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Donnie was complaining about "non doc vision from t70", so that's why I posted this, just to show that 222 is also non doc and has comparable sight range.

It seem you got that the other way round, it is not Donnie complaining about the "non doc vision from t70" but Katukov complaining about the doctrinal spotting scopes although Sander93's long response.

But... I have no idea why you even brought up m3, since it has no dps on its own, has no HP either and requires T1, which kind of different start from safe t2, while as OST you build 222 regardless from T2 building. at this rate we might as well bring up mortar flare from SOV mortar that almost nobody builds and snipers.

I think we can agree that Soviet have plenty of stock recon options some of which you already mentioned.

Your description of m3a1 for some strange reason is flawed:
M3A3 has plenty of DPS on its own for its timing/class
M3A3 can survive an ATG shot so again it has plenty of HP for its timing/class

Lmao, you mean the one that has almost no utility vs OST, even if went for penal build?

So being able to spot (and cap) is "no utility" according to you, for reckon vehicle...Yea that make sense (not really)...

You are compared the sight of the T-70 which is best light tank in game with the sight of reckon vehicle and proved that T-70 is not only the best light tank in game but also has the extra utility of spotting as good a reckon vehicle (and also capping).

What exactly was that you where trying to point out?

You do now that "don't really scratch the german light bunkers" was an exaggeration to show that it usually not worth it to throw a molotov at a german bunker? So, maybe that wasn't clear to anybody so I clarify it now.

Dealing almost half HP damage is much more than "scratch" at least in my books and it is worth throwing a molotov to a bunker.

So my clarified statement is:

"UKF emplacements are pretty prone to fire. Even the simple OKW flame nades do high damage. On the other side german bunkers seem to be not prone in the same way to molotovs for example."

UKF emplacements are not prone to fire, certain weapon including OKW flame grenades/molotovs are designed to do extra damage to building and UKF emplacements.

Simple comparison:

German bunker with 480HP dies to 3 molotovs
UKF mortar emplacement with 780 HP dies to 2 OKW flame nades
UKF Bofors emplacement with 1000 HP dies to 3 OKW flame nades

Comparison is rather misleading.

Bunker and emplacement are not really comparable, they have very little in common

Flame grenades are more expensive the molotovs.

Emplacements have brace and thus can avoid damage.

Something seems to be odd. Flame nades were meant to be a garrison/cover counter as they got introduced. For countering early mortar emplacements and Bofors later on OKW has a very early ATG, an AT handheld upgrade on starting squad (only partly usable vs Bofors) and ISG if going for Battlegroup HQ.

Flame grenades are meant to also counter structures and thus they come with bonus damage modifiers.

Any difference is damage probably has to do with difference in armor since bunkers are not meant to take damage from small arms fire and emplacements are.

Soviet have plenty of tools to counter bunker including Satchel and flamers.

Now I am not sure what it the point of this post.
That soviet have trouble dealing with bunkers?
That OKW can deal with emplacement too easily using grenades?
Or that allies got the sort end of the stick once more?

Funny thing that took me by suprise last night is that the BOFORs gets some sort of high-altitude barrage ability when you put a squad in it.

Took the full barrage and only got +/- 20% HP dmg on my AT-gun.

This thing is by far not OP.

The barrage is about suppressing not doing damage.

did some test with major's arty skill on pak 43

vet 0 barrage, 6 rounds, 25 tests:
16 survived, 7 decrewed, 2 destroyed

vet 2 barrage, 12 rounds, 25 tests:
10 survived 8 decrewed, 7 destroyed

imo major's arty skill's effectiveness is highly RNG dependent, pak43's improved durability from recent patch makes it already pretty resilient versus indirects.

Considering the cost of Major's arty it seem fine there are plenty of off map that will kill it reliably.

Apart from off maps there a number of indirect fire weapons that will also get the job done.

(good work on testing and reporting the results)