Bushwhacking tanks

[Uberhauskaninichen]

I've noticed in pvp games, most players will move their AFVs through open terrain, along roads and rarely move through forested areas (mobility 5% or so). Then one player conducted a tank bn attack over a wooded hill which I was barely able to stop and really derailed my plans. This was a very advantageous tactic in that it is much harder to spot and also hit such moving units; so of course, I started using it.

However, my amateur understanding is that this puts AFVs at serious risk of immobolization, and a little further research in the interwebz ( https://www.quora.com/Can-tanks-go-thro ... =384672213) puts them at risk of damaging systems, or misaligning the main gun. I'll readily admit to being conniving, dastardly and underhanded; but if someone was to say my tactics of driving tanks 8+km through forest in approximately 45 minutes were unrealistic it would break my ego.

So, for the sake of my ego, are tanks able to maneouvre through dense forest (5% mobility in the game)? Are there paths, gaps in the trees, or firebrakes that they can follow to get to their destination? I would think that the forests of W. Germany in the 1980s would be dense with mature trees, not tank country at all.

[Tcao]

the current game mechanism needs to add more penalty for mechanized troops move through dense forest.

if my memory is correct, move deliberate will take 2 min to move through an open hex (500m) , but it is only 10 min to move though a Forest hex (5% mobility)