Profile of MarkedRaptor

I think that's just the breaks of having 6 men MG squad that can reinforce via merge. I think all MG's should be strong but it has to pay for the advantages it is given.

I kind of like the idea of the DHSKA being a 4 man squad with great suppression vs the Maxims "just throw bodies at it" so both play styles have an MG they'd want.

It was just a bad game. A combo of poor decision-making. Poor execution. No teamplay vs a team that knew what they were doing, coherently. Had another game on that map and even though I had to pull shit out of my hat due to the pios being first in the top building (then an MG comes), still managed to win because I had a good team. I only play randoms so I have to ask what to do when the team is not responding to pleas.

I both like heavy calv and hate the commander. Pershing is a great tank. To be honest I think rangers sort of suck in 3v3 due to their dependency on being close range. I think when the new patch comes out they'll be way better since they could duke it out at range. Issue is he got an elephant which nullifies the great pershing so that's just bad luck. At that point you really would just say eff it and attack with the pershing elsewhere.

Yea if you got double teamed there isn't much you could do other then fight fire with fire and strike hard somewhere else.

This will probably get nerfed/fixed simply because it's not random. Artillery pieces have the potential to wipe squads and I guess that's sort of the concept to balance it, is that it's RNG? Deciding the exact shot although heavily useful to the person firing it means the person receiving it is screwed.

And nothing will change, because sight range is still 35 and the only blobs HMGs don't stop are the ones that were not spotted from max range when HMG was not in green cover with gunner himself being targeted first, which is not the case with current formations.

Are formations working properly or does it have something to do with cover properties? I noticed when cover is involved or near cover they seem to abandon the whole "infantry in front" formation.

In regards to punishing blobs and MGs specifically, i think it has been overlooked for quite a long time that MGs don't get RA with vet. As well as the fact that light cover created by small explosives exist and that provides so much RA and suppression protection almost passively.

Assuming this is 2v2+

This right here is massively overlooked. If you pay close attention you'll notice that MG's that normally suppressed in a reasonable amount of time will no longer do it the longer the game drags on. Simply due to all the craters and ground clutter providing light cover. I vividly recall a gren blob not getting suppressed in 3 bursts of my 50 cal simply because of late game veterency mixed with light cover. So more often then not you need units to screen for your late game MG. Which, technically means the blobber holds the initiative unless you scout out the incoming blob. This is why the mg42 is so fabled to steal from all sides (Even an okw player stealing his teammates de-crewed one).

One complaint I have, is that there doesn't seem to be much punishment for blobbing into an MG, inflicting dmg to it and any squads that were scouting, then hitting fallback. I base locked a few axis players the other night who blobbed and by just banging their head against a well set up defensive line they were able to break through. Base locking my opponent, yet I was the one bleeding MP.

As far as fixing it? Idk if it were up to me I'd probably make all MG's as strong as the MG42, but make the cones dramatically smaller on all of them (decrease the set up time? longer tear down?). That way micro is required to use the MG's and react to your opponents new positions. I don't build MG's for dmg, I build them because I want to lock down blobs.