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africa would be pretty boring , the most powerful german tank would be the panzer 4.

Tigers were in the African theater, just so you know.

I think most of you arguing about T-34-76s historically not being so strong historically seem to be right. Although, would it be more due to the range (and accurate gunning) of the late model Pz 4 rather than the penn of the t-34-76's gun?

Anyway, yeah the Russians do seem to lack a decent medium tank option that's non doctrinal. Maybe something where we can buy an upgun for the T-34-76 would be nice? Similar to the Sherman upgun. At least a medium tank which can do okay against T3 would be nice.

Make the changes that need to be needed (tbh, I don't really care if you increase cost, remove ram (I'd love to remove ram) or whatever), the Russians still need a vehicle to fill this niche.

(Some ppl argue that the German Light tank niche needs to be filled, but it's kinda filled already by the 222. Granted, a single 222 will lose to a T-70 9/10 times, but it gets compensated a bit by the AT weakness of Tier 3 overall.

unlike wine they don't get better with age.

Or cheese

Here we go, it's awesome that we can have a good discussion about this instead of flaming that can happen on this forum.

1. Well okay, even if we don't compare numbers, we can still compare how many units you can pump out per minute. You can pump out ridiculous numbers of conscripts per minute due to how the pop system works, but I won't go into this too much, but this part was more, well, just saying haha.

2. Even if it were more active, the thing is you aren't going to easily hit caches near the enemies base. This was the difference between coh2 and coh1. In Coh2, you can easily put caches next to your base, very difficult to harrass. in Coh1, to make a cache worthwhile, you had to put it on a medium point, which tends to be a lot easier to harrass.

3. As you have stated, the AT capability of infantry does need to improve. I think this is you stating the right problem, but not the correct solution. No, I think the current situation of engine crits everywhere is not a good system, especially for the Russians or the game (it's just wayyyy to gimicky). I think instead that Infantry should do a lot more damage but shouldn't have as high of a chance of critting.

I think your solution has some merit, but with more fuel caches in play due to how COH2 works, it may actually become counterproductive. It may work in the midgame, but by the lategame where you could potentially be floating fuel, it's not a good idea.

VCOH's MP system wasn't harsher and it isn't even comparable, as the MP income was dependant on territory held and not a constant rate. That ment that you had more MP income going toward mid, and the difference between base and mid is exactly what allowed you to field tanks while still paying the maintainance costs of your infantry. In CoH2 you simply can't do that. Hence the game degenerates over time. To reflect the all new constant resources system of CoH2, Tanks must cost significantly less MP, simple as that, which would allow you to maintain both your infantry aswell as buy new tanks and with that effectively ending the spamfest and giving infantry a strong presence on the field, instead of being useless cannonfodder as it is now. Upping fuel costs would push tank timings further out, increasing their rarity (which is a good thing in the context of CoH) and putting more weight on both the non-armor defense/offense play, and capturing and holding points for extended periods of time, so this would be a nice addition, but that isn't actually the main point.

Edit: The other half of the issue is that MP decrease/pop was significantly better mapped to the actual costs of the units you could purchase.

1. VCOH's MP system tended to be harsher. At most, you were only going to get +12MP from the map. Still significant but didn't really offset it. Also, your base MP rate was never +300 in VCOH unless if you had supply yard lvl 2 and you had good map control
2. Tanks costing less MP would mean more MP for fuel caches, thereby offsetting the fuel increase anyway. If you want tanks costing less MP so that infantry gain a strong presence, that's a bit too newb friendly I'll have to admit. Although the potency of AT weapons do need to be improved, that's really not we're talking about here.
3. There was one patch where T-34s used to cost 240 MP and idk how much fuel. That is the cost of a conscript squad. The result was simply spamming T-34s, esp if you had a fuel cache. Especially when you hit endgame, as MP becomes more precious, reduced MP would only result in more tank spam.

The armour/infantry relationship needs to be tweaked, I'd agree with you, but this is not how to tweak it.