Profile of Brachiaraidos

FFS, stop using this 960MP and 200MU bullshit theory at COH, it can be applied in other RTS but not COH.
You use 4000 MP of Ober cannot kill a single T70.

Frontal blob assault on HMG should never be able to succeed, period.

Then enjoy your delusion that will literally never ever yeild any sort of meaningful result.

Some people seem to think putting a HMG down on a choke lane means they get to just kick back and enjoy watching all ze dirty pigdogs get mown down by ze glorius fazherland. Never gonna happen. They're potent support units, not one man rambo armies.

One HMG is a 240mp 0fuel unit. T70's have vehicle armour. Can you spot the difference yet? I sure can. I don't hold out hope for you, though.

4 lmg grens won't also destroy any team weapon, yet the ptrs does? It's a dedicated anti tank weapon. With this patch the purpose completely changed.

No. Instead, they'll decrew it in seconds, with or without rifle nades, and it'll be ripe for stealing or OKW scavenging.

Both kill it, just in different ways.

And AT rifles are not dedicated anti tank anyway. Anti materiel rifles are a common thing in many armies of the world, and they are rarely, if ever, used to kill tanks. They blow up lightly armoured targets with relatively good accuracy, and to harass actual heavy tanks by messing up vulnerable things like optics and tracks.

You know what's lightly armoured? Armoured cars, cars, terrain based cover such as walls, and infantry. The PTRS may be described as an anti-tank weapon but it is orders of magnitude more capable of directly hitting infantry than a 'zook or 'shreck.

Not that the latter were useless against infantry, but in terms of game mechanics it just stands to reason. Shreck is heavy AT, poor AI. Zook is kind of mediocre at everything (frankly, needs a bit of a light buff), PTRS is terrible AT but reasonable AI.

What were the Italians meant to do, their armour was useless compared to British tanks. Also most of the Axis in Europe were small, with neither the population or the economy to field armies on the scale of Russia or Germany. As a faction they might work, they would need german armor to be competitive with other factions. They would be better suited as a doctrine for Ostheer perhaps.

Also, by Afrika Korps I meant the Itallian and German forces, would love to see italian infantry and tankettes, and it would be a golden opportunity to see the Panzer III.

Hardly. The Americans are competitive and the heaviest tank they have is an Easy 8, not even a jumbo, in game.

Italians had plenty of large guns to swing around, just didn't mount them on large, heavy armoured chassis. It would be a refreshing change to see an Axis fraction with light vehicles rather than constant reliance on super expensive inefficient monstrosities.

The populations being small, the supply issues, being greatly outnumbered? None of those make a difference in the world of strategy games. Same way that we don't see German tanks constantly breaking down because they were over engineered or Russian tanks running out of fuel because of logistical issues. Or Americans bombing their allies #ShotsFiredEtc.Etc.

With proper accounting for price and the availability of big guns, offmaps and utility units, not having stronk tonks is absolutely fine. We've got no pershing in CoH2 yet and I honestly like that none reliance on super units.

It suppresses on a hit, and pins on a direct hit. The suppression is indeed short and hardly makes a difference when barraging random target. However, during infantry engagements the suppression gets broken later because of small arms fire. This makes the leIG a pretty good infantry support weapon now.

Pretty much this

It's not a tool to keep a squad pinned, it just makes them hit the floor.

If you get pinned in a firefight, though, it can last an age unless you're in green cover. Infantry support weapon doing its job fine.

Saw the same last night. Rifle squad piled into cover by a wall, all bunched up on one exact spot, clipped through each other and got perma stuck.

Promptly got shot.

It's pretty darn obvious that Relic was intending to make the PTRS hit infantry.

It already almost never missed tanks, and is literally the worst anti-tank weapon in the game.
The justification for it being buffed was that Guards Rifle were being found to be absurdly underpowered and under-preforming.

If they wanted to make it a better AT weapon, they'd have to up the RoF and Pen to make it worth a damn.

If they want to make it a better AI weapon, they need to buff the accuracy considerably so that it can hit infantry, who have a model size orders of magnitude smaller than tanks.

Of course, the consequcne of allowing AT rifles to hit infantry is that all the shots which scatter against infantry models, hit the cover those infantry are hiding behind. This allows PTRS to blow away destructible cover for infantry, meaning they are now a viable AI weapon both for damage and support, and guard riflemen are finally actually worth the price tag (button is still worthless)

Of course, weapon teams have their weapons as cover. Funnily enough, an AT rifle can, in fact, blow apart a PaK gun or a tripod mounted MG42. The same way tank shells can, just considerably slower.

So absolutely working as it should. The only consideration may to adjust the HP/damage output of the PTRS a tweak if it's found the weapon teams are dying too fast.

7 con squads means 21 PTRS shots (If not 42) which, frankly, should be ample.

Blobs doing the usual blob stuff and not being counterable by a single 240mp unit that axis players seem to think should auto win infantry fights for them, same old.