Anti Tank Guns now have Artillery property image - Axis & Allies: Uncommon Valor mod for Axis & Allies
this is a sequel to the Gizmotron user-mod for Axis and Allies. featuring new types of weather & terrain. new, larger territory maps in skirmish mode. new experience ranks and bonuses (regiments improve up to 2000 exp points). 100+ special ops, new water-based units like cruisers and submarines (with torpedo attacks). nations included are Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Brazil, Canada, Communist China, Croatia, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, India (Allied), Indian National Army (Axis), Iran, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Mongolia, Nationalist China, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovak Republic (Axis), South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, the United States, Yugsolavia, and the Yugoslav Partisans more nations and territories available for WW2 mode, see images for details.
since anti-tank guns were categorized as artillery, I decided to add the artillery property to all AT guns. (not the bazooka, panzerfaust, PIAT, or other rocket projectile anti-tank weapons!)
what this means is that they benefit and suffer from this new attribute. since fighters and artillery bunkers have attack bonuses against artillery, this makes the anti-tank guns more vulnerable to these types of attacks. the "Counter Battery Fire" special op can now destroy anti-tank guns instantly because the artillery property is now assigned to these units.
here we have a comparison of four non-upgraded USA 37 mm anti-tank gun regiments vs two German Tiger/Panzergrenadier regiments. in step 2 we can see the predictable result of the Tigers and grenadiers annihilating these four regiments in less than a minute. with the use of the Maelstrom special op, however, these four 37 mm anti-tank gun regiments are annihilate the two German regiments. although this would have been historically impossible... I felt like adding the artillery property to anti-tank guns would help make infantry more competitive in the late stages of the game. if non-upgraded 37 mm guns can knock out a regiment of Tiger tanks that should put to rest any concerns about infantry remaining a viable option late in the game.