Japan 45 - Japanese kill too many tanks?

[krmiller]

"Yet in fact, Japanese guns and mines still inflicted considerable damage, despite the former struggling to penetrate a Sherman’s frontal armor. According to Zaloga, each Marine tank deployed to Okinawa was knocked out four times on average during the 82-day battle. And of those, a total of 51 Marine and 102 Army M4s were destroyed."

Japanese infantry hard attack value has nothing to do with tanks being taken out by mines or guns. IJN infantry battalions had no inherent AT guns. If allowed to assault tanks their attacks with AT mines was effective but they had nothing on the order of the bazooka or the panzerfaust. The hard attack value is nothing more than a play balance construction by the designers.