Profile of Highfiveeeee

The Ost mortar is not OP. The vickers thing was just a bug or 2 extremely good hits on the Vickers which can happen, though it doesn't happen very often.

The Ost mortar IMO has a perfect range and does maybe a bit too consistent damage, but this damage is needed for crowd control against Allied blobs, especially in team games. Additionally every Allied faction has at least one mortar that outranges the Ostheer one

• 120mm Sov mortar has more range + more damage + 6 men squads with the ability to survive with one man left (which is absolute BS). Though it is doctrinal and shoots slower.
  
  
• UKF mortar pit has more range + shoots twice + has brace + can't be stolen + Shoots faster with garrison bonus. Though it can't move obviously.
  
  
• USF mortar has more range (or same, don't know) + faster fire + better accuracy.
  
  

The only mortar that really is worse than the Ostheer one is the Russian BM41.
When playing as Axis, I am ready to sacrifice a squad of Volks/Grens in order to get a 120mm/USF mortar. Simply because currently they are kill farmers behind your lines without any big effort. It speaks for itself that currently you see about 3-4 mortars in 2v2 games per side simply because the killing and wiping potential of mortars is so huge atm.

IS2 is a very constand heavy tank just like the tiger. Not invincible but very strong, especially the machine gun. Also very decent armor but slow.

ISU has aiming problems but if it hits, it hurts. AI squad wipe potential is enormous paired with a huge range.

Both tanks are far from sucking. I think they are both very fine. There are other tanks that need to be looked at (Comet).

Every Churchill tank is just stupid to play against. The main Chruchill might be UP and close to useless but the Crocodile and the AVRE are not.

These are two high damage mobile bunkers that disables everything that is not a Panther or better. Fuck all PaKs - 70% of their shots will deflect and they will die in 2 seconds (Crocodile) or in 0,1 second (AVRE) without anything you can do about it. P4s won't damage it unless it shoots its ass but the Crocodile even has a main cannon besides the flame thrower which is everything but bad. The AVRE on the other hand can easily put any German tank to half its health with a shot in the back. Which is not wrong, because the rear armor should be weak.

IMO the churchills simply have way too much armor and way too much health. It's impossible to kill a Churchill with your main AT (PaK40 / Raketenwerfer) because you need about 7-8 shots that penetrate. And if only every second shot penetrates it (at best) you need about 15 shots. While the Crocodile/AVRE itself can drive up to any PaK wall and kill it in an instant. And also there is this utter BS tank grenade...

You have to keep in mind that the land mattress shoots its rockets against Germans which have a very different play style in order to keep themselves in the game in comparison to the Allies.

USF and SOV are front line factions that have good/large squads that deal good damage which is needed against the superior German MG42. They have fast and mobile tanks that can move to different parts of the map very fast. UKF is very static but has brace to stand against Panzerwerfers and Stuka zu Fuß.

Germans (especially) Ost rely on their superior weapon teams. The PaK40 is the best PaK in the game, the MG42 is the best MG (on par with the Vickers IMO). These both units are the backbone of the German forces and a Land Mattress simply roasts them with a single barrage. You kill the two PaKs the Ost player has and the chance is high that he can't do anything against your tanks, because the P4 is weaker than your Cromwell and the StuG is easily circled without PaK support. Panther comes too late. The huge area of effect and the many rockets of the LM makes it hard to miss the support weapons.

OKW on the other hand suffers in general against UKF because it was designed to be a faction that has its headquarters on the front. With an OKW medic HQ, which is needed against UKF in team games because of LeIGs to fight all the Allied artillery stuff, it is easy to wipe whole squads as UKF if you know where the HQ is positioned. The land mattress denies one of the core mechanics OKW has.

Artillery currently is way too strong. The only artillery pieces balanced are the German mortar and the russian small one IMO. LeFH and the russian one (including B4 which nobody uses) are also okay because they fire huge shells slowly in a large area.

Panzerwerfer and Stuka at least are halftracks that die to a single tank shot (just like the katy). But the Calliope is a tank that does not require any teching and has the armor of a M4 Sherman, meaning it takes about 4 to 5 shots in order to kill it, which you won't achieve unless you have a huge tank army which means you would win the game either way.

Mortar pit should stay, its cool

Bofors too, much design