Profile of comm_ash

Lets not kid our selves an AT strafe 1 shotting 2 IS2's or 3 shermans is the same as 2 Scotts or other light vehicles literally kissing each other.

What needs to be toned done in CAS is the retardly efficient "use at your pleasure" conversion and the AT strafe doing 80 deflection damage.

The AT strafe killing even 1 medium in one fell swoop is stupid. The AT strafe deals 120 damage on pen and 80 on deflection. A medium is a minimum 100 fu investment, and since USF and SOV have no choice but to build these stock (unlike OKW and OST who have panther), no offmap should be capable of killing them outright. Hell, the supposedly OP P47 can't kill a full health medium in even 2 strafes.

The AT strafe needs to be nerfed so it can keep its heavy AT damage, but not murder mediums completely. Shifting it to a flat 80 dmg on pen/bounce, would keep it effective vs. ISU and IS2, while at the same time making it impossible to fully kill a medium in one strike. (not sure how many rounds it fires, maybe need more tweaks)

There is no reason that old squad-wipe IL2 was OP while current vehicle-wipe Stuka AT is not.

In terms of the conversion, I agree. No instant-conversion ability should be 100% efficient. It lets players make choices and get the best of both worlds (early lategame infantry which can snowball into faster armor thanks to map control). Conversion should either be less efficient, be similar to luftwaffe supply (but that would make luft supply useless), or always be on in the style of Soviet Industry.

Honestly, t2 rushes are the most inefficient way to play ost imo. You give up your very early game, and in turn your very strong team weapons, and gain your t2 structure 10 fu faster. 10 fu is like 30 seconds in an even match, and for those 30 seconds, you make yourself an easy target for any light vehicle play.

Its definetly possible, but I wouldn't recommend it without an ally to cover your glaring weaknesses.

USF was designed with Crews and M36's because they had no Heavy Tank. In my opinion, to add a Heavy Tank, they would need to disable those features which made up for their lack of one. Also, the M36 was originally doctrinal, which meant it wasn't planned to be used with any potential Heavy Tanks in the first place.

The thing is that you can't gimp a base army for merely selecting a doctrine. OKW was designed to have no generalist medium armor, but elite armor gives them p4's with no penalty.

Removing vehicle crews from all USF armor would restrict players from using said doctrine, even if they didn't build the Pershing ever. Light armor and vehicle crews are an essential part of the USF early game, and removing crews from them will do nothing more than nerf the faction as a whole with this commander.

Also, the M36 isn't some god gun or anything. In terms of DPS, it is the worst TD. If a player techs, builds a jackson, then builds a pershing, it would be no different that an IS2 supported by an su85.

It makes more sense to simply restrict the pershing itself from having a crew.

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Or how about just making the Pershing a buffed panther and not BATSHIT insane op ultra tank, so USF can keep their core mechanics?

Noone has ever said anything differently. I think you are hearing the voices in your head again :}