Profile of Brachiaraidos

The thing is that the tank could be made very good against infantry without making the gun into an unfairly good one shot boomstick. Just do one simple thing;

Introduce every machine gun the Stuart had as fully functional.

One .50cal on the roof, and five (yes, five) 7.62mm brownings? That should mulch infantry all day.It has more machine guns than crew members, that's how much it loves MG's baby.

so basically for 30mun worth of them they almost work as well as a standard 30mun mine but are doctrinal and do not work against infantry.

the point of cheap mines is not that you can make a line of them; it's that you can cover a wide area.

No, for 30 muni and good placement they work substantially better than standard mines.

Light engine damage is your norm on 30 muni of standard, heavy if you're lucky. A cluster of light AT will regularly immobilize. Massive, massive difference.

American AT mines are already awesome. A line of the cheap ones or a single heavy one, both are brutal to vehicles.

They have mines.

Use them.

A thing to remember when considering the viability of armies like the Italians is that we're not tied to restraints that the armies were in WWII; we can overcome a lot of the problems the Italians had when it comes to the war by ignoring the issues of logistical supply chains, unit availability and quantities of production.

For a multiplayer army, the Itallians can have cheap and ready light tanks and their heavier AT can come in the form of their pre-armistice tank destroyers. Much like the Americans, a good TD can easily compensate for the lack of a heavy tank. Their infantry can be 5/6 man rifle armed, they have MG's and weapon teams, yada yada.

They have the Cannone da 90/53. It's a damn good gun. They have submachine guns, rifles, carbines, and field guns. Yada yada.

It's perfectly possible to build an army around their equipment, theme it as best as you can to their historical structure (within reason for balance) and cost it appropriately for what you get.

An Axis fraction that doesn't automatically have better everything is a terrifying thought, I know, but the allies have been making do just fine for a long time now. You can do it, wehraboos.

-PTRS rifles are strong enough to stop a Luchs rush, a half track rush-

Excuse me?

You mean the two vehicles which can kite the guards all day long without ever letting them take the time to aim and fire back?

One of which suppresses them instantly as well as going an arse ton of damage? And comes with smoke if things get hairy?

Jesus. They stop you just driving them right into their base, for a little while, at best. They don't actually force them off. They just die.

Maybe try playing a game as soviets ever? And deflate your massively over hyped epeen ego?