Profile of Alexzandvar

The KT should have never been non-doctrinal.

Until it's tied to a commander, you really can't complain about its godlike armor getting a slight nerf

The reason it's non-doctrinal is because everyone would go for the KT commander and nothing else. If it was a call in you would see much more KT's spammed.

Commander units are cheaper than stock units, but are more effective for pretty much no reason.

Its quite simple really.
You claim IS-2 speed is its advantage.
Show a replay where it is to the point where it makes difference(aka where Tiger wouldn't do exactly the same).

A replay, not another theorycrafting brick of useless text about a game you play in your head.

Well if you haven't played the game in I don't know 5 months, then the block of text would seem weird, but IS2 spam meta is huge and has been for a while. I don't need to cherry pick replays when you can just play the game and see for yourself.

Although it's somewhat of a burden to you I know, asking you to know about a game you don't actually play.

mortar HT with flame barrage

ost mortar is still a killing machine

soo many off map options

Stuka

Wow small mortars, I feel so thankful. Since the ninja buff to the Soviet mortar there is little Axis has superior in the indirect dept.

Axis has basically no equivalent to the 120, Priest, ML-20, B4, ect. And the Katyusha is the most cost effective rocket truck in the game.

CoH1 was and everyone praises it like it was the best thing ever since the invention of beer.

You can't really counter blobs other way then by using something that instantly gibs them like demos, stuka, offmaps, pin planes(not really gibs them, but you can do anything you want with them after).

As long as there is no "negative zeal" that would INCREASE rec accuracy on the blobbed squads, the blobbing will always persist.

Artillery is the greatest counter to blobs, unfortunately Relic seems allergic to putting more of it in the game for ~reasons~.

I like the way people call the PTRS being able to actually hit things a bug. Really shows off the kind of mind set we're dealing with here.

The problem isn't the PTRS hitting things, it's the fact you can get a massive blob of them and sprint around the map 1 shotting crew weapons, killing enemy mediums insanely fast, and smash apart enemy infantry as well.

Remember the PTRS isn't bad V medium tanks in numbers, I killed 6 Ostwinds with them in a game I had last night, as well as a Panther and DPS'd a KT down to almost no health so an AT gun could finish it off.

all this drama just because of 50 amrour nerf and jackson's 5% increased potency against heavy+ tanks. wow.

Except the Jackson got 40 more penetration, so it got about 16% more penetration. While the KT itself lost 50 armor, which means everything has a 20% higher chance to penetrate it, by no means was it just 5%.

Sorry if the best heavy tank in the game does not have enough value for you guys.

Do you understand the concept of "efficiency"?

USF and Soviets (aside from ONE heavy in a doctrine) already lacks proper high damaging AT capabilities. Jackson is in a good place right now because USF lacks heavy armor PERIOD and they need a dedicated high DPS AT. Bazooka's and Shermans pale in comparison to what Axis can muster.

Then why not make the basic AT for Soviet and USF like AT guns better, instead of making the most expensive tank in the game worse? And you don't see it in "every" 2's game or even every 3's game. It's an absolute last resort unit because if you forgo making anything to get it your going to get fucked.

It's not "I win" button anymore.
Still great tank worthy every resource you pay for it.

If by "I win" you mean "I now control this one VP forever, good luck unseating me fucker", it's still as good as it ever was on the defensive, but it's offensive capabilities got a fairly hard nerf.

at 375 much of the tank shells still bounce keeping it still a very strong tank.

This means nothing, because it's to slow to be able to move out of the way of enemy AT options. The reason it had 425 armor was because it's slow as garden and has to sit in the range of enemy at for much much longer than an IS2 does, or even a Tiger does.

Remember: The Jackson has a extremely good top speed, it can easily run a KT down now that Blitz and Overdrive were nerfed.

KT still have superior durability and firepower, combat blitz still means it can go NASCAR as the nerf to it wasn't that strong, its worth every extra resource above other heavies cost and boo fucking HOO that USF have a glass cannon unit that is now able to actually fend off the axis heavy tanks.

Really? Because the nerf means that even if you crank up Overdrive you will only be moving .3 faster than the IS2, you will still be slower than the Jackson, you will still be slower than both the T34 varients, you will be slower than the Easy Eight.

The issue here is that the double whammy means the KT isn't any good as an offensive tank like the IS2 is because it has to fuck around sitting inside enemy AT for much longer than any other tank in the game.

You axis players screamed for months that IS-2 is OP with 375 and now that KT got that as well its suddenly up?

Maybe the IS2's strength is that it has 375 armor while being almost as fast as a medium tank? Because with a KT you need to sit infront of enemy AT for much longer than an IS2. If your not using your IS2's to rush enemy AT positions and encircle them your doing it wrong. The greatest strength of the IS2 is it's speed + armor. The problem with the KT is that all it had going for it in assaults was the armor, which is now gone.