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The LefH's counter-barrage only does more damage than the basic barrage (but still doing 100 less than the ML-20's) while retaining the same scatter. Also it doesn't get the vet bonus's either so you actually better off just shooting with the regular gun.

If the ML-20 decides to shoot back he will kill you, since he does 300 damage per shot (while being just as likely to hit you). While the LeFH only has 400 HP. If he hits you twice? dead

Also Relic still hasn't fixed the fact it loses it's Vet 2 bonus's when it hits vet 3

i was unaware of the infantry flamer buffs. Is this in the change logs?

Units with flamethrowers will no longer have a chance to explode until they are the last unit in the squad
No more flame criticals above 50% health.
Flame AOE Damage increased from 0.25 / 0. 625 / 1 to 0.4 / 0.7 /1

Alex if all the Shrek does is scare away light vehicles, what good will AT rifles do? They'll greatly reduce squad DPS and all they'll do is "scare light vehicles away", as you said. Even with this change, mines and AT guns would be a better option.

When dealing with light vehicles AT rifles are better than shreks, mostly because of the fact AT rifles literally cannot miss vehicles.

They also have 40 range to the Shreks 35

Edit: Also AT rifles don't greatly reduce the squad's DPS. It keeps it about the same.

Yeah, just like how you can always get an early AT gun. My point is that there's nothing uniquely axis about having to counter pick people. You don't have to give up anything significant (like avoid a particular tier, as US or soviets are forced to) to get an AT-gun.

Soviets don't need to avoid tiers at all, and USF only does because Captain is objectively better in every way. Like the issue is that even if you rush AT guns as Ostheer you still can't stave off light vehicles, and in the case of the Quad you can easily kill the offending AT gun.

It's just that Axis lacks early game mobile AT. Allies don't have this problem because Axis just doesn't have early game light vehicles that are mobile and hard hitting. The flak track has a set up time, and that's about it for AI Axis light vehicles. The P2 comes after the "light vehicle window"

You were asking for three per squad - that's where I got that from. But fair enough.

The Conscript upgrade gives you 3 per squad last time I checked, might be only 2. Regardless it's 60 munitions and OKW would be paying 90 for 3 and Ostheer would be paying 60 for 2.

Yeah, so it's the same as axis countering howitzers - you have to pick a particular doctrine to do it. Soviet howitzers are also a doctrinal counter.

The ML-20 is much more impactful and hard hitting than the LefH. Mostly due to the fact Allies don't rely heavily on defensive emplacements, trucks, and whatnot ans so forth. Not having a guaranteed LeFH counter as Allies isn't an automatic game loss.

Hell, OKW doesn't even have a doctrine with a counter

There is no fucking need for that. Why don't you get it? Except for M5 quad there is nothing wrong with light vehicle play. They will nerf it next patch, no doubt, and everything will return to normal.
Shreck is already better then PTRS? Why would you introduce an inferior upgrade to the faction that doesn;t need it? Do you like the look of it or what?

When dealing with light vehicles AT rifles are better than shreks, mostly because of the fact AT rifles literally cannot miss vehicles.

That's not a series of bad decisions, it's just "didn't pick guard commander" and "didn't build option B (tier 2) for soviet start."

Basically you are saying:

Soviets needing tier 2 or guards to counter light vehicles = fine

OH needing mobile defense or rush of AT gun that is always part of their stock teching progression = overly constricting, plz buff axis with superior PTRS.

Except there are tons of guard commanders you can get rather than being forced into 1-2 commanders. And you can always go for quick T2 or T3 in response that gives you guaranteed counters. The Axis factions really don't have a lot of light vehicles regardless.

And I never asked for a "superior" PTRS, so I don't get were you getting THAT from.

Crab mentality, sometimes referred to as crabs in the bucket, is a phrase that describes a way of thinking best described by the phrase "if I can't have it, neither can you." The metaphor refers to a pot of crabs. Individually, the crabs could easily escape from the pot, but instead, they grab at each other in a useless "king of the hill" competition which prevents any from escaping and ensures their collective demise.

Asking for mirrored PTRS upgrades to allow more options to counter the more plentiful allied light vehicles =/= desiring superiority. It's simply asking for more options to be given to avoid nerfing Allied units.

Like jesus, I'm trying to suggest ways we can allow Allies to keep the light vehicle fun times without it being to punishing for Axis, why does this make people so upset?

EDIT: And for the record, USF doctrines have multiple LefH counters and the Soviet howitzer can beat it by just straight up shooting at it.