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Team games opinion:

First off. Don't lose your rifleman lol.

2x Riflemen with a single BAR or M1919 upgrade is usually good enough for me, late game. I like to pair a rifleman squad with an officer squad so they can have both smoke + grenade and tank snare if I need. Its a flexible and inexpensive combo but can deal with most threats.

I like to spread my weapon upgrades so all squads have at least 1 before giving 2 to one squad. That way you mitigate the loss. Officers get priority for double upgrade because they get speed at vet3 which lets them fight more so you get more value for your weapons.

My personal timing for weapon upgrades is after officer squad + upgrade. So somewhere between officer squad and your LV/MG/Pak Howie.

Late-game anti-inf comes in the form of Sherman and Calliope. I don't use the Scott much as the Sherman is much more flexible. Always have 1 Sherman supporting your pushes whenever possible to deal with Obers and blobs.

M36 is your main source of AT. Don't trust rangers for your AT. Ranger 3x zooks works but not every commander has rangers and it bleeds like crazy. If you must go rangers, always better to get 2x Rangers with 6 zooks so you have more alpha damage, just don't ever lose them. ATG just sucks, don't bother. Its better to spend it on another RE squad with a zook since they can help repair too. Your starting RE with 1-2 zooks is good for early game to deal with LVs along with LT with 2x zooks if you're really struggling.

Wow, looks like they're going to include a big variety of units into Coh3. Would work great for a community balance team so they can swap them out as needed to balance the game. Very cool.

I liked Penals with flamethrower better. I hate having to use engineers with flamers to take out buildings. That was their original design. Semi-elite AI squad similar to how Panzergrens can be an AT squad.

Soviets don't really have any other infantry squad to handle infantry based AT. Cons can't do it because they're too cheap and only have 1 weapon slot. Same with engineers. That leaves no other non-doctrine infantry slot that can fill that role. I believe lendlease guards can get zooks which are good mid-game AT but basically useless against the bigger cats.

Would be nice to see Penals get a tank snare upgrade, indepedent of PTRS. I always pickup dropped PTRS's from my Guards whenever possible just to get the tank snare.

I haven't mentioned that the Brummbar is an indirect fire artillery unit so it can leverage that for additional survivability. Not always useful but its an option. Makes it harder to counter when you can't shoot at it with an ATG and when you have to risk a medium to 'attempt' to dislodge it.

If I haven't made the point already, having Panther level armour means a single ATG and meds are not an effective counter. Leaving only ATGs which a single one is not effectively able to counter it, meaning double the MP investment in ATGs needed to counter the Brummbar.

While it may be 'balanced' when the Allies player can get their TD(s) out, it is not timing balanced because a resource advantaged Ost player can get it before any Allied TDs or mediums hit the field. Then the Brummbar player can play with a significant MP advantage because of the bleed from the Brummbar and the 2x ATGs needed to counter it.

Hence why I think a -armour nerf or mobility nerf could be good.

Its kind of crazy how a Pz4 variant has Panther level of armour yet dozer blade Shermans somehow need a nerf.

anyone posting balance takes 6 hours after release has immediately disqualified themselves

edit: im retarded, unless this person is actualyl talking about coh3 which is hard to tell

This is about the Coh2 Brummbar

I've also just noticed that it has 260 armour with a target size of 22 making it one of the most efficient armour/target size ratio vehicle out there. Its better than Tiger and the Easy 8. The only ones beating it are King Tiger, and super heavy tank destroyers. With vet 2, it gets better than the ISU-152.

I would like to hear the reason why the previous 260 to 240 armour nerf on the Brummbar was rolled back. Very rarely do patch changes get rolled back. That one would probably have been for the better. Its too durable and gets even more durable when vetted up.