The aec’s smoke seems to be very “thin” in that any lateral movement reveals it as a target again.
At least it protects against Snares, unlike Puma smoke which doesn't protect against satchels and some other AT nades (this is because of other reasons not because of the smoke itself but it still is an advantage)
No one really buys more than one aec though so the teching cost is really in practice just part of the unit cost.
No. Just because you don't buy more than one it doesn't mean other players do so too. And since you do not have to pay the 15 fuel and 100 MP for every AEC again it is not part of the unit cost.
I already said in the post you quoted that he puma with overall costs does still end up being more expensive.
Then what is your point? AEC as a single unit is cheaper than Puma and even its Overall cost are still less than for Puma.
I never claimed Luch or Puma was OP compared to AEC...
And I never said that you claimed this. I just asked where your AEC is when your enemy has Luchs + Puma and advised you trying to build bofors if your enemy goes for T2 (and you haven't AEC yet) since OKWs T2 can barly do anything against them.
The issue is in a light vehicle meta OKW have 4-5 squads running around with snare
While OKW has 3-4 (4-5 Volks is something I barely see / do) squads with snares you have 4 or more units which can be upgraded with AT weapons
and brits have nothing.
AEC, Sniper, Mines and PIAT.
pushing up an aggressive AEC is suicide with volks hiding behind every flank or corner.
Keep distance and do not rush into the enemy. And if they flank you then use smoke in order to make the snares useless
Meanwhile the Axis player can light vehicle harass the brits all day
Have you tried using PIATS, AT guns, Mines or Bofors? And at least OKWs light vehicles (which actually are able to fight against enemy troops) come out after T0 and cost some fuel