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You really need to play MoW some more. In both games, you can open the game with anything, even with KT if you like. But the most important thing here is TIMING. You don't want to be delayed for too long coz you are giving free points to your enemy. I am looking at the first 5 second of the game. In MoW I can buy T34 in the fist second of the game and attempt to deny the enemy middle ground till my infantry arrives. You don't have this option in AS, and many others like Jeep towing AT-gun, Royal Marines, T70, ZSU-37, BA-11, T-26.

Only Japan in AS can open with a cheap tank straight away and this is my fav opening for Japs. I rush the tank to the middle flag, take one crew member out and hide him in the bush on hold fire to provide LoS for my tank that waits with HE shells loaded in the anticipation for the first wave of enemy infantry. After buying the tank I buy single SMGs and MGs to take the flag and prepare the defenses.

Unlike in AS, this opening tactics are not fraction specific in MoW. I can choose to open like thatwith any fraction in MoW. It is up to the MoW players which tactics they want to go for in the opening because they are less restricted by the game design. So you will see many different openings in the MoW depending on the map and that makes the game interesting and less predictable.

As to the heavy tank spam, well, I play 350 no refund most of the times. Banking for KingTiger is not the best strategy but I saw some KTs in games like that too. It largely depends on the size of the map and number of players. Having said that I killed lots of TKs too and it can be done more easily in MoW than in AS for many reasons:

- AS has got increased field of view which prevents many flanking maneuvers with tanks and surprise infantry assaults;
- the AS KT is harder to kill from the side; many penetrations result in crew injury only;
- the AS KT is still operational with hull and turret damaged and denies the area in front of him;
- the AS artillery is very unlikely to be able to suppress it or immobilize it.
- some AS fractions lack heavy tanks that would counter KT: like Turtle or T-29.