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When playing as Axis, I always struggle if the British player build any position.
- The mortar pit comes quite early in the game and is a major threat to anything that stops within its range. The double shot can wipes out most of infantry units and MGs.
- The Bofors just rapes anything on foot and all light vehicules. Its barrage prevent it from being countered by mortars, which is very annoying.
- The 17 pounders, well placed, locks down an huge aera for any tank.
The problem I face is that they are just way too tanky with their brace ability. It is very risky to destroy them by rushing with some shrecks for example, because their brace ability make them to tanky, and gives the British player a lot of time to react, which exposes your troops a lot.
Making artillery to destroy them doesn’t work most of the time, because it takes ages.
• As Werhmacht :
- Panzerwerfer are good at killing infantry, but poorly damages structures and tanks, so even if its barrage is really quick, is does nearly nothing to structures.
- Howitzers barrages are ineffective. Even if, on the paper, shells deal high damages to positions, the British player will activate the brace ability as the first shell lands near his positions and doing so negate most of the damages. Also, despite the howitzer barrage ability reloads quickly and is around one minute long, it has an important scatter, so most of the shells will miss. Overall, the amount of damages dealt will be really low.
• As OKW :
- The Stuka barrage : even if a rocket deals fairly decent damages to structures, only one or two can land of a position because the barrage is being fired in a straight line. And, if the British player is aware enough, he can activate the brace ability before the rockets' impact.
- The ISG simply doesn’t deal enough damages.
Well, even if I'm posting this is the balance thread, I'm not telling these positions are OP. They cost a lot and their effectiveness reflects that. I'm just saying that their hitpoints should be decreased.
Their germans counterparts, the Pak 88 and Flak 38, are very powerful too, but can be easily decrewed. An infantry rush with some nades or an artillery strike is plently enough to take out a Flak 88. The Flak 38 can be decrewed with two nades or destroyed with some zook or tank shots (maybe that's why no one builds it
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Thanx for reading and replies.