Panzer Battles 2 - The Official Teaser Thread

[ComradeP]

Unit composition, unit size, nation-specific equipment and different strengths and weaknesses when it comes to soft attack, hard attack and assault values for the infantry make each nation unique.

As the Soviets in PB Kursk, your troops are mediocre to poor in quality, but the T-34 is a good tank in the game and your Tank Corps have lots of them. Your infantry will be outfought by the Germans in the open, but they can be quite stubborn when in bunkers. Initially you're mostly sacrificing men for time, just like the real Soviets at Kursk, whilst in the later scenarios you can bring masses of armour and artillery to bear on the Germans.

As the Germans in PB Kursk, you have mostly excellent to good units in terms of quality, and your soft attack ratings in particular will mean any Soviet units in the open will die quickly. However, you'll have to use the numerous pionier units to move through bunker lines and if the Soviets manage to kill or seriously weaken some of those, your progress will slow down as minefields will be cleared less rapidly and the pioniere are also your best assault units.

The Germans don't have dedicated assault units like the Soviet SMG companies, the boys that have to clear a path through the minefields, anti-tank ditches and obstacles also have to help with taking the bunkers.

German tanks are mediocre to good, but the Panzer IV isn't that great against large numbers of T-34's, although this is primarily caused by the mechanics limiting vehicle kills to 1-2 per shot for two platoon combined units, on average. You have lots of high quality forces at your disposal, but you also have to break through strong defences and the Soviets always have some new formation ready to backstop the line you're breaching. You can usually win on the operational level in terms of having a good chance to win most scenarios, but not on the strategic level in the sense that the "next" scenario covering the advance in a certain sector will feature fresh Soviet forces trying to stop you.

The three main sectors also each offer different challenges to overcome. The SS actually has by far the easiest area of operations to work in.