Profile of Lady Xenarra

Don't Cavalry Rifleman come with grease guns not the regular weapons so it is not truly a Thompson Rifleman squad.

5 grease guns, upgrading 2 grease guns into 2 Thompsons. Very dangerous CQC squad. Also comes with an AT satchel for 'some reason'.

But they could have been better. I thought 1 Thompson was almost as good as 2 Bars. So 2 Thompsons would have made them great which would justify MP bleed to close in on opposing units.

It would have been a better doctrinal upgrade for Rifle company instead of the halftrack.

Rifle Company used to have vet I riflemen call-ins off the bat and rifle flamers. This was not missed by anyone except meta abusers. I think this has influenced Rifle Company ever since.

Allied TDs.....? Not like they have any doctrinal ones u could confuse them with. Unless u count ISU with AP

Achilles and M10 exist. Not very good TDs but I've been mauled by them in the past enough to respect them.

Wasnt every heavy tank? Isnt that why its called the heavy meta

IIrc that was same time as when OKW got their new tiger 1

All the more reason not to go incentivise it when the opposing side lacks high pen TDs to deal with it. Heavy tank meta was terrible for the game and balance in general. The only real exception to it was the KT, on account of it being a slow brick. Idk why Tiger 1 got given to OKW, this was/is a mistake in my opinion. As were/are Pz IV Ausf. Js to OST.

Comet doesnt outrange the KT, it has less hp than a panther, and 50 lower pen at far range. That aint the same

Of course KT has edge but the panther will do well for cost, specially with its mobility against an IS2 that would now be much slower


No they arent, specially if this newly priced things on the field. Way less pop/fuel for katys

If it got this treatment would need all the price increases too. Probably even make it cost a little more than KT to make up for tech difference (sov is cheaper total iirc)

I was talking about the IS-2 being made into a KT, not IS-2 balance today. PaKs are not going to stop an enemy, KT realistically speaking. Not unless the RNG is heavily in your favour (looking at you M1s which swiss cheesed my KT).

In any case, I don't think this change would get approved even if we were to get another balance patch.

this would be an argument if allied TDs didn't have an (arguable) medium/hard disadvantage against tanks that are able to fire back, as all of your adversaries will always pen you and have more HP than you do

Sure, if it was only slugouts within visual range....which only happens if the Allied player messed up or got outskilled. Otherwise it's Panthers shooting into FOW against self-spotting SU-85s or even 45 sight range Fireflies. Missing at least half your shots is the realistic outcome there. Jackson is extremely manoeuvrable and has 75% moving accuracy, making even visual range chases a dangerous idea as well for Panthers (50% moving accuracy).

worth mentioning that a panther (And stug for this matter) both already outrange an IS-2, and a panther is faster than an is-2 by default (getting only faster with blitzkrieg).

since kiting enemy tanks is an alien concept to axis players, the panther can additionally sit in the IS-2s firing range and, while not outright beating it, repels basically all attacks done by it, hence why I made the thread a long time ago.

KT has 45 range, as would an analogue of it. Unlike an AT gun, crossing that 5 distance can be done in the blink of an eye, esp against something with bad pathfinding like a StuG. If you want to talk about properly kiting, then you will constantly be on a knife edge reversing with moving accuracy penalties. Maybe a SCII pro with 4k+ hours can micro that edge, but the vast vast majority of COH2 players cannot.

Other ppl in other threads have already explained why the IS-2 is having issues against the Panther.

apparently paks are bad despite having the objectively best AT stats in the game for towed AT, they could have a thousand penetration and somehow it would not seem to be enough...

They are bad vs SOV late game because they get wiped by Katyusha the moment you pair them up together for more than a few seconds.

Its a very misleading shorthand, the closer range penetration is almost never going to be a factor

You'll find point blank shootouts more common than most ppl realise, esp when the TDs are desperately trying to reverse from a tank dive. Show Spoiler Nethertheless, most ppl here reading "260 pen TDs" will understand what I mean.

Do you have a better shorthand description then?

So 260 armor 960 hp tank hunter then for allies as well?

Cause if im getting this new and more expensive is2, not gonna have as much fuel/pop space for those TDs. Panther would do pretty well in that scenario

Panther is going to get annihilated by a half-decently piloted tank with KT stats. Outslugged, out-dps'd, out-armoured and outgunned. It's like sending a Comet vs KT and then unsurprisingly being flattened into the floor and then 10 more metres deep. Maybe you can win the lottery in bounces but this is unrealistic.

What's OST going to get vs this monster then? StuGs? PaKs are already DoA vs SOV late game. You want Elefant and JT every match guaranteed? IS-2 was highly cancerous during the heavy meta iirc. OKW's 200-185-170 pen JP4s struggle vs IS-2 today, nvm this thing.

Only Ettelbruck can save Axis from the pathscott tide in 3v3.