I´m not too hyped about the Flammpanzer 38t. With the pathing all turretless vehicles in the game have, this thing is going to be a disaster to micro. |
Close game. Both teams are low on VPs.
Lots of M10 crushing, Vet 5 Ostwind, KV-8s and combat on all three VPs.
GG Wp. |
I watched it live. Worth a watch. |
You don´t use PGs against infantry anyway. They can´t do anything that LMG Grens can´t do already more cost efficiently. Sure, you can charge a position. But if you outgun the hostile infantry with LMGs, there is no need to charge in.
Pretty much only use them for AT, so the issue of them having bad AI is a rather small one. |
High chance it´s just a copy pasted Tiger/IS-2 clone with minor differences. Probably gains 50 range at vet2. |
As long as Volksgrens remain the weakest standard-infantry in the game, I´m against a Schreck nerf. They can barely compete. At least they are still useful for an AT role. A supportive AT role that is, because any half decent player will kite. |
Medium tanks have now more armor then the tank that was known for having thicker frontal armor then Tiger I. Stop using history arguments only if they suit you. StuG and Panzer IV had the same gun, Panthers were known for knocking out T-34s from 2km away and the ISU could fire once every full moon. Elefants were only "common" during the Kursk operation. This all isn´t in the game. |
What's a jackson
I should have added medium armor. The Jackson is balanced, because it goes down with 3 hits. Simply giving the Brits a Jackson with more armor + tulips would be wrong, even for a higher price. |
Firefly is strange. The Tulip is blatantly overpowered. Killing StuGs with one salvo is bullshit, even for the ammo cost. Hardly dodgeable with the clumsy pathing of all turretless vehicles.
The vehicle itself does fire too slow.
However a vehicle with a turret, 60 range and over 160 damage should not be able to fire fast. Thus the damage needs to go down if the ROF is going to be faster. |
I think it´s ridiculous that the Sherman is remembered as a "death trap" and the T-34 seen as "best tank of the war" by many. Both vehicles offered similar armor protection, armor penetration capabilities in early and late versions, ease of maintenance and were even produced in similar numbers.
But due to sheer propaganda the Sherman is seen as a bad tank, while the T-34 is not. It´s the early Shermans that had a tendency to catch fire. This is what lets a lot of people believe the Sherman was bad. What´s often ignored is that by 1944 this issue was fixed with wet storage making the tank quite safe for WW2 standards.
The ridiculous thing is that compared to the T-34 the Sherman was actually the better tank. It offered way better escape options for the crew, vision, internal layout, accuracy especially on the move, wet storage and was a more solid design in general.
This especially shows with the difference in losses of both vehicles during WW2 (not all due to disastrous Soviet doctrine) or when both vehicles faced each other in Korea.
Yet you see a lot more people - and clowns like the history channel - glorifying the T-34. |