[HeatDeath]

I played the earlier iteration of it several times, and was honestly a little confused when the request to edit this dropped, because at a quick scan, it looks very much like what we had an extensive discussion on months ago.

This one is actually, different - the defense gets 6 squads of infantry, in addition to the 4 extra armor units.

The last time I played the older iteration, I took my 4 extra AU as 2 Missile Tanks and a howitzer. I held all of my infantry back to build a literal wall around the CP, with the intent that if the GEVs snuck around the defensive line and went for the kill on the CP, the INF could hold them back.

This worked as well as it could have, but not good enough. The Ogre /was/ badly mauled by the vehicle component of the defense, but 3 GEVs made it past the tanks up to the infantry perimeter. The Infantry held for a long time - they're very resilient - but it turns out that GEVs can swoop in and out and plink away at a wall of INF with inpunity. the INF have too small a strike range.

I found myself wishing, in the persona of the defense commander, again and again, that the howitzer had been deployed inside the INF perimeter, adjacent to the CP, instead of farther forward, where the Ogre popped it without it ever hitting its weight. If the GEVs had had to plink away against an INF wall while under an artillery umbrella, that end game would have gone quite differently. chances are the Ogre would still have won, but it would have to have worked much harder for it, and gotten properly mauled by that INF wall, instead of being able to let the GEVs slowly plink their way to the inevitable.

6 more INF squads would have made the INF wall that much more resilient, and possibly allowed for more creative use of an INF maneuver element in the late game. Defending against a Ogre plus 4 GEVs is definitely significantly harder than an Ogre alone. The INF, I think, are a subtle buff to the defense, but it's still interestingly difficult for them.