Heavy Tank

The **Heavy Tank** is the fourth type of armored unit that can be produced in factories. It offers a high pool of health and has the advantage of being stacked up to three units. However, it comes at a price of being slower and more expensive than other units.

## History & Models

### Germany & Former Allies

Germany, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Finland uses the Panzerkampfwagen VI Ausf H "Tiger I" as its heavy tank model.

* The **Tiger I** was a German heavy tank of World War II that operated beginning in 1942 in Africa and in the Soviet Union, usually in independent heavy tank battalions. It gave the German Army its first armoured fighting vehicle that mounted the 8.8 cm KwK 36 gun (derived from the 8.8 cm Flak 36). 1,347 were built between August 1942 and August 1944. After August 1944, production of the Tiger I was phased out in favour of the Tiger II.

### UK & Commonwealth

UK and Commonwealth (Canada, India, Australia) uses the Infantry Tank MK IV (A22) "Winston Churchill" as the heavy tank model.

* The **Tank, Infantry, Mk IV (A22) Churchill** was a British infantry tank used in the Second World War, best known for its heavy armour, large longitudinal chassis with all-around tracks with multiple bogies, its ability to climb steep slopes, and its use as the basis of many specialist vehicles. It was one of the heaviest Allied tanks of the war.

### USA & Asian Allies

USA (and ROC) Uses the Gun Combat Tank 103 120mm as the heavy tank model.

* The **M103 Heavy Tank** (officially designated **120mm Gun Combat Tank M103**, initially **T43**) was a heavy tank that served in the United States Army and the United States Marine Corps during the Cold War. Introduced in 1957, it served through 1974, by which time evolution of the concept of a main battle tank had rendered heavy tanks obsolete.

### USSR & Allies

USSR (PRC, Mongolia, Yugoslavia, DPRK) Uses the Obyekt 225 "Kilment Voroshilov variant 5" as the heavy tank model.

* **KV-5 (Object 225)** - A project for a super-heavy tank . Armament was to be a 156 mm ZiS-KV5 canon in a large turret and a machine gun in a small secondary turret. Weight was projected as about 100 tons, and the tank was to have 150–180 mm of armour. Project development began in June 1941, the tank is support to the battle of Leningrad .

### France

France uses the Atelier de Construction de Rueil variant 44 or ARL-44 as its heavy tank model.

* The **ARL 44** was a French heavy tank, the development of which started just before the end of the Second World War. Only sixty of these tanks were ever completed, from 1949 onwards. The type proved to be unsatisfactory and was phased out in 1953.

### Japan

Japan and Imperial Japan use the Imperial Year 2605 Medium Tank Model 9 as its heavy tank model.

* The **Type 5 medium tank Chi-Ri** (五式中戦車 チリ, *Go-shiki chusensha Chi-ri*) ("Imperial Year 2605 Medium Tank Model 9") was a medium tank developed by the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. Intended to be a heavier, more powerful version of Japan's prototype Type 4 Chi-To medium tank, in performance it was designed to surpass the US M4 Sherman medium tanks being fielded by the Allied forces. A single prototype was incomplete when the war ended.

### Italy & Neutral Nations

Italy uses the Carro Armato Pesante 26 Tonnelanta 1940 (P.26/40) as its heavy tank model.

* The **P.43** was a proposed Italian heavy tank ( P=pesante, heavy vehicle ) designed in April 1943, it never left the planning stage and was developed parallel to the P26/40 tank.

## Uses

The Heavy tank is, like the Super tank, useful for clearing out large swathes of infantry without taking damage itself. The Heavy tank can one-shot most artillery units if it is maxed out in tech, and, unlike the super tank, isn't vulnerable to missiles, as the AI isn't designed to do so. The best counter to heavy tanks is using bombers (NOT strategic bombers) As In my opinion (bruhvonbruh) I feel like bombers get a non-existent bonus when attacking tanks. Heavy tanks are vulnerable to clusters of rocket artillery and howitzers, and heavy tanks are excellent to place on cities with tier III factories, when a ship is bombarding it. Ships get a negative debuff when attacking land units, making it easy to destroy these ships while not taking too much damage.