Profile of TheGentlemenTroll

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g43 and stg I'd say are about equal in different dmg profiles.

For g43 you have the mainline and "special" g43s. As you said you have two completely different damage profiles based on squad, and the game doesnt tell you that.

For STG44 you have close range STGs (Strums), Mid-close range (Pgrens), Mid-Long Range (Obers) and a dmg steroid at all ranges (Volks). Atleast the Obers one is slightly different than the others.

The only other weapon I can think on the allied side that can be confusing is the m1a1 (elite vs RE) for USF or the special Commando Bren for UKF. But I'd argue that one is nowhere even close to as confusing as the Axis ones.

I mean plenty of people on this site have gotten it confused by this (including me) and I'd say the players on the site generally know damage profiles and statistics better than the average player. An average casual player has no chance of knowing that a strum stg is different from a volk stg or a Gren g43 and a JLI g43. Which would explain why a lot of players will always try to get up to point blank with volks/obers when they have stgs. Even if they would be much better of sitting in cover and making the opponent close on them.

I just wanted to point out that Füssies are not that good long range (nice ingame description btw)

Yeah that ingame description along with people automatically believing that g43s at LR> STGs at LR (Not really their fault considering the wildly varying dmg profiles of the stg in this game) has caused a lot of people to believe that Pfussies are suppose to be better at long range, when in reality they preform pretty poorly for their cost at long range compared to volks and should always close to mid range against non elite cqb squads.

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Lorch actually plays surprisingly well as long as you don't get jailed in the 1v1 arena in the south.

For me it's one of the best: Open, wide, plenty of flank opportunity. No strong MG buildings that can lock down an area and force you to go mortar or fast nade tech. No lanes that make it easy for stuka to wipe model after model. No obvious LeFH/ML bombard areas. Basically no cheese tactic can survive that map.

Its ok as a 4v4 map but its an awful 3v3 map.

I don’t really get Penals role currently. Before when they were meta they were a better scaling squad than cons that suffered a slow opening. But after the 7 man tech was added for cons this flipped. Now cons scaled better and Penals became the early game squad but they still suffered the very slow opening.