Never thought I'd see something like this one day lmao
and tbh im surprised he got anything done with spamming mot. Inf

I agree with theburu,
Mot-inf alone shouldn´t be able to win your game,
in fact they got their lategame buff because it was such a basic unit...

Zergling swarm won´t work because a single Gunship squadron or some towed artys ruin your day

How can he win with only motorized? Your map must have been full of inactives, motorized are pretty weak.

Sorry to say - but if you base this player's strategy on stats it will collapse like a house of cards. Mot-Inf is defensive in nature.
Hence: If he uses it to steam across places he will suffer more casualties than any defensive force. If you where overwhelmed that way you need to shift tactics, eg. into positioning artillery and even national guard.

If somebody tries to swarm me with inf, my inf will stop his progress and my helicopters will slaughter his troops.

I love building motorized, but not to fight, not to conquer. I would never build only motorized therefore. Only if I have excess resources.

My god, i came to the topic just to see the ludicrous claims. Wasn't disappointed.


Everything was said.

Motorised Inf lose against pretty much everything, itself included. In Swarms they may be used, but they have hard counters so hard it redefines what "hard counter is".

Gunships everyone ?


This said, i can hear that in a game full of inactive, just spamming motorised infantries may allow to overexpand very quickly. On the other side, Mot Inf still is a weak unit XD

They come out of their corner in late game when maxed, and they are needed - so they are important. But not for ww1 human wave attacks.

I put a Motorized Infantry build to the test a while back. It worked fine but probably coz no one was expecting it and coz of how the map played out.

It was my USA playthrough. After my usual plugging up of the ports with a single ship, I focused on ensuring that Mot Inf and MAA are constantly maxed in tech and I built nothing but them for at least a week. Ended up having 5-7 stacks of 6-7 Mot Inf + 3-4 MAA. Try to stop that coming at you from three different directions. Would I have been able to do that without the MAA? Abso-friggin-lutely not! Especially, when the African coalition I had to deal with has air units up the wazoo!

Remember that the AI will probably spread their units out to defend each province with one unit, making it look like it has more units than it really does.

In teams too, there is often the Infantry guy, but it's mostly a guy in armour, with MMA and sometimes TD

That ai tactic is honestly terrifying sometimes with the way that the troops come out of nowhere and they keep on coming. one time i fought an ai usa and when all was said and done i had killed 128 mot inf, natty guard, and recon vehicles. and there's no way he's winning with mot inf spam.

This looks like somebody who tries to infantry spam
(Turkey is the attacker and 'winning')

With great power, comes great body bags!

I agree motrized infantry is Imbalance. Mortar is Super Overpower. make some TANK useless HAHAHA infantry > all tank

doesnt take mot inf to make tanks useless

I think the issue could be the range attack it have in the very last upgrade.
in normal round there are hard to pull up this tactic, but I do see this issue is commonly happens in apocalypse gamemode
due to the gamemode doesn't have reseach day limit

MrBookShelf wrote:

I think the issue could be the range attack it have in the very last upgrade.
in normal round there are hard to pull up this tactic, but I do see this issue is commonly happens in apocalypse gamemode
due to the gamemode doesn't have reseach day limit

i mean, its still only infantry at the end of the day; and with it having no fire control you'll have to micro every attack

Kill them with choppers, kill them with Strikers, kill them artillery or just take your tanks and drive over them

That being said, I do wonder if the ranged attack at least needs a slight nerf. The main, and essentially only, advantage of mot inf spam is expansion. In one of my Austria games, Kazakhstan did the maxed mot inf spam and quickly took over Russia and other little territories around him. However, he ended up being overrun by the India player’s Air Force and tank stacks while being attacked from the east by Philippine mot inf spam. The only reason he lost serious territory to the Philippines player was that his army had been destroyed by India and he had the same mot inf. I was able to send a stack of my maxed out strikes and trounce one of the Philippine mot infs.

From my analysis, one cannot win with mot inf spam alone. It requires substantial combined arms forces to decapitate the enemy’s forces in order to enable the mot inf to sweep in from the wake of the combined arms forces. Clearly, anyone saying pure mot inf spam is effective hasn’t seen it used against a decent defense.