US Corps '42 - Is the Kradschützen OP?

[robtoe]

I'm curious your experience with the motorcycle/sidecar combo, known as the Kradschützen. For reference, it as a hard target attack of "1", and appears to be a scout vehicle.

I don't know about you, but I am constantly getting slammed by these things. Most recently, I attacked one in open desert, with a US M4A3 tank (STR 10) and it rocked me for 5 kills, while taking only 2 itself (no entrenchment). While the die rolls can obviously cause some funky results, I'm pretty sure it has been consistently overpowered (OP) in other encounters.

Has anyone else had unusual results?

[goose_2]

WOW that is some unlucky rolls.

I saw a Norway inf, Norway inf!!! Take 9 off my Pz3 in the Norway battle.

9

Rolls can be dicey in this game.

Or another way to put it you shoot your dice and take your chances.

[robtoe]

Yep, I know the random "rolls" can be killer, but I'm pretty sure that thing is incredibly difficult to damage even with hard target specialist vehicles. I'm going to make note of other encounters - I almost suspect a bug.

[Pi2repsilon]

Why would you use a hard target specialist vehicle? Like all other infantry, the Kradschützen is a soft target. It has the stock infantry advantages where terrain and entrenchment is concerned, so kill it in the open with units that have decent soft attack.... Frankly, while the M4A3 isn't all that impressive as a tank*, it should be more than enough to overrun an unentrenched Kradschützen in clear terrain with its 8 SA, so taking 5 casualties while only dealing 2 is indeed unfortunate, especially taking initiative into account.


* Err, the way things are measured in Panzer Corps, I mean, where its historical advantages of cheap production and reliable performance don't matter, while its inferiority when compared to later war German Panther and Tiger tanks does.

[robtoe]

Good catch - meant "soft" target specialist above - typo.

Agree on the M4A3 - its 8 SA versus the 1 HA on the "motorcycle" should be no contest, even with a bad roll. I'll make a note of results next time I encounter one.

[simcc]

I do notice on higher difficulty level my experience is the dice roll is pretty nasty and I do have some suprise roll as well usually only happens if my unit is green. Experience unit seems to have better luck