Lets talk Stuart

Jump back to quoted post7 Mar 2015, 02:38 AMVuther

While the idea of that gave me a most normal boner, I'm regrettably reading that it only had 3 .30 cals make it to production and it didn't use a .50 (initial M3 Stuarts did have 5 M1919A4s, but it got reduced to three definitely by the time the M5A1 got made. Any variants that I could find which had a .50 cal had it in place of its gun turret)...probably because it couldn't fire them all off at once anyway, like you said.

I do agree with making it better against infantry with its MGs though. The less main guns squad-wiping the better, but that's no reason to keep the Stuart bad.

Jump back to quoted post7 Mar 2015, 02:39 AMAlexzandvar

It would be cool if it could inflict mini-crits that reduce turret speed or ROF. A utility tank is a cool concept.

Jump back to quoted post7 Mar 2015, 02:05 AMPanzerErotica

Americans have enough indirect fire units, it's just that half of them are of questionable performance (namely mortar halftrack and pack howitzer).

As for the stuart, I'd trade the gimmicky abilities for better base stats so it could snipe infantry time to time and maybe even circle strafe pIVs in the best of circumstances.

Jump back to quoted post7 Mar 2015, 02:05 AMJHeartless

See but this doesnt add up. There are alot easier ways to make it deal with Light Vehicles and Luchs then to give it Stun and Point Blank Engine shot. This is by the way one of the very very few snares USF has available to it.

If thats all Relic wanted it for then just make its gun 100 Pen with a high ROF and let it roll around the map erasing vehicles (which it can really already do pretty decently)

Who would blow 105 muni to just kill a Luchs anyway? Not this guy. A quicker Sherman does just fine (and building a Stuart GREATLY delays a Sherman on two fronts because Craptain and the 70 fuel it needs.) In fact what you spend on Craptain and Stuart is the Tech cost of LT plus Major.....

Jump back to quoted post7 Mar 2015, 16:24 PMRollo

Back in WFA alpha the Luch could come earlier as it was in a earlier tier, this meant the US could never really rely in the "I'll just hold out until a Sherman" tactic. These abilities are leftover tools from its old early vehicle destroyer role IMO. The Stuart at the time was also OP and had some nerfs to it before the official release.

The pricing on the abilities is a bit expensive, but at costing around the same price as a demo to catch a mobile tank with engine damage isn't that bad.

I build them quite often if I've gone rifle company and plan to skip Tier 4, it's a decent unit to help capitalise on a fuel advantage before you can roll out the E8 spam. They're also nasty little tanks that fight surprisingly well against the StuG E/Ostwind.

Jump back to quoted post7 Mar 2015, 19:07 PMJHeartless

give it Ram it would be better...

Jump back to quoted post7 Mar 2015, 19:19 PMCookiezNcreem

A stuart would explode into a million pieces if it rammed anything heavier than a halftrack..isnt it like 15 tons? LOL

Jump back to quoted post7 Mar 2015, 19:19 PMCookiezNcreem

A stuart would explode into a million pieces if it rammed anything heavier than a halftrack..isnt it like 15 tons? LOL

Jump back to quoted post7 Mar 2015, 20:52 PMAlexzandvar

Why not give it the ability to break through Hedgerows like Stuart were actually traditionally used for.

Jump back to quoted post7 Mar 2015, 21:06 PMAssaultPlazma

cant all medium tanks and higher do this by default by simply driving over them?