AT guns

[Steel God]

I'm with Deadwood on this one, the ATG's purpose by doctrine and training is a defensive role.  They shouldn't be used on the attack "GENERALLY".  I'll go one better, TDs, which are just mobile ATGs, shouldn't be used much on the offensive either but are a little more flexible.  Now I would have said take the ATGs out years ago before they changed the engine to allow the ATGs to enter T mode and withdraw while in contact, because before that they were essentially deployed once and died after contact, but now they can be used in a delaying action capacity very well.  Like Deadwood I happen to be playing F40 (I actually am playing 2 CGs of it concurrently, once as French and once as German) and with the Germans in particular I have used the ATGs to get effect in screening gaps in the lines and being mobile to isolate and contain bypassed pockets. I would certainly miss the units if I didn't have them.  Aside from which my biggest issue with rolling the ATGs into the infantry battalions would be the return of 1 hex range hard vale attack numbers for all the infantry units which would put us back in the dark ages (IMHO). 

I get the complaint, they can be time consuming to manage, but they do serve a purpose and sometimes the real problem is we hate the idea of not using a counter and end up using it in a manner that leaves them vulnerable.