MP difficulty settings kinda work like this too, and it's quite annoying. It's not really difficulty, it's just how long can the AI get tanks before you, and it's sometimes really unfair, especially with some factions like France where you don't get any AT grenades or bazookas at all. And the unit spam by the AI is quite a thing too..

I play a lot of customizables skirmishes, and in those you can get heavy AT guns at the start wich help a bit, i don't know if the unit panel is the same for regular skirmishes but i guess so, as for multiplayer combat, you can get a 88mm type of gun quite early as well, but yeah, this need attending, having infantry dudes running around with stolen tnt is not the best AT capability ever...
There's nothing like seeing 2 Stugs arriving when all you can buy is infantry...

As far as i'm aware, there is no way to prevent the AI to spam tanks in your face early on, and i kinda feel like they'll automatically bring tanks if you have anything able to take them down, so you bring a light AT to deal with that 222 and here's a Panther and 3 Stugs for you..

I guess he's working on it as the SP part of valour got some additions to it lately, like the custom skirmishes getting fixed and stuff.

Still a lot of fun, and the best MOW mod around without any doubt, an awesome piece of work. Can't wait to see what the SP part of Valour will become, and thank you a lot for your work, it's awesome.

If you set it to a points mode with timers disabled, players will get all units unlocked from the start also. It won't help the AI cheating for bonus resources on normal/hard skill level however, so still expect to get outgunned if you play anything except easy.