Profile of GreenDevil

Over nerf.

This stems from the fact Relic applied the reduced damage/supression rate of a pinned HMG team after they reduced the damage/supression of the Maxim in a previous patch.

The unit is poor and I find it especially aggrevating as unless your Maxim catches Grenadiers from max range you will be naded and quite possibly have to retreat.

Why should a Soviet player have to scout for HMG teams whilst a Ostheer player can sit there and pin a Soviet infantry squad the exact moment they see one another? I have no problem with Ostheer getting that nade off in a frontal assault, but they must be punished for it for not flanking. If you want to get the rifle nade off, you should take more damage for staying still. To often I see Ostheer players go head on into Maxims, win the engagement and pisses me off.

Maxims avoiding rifle nades is harder than an MG42 dodging a molotov aswell due to the spin the Maxim must do to go back and if you go forward the rear crew members are hit. I quite often nowadays just take the nade and hope it only kills 1-2, unless I know my men are really clumped in which I retreat.

Since when does a rifle nade kill a Maxim? In my experience it would take about 3 rifle nades to kill a maxim.

@LeWish: Don't mind him,he was raped by bears when he was little...
On-Topic: Wow great strategy so I have to keep the halftrack near my pinned infantry and the enemy's panzershreks
Good strat

Well getting an AA Halftrack works for me and everyone else? Maybe you are just bad? Also have you ever heard of harrassing their munitions? It costs 120 munitions for strafe, and you reckon he has Panzerschreks as well. I bet he also has LMG Grens and upgraded Scout Cars too does he?

Where are all these munitions coming from? Maybe you need to actually cap the munitions points once in a while? The Germans are HUGELY reliant on munitions for just about everything. Fauts, Rifle nades, LMG's, G43's, Shreks, Upgrade on AC's, Flame Haltrack, Bundle nades for PGrens, the list goes on.

Try focusing on their munitions, if you can't deny him munitions income you have simply been out played. Also against that commander he has Blitz trucks, find them and destroy them as they increase munitions income.

Seriously, there are a number of things in which you can do. Just because your Snipers, SU85's, Mortars and Guards combo doesnt work for you every game, doesnt mean Strafe is OP. It means you have to adapt and try something different. Ever heard of that?

Panzerschrecks = SU 85 gone...you're welcome

Two snipers = free shreks for Shock Troops or Guards. Panzerschreks are not the answer when Soviet still have uncounterable snipers.

KV8 has way too much health, give the same amount of health to the Ostwind and every Russian player would be crying until it was nerfed.

The KV8 makes you instant retreat your squads at the very sight of it, even then if they take a shitty retreat path it will kill them on retreat without a problem at all.

Having said that though, I would be satisfied if the only thing Relic fixed is its ability to kill squads on retreat. The high health and power of the flame can be mitigated, however, killing squads on retreat is absolute bullshit.

Agree with adam almost every German unit is good and has lastability through the teking.

Conscripts are literally just cannon fodder even shock troops will get owned by lmg grens which have nicely vetted after mincing all the conscripts early game as the soviet player scrambles using whatever cheap tactics they can just to stay in the game.

Shock troops and guards are the only decent infantry both are doctrinal and one is horrendously expensive for what you get and has no AT at all not even a AT nade so if you meet even an upgunned scout car your mince meat and have to pay through the nose to replace.

I think its fair to say Germans are slightly easier atm. Maybe its more even in the top 200 or w/e but for most players, like most of the community who aren't 'pro' its not. People say 'o the search % doesn't mean anything' well clearly it does, how else can you explain it? why would it be that 99% of the time 80% of ppl are searching as German. Because all the normal players play a game as soviets and think screw this, this is way to difficult compared to the other side.

This has to be the biggest load of shit I have read in a long time. 99% of the time 80% of people are searching for games as German, because it's too hard to play Soviets.

Give me one, just one fact to back up your arguement, or GTFO.