Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: KingHalford

Here is why you should use howitzers against pre-combat armour infantry. I've found units with a mix of howitzers and HV guns to be effective against the mixed unit formations the AI will field in the game.

https://imgur.com/X4K7PVC

So howitzers get a -50% attack penalty vs. Hard attack and defence, whilst HV guns get a whopping -75% against soft attack and defence.

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ORIGINAL: Tree Dog
Does the Cluster Bombs tech also affect HV guns to compensate their poor soft attack values?

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ORIGINAL: Kojusoki
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Now, when that tank is facing an infantry unit with Soft Def of 176 and hard def of 88 game works that way (*correct me if I am wrong please*):
Tank's Hard Attack of 300 is penalized to 75 (that 300x25%) while Infantry dev value is 88.
Caliber penalties are a completly different thing

If the above is correct, what was confusing for me was that Infantry has these two paramiters: Soft and Hard Defense - I thought tank "chooses" which gun to shot againts that particular oponent (MG with soft attack or main gun with hard atack).
But it is not that easy:)

So yes, tank with HV is not THAT effective againts soft targets, but:
-infantry can hardly bite them unless RPG
-your HV tank is fully capable to turn into a deadly anti-hard target machine while horwizers are basiaclly limited to the softtargets.
In other words, HV seems to be more usefull - ok not that effective againts infantry that cant do much, but ready to join the fight againts other targets

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ORIGINAL: KingHalford

I've tested this a lot and you really do not want to be using HV guns against infantry: you sustain losses that far exceed what you'd expect just from looking at the figures, and I forget exactly why this is but I remember reading somewhere that infantry get a bonus against tanks if they're over-run, meaning you can suffer terrible losses if you're not doing enough damage to the infantry during combat.