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Not really, because stuka was BUFFED vs emplacements and emplacements are already ridiculously easy to counter by both axis factions to the point where they are barely usable outside of advanced emplacements doctrine.
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didn't the stuka lose 25% of it's bonus damage to emplacements?
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Its bonus damage got removed because its direct penetration got fixed, which will make it better against emplacements on average. Direct hits (now dealing full damage rather than only deflection damage because of the bugged pen) are more likely than AOE hits (the only hits that dealt full damage before).
A barrage should now deal at least 400 damage on average (2 direct hits or near misses with good aiming and good scatter) instead of ~80-380 (1-2 direct hits and/or maybe one near AOE hit) it did previously.
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I haven't seen anyone talk about this yet but with the nerfs to stuka damage to emplacements, the ability to build bofors with AEC and the long range barrage and cheaper mortar pit buffs could this promote another batch of sim city cancer?
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I'm sure it's been said before but I seriously doubt the minor reload time nerf to the Calliope is enough
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Heavy artillery (105MM,152mm,203mm,Sexton, and Priest) should limited to one like heavy tanks. This go a long way to help break up the Arty spam meta of 3v3 and 4v4
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A lot of the more "Problematic" units could likely be more effectively balanced by putting caps on the number that can be on the field at one time.
I might even go so far as to suggest team-wide caps on the number of certain units. Reducing the number of Rocket/Regular artillery, and heavy tanks, might go a long way to making 3v3 and 4v4 more bearable lategame.
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Why do we still allow bunkers to be spammed?
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hard caps per player, yes. per team? no. i dont want to lose the ability to build my tiger, that i picked my commander for because my team mate sat not building anything all game so he would have the fuel to get the only one out. its annoying enough when a mate spams fuel caches and you cant do anything about it when all you need is munitions let alone locking out core elements of commanders.
hard caps on heavies have made them the best they have been in years because you dont have to worry about critical mass, ive said many times in the past other problematic units could benifi the same way. id even go as far as to limit ALL doctrinal units. would save the problems were running into now with ostroppen and ensure they can still retain flavour and balance.
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Honestly I think the benefits of capping units per-team in large modes might outweigh the frustration of not being able to build the unit you like. It would be annoying not to be able to build your tiger... but it would stop the enemy having two IS2, two B4, and a crocodile. Or vice versa.
The frustration would be reduced by communicating with your teammates, and coordinating as well, though obviously this isnt likely to happen with randoms. I think it might be worth trialling at least? People constantly complain that large modes devolve into arty/armour spam, and doing something about that would be kind of nice.
DEFINITELY implement/trial per-player caps though.
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if your enemy is spamming bunkers then they're wasting all their manpower and you should be able to steamroll them unless your sitting back like a moron
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?? Enlighten me how to destroy bunkers when your opponent wins the indirect war on non flankable maps?
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Theoretically they shouldn't be able to outdo your indirect options if they're using so much manpower on bunkers.
AT guns also make very short work of them.
Other options include: Satchels and Demo Charges. I suppose you'd either use a scout car or smoke to get close.
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The issue I run into is, when you have an AT gun try and destroy it, it just gets blasted by mortars. Not to mention you're either attack grounding or have to walk into its line of fire and be suppressed. And like I don't mean that the guy is only building bunkers, he has an actual composition behind it and in mid-lategame he's just spending his float on no popcap suppression platforms. It's just the amount of effort to break a multi bunker defense is ridiculous compared to how much effort is required to operate. Another problem is typically once that person gets their campfest setup, maybe some mines and some AT guns, they can then dump all their actual infantry and tanks to their teammates side and start doubling up.
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