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* ''VideoGame/AdvanceWars'' has Mechs, Infantry armed with bazookas. They have one less move than regular Infantry, carry less rations (fuel), and only have three shots before they need to revert to their regular machine guns, but said bazookas do damage on par with a Tank. This makes them a cheap and effective answer for covering, that is keeping one of your better units in range of one to discourage an attack on it, as well as makes them effective for hiding in mountains to guard chokepoints.

* ''VideoGame/NintendoWars'': In some, games Anti-Tank units can be purchased.

** In ''Civilization V'', Modern-era civs can field the prosaically-named Anti-Tank unit, which is fairly weak but has a big bonus against tanks. They tended to be effective against that era's armor, but overshadowed by future eras'. The unit profile noted that man-portable anti-tank weapons weren't all that good against modern armor, and recommended investing in some DeathFromAbove.

# {{EMP}}.

* ''Franchise/{{Halo}} Series'': A fully charged Plasma Pistol shot can disable a vehicle momentarily. The Spartan Laser is also designed to be especially effective against heavy vehicles.

# Explosives, mainly missile or rocket launchers, {{Satchel Charge}}s, and {{Sticky Bomb}}s.
# {{Caltrops}} for vehicles with [[PopTheTires tires]].

For the sake of CompetitiveBalance and TacticalRockPaperScissors, many anti-vehicle-specific weapons (at least in video games) make extremely lousy anti-personnel weapons (when they can be used as anti-personnel weapons ''at all''). Lengthy reload time, very little ammo, lots of impact damage but little (if any) splash damage, shots are slow so someone on foot could dodge them with ease, may need to lock on or the vehicle to be tagged in some other way for the weapon to have its maximum effectiveness when fired ...

** Note that unlike some other examples, such weapons ''will'' obliterate a soldier they're fired at. But dedicated anti-infantry weapons can kill several in a single salvo. "Ordnance" weapons like demolisher cannons are usually good against both.

# Explosives, mainly missile or rocket launchers and {{Sticky Bomb}}s.

* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies2ItsAboutTime'': In Far Future, the E.M.Peach can paralyse zombie mechas. A godsend considering the robotic zombies and the Gargantuar Prime's eye-beams.

* Boom barriers are a very effective and inexpensive way to keep certain vehicles in and out, hence their use in toll gates.

For the sake of CompetitiveBalance and TacticalRockPaperScissors, many anti-vehicle-specific weapons (at least on video games) make extremely lousy anti-personnel weapons (when they can be used as anti-personnel weapons ''at all''). Lenghty reload time, very little ammo, lots of impact damage but little (if any) splash damage, shots are slow so someone on foot could dodge them with ease, may need to lock on or the vehicle to be tagged in some other way for the weapon to have its maximum effectiveness when fired ...

# Explosives, mainly missile or rocket launchers and {{Sticky Bomb}}s
# {{Caltrops}} for vehicles with [[PopTheTires tires]]
# {{EMP}}
# Difficult to traverse environments and solid obstructions

* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'': A standard infantry choice in all incarnations of the games. Generally, upon building their first barracks or equivalent, a commander would have the option to train either basic riflemen (or equivalent) or an anti-armor soldier. Many of them used guided missile launchers, so they also served as AntiAir, but not all -- other anti-tank weapons have included grenades, railguns, and FrickingLaserBeams.

* The 'Straight Arrow' anti-tank missile from the ''Literature/{{Starfist}}'' series, good enough to extinguish mechanized warfare for several hundred years ([[HollywoodTactics in-universe]]).

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'': Krak missiles or variants thereof are the most common, used by the Imperial Guard, Space Marines, Orks, and Eldar among others. For heavier vehicles, the lascannon is considered the gold standard, whereas the PowerFist is exceptionally deadly ''if'' you can get in range (easier said than done when the tank in question is capable of [[CarFu driving over you]]).

* ''TabletopGame/{{Infinity}}'' gives infantry a variety of explosives and missile launchers for dealing with [[MiniMecha TAGs]], along with more exotic options like the Adhesive Launcher, which glues the robot to the floor.
* A curious situation exists in ''TabletopGame/{{BattleTech}}'', where vehicles can be armored as well as comparable [[HumongousMecha [=BattleMechs=]]] but risk additional critical hits and motive system damage each time an attack capable of even causing a single point of damage connects. This makes "scattershot" weapons like short-range missiles, LB-X autocannons firing shotgun-style cluster munitions, and somewhat ironically most infantry attacks ''more'' effective threats than simple attempts to breach the armor through brute force since enough small hits can immobilize or with some luck possibly even altogether neutralize even the toughest tank fairly quickly.

* The AT (anti-tank) squads in ''VideoGame/WorldInConflict'' shared the basic infantry squads' vulnerability to being run over but are positively deadly to ground vehicles of any kind. Owing to the game's consistent TacticalRockPaperScissors balancing, they are completely defenseless against helicopters (while basic infantry isn't).
* The Swarm Launchers, homing AV grenades, Forge Guns, and proximity mines of ''VideoGame/DustFiveOneFour''.
* The Lancer class in ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'' is the only infantry unit who can damage tanks without [[AttackItsWeakPoint attacking its radiator]]. In case a Lancer manages to hit a tank's radiator, it usually results in a OneHitKill for the tank.

* ''VideoGame/Battlefield2142'': The engineer class can place an anti-vehicular railgun turret for fellow soldiers to use. The railgun takes a short time to recharge between shots, however.

* In some ''VideoGame/NintendoWars'' games Anti-Tank units can be purchased.
* Spikeweeds and Spikerocks in ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies''. These deal DamageOverTime against normal zombies, but are a OneHitKill on Zombonis and Catapult zombie vehicles.
* A bog-standard infantry choice in all incarnations of ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer''. Generally, upon building their first barracks or equivalent, a commander would have the option to train either basic riflemen (or equivalent) or an anti-armor soldier. Many of them used guided missile launchers, so they also served as AntiAir, but not all -- other anti-tank weapons have included grenades, railguns, and FrickingLaserBeams.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}} V'', Modern-era civs can field the prosaically-named Anti-Tank unit, which is fairly weak but has a big bonus against tanks. They tended to be effective against that era's armor, but overshadowed by future eras'. The unit profile noted that man-portable anti-tank weapons weren't all that good against modern armor, and recommended investing in some DeathFromAbove.
** Before that, the various spearmen classes specialize in taking out the horse units.
* In ''[[Videogame/MechWarrior MechWarrior Living Legends]]'', the GatlingGood Rotary Autocannons have a damage multiplier against tanks and ''especially'' {{Hover Tank}}s, allowing them to rip through even a 80 ton Demolisher mechhunter tank in short order. However, Rotary [=ACs=] are also godly AntiInfantry and AntiAir, provided that they are spun up before the aircraft passes out of the engagement range; a Partisan support tank mounts four class-2 Rotary [=ACs=] as close range AntiAir.

* ''VideoGame/DirtyBomb'': One of the roles the Fire Support class has is disabling the EV with their unique abilities such as artillery strikes, KillSat, etc.
* ''{{VideoGame/Foxhole}}'' has a number of anti-vehicle options; [=RPGs=], high-explosive grenades, [[StickyBomb Sticky Bombs]], and anti-tank mines.

* Most Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) are designed to target vehicles, since an incapacitated vehicle is not only a sitting duck, but can also be used as bait to set up an ambush against dismounted troops.

** Note that unlike some other example, such weapons ''will'' obliterate a soldier they're fired at. But anti-infantry weapons can kill several.

SubTrope of WeaponOfXSlaying. See also AntiAir, AntiCavalry, AntiInfantry, and AntiArmor.