Mechanized Assault big impact early game?

Jump back to quoted post27 Sep 2013, 04:20 AM5thSSPzWiking

make them like volks. 240 manpower. except leader gets g43 and squad gets k98. with the upgrade option for 50 muni to get mp40's and leader gets stg44.

Jump back to quoted post27 Sep 2013, 04:09 AMDerBaer

So when soviets were using the clown car cheese, it was so bad that all Ostheer players wanted the the M3 to be nerfed.

Now, Ostheer gets Assgrens and all of a sudden, it's the counter against that and totally fine. I always hated the clown car start, but now I pretty much have to go for that build. Seriously, what the hell? At least Ostheer has to sacrifice valuable munitions to get them now...

Jump back to quoted post27 Sep 2013, 06:49 AMOZtheWiZARD

From what I've read the reason for the changes is to make them come in the game a bit later and due to ammunition cost you're supposed to sacrifice some of the upgrades or have them latter.
I didn't have any problems playing against them as flamers or maxim support helped but maybe there is something more that Relic didn't like in overall balance.
I think this unit is still strong even if you won't have easy map dominance in the first couple of minutes.

I wouldn't call it a nerf but it's really a shame that'd happened as I loved to punish German player who went AG heavy with early vehicles. Also army built of AG scaled badly into the late game.