Note this design is 44 combat width however when combined with a field marshal which provides -10% own combat width it brings it down to 40 which is obviously better. a single AT pierces it, and 2 AT have more hard attack at lower costs. Armour/piercing was not changed a lot so you can still easily get armour. Keys to this are +5 on the gun of the SPGs and upgraded Heavy Tank destroyers where necessary. Space marines is a much overrated tactic which used to work well in singleplayer by exploiting the weakness of the AI but is easily beaten in multiplayer. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Usually not, and it was never a thing vs people due to support AT always piercing it. Are light tanks worth it nowadays? Armor. Pierces everything, over 1k soft attack on ~45% hardness while still having decent mobility of being a tank division. Id want to add into your very good reply that space marines arent the problem, they just highlight the fact how broken the current battle mechanics are. I don't know why, but Expert AI seems to actually make enemy divisions worse for me. Defense of multiple divisions is not combined. The artillery shells the everliving hell out of the enemy, so they lose organization really fast. I am seeing more people use heavy tanks instead of tank destroyers as well.

Infantry are now starting to have no line artillery and being pretty basic which is the opposite of space marines. Are you refering to the 7 infantry and 2 arty 'Infantry division template'? I'm rather new and heard that division template was sort of cheaty as well.

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