the flamer half track does more damage than a CE flamer with the same reload time and yet people cry all hte way home about how much damage the m3 does, how it kills retreating squads, this is after the nerf.
High level play = TFN semi finals and finals, please tell me which match the T70 was fucking everything up? all i can remember is the M3 play very few players at hte top end used the t70
TBH, I do agree that the flamer halftrack really did need to be nerfed. Not only did it have so much armour and do so much damage, it also acted as a reinforce point and was simply too effective for its cost.
However, what I think should happen is that, now the AT nade and Panzerfaust had been nerfed, it only strengthened the T-70. Even now, the T-70 is really strong in killing infantry, stronger than the M8 has ever been. In VCoH, what stopped the M8 was an accurate first shot from the PaK (due to cloaking) or mines (which are too expensive for Ost), not any T3 tanks. Keep in mind that, in some games, the M8 in VCoH was still able to run rampant across the map, despite counters being around, it just has to be used smartly.
Here, not only is the first shot of the Pak not necessarily accurate, Ost doesn't even have any cheap mines to use (and considering the size of the maps, you have to camp to make mines work.. oh wait arty)
And to those saying Wehr T3 > Soviet T3, note
a) You do not need to build/tech both T1 and T2 as Soviets
b) All soviet tanks are cheap on fuel (compared to Ost, even the Ostwind is 115 fuel)
c) T-34 has Ram