Simple military question

[Mirreille]

There is something I've been wondering about for a long time, but happily have not had to find out the hard way. Are tanks useful defensively at all? Do they in fact absorb some damage that would otherwise have ended up landing on ones soldiers, or is their presence irrelevant to the damage your soldiers receive? My own extremely limited experience would suggest they DO absorb some(I ended up with 7 tanks...joy!),but I would like to hear what others think on the subject.

[jackyseto123]

Tanks are pretty much meat shields with a punch.

[SynthFG]

Tanks are stronger in defence than they are in attack,

Used to be something like

1 tank = 20 soldiers in attack and 30 in defence

Edited July 18, 2008 by SynthFG

[Brotherington]

defending tanks increase your defending battle strength, making your opponents victory odds lower and decreasing the chances of a successful attack against your nation.

[flak attack]

Attacking tank battle strength = Number of attacking tanks * 25

Defending tank battle strength = Number of defending tanks * 30

[Mirreille]

Thank you for the responses but that is not what I am asking, though Brotherington's post was useful. Do tanks absorb damage that would otherwise have hit your troops? That is what I am trying to get at.

[schmutte693]

I am not sure that anyone knows precisely how battle casualties are figured (except perhaps those alliances/people who claim to have reverse-engineered the game's formulas). Given their higher strength ratings, I imagine that they would, however. At the very least, tanks are going to kill more enemy soldiers, meaning that your enemy has less troops there to kill yours.

[thaone]

Thank you for the responses but that is not what I am asking, though Brotherington's post was useful. Do tanks absorb damage that would otherwise have hit your troops? That is what I am trying to get at.

The odds give the chance you will lose/win a battle, after that the game randomly calculates the casualties on both sides.

[SilverHawk]

Tanks also get a larger bonus to defense from Infra then Soldiers do. (Don't ask me how.) They also reduce the amount of Infra Damage you recieve from an attack.

[astriy]

Thank you for the responses but that is not what I am asking, though Brotherington's post was useful. Do tanks absorb damage that would otherwise have hit your troops? That is what I am trying to get at.

no, the damage is spread out on both the tanks and the troops. so you can still have tanks left and have troop casualties

[zzzptm]

... and battles in which all your tanks get wiped out... crazy stuff, that...