when do i say that zooks are a better overall weapon than shreks? shreks are better because theyre more reliable. zooks are very useful for dealing with light armor like the flak halftrack that has seen a popular rise now a day. they still retain some usefulness in mid game with dealing with, or fighting off medium armor, and can basically only take on heavy armor when shooting from the rear and flanking. where as the shrek is a pretty run of the mill AT weapon, the zooka is more of a rapid firing weapon (that you can get a lot of) thats best used when flanking to maximize your damage potential.
Never said you said they are better, this is what I said.
Right, but that's basically the problem. You can't just be like, well they are just as good, except for this really important statistic that they suck at.
My claim was that you said they are just as good. However, re-reading the thread, I mistook someone else's post for yours.
You did say this:
im not arguing that bazookas are just as good as shreks. shreks are definitely the better overall portable AT weapon. but the fact is, with penetration aside, bazookas do basically the same DPS as a shreks do. in fact, its easier to shoot and scoot with the bazooka because of the higher fire rate.
So my apologies for incorrectly attributing a quote to you.
But let me address some of the points you make. I don't think zooks are worthless, but they definitely underperform. I don't think people buy them because they are having trouble killing halftracks, they buy them to fight off armor. They can be useful against some meds, if you can flank or if you just have a lot of zooks, but it's not reliable at all.
I also disagree that they are useful against heavies in any capacity even from the flank. Both the tiger and tiger ace have 180 rear armor, king tiger has 225 rear armor. Maybe against the elefant and jagdtiger they'd be somewhat effective from the rear, since they both have 150 rear armor. Zooks don't really shoot that much faster, for it to be called a rapid firing weapon.
Their reload time is only 2 seconds faster, or 25% faster than the schrek. You'd have to perfectly time the "shoot and scoot" at 6 seconds for it to be an advantage. Also, their dps isn't the same, schreks have 15% more dps at max range.