This ability to jump from building to building also diminishes the usage of planes and artillery, although they are still useful. Although vehicles make for useful fire support platforms, vehicles cannot hope to enter cities since infantry in Wargame can jump from building block to building block, and fire their AT weaponry into their sides or rear. Urban fighting is where infantry alone predominates.

Bombers and artillery play important roles since it is hard to move quickly in forests. Heavily armored medium tanks or fire support vehicles (such as the BMPT or BTR-T) are even more useful, and medium tanks enjoy a decisive advantage over superheavy tanks, since at close range AP scaling means that they are much more cost-effective than superheavies. This doesn't mean that tanks are useless however, vehicles, even poorly armored ones, when properly micro-managed, can be moved up to support the infantry when the enemy is already engaged, when they won't automatically fire their AT weapons. Aircraft tend to have devastating effects, particularly ATGM planes, requiring very careful usage of smoke to shield units.ДЇorest fighting is much more amenable to infantry, since they no longer suffer from a range disadvantage as vision mechanics means that the enemy is always within weapon range when spotted, and they receive an HP bonus when in forests. ATGMs are useful here if there is scattered cover to deploy them or if one has long-range ATGM units, but they can be easily defeated by extensive smoke micro. Open fields have no cover except for whatever smoke mortar produces, and is dominated by heavy armor: infantry exists only to soak up shells for the most part, while medium tanks are only used if clever smoke usage can enable them to close the field with enemy tanks. These are open terrain, forests, and cities, and the time zones are the opener and the rest of the game. There are, roughly speaking, three environmental zones and two time zones that have to be dealt with in Wargame, leaving aside air combat-which while vital, in Wargame only exists as a tool to support ground troops. China, Czechoslovakia, and South Korea are the best bet that one has-the other three tend to lack too much. Of course, some of these nations have more gaps than they would seem on the surface due to lower quality units in some roles, but I think that it roughly covers them. One can clearly see that there are, roughly speaking, three tiers-China, Czechoslovakia, and South Korea falling into the first tier, with a relatively complete lineup and a relatively small number of gaps, Japan and Sweden having more, and Australia as the outlier, having the most gaps. (decent) Cheap fire support vehicles (35 points and below)Д®ffective 10 point wheeled infantry transportДЇire support rockets transport helicopter

(decent) Tracked fighting reconnaissance vehicle (decent) Wheeled fighting reconnaissance vehicle These are ambiguous and subjective questions, but they at least help to establish a general framework. Or what about ATGM planes? If one listed just ATGM planes, then Finland's tiny little CM.170 would fulfill the role just as the Super Galeb does for Yugoslavia-but there is a world of difference between a 60 point, x2 20 AP, 35% accuracy MCLOS missiles on 0% ECM platform that goes 600 kilometers per hour compared to Yugoslavia's 900 kilometers per hour, 30% ECM, x2 30 AP, 60% accuracy, fire and forget Super Galeb! One can get around this somewhat by specifying 'decent' or 'effective,' but again this all relies on personal subjectivity. This is somewhat subjective, since what one considers to be, let us say, an effective 5 point infantry transport can be questionable - some are clearly bad, such as the Soviet MT-LBV with bad armor, inadequate weaponry, and only mediocre speed, and the gold standard is clearly the 2-3 armor, multiple machine gun, good speed vehicles like the French AMX-13 VTT, Israeli Zelda (probably the best in the game due to 3 machine guns, admittedly mediocre speed, and 2 armor), M113A3, KM200 - but what about vehicles like the Bardelas which get 3 machine guns but only 1 armor, or the OT-62A with only a small machine gun, mediocre speed, and 1 side armor, but 2 front armor? Furthermore, some categories are not worth nearly as much as others: an exceptional optics unit, for example, is worth significantly less than a good medium tank. Thus, I adapted the same metric I used for judging Australia, with some updates: find out which nations are missing which category of unit.

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