single turn, or even two turns, isn't likely to happen unless you engage it with several companies of your own. This is contrary to infantry casualties, where it's quite possible for a limited force with artillery support to knock a company down a size/make it combat ineffective in a single turn.