Now, I didn't need them, no - but in my first runs, I haven't been using the difficulty I normally use while getting used to MtG. I run 27W divisions in EAI (as does the enemy, except they run 40W armor), and I ended up using 3 MAR, 3 AMTRAC, 2 Amphib Tanks, plus artillery to fill it up (one less arty to add AA or AT if necessary). It depends on how large of a nut you are trying to crack (and remember prior to this, there are extreme measures you can take on highly fortified beachs, like mass air superiority and CAS, Strat Bombin prior to reduce fort strength, weaken infra to lower their supply, etc). Kind of like using anti-tank instead of Tank Destroyer if you can't commit to tank research/production.Ĭlick to expand.There is no perfect answer for this. Mechanized inf has a 40% penalty to amphibious attack so try to use mechanized inf instead of only tank if possible also ideally along with CAS support.

Kind of make sense from a balance perspective. Even modern tanks suffer from this 70% penalty. However regular tank (it seems to apply to all variants) have a -70%!! penalty to amphibious attack. It is not clear before you research it which is something that should be fixed. The later definitely do have a 50% bonus to attack for amphibious landing. I just consoled to unlock amtrack and amphibious tanks.

Lastly but not least, Land exp doesn't help with air doctrine or airplane variants, but it will for amphibious tank or amtrack. You do understand that I said 'heavily contested' right? As in both side has 7k fighter in the zone combined together along with support airplanes.įurthermore, there are also other considerations such as airplane range, airbase limited to certain distant geography location from naval target, and chance of your CV being tied up in a naval battle instead of supporting the invasion etc.

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