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)Įffective 10 point wheeled infantry transportįire 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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