

Mixing both tanks has big advantages in production costs, training, supply and fuel as well as scheduling when things are available.Īdding the first battalion of medium 1 tanks to a 40 width division with light tank 2 has a huge impact, adding 14.7 armour and 13.1 piercing as well as slowing down the max speed.

Use the starting tank divisions in the Spanish Civil war and in the Japan- China war and you can build up the 12 width template to make a 20 width light tank division and a 40 width tank division with mixed light and medium tanks. Since they only need steel and they're already researched there is a huge production advantage you should exploit. For Germany (other nations have different priorities and resources) they let you build up a large number of tanks, cheaply. Light tanks can make up most of the tanks in early war tank divisions. I still strongly suggest Medium tanks for a more 'normal' game, but light tanks can be made to work. Iv'e not done it to a human and would not dare try cause of how easy it would be to counter, But I have done it as Russia and Germany vs the AI to surprising effect. So literally everything gets overrun and encircled. The strategy being that they will take losses, but the enemy loses organisation from continuous battle and retreats, but does not manage to outrun the speed of the light tanks. They are so cheap in fact that cheese strategies of spamming THOUSANDS of the things on the eastern front can work out. However, there is a caveat, light tanks are dirt cheap. But they are pretty much a spent force for front line work from 1940 onwards.

They also make for decent QRF's against enemy invasions. They are fast enough to not negatively impact the speed and ultimately they do add a little hardness and a decent bit of soft attack. Light tanks do maintain some marginal use in a supporting capacity for your motorised divisions. Even if you get an early boost for the 1941 model it is still out of date because 1940 AT is more than a match. Light tanks are out of date by 1939, and they only get worse from there onwards.
