Profile of Rocket

I play mostly 4v4 3v3 and a bit of 2v2 and a few 1v1. Elite riflemen need nothing changed from what just was done about CD from the beginning I will give you that. I have been using rifle commander from the beginning and I can tell you they are NO WAY over powered even the way they were earlier dispathed from the start that is just fn crazy a kubel and a strumpioneer EASILY can beat an rear echelon troop and a vet rifle squad. The kubel can easily pin them both even then the sturm pioneer just runs up and insta kills the eche pinned then they focus the riflemen or you try to attack the kubel and the strum just repairs it while the kubel eventually forces you to retreat. Also a vet riflemen even in cover does NOT beat a strumpioneer 1v1 if the guy is some what smart at all even if I am in cover all he has to do is run up close to me and the riflemen cannot run away to get more distance as he will just chase me. Riflemen cannot also try to garrison in the house as the strum can insta kill him by just getting close (this i've never understood from the get go) especially in maps like ettlebrook where you don't really have a choice of being distant from strums. I would often pair my immediate vet rifle with my eche cause for some reason together there dps was high enough I could beat the strum 2v1 but usually the eche had to retreat before it was over. Why was the eches volley fire nerfed?? We cannot have a pinning early unit but okw can??? WTF?? Also people are talking about making them cost fuel ARE YOU PEOPLE FN NUTS. You realize all the US officers cost fuel to tier up and it take us FOREVER just to get to hard countering units for the okw especially artillery (m8 howie). Sure we can get light vehicles somewhat fast maybe but by then there is already shrek mobs. Someone else said vet riflemen shouldn't be allowed until mid game. Again FN crazy okw inf is way over powered now even more than before and okw can still mob because of there better vet rankings there survivabilty and dps is FAR better than riflemens even equiped with bars. There inf also seems tough enough that it will survive most artillery and katushas even with the buff of the katusha. Another DUMBASS idea was ramping up the katusha and not just nerfing the walking stukka which is what should of happened. So USF cannot blob because we will have entire squads erased okw can because they will survive a katusha most times especially obersoldaten that are almost invinceable especially when vetted and put in blobs. USF inf cannot EVER beat okw inf even if we outnumber them.

Why was there resource rates raised for okw (for not being able to use abilitys or upgrade so said)!?!??! WTF i've never seen an okw have a problem tossing a nade getting panthers out later or multiple king tigers or upgrading weapons on their squads. Now they seem to have as many panthers and heavy armor for as many easy 8's or shermans I can produce. Our advantage was in numbers to beat there armor and now you take that away from us. It is just a crock of shit. Maybe in 1v1 USF stand a chance but I am doubting it now. In team games you might as well not play allies if you want to win I swear everyone at relic is nazis and dosen't listen to any of the allied played complaints only the axis players cause they complain they might lose a few games and appear only happy if they win 99% percent of the time.

Oh and now they are trying to nerf the soviet weapon teams too why not I mean they are sooo op...

I like the disclaimer. Because the reality is that with the reduced fuel income for OKW and lack of caches it gets worse. 5 Shermans vs 2 Panthers I think I give the win to the shermans there.

I'm not so sure rarely is it ever going to be straight up 5 shermans vs 2 panthers. There will be shrek and zooks and at guns. The shrek does way more dmg to shermans especially hit in the ass and to kill those panthers you will get exposed flanking you cannot attack them toe to toe you will lose every time. I think smart panther players win easily here by just backing up and using range sherman isn't that fast unless its already in full sprint and veted and can suprise the panther. the panther is incredibly fast for as big of a tank it is compared to a sherman. Attacking from the front most sherman hits are going to bounce. I think it is about even the smarter driver or sometimes what rng and pathing of some maps want to do will make the winner of that.

I agree with applejack that river is a big problem just a tank trap for any allied tank that are pretty much all built for flanking. I think there is just too many choke points in general in that map that favor axis heavy armor and defensive positions both germans have especially now that the panzer headquarters does decent dmg to even the front of an easy 8 and absolutely destroys any at inf along with there small static rocket arty and heavy arty as well as there mobs of shrek inf that always seem to be waiting on the other side when you try to bring down a tiger or tiger 2. There 5 star inf by that point seem to be tough enough that they can live through our arty to capture vp points if we try the same with our 3 vet inf they just get almost insta wiped.

The unit inside the vehicle doesn't affect its performance.
However, units inside will gain XP faster typically since vehicles tend to inflict damage against higher XP units.

The unit does however effect the vehicles preformance. The unit when on foot has a low threshold to be vet 3 however when put into a vehicle although that unit is vet 3 his overall experience maybe only be enough to vet 1 a sherman because of the different xp thresholds for vetrancy of the unit on foot and the unit operating a sherman. That being said the xp sticks with that crew member. For instance I usually make 1 regular sherman then I bring out the easy 8's. I will then take a 1 star or two star reg sherman crew and move him into the easy 8 to have a 1 star easy 8 off the bat. This works with all vehicles like say a stuart crew into a sherman but you have the mind that the xp threshold is different for every vehicle. A 3 star m8a1 howie crew might only equal a 1 star sherman crew due to xp differences.

So to me vehicle crews are best left to remain inside the vehicles as for the thompson upgrade the only time I could see you would want to use that is if you know for sure your vehicle is screwed you could possibly eject your crew before it is destroyed and then retreat them and make them into a inf squad but from what I hear there still not great at it. Also if you were capturing a point with your crew they have to be outside to capture it so that would give them a little more firepower i guess while capturing but a sherman needs 3 to operate it, if two die quickly you cannot jump back in your sherman and the enemy can if they have 3 or more so that is highly dangerous

The fastest way that I have found is to rush zooks then you can tell the infantry unit to attack the ground, usually takes 2 or 3 zook shots to destroy it. Plus your usually going to want your inf to have zooks anyways, at least I almost always do.