Armored car

[worship01]

I just got armored car but haven't had chance to use it yet. Anyone find its useful? If so what strategy?

Oil cost seems high and guessing it will be probably be killed quick by anti tank guns. I'm at 2800 medals so usefulness as raider for me is probably not that good.

 

[Manifesto]

We look forward to your report. As they say: if you pull it, you better use it!

 

[worship01]

Ok I used them a few times today.

Pros:
- they look cool, especially firing animation
- they are pretty quick
- they make short work of resource buildings
- range of 3 just like all the other factory units (except guerilla), which is more than motorcycle

cons:
- high oil cost. So not that great as disposable raiders if you want to gain oil
- inevitably they end up getting killed by cannon towers in one shot while going after a pile of gold just on other side of wall
- double the population cost of motorcycles

all in all I'd rather stick with motorcycle raiders when I use raiders, to use up some of the overflow of food I have.

Side note: I hope new APC is not in armored car upgrade path, but rather a new unit.

 

[Manifesto]

What was your loss vs survival ratio during normal raiding?

 

[Brand Marrow]

because I mostly raid for oil, armored cars have been rusting in garage. Try to use them in gold raiding but then they die from antitank as predicted so not so great

 

[worship01]

Loss / survival ratio was not good... they all died every time the only time one lived is when I forgot to deploy him. I did see one hold his own with a defending tank for a while, which was pretty cool, but in end tank killed him

 

[dominations vin]

i've got the max factory in ~6 days and will def test them out.

i can see them being useful for cleaning up the edges of a map because their fast movement. idk if (1) armored car would ever be better than (2) moto raiders, or (6) infantry, for this though.

 

[Kraitok]

i've got the max factory in ~6 days and will def test them out.

i can see them being useful for cleaning up the edges of a map because their fast movement. idk if (1) armored car would ever be better than (2) moto raiders, or (6) infantry, for this though.

In war they absolutely have a spot over infantry. Resistance chapters and Kremlin can ruin a cleanup crew of infantry, not so with armored cars.

 

[ReekyBullet]

I use one for base cleanup and feel they work quite well as long as I release it after the anti tank guns are destroyed since they cover ground so quickly. It's only other main weakness is the landmines which can be pain when it gets taken out when I'm not paying attention to it then wonder where it went.

 

[Green Bird]

Bumping up this thread in the hope of more opinions. I have an opportunity to rush my factory update to the next level to take advantage of the current promotion. Is armoured car worth the 1200 crowns factory rush?

Please share your opinion quickly, the promotion ends tomorrow! Thanks!

 

[Tsamu]

I rushed my factory to level 5, not for armored cars, but so I could upgrade to level 6 for the APCs. I spent many hours collecting oil this weekend