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Repair critical is incredibly shitty design though. A sherman runs over a teller and unless you're right next to it with AT it can just get away for pretty much free? How is that fair when other factions get punished extremely hard for making the same poor desicions you got away with just because of some completely unnecessary and gimmicky ability?

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How can anyone think the bofors is fine on some maps like rails and metal and minsk? It's incredibly cheap for a tool that requires far too many counterplays to justify its power. What you need to take it out is: mortarHT (for flame barrage and smoke), LeiG (For hitting it continuously), flamer pio, 3+ schrecks, maybe a rak. The sheer amount of units, commitment and coordination required to even stand a chance of taking it out is something completely unique to the bofors.

The thing is: on many 2v2 maps it's never unsupported. The maps are simply too small for there not to be allied infantry near it. You can't just waddle your flamers and 3+ schrecks in and shoot 3+ volleys to kill it while it's braced. Squads can and will be wiped once it unbraces. There will always be maxims + cons or the US player's rifles around. The brit might even have a mortar pit behind it or a 30cal on the flank. Point is, these suggested approaches to taking it down are almost purely theoretical and are so much harder to make work in a reasonably close game.

Even when you kill it, it was still extremely cheap for something that takes complete control of (most often) the center of the map. The axis time expenditure to kill it alone is worth it for the brit players.

I haven't even mentioned the engineers repair ability yet. This ability makes the emplacement pretty much unkillable. It's not even like the commander is a weak one: AVRE is still a very good tank and the other abilities have their uses too.

This kind of unit design isn't fun. Every time you attack it, it feels like an all-or-nothing attack which has been forced on to you just because you lost control of an important part of the map for half a minute. People mentioning that the p4 counters it: the point is almost irrelevant. No way the allies won't have at least one ATG out by then, and if the bofors has survived for as much time as it takes to get out a normally timed P4 it will easily have paid for itself.

To be fair, the brits kind of need this. Their very obvious weaknesses in the early/mid game (no good early sniper counter, infantry sections being shit until they get 5man + vet3 + double bren, no viable light vehicles) make them reliant on gimmicks and insanely powerful later game units and abilities to make up for it.

Either the comet (insane all-rpund ability) or the okw p4 which also seems extremely strong (mostly vs inf).

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Not 100% sure if I can make it that weekend, but will definitely try.