
Hello friends. Today we will talk about medium tanks. Their role in Soldiers: Arena, their strengths, and review some usual ways of getting your ideas to the enemy with the example of the PzKpfw III’s family.

It’s good to be strong, but double as good to be fast.
A commander specializing in medium tanks is an excellent choice for those who appreciate the balance between maneuverability and firepower. Do you prefer a set of overall tools for all occasions instead a narrow focus on a particular aspect? Then the medium tank commander is what you need. When the enemy strikes you mounted on a powerful but slow Tiger - we'll take two PzKpfw IV’s and break through his flank. The speed of medium tanks allows you to choose a maneuverable fighting style, appearing from your hidden locations only to strike the enemy. You shall deliver a rather meaningful strike, because medium tank guns are usually sufficient to defeat most of the enemy's firing points. Choosing medium tanks you must fight aggressively and quickly. You should be especially active in the early and middle stages of the battle. That's your moment of glory, when you can inflict maximum damage to the enemy, pinning down the infantry, levelling the fortifications to the bitter pieces and helping teammates to break through the enemy's defenses. You should always be in the midst of battle!. Trying to shoot with heavy tanks or artillery through the entire map is a bad idea. But if you make proper use of your resources, the game will already be in your hands, when the enemy heavy tanks appear.
Your first medium tank
In the game, this handsome little one from the cover art is currently represented in two modifications: F and J. There are three more self-propelled guns based on PzKpfw III: StuG III ausf. B, StuG III ausf. G and StuH 42 ausf. G, but we will not talk about them now. Containing all the advantages and disadvantages of medium tanks, PzKpfw III has one additional excellence. This is the only medium tank available in the early game. And this means that even from the first minutes of the battle it is possible to hunt artillery tanks such as BT-7A, which are so fond of shooting from afar. And the rest of the light tanks don’t even need to be mentioned. In the heat of combat, supported by your comrades, PzKpfw III even in the early game can snatch one third of the map.
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And then: strengthening, defending, pushing again. Repeat until victory. But we do not recommend to be impudent. After all, the enemy team may have a commander of the anti-tank regiment. Against these guys any tank is prone to become a steel coffin.
Did you know that …
By the time of the invasion to the USSR PzKpfw III was the main battle tank of the Wehrmacht. On June 22, 1941, in divisions directed to the USSR, there were about 1000 machines of this type, which amassed around a 25 to 34% of the total number of tanks sent to the USSR.

At the end of the summer of 1940, 168 Panzerkampfwagen III tanks of F, G and H modifications were converted for underwater travel and were to be used for landing on the English coast. The depth of the dive was 15 m; Fresh air was supplied by a hose length of 18 m and a diameter of 20 cm. This miracle of engineering had the name Tauchpanzer III.

In addition to twelve modifications and an underwater tank based on the Panzerkampfwagen III, there were the Panzerbefehlswagen III commander's tank, the observation armored car of artillery, several German SPGs and three Soviet ones (SU-76i, SU-85i, SG-122) and, of course, the flamethrower tank Flammpanzer III Sd.Kfz. 141/3).

And what modifications of PzKpfw III do you want to see in Soldiers: Arena?
[ 2017-03-23 19:39:24 CET ] [ Original post ]