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You set up the raketen, a vehicle is at the edge of the cone. The raketen from completion of the set up bar to actually taking the shot will take about 3 seconds. In the same situation the USF M1 ATG will take about 0.5secs. If you don't believe me go test it.

But USF at gun is also too cheap.

Ce's have only the demo as a unique ability. other engies have 2 or even more.

Can't agree that other engineers costing 200mp are better than CEs

merge is a double egded sword. it costs 20 mp per use. it can cost you the con squad if you are unlucky.

This is just incredibly biased or a l2p issue. Try early game pushes after which you don't need to retreat your flame unit, but can freely continue to wreck havoc.

sturms are meant to hurt when you loose one. and okw has a non doc repair station so they are not even needed for repairing exclusivly.

Have you tried retreating a damage engine vehicle to repair pios?

the pio,s sight is underrated, recrew a mg42 with pio,s and they retain the vision. because of the vision you always react on time to turn or move your units.

It is a feature but it doesn't jutify 170mp on a Sov engies.

soviets dont repair faster then ost t3 units. its just that al lot of end tech units of axis have larger health pools then soviets units do. that,s why they take longer to repair. soviet can replace losses faster because their units are cheaper and also weaker then almost all of their counter parts. they will lose more units during a match generaly. It would be broken if they had simaler repair times then axis who have larger hp pools and stronger units pound for pound. i hope you understand that.
all other repair options soviets have besides ce's are in doctrines, unlike okw and usf.

You're missing the point here. Lategame, when there are a lot of losses, Soviets can rebuy their engineer units more quickly because they are cheaper. They can save a lot of manpower on it. The discrepancy creates manpower imbalance at that gamestage. At that stage you only need engineer units to repair or sweep, not to fight.

Again nothing wrong with soviets repair speeds atm. nothing wrong with ce's other then the demo sucking hard. only when the demo get back to being ussable should the price of the ce's be raised back to 200mp, only then.

What is wrong is the price - it should be 200mp just like other engineer units.

(edit) soviet also have the least healing options stock, merge is not reinforcing its transfering models. ost has 3 ways to heal and reinforce, only one reinforce has to be in base. all the healing can be done out of base, unlike soviets.

Not really related to the cost of Soviet engineers. Remember that tournaments show that Soviets are the most powerful. It is a fact. Engineer cost is one of those little details that tips the balance imo.

And the fact that every tank 2 shot it frontaly ... is that also reflected?

While Zis tanking 5 Tiger shots...

Other at guns can be killed by tanks too, especially when they are close to them. My point is, it can retreat and it makes it more surviable. Other at guns can't do that. Thus, Ilits survaiability imo is similar to other at guns, with the exception of ZiS. IMO Pak with 4 men crew is generally less survivable. But most importantly - rak got buffed and it should be more expensive imo.

Noob

noob yourself ..but seriously. Why do you think its utility and performace doesn't justify 320mp?

I dont expect amazing dps on ce's. I dont want them to be 5 men squads. If the demo becomes ussable again i feel their price could use some tweaking towards 200mp. But in terms of combat, versatility or utility or even signature abilities they get the very very short end of the stick. They excel nowhere other then in their price.

...and still are too potent because of the abilities I mentioned. Demos were just crazily OP as they needed no doctrine and were just too good and cheesy.

I compare sturms because they are engineers just like ce's but are far better combatants.

...and imo the are one of the worst designed units in the game.

Their stun nade is vet 1 btw.

I stand corrected (which means that they are even a worse design)

They justly cost 300mp.

...but this becomes a dual edged sword once the game progresses. OKW has to keep buing 300mp squads to repair their vehicles ahile Soviets can do the same for 170mp.

Pio,s extra sight allows them to support their team weapons and inf without exposing them selfs. You can see without beeing seen.

...but it isn't as valuable as you make it be. This extra sight is just overrated. It is nice of course to help mgs early game. Still mgs must be behind other units and supported by more units than just a pio.

Royal engies and rear echelons can get ai or at power and get extra hp as the game drags on. All nice added usses wich ce's lack. Hence tgeir just 170 mp price tag.

other OP cheesy units, especially UK sappers

That you can put them in a halftrack or scout car is irrelevant. Its not like m3 or m5 are t0 or are free. Axis have either t0 atgun or with grens techless snare. Both mg,s of axis can rip through them. Merge keeps them on the field but at a minumum of 20 mp per merge. They are a 4 men squad facing faction wich fight 5 or 6 men squads mostly and have the dps accordingly.

But merge can make them unstoppable fire delivery unit - can be gamechanging.

Still, looking at all their utilities, they should simply be 200mp - just like other similar engineer units. Just remember that Soviets are simply slightlly OP compared to other factions. Lategame need for repairs makes Soviets overpowered, because of cheap pios. This is how it works: the fact that Sov can replace their repair units more quickly and then reinforce them more quickly on the field (through merge) speeds up the repair process of Soviet tanks too much compared to other factions.