Tanks in 1914?

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Tanks in 1914?

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So you can buy tank corps in 1914? Why wouldn't you do this? Don't cost much more than a inf corp and better stats? Doesn't seem history for the Germans or even Allies?
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You need to research tank warfare to lvl two to be able to buy tank corps, since everyone starts from zero, you won't be able to do it in '14 (probably even with breakthroughs in every turn, you still would not get it in time for that), with some luck you might start building in late '15, and with the 6 turn delay you would almost sure to get them at best in early '16, which is a bit early, but you invested in and got lucky with hindsight.
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ORIGINAL: jzardos

So you can buy tank corps in 1914? Why wouldn't you do this? Don't cost much more than a inf corp and better stats? Doesn't seem history for the Germans or even Allies?

Hi jzardos

Is this something you've achieved by investing heavily in Armored Warfare research?

if so, it would be interesting to know how many chits you've invested and if there was a downside, e.g. the opportunity cost of spending the MPPs there against where else they could have been spent.

Lastly, with which country was this?

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ORIGINAL: Xsillione

You need to research tank warfare to lvl two to be able to buy tank corps, since everyone starts from zero, you won't be able to do it in '14 (probably even with breakthroughs in every turn, you still would not get it in time for that), with some luck you might start building in late '15, and with the 6 turn delay you would almost sure to get them at best in early '16, which is a bit early, but you invested in and got lucky with hindsight.

Are you sure about this? Seems you just need 220 production to buy them. Don't see this lvl 2 restriction.
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Yep, pretty sure, just loaded my two campaing (one for both side, both in early '15), and no one can build tanks, not surprising with entente, since did not done any tank research. And also not surprising with the central powers, since only lvl 1 done with all three, lvl is partially with all three, so no tank available, as per the rules and the warfare tech states.

Also the cost would be 200 mpp, 220 would be with lvl 1 advanced tank, which also quite a rare stuff in '14, since you can put a grand total of one chit into it.

Edit: You maybe playing with soft build limits, and that would solve the price and the availability issue.
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Yes, it seems that with Soft Builds enabled they can be bought, something we'll hopefully have fixed in the near future.
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