SU76 - Free Barrage

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28 Aug 2015, 22:32 PMKatitof

2 SU-76s cost more then a priest.
They aren't nearly as effective as Priests barrage.
Priest doesn't have a cost on barrage.

Lolwut?

Priest is a dedicated artillery piece. It performs one role.

The SU-76 is an effective tank destroyer. It also has a free barrage. That's one role too many.

Generally your comments are fairly logical, just biased. But that comment is entirely illogical.

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28 Aug 2015, 20:24 PMMr. Someguy

So it's only useful when massed, and you want to nerf people using it massed. Sounds like you just don't want to deal with the barrage, even though it's probably the worst barrage weapon in the game at this time.

No, it becomes exceptionally useful when massed hence my proposal for small munition cost. It won't affect SU-76 performance, it will bearly affect your economy but you won't be able to just roll bunch of them around barraging everything left and right for free every minute or so (don't remember exact cooldown). SU-76 is cheap enough so you're able to produce it in great numbers and to be honest it only got its barrage ability due to its poor performance to begin with.
Now since it's actually decent some adjustment its due.

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At longer ranges I haven't noticed the SU76 barrage being that good both as and against Soviets. But I have seen it annihilate a charging shrek squad multiple times with a closer range "oh shit" barrage. A bit more accurate at range and a further minimum range would be nice because right now the only way to have somewhat consistent success with long distance barraging is firing with your entire SU76 blob and maybe one will hit the intended spot. Right now they are basically doing the opposite of what indirect fire should do.

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Am I way off or does the ZiS-3's barrage have significantly less scatter than the SU-76's? Because I've consistently had great success with the former, whereas the latter seems largely a waste of time unless directed at structures or used en masse (3+ units).

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30 Aug 2015, 02:58 AMDaciaJC

Am I way off or does the ZiS-3's barrage have significantly less scatter than the SU-76's? Because I've consistently had great success with the former, whereas the latter seems largely a waste of time unless directed at structures or used en masse (3+ units).

No, it's true. The ZiS-3 Barrage is more accurate and has a larger area of effect.