AT guns

[Steel God]

Back to the AT guns a much safer subject. I do remember the new rule when it came in.
At the time it had been debated lots here at the blitz. Whilst it did allow the AT guns to escape in a lot of conditions it didn’t allow the AT guns to get back out of T mode. Hence the very next turn with visibility more than 1 hex the poor AT guns were just wiped out by the enemy artillery.

Well as Paul said you have to consider where you deploy the AT guns if you expect them to have a chance of escaping, on a road is an obvious example, not always easy I know through bitter experience, that new feature did help some but did it solve the issue.........no and I can understand why some players just don't bother using the weaker AT guns in the front line.

In Normandy 44 the best result that the small ATG units can get is a Fatigue. Now if they hard coded a higher chance of a Disruption in the engine with ATG units as a sort of shock factor then I guess we would all like to to try and 'hide' ATG units in the front line and use them like that rather than as Trench builders and speed bumps.

In fact ATGs do have a higher probability of causing disruption against vehicles hard coded into the system.  But more to the point they are far from worthless aside from that.  I am playing the N44 Scenario 30 currently; and we're still on Day 2 of the landing.  As the 4th ID is clawing it's way through the bocage I have taken every ATG in the division and stacked them across a double river line.  At 2 hex range, firing against a German heavy weapons unit in a BUNKER, they are routinely inflicting 4-6 casualties per shot.  Is it a wonder weapon?  No far from it, but it's not nothing, and as the only armor on that part of the field are captured French models they're hardly needed for their intended purpose at the moment.