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how do you let a sherman eat more than one volley from the blob.

edit: did some math, comparing zookas to shreks in their performance against each medium armor. we've got shreks vs shermans, and zookas vs panzer 4s

Shreks time to kill a sherman (shrek has 100% penetration vs sherman armor at all ranges) is 51 seconds. Zookas time to kill a panzer 4 is 55 seconds (zookas chance to penetrate varies from 64% at max range, and 77% at the closest range against frontal armor). Bazookas cost 60 munitions, and wehr shreks cost 60 munitions, and okw shreks cost 108 munitions if you factor in the munitions penalty.

Why are you comparing Shermans to lolmagicalbuttonpushcarpetride Panzer 4?


These are not comparable units. One pushes a button to make all facing AT stop targeting it, and forces any unit that'd manually been ordered to fire to charge at it point blank while it fumbles through the smoke to find it's target which, even point blank, still will not see.


The other has a minimum range for a comparable ability that'll still have an active delay.


One gets an ability that gives it a huge movement speed boost when active.


The other has wishful thinking.


One gets practical survivability improvements at vet 2.


The other gets offensive improvements to make it competitive at vet 2.


Panzershreks are more useful than bazookas. More damage, better penetration while fighting tanks with less armor, slightly better scatter.


Bazookas do not typically bother me playing as the Germans, but then again I'm also not required to make my generalist tanks fight infantry.

i really wish people took your example and do the same when confronting shreks.

I wholeheartedly agree that all stealth mechanics should be stripped from German units, all units with range outside Allied sight range be rendered visible anyways, and all allied players be given no fog of war so that they're never caught unawares.


I also agree that German units should be stripped of their veterency bonuses- by '44 it was just old men and children anyways since the "vets" in the German army were dead or rotting away in POW camps- since those go a long way in turning riflemen from credible threats to CP pinatas.


Oh wait, you mean I have to use my tanks to fight infantry because my infantry can't fight your infantry? Oh, well, maybe there's a problem here.

The Pershing will absolutely go a ways to making 2v2 viable with double Ameris. It won't change the situation in Sov/USF mixed team games because the Sov already has access to heavies to cover the Americans in the late game.

Having these super tanks as a whole is bad practice.


COH1 got it right when the Pershing was, out of the box, basically a Panther with better anti-infantry capability.


Relic really shot themselves in the foot when they insisted on vehicles like the ISU-152, the King Tiger and the Elephant.

OR it could had been on the back of the tank but the shot landed on the front.

Maybe it was that thing where two tanks that are practically on top of each other can miss the shot?

Make the M-42 better against infantry and buildings.

It was attached to platoons of 30-50 men in Stalingrad (at the very least as a part of the 13 Gv. Str. Div., if not all divisions) that included 2+ flamethrowers, a PTRS team, engineers w. explosives, and a metric arse ton of PPSh-41s and SVTs. The M-42 would blast open a building wall and everyone else would zerg through, presumably whilst the M-42 was making the task of firing out of exposed windows a tricky proposition.

If the M-42 could reliably hit infantry it is all any soviet player would build.

It would be better against armor, but unless the Pershing is OP it would be much worse against infantry. Which makes sense, P4 is a generalist tank, Jackson is a dedicated TD.

And anyway, it's not like the IS-2 and Jackson combination is breaking the 2v2 game at the moment. Don't see why it would in 1v1 at all, Jackson + Pershing would be a significant investment, and it's not like Axis lacks for powerful AT.

The 90mm gun actually had a perfectly capable HE round. If the Jackson is to be an AT gun on treads, the Puma should as well.