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Axis tanks are overpriced, but they perform good for their price.

That literally makes no sense

Oh?

Ost is getting plenty of buffs.

The nerfs to heavy armor hit all armies with heavies equally.

If you didn't see that coming for OKW from a mile away, you must've been deaf, blind and in denial on top of that.

Side grades and shreckvolk cancer was a matter of time, everyone expected that. Time to use AT gun, like all other armies have to. Deal with it.

I'm very sorry you can't stall to KT with volk cancer anymore, I really am, just look at me crying

Translation: Yes

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Are you happy Axis is "finally" being nerfed into the ground?

This victim complex you have is astounding.

No, getting a bazooka doesn't make rifles useless. But it has drawbacks. Significant drawbacks.

If you get 2 bazookas instead of bars, at close range you will be doing only 39% of the dps of a barred rifle squad. That is a huuuge difference. With one bar and one bazooka it's it's 69%.

If you get 2 bazookas instead of lmgs, at long range you will be doing 29% of the dps and 64% with one lmg one bazooka.

In addition, once you start dropping models with a bazooka squad your dps goes down the toilet because they switch off holding the bazookas.

Volks are at 80% efficiency with schrecks no matter what. There are not enough tradeoffs to justify volks having schrecks, it is a brainless upgrade that you will always get given the income to afford it. Deciding to get bazookas on rifles is a trade off that you must make. There is actual strategy involved in their upgrading.

You're missing the bigger picture here, it's very simple. The fact is USF can spam twice as many handheld AT weapons than OKW for the same population cost with regards to mainline infantry. No 'drawbacks', they can still spam as many bazookas as they want or LMGs as they want, in fact they are less hampered by their choice because 2x Bazooka rifle squad dedicated to AT is more effective at AT than 1xSchrek Volks squad forced only into AT. Volks don't have benefit of choosing between LMG and Schreck. If they choose Bazooka they can still have 1xLMG which can wreck most Axis squads or get more squads with 2xLMG to wreck everything. Meanwhile OKW is stuck with bunch of crap Volks squads only good for moving around one panzerschreck with no smoke and no snare. You also make it seem like Bazooka brings no benefit because a Rifle squad would lose some anti-infantry capability but you totally ignore the AT benefit it brings.

It seems you also have issue with 'brainless' Volks upgrade and praise USF 'strategic' upgrade between Bazooka and LMG. Following your logic, it suggests that the best course of action is to allow Volks to pick between Schreck and LMG so they have some kind of trade off. However your argument is biased and hypocritical because you agree with removing Panzerschreck and it pertains only to Volks. What about all the other units that only have one upgrade and no 'drawback'? Are they all 'brainless' too?

Let's not forget that for 200MP and 5 pop cap, USF can have a more effective AT squad (REs) than Volks for OKW. 2 Bazooka > 1 Panzerschreck.

If you get a shcreck on volks there is no drawback, if you get a bazooka on any USF infantry the drawback is fewer good ai weapon upgrades. You have to make a choice here with USF. What you just described, all those ways that USF can work around bazooka limitations, that's great. That's strategy. Volks have none of that, just an obvious upgrade you will get on all your squads. If you are trying to beat a rifle blob with a volks blob you are doing it wrong. Get some elite infantry to push back with. Rifles are more expensive than volks, of course they will beat you.

The drawback is not the death sentence you are making it sound like, a 2x Bazooka squad will still wreck a Volks squad and there's nothing stopping USF getting extra LMG riflemen or Airborne, Rangers etc which wreck even Obersoldaten. There really isn't that much difference and you are just being hypocritical that Volks can't have Panzerschrecks but Riflemen can have Bazookas. It's funny how Riflemen are cheaper than Obersoldaten yet Vet 3 LMG Riflemen will absolutely wreck them.

Your whole post is "Oh poor Riflemen, look how terrible they are because they are actually downgraded now because they have Bazooka, now USF player is toast because their whole army is locked from picking Bazookas and now they can't fight infantry". If you have Riflemen with LMG and one Bazooka that is huge upgrade in both AT and AI but Volks aren't even allowed to have upgrade in AT. Pure hypocrisy.