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That may be strange only for me, but still:

Royal Artillery is one of worst doctrines in game, obviously. Can be compared with Feuersturm. And it's sooo bad, that... one stock upgrade is alone better than entire doctrine for your artillery!

Seriously, I don't understand, why so cool and powerful thing, like airburst shells are non-doctrinal, while shitty things, like Valentine, Sexton or "3-shoot barage for 100 ammo" are. I think, airbursts should be part of Royal Artillery doctrine, just like Counterbattery fire. All best abilities and upgrades for UK arty are not in Royal Arty doctrine - it's insane!

I think it's possible to change Sexton and Airburst upgrade places. Non-doc Sexton may look kinda OP, but... you know, it sux. No damage, no accuracy, no range. It's just big mortar, not howitzer. And airburst shells really improve your base arty guns and making them effective at least against infantry and static posisitons like PaK43. At least, it will make RA doctrine more attractive for those, who really want to use base howitzers.

And I think, that UK artillery should be fully reworked. Idea of non-doc but pretty useless base arty is not that awesome, like it sounds. That's kinda fun to use it for to test your luck, cos only with luck those guns can be useful, or with airbursts again.

Gimme gimme never gets

Yea, people cried loudly about nerfing ISU - it was nerfed. They cried hard about buffing 37mm strafe - it was buffed. Cried hard about volksblobs - done.

Just cry more and shit will go right.

Anyone really belive, that those doctrines will be good? It's free. There is nothing good for free.

Defensive doctrines weren't good anyway.

But they also won't go that way, because there are other principles for these units depending on faction.

But... it's stupidity.People don't spam HMGs with deffensive design and don't use them as mainline infantry, because they are deffensive, they are support guns.

Maxims designed to be offensive HMG in "very offensive" faction USSR. With such design and idea of "fast and durable frontline HMG" it will obviously change your infantry - conscrtipts, which are pretty poor also. Conscripts might be durable, fast or anything else, but they don't deal enough damage. Maxims, from other side, dealing damage good and pretty tough too.

So, "offensive" designed Maxim will push conscripts from they role anyway. Just because of better efficiency in offense. And that nerf didn't make anything new - even such nerfed Maxim is better than conscripts, they only made USSR gameplay with Maxims harder, like it wasn't hard before.

Relic should at least try to make Maxim and DShK deffensive HMGs. It is most obvious decision, if they really want to break Maxim spam-tactics. Again - nobody spamming Vikkers, nobody spamming MG-42. There is no reason. Mainline infantry of those factions are more or less fine for their role and HMGs role is different.

And again about assymetry - realise it through other mechanisms of game, you have enough of them. Assymetrical should be general deisgn of faciton, not each single unit of same type. Otherwise - why nobody protests about "Vikkers design is pretty much same with MG-42, wide arc, supression, setup time..., it's symetrical units, Relic betrayed their own principles". Everything is fine with Vikkers and MG-42 guns.

Ferwiner, please stop. Maxim is the only MG in this game that has this problem and it is a design problem, not a wrong position or or low health problem or something else.

That's right! Maxim and DShK are only HMGs in game, which designed to be "offencive" HMGs. And only those HMGs people spam, all others are OK. Cos... what for you will spam support guns? They can't really fight against your enemy. And that strange offencive desing of Maxim just forcing you to use it like Cons, and since Maxim is way more effective than cons - people will use it, not real mainline.

Maxim should be remade into normal deffensive HMG. If it will happen - game will be much better.