Profile of achpawel

So is walking stuka.
And it doesn't care if its 4 man or 6 man squad, it wipes everything equally with pinpoint accuracy.
How come you never complain about that?

More expensive units that arrive later are stronger.
Accept that and learn to not stand in 1 place for 30 seconds when you're being barraged.

@thekingsown10 that's might to say from someone who believes combat engineers are op, I also find it quite ironic that this belief is what you have in common with achpawel.

If Pak had a cooldown and only barrage, it would be a good comparison. I understand You want to remove autofire from the Pak Howie?

So my proper response is hidden for trolling, but this guy here derailing the topic to flex his rank 198 despite saying he was lv17 and demanding I “apologize” is totally cool.

No - I was asked by Sumi to show my rank. I did it, he didn't. And You checked me up not him. Who is derailing the thread here?

A very important observation. It is not the rank that matters. Balance should, ideally, be good across all levels. The important thing is to play ALL FACTIONS before voicing strong opinions related to balance! I showed my rank/steam to do just that. Not to claim I'm good or bad.

If one doesn't play all factions it is ok - they don't have to. Yet, it would be quite useful/helpful to many discussions to just not call a fanboy sb who plays all factions while playing one faction themselves. Many forum members knowledge is really narrow because of observing certain units/abilities only from the receiving end. It is very visible when reading posts.

My rank was 17 UKF before it vanished due to not playing UKF for more than a month. After the first lost match it moved to 16, and that is what You see. And You should know how it works. You see my playercard and see the last lost game.

Coming back to ISU: Commander abilities revamp plus rear armour nerf make sense - it might push isu in the right direction. I would still think that nerfing AT range to 50 is a better option as it will not require such broad commander changes. It will still be better than axis heavy TDs.

Soviets heavie armour is limited in acces. The only nonsense is you keep saying its a myth. The faction is balacend without doctrines, doctrines give extra options. In sov case heavy armour and elite inf with upgrades and nades.

While sov stock tanks are indeed good, i still need 2 t34,s to beat a single p4. Thats thats 600 mp and 180 fuel to beat 300 isch mp and 125 fuel. Not to mention the pop they take.

The zis having terrible pen and lower rof was bad design. Now is just lower rof. The fact that okw just comes out with vet 2 skirts (esp since they got the p4 stock) made it neccesary to buff the pen of the zis. It would be dead weight after the luchs otherwise, and okw is to mobile for the barrage to be its sole use vs okw.

The real balance issue is that you may never be able to really balance out the dual purpose units vs one purpose units. If dual purpose units are significantly worse at both jobs than dedicated units, people will call them crap (ZiS case early game stage). And it does not matter if they get extra crew and abilities. Those specialist units will be better. Once those dual purpose units become better (ZiS and ISU now, guards), they will be OP.

One method could be to increase price on them. ZiS being just too cheap atm. It should probably be around 370 manpower for what you get. Same with ISU - it should be significantly more expensive for what you get in its current state. But then, suddenly, they become elite units, which is against game design in the first place.

Why does it hurt okw more than say ost? If you lose your sturms you can 100%play the game with out building another one because your buildings build themselves and you have a building that can repair tanks and another building that can heal your infantry. Ost loses their pios aaaaaaaand they have no choice but replace them because they can't repair or even tech up.

Sturms can do much more and do it better than anyone else and this is mind blowing but that comes at a cost. Ate you going to give ost assault sturms because it would be nice if their repair unit could salvage and put their sweeper away? No of course you won't nobody will because they understand that power comes at a cost. Sturms are powerful and pay for it. Don't want to replace them you can either :treat them like squishy expensive infantry and not try and assault the enemy base sector with them so that they can retreat safely OR suck it up if you can't figure out when to retreat them and when their time on the front is too risky and treat the according.

Not every aspect of the game should have EZ mode hand holding alternatives for actually playing the game so that any and all risk can be mitigated. Okw has a building. A BUILDING. that can repair tanks expensive sturms was very much considered in their design.

It does happen to lose sturms repairing your truck/tank more often than 5 men sappers repairing a mortar pit. The only difference is the price. The combat value of sturms isn't that great lategame, especially that the sweeper must be almost always toggled on. You have high risk, high reward unit while allies have (especially soviets but also USF and UKF) much less risk/high reward engineer units.

The sturms deign migh be quite oppressive early game but becomes a burden lategame. I would really think of a pio (maybe even 5 men) to be purchased for them lategame after setting up all trucks. It would also help with the KT.

Another approach could be to equip some other unit with a sweeper (no toggle). Lategame they could be allowed to be upgraded with sweepers.

Yet another approach could be to equpip IR halftrack with the sweeper.

no, that would kill the unit

I feel it should trade frontal blows with panthers, stugs, tigers and should not have range advantage. It has high frontal armour and these could be fair fights. If ISU player wanted to engage infantry, range would be 70. I don't think it would kill the unit. It would allow for counterplay with vehicles.