This is an opinion that I’ve held for a long time. Medium tanks, Which are usually opted out of in exchange for other vehicles or units, are actually pretty useful. They are great at offense, having many useful traits that make them fit for the job of a frontline unit. They are also quite versatile, and can be used in combination with many other units. The medium tank is a great unit, at least when used correctly, in combined arms with other units.
Medium tanks are good units to take on the offensive. While their high damage against light armor is only helpful in small cases, as this unit type isn’t used very often, their decent damage when fighting heavily armored or totally unarmored units is good, but might not seem the most useful, as other units may do more damage.
The trick here is that medium tanks have a good balance. Their speed, health and damage are all quite high-not the highest, but still high. Building on this, their cost is not too expensive, especially in comparison with heavy tanks or strategic bombers. This makes them a handsome unit to combat most others on land, without the issue of slowness and cost with heavy tanks, low health and damage with lighter tanks, and acceptable cost to top it off. But one of the greatest strengths of the medium tank is not on its lonesome, but in combination.
The medium tank is best paired with other units, and is great for combined arms. One of its best strengths lie in its balanced stats, which allow it to accompany other units, specifically artillery and motorized infantry, without slowing down stacks. It can serve as a shield, adding large amounts of health to stacks and serving as a defense against armored units. And is great at the offense, dealing large amounts of damage while its high HP keeps stacks in the fight longer. While there are counters to tanks, its versatile ability to merge with other units and not burden them allows it to be protected while protecting other units at the same time.
There are a few drawbacks to the medium tank. First being the fact that it’s an offensive unit. Even if it is on offense most of the time counter attacks mean it might deal less damage to attacking units. But this is usually mitigated most of the time, where it’s fighting other offensive or defensive units which balances things out. Or in the case of say tank destroyers or heavy tanks, it can be used with Motorized infantry and artillery, it’s speed allowing it to outmatch heavy tanks, while the tank destroyers weakness against unarmored units protects the Medium while not weighing down the unarmored unit that’s used with the issue of speed.
Another drawback is less of that, and more of an alternative, that being the light tank. This is because the good light armor damage and extremely high speed of it allows the light tank to seem like an excellent alternative rather than the slower and more expensive medium. And in certain cases, especially while using the Pan-Asian or even allied doctrine, it may be the case that the light it superior to the medium tank. But most of the time, the high damage against light armor of medium tanks can act as a foil against it. Although the medium might be a bit slower, it has higher damage, and a stack using mediums, even in lower number is more likely to defeat one using light tanks.
The medium tank is a strange case. While I do see it used, it it’s not awfully often. This is in contrast to my generous wielding of the unit, often to powerful effect. The medium tank is excellent on the offense and a versatile unit that works well hand in hand with others. When used correctly in conjunction with other forces, the medium tank is arguably the best tank unit in game.
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