Tanks

''This article descibes tanks and their usability in general.Tanks belong to vehicles category. For a list of all vehicles see: Men of War - Vehicles list''

Tanks are medium to heavily armored fight vehicles used for different purposes.

History
Tanks, first used in the end of World War I are armored vehicles used on all battle grounds of World War II. Their description name tank bases on their original covering description of a water tank to let the German forces believe that these new weapons are made for transport of water to the western front of WW1. During that World War, tanks were playing such a minor role, because they came too late, especially for the German forces, which only had build 7 examples of their A7V until end of the war. While Russia had no chance to research such mordern-day-weapons, the western-allied weapon arsenal had 15 tank marks in production and additionally many ones in research. After end of WW1, Germany was not allowed to have any tanks under their command, actually. But after Hitler started to build the Wehrmacht in the 1930s, he began to produce tanks, such as aircraft and submarine boats in other countries and later in German territory, too. In WW2, tanks played a very big role on all battle grounds, even in northern Africa. They were an important requirement of the popular and infamous Blitzkrieg tactics which is used in toda's wars, yet.

German tank classifycations
The Germans were seperating all their tanks and other fight vehicles into several classes by introduction time chassis and usage.

Cover and armor
Tanks direct a heavy up to very heavy level of armor. As with most other fighting vehicles, tanks are covered most at the front of their hull and their turret. At second, their midium-covering left and right side-armor is also able to resist a lot of damage from outside. The tanks' rare back armor is vulnerable to any kind of demage, even to light AA guns or to light main guns of other tanks.

In combat, especially in multiplayer it is important to hit the enemy's back armor and to prevent the enemy to hit the lower-armored sides of yours. Smaller, lightly-covered and less expensive tanks are doing this job awsome. To prevent success of the enemy's tactics, it is recommented to protect your tank from flanking using other units of other unit types, as eg. AT guns.