Point costs and balance

[Marcello]

For the IFV thing, isn't a cheap tank, a reserve tank, cs tank or obsolate tank still better than teh IFV ?

The "cheap tank" in general does not carry an infantry squad inside but aside from that there is the little problem that Germany does not have any "cheap tank, a reserve tank, cs tank or obsolate tank" as of now. So the Puma looks attractive.

[iCaMpWiThAWP]

Originally Posted by Marcello

The "cheap tank" in general does not carry an infantry squad inside but aside from that there is the little problem that Germany does not have any "cheap tank, a reserve tank, cs tank or obsolate tank" as of now. So the Puma looks attractive.

And most modern IFV's can fight pretty much anything that comes around, Autocannon/HMG for anti-grunt/light vehicle work, and ATGM for tanks, don't forget the infantry squad that will help in close terrain.

[Lankinen]

Still not quite fond of those costly IFV's. Maybe i have to test them more, but they have not yet given me a reason to take over cheap apc and having more tanks instead.

Yeah, b-2 is supposed to be good, but what anti air in winspmbt patch 5.5 can shoot it down ?

UAV's are quite easy to shoot down compared to b-2, because many platforms do not even fire for it, pantsyr is this far the only one firing b-2 and it has a change to drop it at least, it has 3 sam's so shooting 6 times with 2-3% accuracy might do the job if one is lucky to hit it.

Is there a better one against b-2 than pantsyr ?

[Marcello]

Still not quite fond of those costly IFV's. Maybe i have to test them more, but they have not yet given me a reason to take over cheap apc and having more tanks instead.

Well, the issue has been debated in real life too. Not everyone was in favor of IFVs but at the end of the day almost everyone adopted it eventually; only the israelis have rejected it AFAIK.