Company of Heroes Tanks and Infantry
So a pretty neat thing that comes from tanks having heavy crush is that when infantry run into them, they die instantly. If you look at the Churchill that the British Royal Engineer command tree gets, this can be very devastating. Due to a little bug (that is going to be fixed when they bring the beta patches to retail) is that when you pop suppression, it INSTANTLY suppresses any infantry in it’s range. This means you can easily roll your Churchill right into that blog of infantry and heavy crush them into oblivion.
Granted, it is way more effective when you have the mineplow on the front, and they are going to fix the instant suppress ability.
Now with axis tanks can do the same thing as well (well crush blobs of infantry) but it takes a bit more micro to do it. Today’s video is from my friend Dukka, who likes to crush American infantry bastards. By moving his tanks in close, he can neutralize the American Riflemen and hope his opponent isn’t looking or paying attention (mass stickies)
So if you watch that, all you really have to do is move a group of tanks right into the infantry ( in this case a bunch of Wermacht Panzer IV) and let the treads do the talking. A good player can see this coming and retreat his guys, but that doesnt help when you move the tanks right into their base to finish them off anyways. The only thing you really have to be worried about is letting those Company of Heroes riflemen get stickies on a tank, that really tends to mess them up.
So just keep in mind that in Company of Heroes, your tanks can be great infantry killing machines; whether it be Axis or Allied.
