AT infantry for OKW?

Jump back to quoted post6 Feb 2018, 19:17 PMTwo Years Gone

I wish had an "intermediate" infantry like Wehrmacht has with the Panzergrenadiers. Volks are fine and dandy but there's only so much a Panzerfaust can do and I feel like Assault Pioneers are too fragile to handle the Panzershreck upgrade.

Jump back to quoted post6 Feb 2018, 18:51 PMMarkedRaptor

Once long ago, volksgrenadiers could be upgraded to a single panzershrek. The pure amount of cancer that caused ruined team games. You can tell they wanted to avoid that when they moved them to sturmpio's.

Though this was back in the day when flame grenades were instant, and you could toss them super far while suppressed. It might not really be all that bad anymore now that suppression counters those blobs better. Still it nullified vehicle play in team games from allies.

Jump back to quoted post6 Feb 2018, 19:07 PMZombiFrancis

Also volks schrecks (and all infantry AT) used to give massive vet xp, so volks easily got to enjoy vet 5 by getting them.

Infantry AT was quite effective at AI at the time too.

The problem was volks, with vet, could barely miss at max range.

Combine the cost, the infantry sniping, rapid vetting, and max range accuracy... and you can see that a fix was necessary.

Sturms were given the schreck and volks got stgs instead.

And so the problem with volks schrecks was effectively removed.

Jump back to quoted post6 Feb 2018, 20:14 PMCptOps

Panzerfaust DO WONDER!WONDER I TELL YOU.

As for AT infantry get the rakenwefer.That all you need,OKW infantry is versatile
P.S Who would get shreck on strumpioneers,i only got a 300 repair unit and i would like to keep them alive then using them for tanks that would just play the RUN OVER game.Like you said fragile don't throw them infront of anything.

Jump back to quoted post7 Feb 2018, 04:19 AMdk828315

Fausts are good for snaring, they don't do serious damage like schrecks, and against decent players they will just reverse their vehicle as soon as they see volks come running, and flanking is just wishful thinking, considering the lack of urban maps nowadays

I dunno about you, but I'd rather have a pak than that cheesy raketen

Jump back to quoted post7 Feb 2018, 04:25 AMLoopDloop

Yeah but the fact that volks (and all other mainline inf except sections) can force away tanks is not to be underestimated at all, even against good players. In a way, they're just as threatening as schrecks since they can make a tank a sitting duck and just their existence coupled with the fact that they are on a majority of the infantry on the map means that tanks have significantly less breakthrough ability on their own and can't just steamroll at walls and suicide dive other armor all day.

Rak can also cloak and retreat, so that's pretty nice. I actually like them a lot.

Jump back to quoted post7 Feb 2018, 00:19 AMPhoenix101

But zooka, piat, ptrs mainline inf is not cancer that totally nullifies lights and counters meds pretty well?

Jump back to quoted post7 Feb 2018, 00:19 AMPhoenix101

But zooka, piat, ptrs mainline inf is not cancer that totally nullifies lights and counters meds pretty well?

Jump back to quoted post7 Feb 2018, 07:48 AMullumulu

Its funny to read that volks bloobs was op and bs ...but penals, zooks, piats blobbs are ok?

this blobbs are actually more cancer than volkblobb ever was...

Wtf?

Jump back to quoted post7 Feb 2018, 08:30 AMA table

Typical response.

Allied blobs nearly aren't as powerfull against german armor because of the difference between penetration rates and heavier german armor values(Panzershreck pens waaaay more frequently than the M9 and PTRS). Not to mention rifles and penals are more expensive to build and reinforce, something that the volksgrens dont have as a downside.