Profile of Bad_Vader

the su-76 has pretty much always been a good rush vehicle against static infantry heavy play. now it's good against vehicles too. they didn't remove any of the core weakness though, it still dies easily and is usually a waste against moving infantry. i think the only real question there is about it now is whether or not it comes a bit too early/too fast.

This is pretty much sums up the Su-76. Its a spammable glass canon for the sov, its not broken unit and its also not a worthless one. The timings of when units should come out is still relatively new so it won't be perfect right now and is probably the only thing that needs to be changed.

in a 2v2 a player might get away from bunkering down on a portion of the map, but in a 1v1 the ost is going to lose map control badly if their army is tied to the pak.

It's simple logic that a sov army with support weapons and light armor is going to win over an ost army with just support weapons. It's a fact that the ost is fighting at a significant disadvantage. It is a structural fault of the new tech tree that the ost are forced to fight a uphill battle against an armored soviet with no armor of their own.

I'm not talking 2v2 btw because of the presence of a possible OKW ally giving them access to puma which hard counters the m5 and also if both are Ost they can each get 1 pak denying the effectiveness of the M5 which is to attack where there's no pak present.

Of course Ost will lose some level of map control. That's the entire point of a 'shock unit" like the M5, to swing map control to the soviets until Axis armor comes in. Another thing to point out is that Soviets don't have the luxury of your "fact". The fact is Soviets are forced to choose either T1 or T2 so that's either cons+support weapons or penals+snipers+cons, Soviets have to sacrifice either an effective infantry(penals) or support weapons to begin with. No one is going for both T1 and T2 unless they really need to or its already late in the game and is also contrary to the point of a fast M5 since T1 and T2 consts fuel thus it would delay T3 and ultimately the M5 if both were gotten.

Is Ost fighting an uphill battle when it comes to light vehicle? No one quite knows yet since the patch is still a week old and the meta has not yet stabilized, so until the meta has stabilized and majority of the top players think that T3 sov tech timing is broken it is assumed to be fine as is the opinion of the majority at the moment.

Sov: If you haven't noticed that's the intention. Before when Soviets only went with 2 tech buildings the period where light vehicles (particularly the T-70) could shine was probably 1-3 minutes at most at which point axis armor would roll in and crush any aggressive light vehicles in the field. The m5 quad could get a slight dps nerf though, just my personal opinion.

Ost: The 222 isn't exactly designed to fight the sov T3 to begin with. At best it's a harassment unit, not something you use to fight the likes of the T-70. Ost does already have its counter to T3 if you haven't noticed *cough* pak *cough* you guys are just not using it or rather you'd rather not use 1. If you don't chances are you'll lose, so this is more of a failure to adapt than anything else.


USF: Haven't played them yet so no comment

OKW: They're fine at the moment although RIP sturmtiger I'll miss you in 4v4s

Some possible changes to improve partisans:
1. Give the sprint.
Sprint allows them better mobility behind enemy lines and allows them
to "retreat" without actually retreating.

2. Allow them to decap rapidly but can't cap
To align more with their roles as an ambush unit disrupting enemy
lines.

3. Give them ambush camouflage
Makes potential ambushes more lethal

4. Allow them to reinforce from ambient buildings
This allows them to sell the image that they aren't necessarily part of the army but civilians fighting
in the war.

5. Allow them to hide while in cover and have hold fire
Allows them to perform as recon units. Also useful for ambushes.

6. Increase their squad size to 5 or 6 but spawn with 4
To show that partisans weren't always as well equipped as the red army
but meeting with the red army allows them to be more equipped to fight
against the Germans.

My 2 cents on the topic.

Controversial? Maybe. Required? Yes. Way too many whiners especially on patch day even if they only played the patch for less than 10 games.