I suggest having at 4 AA guns, 2 towed, 2 mobile. You simply cannot guarantee you'll have enough fighters to cover both your core and 3 units that are performing a flanking maneuver. Also, on many maps there isn't much room: minefields, ridges, mountains don't allow for a wide front or easy flanking maneuvers.

Having 6 or even 8 fighter planes is not enough to fully cover 3-4 different combat zones at the same time. On top of this, many maps feature 'sneak attacks' from behind or the sides, sometimes escorted by air units. The RAF is on par with Luftwaffe and most maps have scripted waves of air attacks coming from outside the map. For the 30% increase in price to Tiger 2, I'll gladly pay for the higher armor and soft attack.Īir combat is deadly. The really good AT guns (JagdPanther) are actually quite expensive. 88 guns excel both at AA and AT roles and having two of these is actually quite enough. Even with that high amount of artillery, it's pretty hard to find shots to spare. Due to heavy entrenchment on many maps, I suggest (as seen below) having 8 core artillery pieces. If AT guns cannot hold their own on the front line, which they can't they are useless. When attacking hard targets without suppressive fire, it's impossible to guarantee a no-retaliation end of turn. The main disdavantage of AT guns is not even the weak soft attack, but weak armor. Most real fighting in AK happens in the air and while attacking entrenched positions that are mostly soft targets. Here, armor is not king, it's just a shield. Rationale: On paper, AT looks okay - a cheaper alternative to tanks that has decent intiative and hard attack. My suggestion is to rely heavily on Kradschützen + Nebelwerfer for all close terrain encounters, to match the needs of open desert warfare.Īgain, in Afrika Corps, anti-tank is a waste of core slots. There are 2 maps that profit from Bridge Engineers, so I'd keep one unit around if prestige allows.ĭesert terrain still offers plenty of opportunity to use close terrain, namely unnamed villages and desert dunes. Mountain infantry is at a unique disadvantage as sand dunes are not classified as 'hills'. 2-move infantry with +1 movement hero will still be able to move only 2 hexes, except on roads and railroads. Because of desert movement penalties, it has a movement of 2, and due to how roundings are done, Heavy Weapons and Pioniere Infantry has a flat desert move of 2 as well.

Wehrmacht infantry isn't as effective in the desert. While this might differ on higher difficulty level, I found that the usual 'loads of tanks' strategy doesn't cut it anymore, especially beyond Egypt.

I played through AK on 'General' difficulty.

Panzer corps 2 army composition