Profile of Rocket

I really never see a mark IV come out that much later than a sherman. Even when the sherman does you have these things called shreks that wreck it and at guns that can kill it in two or 3 hits? And yes I know you can kite the shreks but it only takes two shrek hits for me to retreat my tank not like in the 2-4 minuted it has by its self it is going to run around wiping half the map or close to it.

IMO t-34 (need a buff) is trash right now and a bit over priced it is really only good for fighting light vehicles and crushing infantry and maybe on a rare occasion ramming. Even if it gets behind tigers in groups it still sucks.

Sherman (Balanced) - HE rounds can be great or really bad I am not a stat guy but it seems to me HE misses ALL THE TIME. Sure every now and then it does something amazing like 1 hitting a squad. Often times I find it better just to keep the armor pen active as over all it seems to be more accurate and sometimes feels that it does better gibing infantry than the HE missing 10 times in a row or just not causing any dmg to the squad its attacking. Plus a p4 showing up out of no where can really screw you when you have to switch shells. It works way better crushing infantry and that is so much more fun.

Pz4 (Tiny nerf to AI) - Higher priced like it should be but better tank. Superior to the 34/76 and has a edge over the sherman especially vetted and upgraded with skirts it scales way better later and easily beats regular shermans then. Can have great escape/surviveability with blitzkreig/smoke.

The thing that pisses me off about the p4 though is the insane amount of damage it seems to do to infantry and consistent wipes especially with say 2 pz4s. It by far does more dmg with its guns to infantry than the sherman does with HE (cause it misses all the time or just dosen't seem to do anything with the chance of a miracle) or AP or the 34/76 for that matter. No problem with it at all other than I think it needs a tiny nerf to infantry dmg. Same goes with the long barreled stug, that thing is suppose to be an AT version but does the same thing to infantry as well high gib rates and squad wipes. Especially when the zook sucks this makes it pretty hard on USF to deal with a lot of pz4s or stug rushes.

Thanks for your replays.

Cookiezandcream - you're right - no thopsons but the point is still valid. It's too much in one - and either this or more raw power. Many players just don't understand what it means to retreat two units (tank+pio)to make repairs. Field presence goes down too much for too long, especially when your opponent just drives back to safety and the crew repairs the vehicle themselves.
Rocket - remember that losing pios while repairing is even bigger manpower drain. Plus the fact that even pios can't repair crits. And repairing a vehicle too close to frontline is basically the player's mistake/conscious risk. More often I saw bazooka crew fininshing off scoutcars after being almost destroyed by them.
I still don't think smoke or blitz should be nerfed before real, especially early game, US "get out of jail abilities" get nerfed too. It's just my opinion.

I don't really see the m20 with the zook crew as a "get out of jail card" it is going to set a USF player back quite a bit from the fuel and losing it too early is quite a risk if it doesen't do work to justify it. It having the zook crew is really the only hard counter USF have early on to kubel and scout cars, but we pay for it. I mean it is vulnerable to all the other things scout cars are and when decrewed with the zook crew they are vulnerable to any infantry. Perhaps there is other "get out jail cards" but you didn't list any?

I just do not see it the same it is just one unit we are talking about an ability all your tanks have or can have.

Why not just change blitz to not offer any speed bonus's, just a nice received accuracy bonus. So that way it helps preserve your tanks be it running away or charging in but you can't go sanic speed to pull off stupid escapes you shouldn't be able to.

EDIT: That or cause Blitz to give you engine overheated critical after it's done so you can't maintain your speed.

For once I might agree with you on something Alex.

I also like the idea of it can only be used to go forward and reverse is disabled (if possible with the game engine) that makes sense as your not going to really lightning war the enemy going in reverse running away.

And @VonIvan that's hilarious.

then he uses blitz, reversing faster than a Jackson can accelerate, attack ground misses, paks creep up, tank gets away.

Sherman deploys smoke, takes too long, dies. Even if the smoke is use preemptively it isn't that good. it just warns ur opponent an attack is coming

Exactly +1

CAS strafes are easily dodgeable only if the Ostheer player is a complete noob not using combined arms.

Now dodging a CAS strafe supporting an attack isn't really possible, or its call full retreat and losing map control and probably the game. Same goes using strafe to counter an assault, you launch your strafe on your line and see all Allied infantry or retreating or being pinned and raped by MGs/LMGs.

It would be fine if strafe had a strong cost but it doesn't, in fact you can still build tanks as the fuel cost for conversion is really small and at the moment your army is fully equipped with LMG/Shreck and chock points mined, you can either decide to use strafe or to build tanks or a mix of both (imo the best option).

Now, the result isn't the same in every game mode, in 1sv1 since there are less resources, you can't use it as much as in any other game mode, but same goes for all abilities.

I think the problem is really the conversion, too cheap for what it provides in large game mode.
And it meet another idea I had around it, to reduce any resource incomes in large game mode.

+1


It can also be used to save axis armor from AT infantry saving a panther or even a pz4 really by calling this is completely worth it I would think.