For the love of God the US faction needs SOMETHING.
The US AT gun, in practice, seems to be the worst piece of garbage I have ever seen. It constantly misses, never seems to penetrate, and doesn't even get the benefit of the ZIS like arty barrage.
The Sherman is utterly pathetic at anything more than wiping large blobs of infantry.
Bazooks are wielded by dead men who don't quite know it yet. No accuracy, no pentration, no damage.
And the M36. Seriously? This thing has garbage maneuverability, laughable penetration vs panthers, has no anti infantry to speak of, and requires an opponent that doesn't know how to hit the NOS (blitzkrieg) button. Panthers 2 shot them, panzer 4s can kill them in 3 shots, pretty much a stiff breeze will kill this tank.
I just lost my 2nd 4 V 4 match today, and in both cases we were wiping the floor with the enemy team. Then out comes the panthers and sure enough the end of the match went down hill quickly from there. The end of the game saw me fielding 3 jacksons with a screen of IS-2's. At first this worked reasonably well, then out come the elephants, the jagdtigers, and the King tigers. Its absolutely absurd that axis can have a screen of troops with devastating panzeshrek hand held AT vs the US who have to try and field 4 units to counter it while dealing with Ultra heavy AT tanks with the range of the entire screen.
Yet relic says they have no plans to add any US heavy tanks. Seriously this company is utterly fucking retarded at balance.
I ended the match north of 95,000 damage from the jacksons as the result of some incredible teamwork on the part of the allies. We had a vastly superior team, but in the end we lost because ultimately the axis players can just spam panthers, tigers, and king tigers with little to no fear of any real AT on the part of the allied faction. With Obercommandos and Panzershreks dominating both infantry/tanks, and the US being forced to use ultra fragile units, the German faction required skill level is absurdly low compared to their allied counter parts Late Game.
The asymetrical balance is awful, has been awful, and will continue to be awful. Relic now has 4 teams to try and balance and my guess is they have no clue what to do about it.
The start is giving the allied faction some goddamn AT that actually works, or just removing the super heavies from the game. They are the main problem right now.
Nice rant.
Let me see usf does need something.It needs to stop autowinning vs ostheer,getting free teching units,OP rifles walking all over grenadiers and deathmachine light vehicles.Oh forgot jackson 3 shot panzer 4s.Stug has already terminated its existence voluntarily.
Ostheer is by far the weakest faction in the game with crippling tech costs and shitty unit after shitty unit.
m36 -if u dislike it why don't we give it some more health and pen .As long as it doesn't do 240 dmg.3 shotting pz 4s,2 shots even before u can get in range-i guess u don't know how that feels.
U laughing at shermans-axis players don't laugh when they see vet 3 infantry being one shotted by this HE rounds.But that never happens to rifles from axis tanks.
IS-2 half my units can't even penetrate this thing,it just strolls in once u have 2 of them.At same price to tiger it wipes the floor with tiger.
Lear to use usf destroy engines mines,which are the best AT stock mines in the game and lain quickly.Panthers are helpless vs AT tank gun line and if u kept ur rifle infantry alive,which if u can't shouldn't play usf anyway axis infantry can't take them out.
I can rant just as hard on how ridiculous and frustrating it is to see swarms of usf infantry and free teching units totally bully u around over the map,laughing at mg 42 either by crawling grenade while suppressed or smoke...and then gets free lieutenant while ur desperately trying to get a pak..to be followed by light vehicle to end the game.And even if u somehow made it to t3- jackson 3 shot pz 4(2 of them even before u can recah range),and lol 2 shot stug.
Ostheer t3 is extinct due to jackson.And usf almost autowin vs ostheer.If anyone gets to rant on usf its the ostheer player.