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Thank you for this 'contribution' Dusty, once again you manage to perfectly summarize your caliber in one post.


Ontopic: The statistics so far seem to backup that the amount of games won dropped significantly for brits (in every gamemode). It seems like there's a pattern here with patching factions up and overnerfing them later on. So the circle continues...

It seems that indeed relic has stepped up their game. Coincidentally around the period that Cynthia left communication started to be more open, more routine and generally better. Still they have ways to go as Ipkaifung points out (albeit in a bit harsh manner) regarding their dialogue and communication, but at least heaps better than the least year(s)

Keep this trend going Relic! We appreciate it!

yes, but theyre still a 4 man SMG squad that MUST get into close quarters to deal any form of damage. Once they spawn and retreat back to base, theyll struggle as regular troops on the battlefield. its very difficult for them to close the distance since you can focus them down. -17% honestly isnt very much for a 4 man squad. losing even one model means a whopping 25% decrease in dps.

This. Seconded.

Take into account that before, when only a handful of people used partisans, no axis player ever felt the need of looking behind their front line apart from the occasional paratrooper landing. But now finally the partisans pack a little more punch the "OP-OP calling" starts, and the worst thing is, a very predictable one at that. So lets take this 'new' situation axis players will find themselves in into consideration.

The "lazy" (before replying watch those quotation marks there) axis never had to deal with troops operating behind the line, having to get real close before doing some damage, otherwise quite unuseful troops before. Even in my earliest (and I have played tons of matches using partisans) use of these guys I had to ubermicro them and not use them as a combat unit to make them work. Back then they could not capture points at all, were (and still are) very fragile. Even a grenadier looking angry at them made them start dropping models. It was very hard to make them useful, only having some limited use in very specific situation only encounterable in 3v3 4v4's. Every partisan fielded behind enemy lines was a missing soviet squad on the frontline.

Their armor still sucks. they die like flies and most people tend to use them incorrectly and inefficiently. They finally do some damage, people use them properly and all axis camp starts barking and throwing in all the numbers to back up their case. While in all honesty, you should look behind the hurts of our collective butts and see that maybe these guys were very underpowered before.

Taking this into consideration I do not mind a small but noticeable nerf in their damage output. for their smg's.

And it's been less than 24 hours. I mean. Really people? Seriously?

I like the idea that most people put out : let them drop in by airplane instead of being able to spawn out of ambient buildings.

I mainly play team games, and it is always a bummer when you have a problem defending your front line and these guys come and attack you from behind. If properly executed they are amazing units to turn tides in team games. In that regard, i'd rather not see them buffed in any way, except if they get their ambient-building-spawn ability removed.

While i do agree with you on your statement that you hardly see them in top tier player matches, I do not agree with you on the evidence being given by people having issues with them. If I have to believe all the topics with more than 4 pages of replies on them, people have issues with just about every unit or ability in this game.

Perhaps you like to expand your wish for love of these units with a similar allied unit, the partisans. How do you feel about them? Following your logic in them hardly being used, you see the partisans even less than the fallschirms. Don't you think they deserve some love too?