I like to see that AC get more defense against airstrikes in higher level and if it's possible to improve their line of sight.
The vulnerability of the armored car unit is a combination of fewer hit points than light tanks (15 vs. 20) and their weaker strength against other armor units (only 0.5 strength points vs. armor), and only secondarily their weakness against air attacks. That's probably as it should be. Their great strength is their speed and wider reconnaissance radius. They're a niche unit, and only a fool is going to mass produce them once light tanks are available (stronger, and almost as fast), motorized infantry (nearly as fast, more versatile), and mechanized infantry (stronger, and almost as fast) become available. The real reason why smart players don't use them more is the same as for most niche units: they must compete for the limited available research time against a variety of other units, many of which are more versatile and better fighting units, and can also fill the ground reconnaissance role almost as well.
19 Dec 2017, 15:22
Yes, we have no reason to spend the limited research time for AC. They only get a little bonus in combat against soft target and +5 km/h. In mid- and later game the recon will do air units and so they are out of order.
They only used in bigger units to optimize the BSDE of a stack, and this stacks are most times so slow, that we have no advantage for it, if we develop a higher level AC.
Maybe a other idea to improve the AC is to give stacks with AC a bonus in combat, because they have a better recon.
19 Dec 2017, 16:07
Xarus wrote:
Maybe a other idea to improve the AC is to give stacks with AC a bonus in combat, because they have a better recon.
Well, I might consider combining an AC unit with 3 or 4 railroad gun units in order to maximize the effective combat range of the guns ---- the AC unit has a wider reconnaissance range, and one of the quirks of the newly improved RRGs is that they can shoot farther than they can see. The highest level battleships have the same problem.
19 Dec 2017, 18:39
would taking an armored car along with the navy give it the same vision range bonus or does that only work on land?
just a thought
21 Dec 2017, 06:42
Other thing that will help the AC is to make the research level 2 on day 6 available.
