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Slow and heavily armoured, yet weak to rifle and machine gunfire antitank units are a blessing when an enemy comes at you wil armour. They perform exceedingly well against light vehicles, and can also take apart medium tanks and structures - if lucky of course. These units aren't to be used against very heavy tanks - such work requires saboteurs - and infantry can easily find things to hide behind, making antitank rifles rather worthless.

  • Decent range (1-7 for recoilless gun, 2-8 for anti-tank infantry) but poor LOS, yet useful against hardened structures
  • Strong against vehicles, attack aircraft, and buildings
  • Weak against infantry and high-flying aircraft such as bombers and machine guns.

Mainstream units[]

Anti-tank missile[]

These units are armed with explosive missiles, and form the primary heavy infantry of later eras. They are far more deadly against vehicles, but not too useful against infantry in contrast to recoilless gun infantry. Only the British, Americans and Germans may construct recoilless gun units, although the American Bazooka M1 is available as a military import for some nations.

Bazooka icon
Anti-Tank Missile

Ingame pic rifle h

Long-ranged imissile nfantry armed with rockets, ideal as early anti-materiel support. Available to both Germany and USA.

  • Strong against: early vehicles, assault infantry
  • Weak against: massed infantry and super-heavy vehicles
Prereq: Build time HP LOS Attack Attack speed Move
speed
  • Synthetics
  • Jet Propulsion
Fast Low Medium Strong Rather slow Slow
Cost Created from Armour Range Specialty
Base Ramp Pop

Food:40

Metal: 30

Food:2

Metal: 2

2

Barracks

High Rather low

Germany

Unique units[]

Heavy rifle infantry[]

While these units are decent against most early tanks, they are not too useful against advanced medium or heavy armour, although they can be used to snipe enemy infantry in a pinch. The only issue is that they take some time to aim and fire, and are also slow and costly, with no armour. Even so, they are still useful even when there are big tanks taht can be hurt by them, albeit as snipers.

Atrifle icon
Tankgewehr

Ingame pic rifle h

Unique German long-ranged infantry, ideal as early anti-materiel support.

  • Strong against: early vehicles, assault infantry
  • Weak against: massed infantry and super-heavy vehicles
Prereq: Build time HP LOS Attack Attack speed Move
speed
Free Fast Low Medium Strong Rather slow Slow
Cost Created from Armour Range Specialty
Base Ramp Pop

Food:40

Metal: 30

Food:2

Metal: 2

2

Barracks

High Rather low

Germany


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Boys

Unique British heavy rifle infantry, ideal as early anti-materiel support, with a focus on range and mobility.

  • Strong against: early vehicles, assault infantry
  • Weak against: massed infantry and super-heavy vehicles
Prereq: Build time HP LOS Attack Attack speed Move
speed
Mechanisation [3]
Fast Low Medium Strong Rather slow Slow
Cost Created from Armour Range Specialty
Base Ramp Pop

Food:40

Metal: 30

Food:2

Metal: 2

2

Barracks

High Rather low

British Commonwealth



PzB 39
Atrifle icon

PzB 39

Upgrade of Tankgewehr for Germany. Long-ranged infantry, ideal as early anti-materiel support, with a view towards providing a balance between firepower, range and mobility.

  • Strong against: early vehicles, assault infantry
  • Weak against: massed infantry and super-heavy vehicles
Prereq: Build time HP LOS Attack Attack speed Move
speed
:Mechanisation [3] Fast Low Medium Strong Rather slow Slow
Cost Created from Armour Range Specialty
Base Ramp Pop

Food:40

Metal: 30

Food:2

Metal: 2

2

Barracks

High Rather low

Germany

PTRS
Solothurn

PTRS

Anti-materiel infantryman armed with a long-ranged heavy rifle; his main draw is that he has a cost structure that sacrifices Wealth in favour of savings of Metal and Food.

  • Strong against: early vehicles, assault infantry
  • Weak against: massed infantry and super-heavy vehicles
Prereq: Build time HP LOS Attack Attack speed Move
speed
:Mechanisation [3] Fast Insignificant Medium Strong Rather slow Slow
Cost Created from Armour Range Specialty
Base Ramp Pop

Food:40
Metal: 30

Wealth: 6

1

Barracks

Laughable Medium

Soviet Union

S-18/100 Solothurn
Solothurn

S-18/100 Solothurn

Anti-materiel infantryman armed with a long-ranged heavy rifle; his main draw is that he has a cost structure that sacrifices Wealth in favour of savings of Metal and Food.

  • Strong against: early vehicles, assault infantry
  • Weak against: massed infantry and super-heavy vehicles
Prereq: Build time HP LOS Attack Attack speed Move
speed
:Mechanisation [3] Fast Insignificant Medium Strong Rather slow Slow
Cost Created from Armour Range Specialty
Base Ramp Pop

Food:40
Metal: 30

Wealth: 6

1

Barracks

Laughable Medium

Germany

wz.35 Heavy Rifle
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Unique Polish anti-armour infantry unit, armed with a heavy rifle for sniping lightly armoured vehicles, with good penetration power, rate of fire and average mobility.

  • Strong against: early vehicles, assault infantry
  • Weak against: massed infantry and super-heavy vehicles
Prereq: Build time HP LOS Attack Attack speed Move
speed
:Mechanisation [3] Fast Low Medium Strong Rather slow Slow
Cost Created from Armour Range Specialty
Base Ramp Pop

Food:40

Metal: 30

Food:2

Metal: 2

2

Barracks

High Rather low
  • Faster projectile.

Poland

Lahti L-39
Atrifle suomi icon

Center

Long-ranged infantry gun, ideal as early anti-materiel support. Has a better rate of fire and can be used to engage aircraft, but must be deployed prior to firing.

  • Strong against: infantry, early vehicles, light aircraft
  • Weak against: massed infantry and super-heavy vehicles
Prereq: Build time HP LOS Attack Attack speed Move
speed
  • Mechanisation [3]
  • Level 1: Arms Dealers Military
Fast Low Medium Strong Rather slow Slow
Cost Created from Armour Range Specialty
Base Ramp Pop

Food:40

Metal: 30

Food:2

Metal: 2

2

Barracks

High Rather low
  • Can attack aircraft
  • Must unpack prior to firing.

Finland

The Americans don't train heavy rifle units because their Browning .50cal, despite being a machine gun, can be used to attack enemy armour. Decent against most early tanks, not too useful against advanced medium or heavy armour though.

Anti-tank missile[]

PIAT Infantry
PIAT Infantry

Ingame pic rifle h

Unique British anti-tank missile unit. Cheap to train, but very unreliable - low range, low attack and low accuracy.

  • Strong against: vehicles, buildings
  • Weak against: massed infantry
Prereq: Build time HP LOS Attack Attack speed Move
speed
Free Fast Low Medium Strong Rather slow Slow
Cost Created from Armour Range Specialty
Base Ramp Pop

Food:40

Metal: 30

Food:2

Metal: 2

2

Barracks

High Rather low

Germany

Panzerfaust
Panzerfaust

Ingame pic rifle h

Unoque German anti-tank missile unit that sacrifices the long range of Anti-Tank Missile infantry for greater damage and movement speed. Cheap to develop, but with low range.

  • Strong against: vehicles, buildings
  • Weak against: massed infantry
Prereq: Build time HP LOS Attack Attack speed Move
speed
Free Fast Low Medium Strong Rather slow Slow
Cost Created from Armour Range Specialty
Base Ramp Pop

Food:40

Metal: 30

Food:2

Metal: 2

2

Barracks

High Rather low

Germany

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