Profile of Katukov

Katyusha is overrated as fuck.

You are reliant on a lot of luck at all ranges, you rely on the enemy to stay in your katyusha range AND on the luck previously mentioned. Your enemies move or retreat at the first volley, so you wont do much damage. However, when you spam katyushas, they will be very strong, and the bane of any axis blobber (and an OKW forward retreat point).

Calliope is okay, its basically the best allied rocket arty in the game, works good when you have one, and works better when you have 4, but i don't play USF.

The wehrmacht Pwerfer is THE most underrated rocket artillery in the game. Why? it fires all of it's rockets at once, and so a single one, used properly, can be worth several katyushas. You do have to use them at short ranges, but you can brainlessly decimate enemy infantry and support equipment. Its great when you have one, you make your enemies rage when you have more. They are fast as well, so shotgunning (point blank firing) is not even too hazardous.

Land Mattress is alright, it would be placed by most players as the worst rocket arty in the game, but even then, having rockets is better than having no rockets.

The walking stuka is good, it cuts through blobs (but not eradicating them), it can delete support equipment out of the game, and, while it can flop and kill only one model, is a very good rocket arty. a single stuka is amazing, more is probably overkill. However, sometimes a pwerfer might be better for some situations, and allies can learn to "dodge" the line of doom (or at least mitigate complete destruction).

haven't seen anyone use the priest/sexton besides myself in the recent matches. Only way of using them is to hard spam them, leveling entire areas into yellow cover is fun. Might as well use other rocket arties though, you'll earn more value out of them than the priest

ptrs now does marginally better vs armor, and you actually need to have more than 10 apm on your armored cars to not die, i am so shocked

Unironically the best counter to any blob is Maxim due to its enormous AOE suppression. Yes it takes a little longer to suppress, but when it does, its a dead blob with a single Katyusha barrage.

fixing your post: take the MG-42 from the germans, and use that instead*

Mmm yes, the sturmtiger, a squad decimating monster (Which has strong frontal armor and reasonable speed), and can also FIRE THROUGH AND OVER WALLS, all while being capable of shooting basically outside of your sight range, is weak and needs a buff

he was too based for axis players