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I did watch the video. My favorite part was where you specifically called it in at the longest possible angle for the plane to fly...

It's slower than the IL2 precision strike I believe, but saying it's always 9 seconds is absolute nonsense

Most of the time the Ele will be facing towards the enemy. I called it in at the angle it would normally be called in during a game. It was also the same angle that I tested originally.

As the title says id like to know what the opinion of the community is , are you satisfied with the game balance in very broad terms or do you think one side has an unfair advantage . If so would you want upcoming changes of the game to take into consideration these game modes since many people are playing in those ?

I haven't been playing a lot of 3's or 4's recently but usually when I do, I normally feel like I got outplayed when I lose. If one side is stronger, I couldn't tell you which.

Also, 3v3 and 4v4 are the same game only to people that don't play them much (or possibly don't play them well). The dynamics of 3v3 are different. I have friends who have been part of teams that were top 20 in 4v4 that won't play 3v3 because it is that different.

Actually it is double that at 10 secs.

Thanks for checking. It gets interrupted by smoke, loss of LOS, or giving any other command to the Guards so I don't think I've seen it go for the full 10 seconds in a game. It used to be too good but seems okay now. This thread is the first that I've ever seen someone complain about it.

What are you talking about? And you've been calling me stupid the entire time, so what's your point???

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Well, I was thinking that you may be done with your fantasy world where I, for some nefarious reason, am making up many lies about one of the best Soviet commanders, and you are here to save the ignorant masses from my evil machinations. I was clearly mistaken.

One of your favorites is how lied about the timing. In parts of your fantasy, you said that I came up with such a crazy amount of time that even I admitted I lied. Here's what I said about PTAB timing.

The PTAB will kill a few models but doesn't normally wipe squads or anything. I can post a replay of that if you want to see it but its over an hour. I tried it a bunch of different ways to see if there was some way that it wasn't pathetic, but after trying all different sorts of targeting, couldn't find a way that it wasn't pathetic. I tested it on Minsk pocket and was getting about 9 seconds from smoke to impact if the bombing runs went along the long axis of the map.

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You could've watched it or ran the test yourself and saw that I wasn't lying about the timing. Instead, you invented your fantasy world. Are you going to call yourself lazy for not checking?

For everybody else, here is a video where you can see the delay. The only thing that I would agree with Sky about is that it does work better against Panthers and Ele's (which I didn't check originally). My testing was originally against PIV's, where Sky later admitted that it doesn't work well.



IMO, the timing on this is slow for something that is intended for anti-armor. I'd rather have the rocket strafe or the anti-tank overwatch, both of which are good as is.

I'd like something like this for a revised commander:

2cp - PTRS Cons (give them tank traps and maybe tellers in addition to ATG's, take away armor detection and give back molo's)
2cp - Camouflage (needs a little rework)
8cp - B4 (bait - something to dive at (shamelessly borrowed from Wingzero and others))
9cp - Command T-34/85 (set limit to 2, give mark target and same recon as UKF command, maybe reload aura, standard stats but slight increase in cost, becomes standard T34/85 if abandoned)
9cp - anti-tank overwatch or maybe IL2 rocket strafe

This probably wouldn't displace any of the heavy tank meta commanders but would be a solid commander that you could use in any game mode.

Gentlemen, I too work with data, and despite nearly drowning in hundreds of thousands of entries of it per project, I still find myself also saying "I wish I had _more_ on _this part_ to get a better idea of how these relate..."

For what it's worth, I think it's important to keep in mind the ubiquitous commander picks, too.

I only watched the few games that were cast toward the end and Grand Offensive was very prominent for OKW players.

Makes me wonder, if Grand Offensive didn't have a Tiger, would people have been more likely to pick Wehr or would they have defaulted to Command Panther (or Fals?).

I don't know, other than being pretty sure this would've put players in a worse spot when playing as Axis. Some might also have tried Elite Armor with HEAT rounds. I think there would've been complaints about the T70 into IS2 and a lot of people wanting the IS2 to have a higher CP requirement.