Difference between revisions of "Light Tanks"

Light tanks are fast, mobile scouts which are used to detect enemies for friendly artillery, or to destroy enemy artillery.

Light tanks share some general characteristics. The heaviest light tank weighs just under 25 tons, and no light tank has more than 80 mm of armor plating. The fastest light tanks can reach speeds of 72 kph, and have mobility unparalleled except by the most maneuverable medium tanks. Due to their low weight, light tanks have little in the way of armor and do not generally carry much firepower, so they are not well designed to trade shots with a medium or heavy tank.

The great speed, mobility, and small size of the light tank allows them to have a better probability of avoiding artillery fire, and can take advantage of gaps in the enemy's defenses to locate and destroy enemy artillery. If a light tank flanks an enemy tank destroyer, it can use its mobility to keep out of the tank destroyer's firing angle while destroying the helpless vehicle. However, medium tanks will have the firepower, mobility, and armor to easily destroy light tanks. Heavy tanks will generally have enough armor to ignore lower tier light tanks for the most part, so coordination with friendly artillery is required for those light tanks to engage these enemy vehicles.