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Jump back to quoted post23 Apr 2016, 18:01 PMHitman5

I didn't ignore what you said, I feel the intricacies of squad DPS is irrelevant when you look at the bigger picture as I said. Panzerschreck is not twice as good as Bazooka. Ratio of Panzerschrek to Bazooka is like 2:3. 180 munitions vs 150 munitions.

I didn't deny the drawbacks, what I'm saying is that USF has plenty of options to overcome them and they still get something in return, compared to OKW who has one benefit or destroyed faction because the upgrade is so important. Rifles at vet 3 with LMGs can easily stand up to and beat any of those units you mentioned, despite being cheaper than all of them.

Volks is 30 MP cheaper than Rifles. No reason why price can't be increased and given an upgrade to make a choice.

Jump back to quoted post23 Apr 2016, 12:47 PMHitman5

You're missing the bigger picture here, it's very simple. The fact is USF can spam twice as many handheld AT weapons than OKW for the same population cost with regards to mainline infantry. No 'drawbacks', they can still spam as many bazookas as they want or LMGs as they want, in fact they are less hampered by their choice because 2x Bazooka rifle squad dedicated to AT is more effective at AT than 1xSchrek Volks squad forced only into AT. Volks don't have benefit of choosing between LMG and Schreck. If they choose Bazooka they can still have 1xLMG which can wreck most Axis squads or get more squads with 2xLMG to wreck everything. Meanwhile OKW is stuck with bunch of crap Volks squads only good for moving around one panzerschreck with no smoke and no snare. You also make it seem like Bazooka brings no benefit because a Rifle squad would lose some anti-infantry capability but you totally ignore the AT benefit it brings.

It seems you also have issue with 'brainless' Volks upgrade and praise USF 'strategic' upgrade between Bazooka and LMG. Following your logic, it suggests that the best course of action is to allow Volks to pick between Schreck and LMG so they have some kind of trade off. However your argument is biased and hypocritical because you agree with removing Panzerschreck and it pertains only to Volks. What about all the other units that only have one upgrade and no 'drawback'? Are they all 'brainless' too?

Let's not forget that for 200MP and 5 pop cap, USF can have a more effective AT squad (REs) than Volks for OKW. 2 Bazooka > 1 Panzerschreck.

Jump back to quoted post23 Apr 2016, 06:19 AMHitman5

Bazookas are still very effective and very strong AT weapons. REs and Engineers aren't effective AI in the first place so you can upgrade them to AT for almost no drawback.

You just upgrade some squads with LMGs, some Bazookas/Piats and some with both or just upgrade according to whatever you enemy has. You are trying to make it sound like picking Bazooka/PIAT is a death sentence for USF/UKF when that is not the case at all. A rifle squad with a M1919 or BAR and 1 Bazooka will smash a Volks schreck squad AND be potent AT considering they have snare as well. Get a few of them and some REs with Zooks plus Cpt/Lt etc and you have death blob far more powerful than anything OKW can muster. You are trying to justify absolute hypocrisy when it's obvious that Rifle blobs can walk all over OKW much easier than Volks blobs can walk over USF (note: Volks can't).

Jump back to quoted post23 Apr 2016, 04:15 AMHitman5

Please, what about REs or Engineers? There is little to no difference between equipping rifles or volks with zooks/schrecks. In fact it's worse with rifles because they also have access to LMG, nades, AT nade and smoke. Yet only volks blobs are complained about when rifle blobs can be big trouble.

Jump back to quoted post23 Apr 2016, 04:00 AMSirWinshue HueHue

I don't drive into them, they drive into me. And you can combine a bar/1919000 with your zook for some extra oomph feelings, so no trade offs here.