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[weedbazooka]

Italy loses any tech advantage it has as the game progresses. Yes you can still win but generally speaking, if 15 mins goes by and you dont have a higher score, 9 out of 10 u gonna lose. Please see all researched heavy tanks, all research TD/AT, and fb's for reference. If italy allows any opponent to "tech" up, they are doomed. It is much cheaper and easier to defend against Italy than any other nation.

[Why_You_Eat_Me]

Yes but thats why you should always be forcing the enemy to make units to stop him upgrading by keeping constant attacks on his depots, bases, and weaker units. Then when you get your heavy units out hes stuck with the panzer IV's or whatever he made to stop M15's. And my strategy is a 1v1 just sometimes I move to the other player as hes not defending depots or banana would like 10 M15's to appear behind a guys base when hes spamming infantry towards banana.

[weedbazooka]

@whyyoueatme, i thought you were talking 1v1, banana confused me. Thats exactly how you suppose to play as italy, not allowing your opponent to tech up. I have also used the bomber strat as italy but i use the fake tank assaults to lure them into wasting AT resources without me building tanks. By the time he realizes they are fakes, bombers already on their way under radio silence. I won around 200+ games as italy until they introduced Japan, then i switched to russia.

[Why_You_Eat_Me]

Yeah mines is similar but my tanks are real and are for destroying depots and distracting him by making his tanks chase mines to an empty corner of the map then while this happens I camo get an airfield 2 bombers, a recon and a fighter. Works great once the bombers destroy the buildings the fighter snipes some trucks while waiting for the bomber to get back and then I send a swarm of M15's to finish up. But banana is right I use this general strategy with him in 2v2s but its mainly my 1v1 strategy

[Warforger]

Italy is fine late game against most opponets soley because of the Breda trucks and cheap P26's, the only nation that is near impossible for it to take on late game is Japan with its O-I rockets. All it can do is use Fighter bombers, but for one they're not that good 2. it takes 3 to kill 1 O-I so 90$ vs. 55$ 3. with enough Ta-Se's and Zero's it doesn't make a difference. The Breda trucks are out of the question because of their truck armor and the O-I's rockets, infantry spamming is also out of the question because for some strange reason the developers decided it was a good idea to give the O-I a flamethrower? I mean the rockets are bad enough but then they add on a flamethrower? At the very least other tanks like Maus's or FCM F1's can get killed by infantry that are too close since they can't kill them efficiently, and the Calliope only has a machine gun making it vulnerable when there's multiple infantry popping out of nowhere. The only way to win is to spam P26's and hope it overwhelms the O-I's.

[Why_You_Eat_Me]

There isnt much to stop japan other than hope hes an idiot or destroy every building he has constantly. I never play in a game with japan anayway. Always have DLC off or leave if its japan.

[weedbazooka]

Breda trucks are out the picture if anybody decides to use artillery or assault guns. Any advanced AT can take out p26's. Even researched Granatieri in towns cant stop tanks from easily going thru. Artillery/assault guns is Italy's achilles heel.

[Why_You_Eat_Me]

artillery is italy's biggest weakness but 90% of italian tactics is to make sure they dont have enough time and money to get what they want.

[Simplicitur]

SP is the best

[Warforger]

Why you eat me - That's Germany not Italy.

Originally posted by weedbazooka:
Breda trucks are out the picture if anybody decides to use artillery or assault guns. Any advanced AT can take out p26's. Even researched Granatieri in towns cant stop tanks from easily going thru. Artillery/assault guns is Italy's achilles heel.

Not necesarily. Assault guns have too short range so radio silence, out of sight, moves 100m breda trucks shoots assault guns panic and they flee. Then there's artillery, but Italy has speedy air, the fighter bombers can take out armored artillery and the bombers make short work of normal artillery. If that doesn't work then Italy can use its own artillery against them.

With Japan on the other hand this is not possible because of the rockets and easy air domination, if say P26's or breda trucks move in they can't kill the O-I since the O-I can use its rockets and AP shell to stop them.