rlc27
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Joined: 7/21/2001 From: Connecticut, USA Status: offline
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Both Matilda I's and II's can be really annoying. After a while I gave up trying to waste them with PzIIIe's with the 3.7cm gun.
Now, I kill the Matildas through a combination of artillery, selective use of 88s, and engineers assaults, often using satchel charges or flammenwerfers. I don't both wasting 3.7's, you can fire all day from any angle and still not take one out--better to use them to take our Cruiser I's, Vickers, trucks, and infantry formations--they're too darn useful in that role to risk them against a Matilda--even though the latter's gun does stink, it occasionally manages to take out a panzer if you're not too careful.
Also, I try to do what someone said in an earlier post--take care of everything else first and then concentrate on the Matildas. A lot of British tanks have the 2pdr. gun, so you can start reducing the opposition's total firepower immediately.
Smoke is also darn useful for making them blind. That, combined with a massed-armor flank attack against any defending infantry will allow you to quickly cut the Brits down to size--and that, I believe, is how Rommel also managed it, all the way to Tobruk. The Brits would stick their tanks in infantry support roles in "penny-packets," hearkening to WWI, while the Germans understood the value of concentrated firepower and mobility--again and again they lured the British tanks onto hidden gun emplacements, meanwhile separating them from the exposed (as is everything in the desert) infantry.
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