I play both Axis and Allies. The point that the Axis players could've made is that a viable on-map howitzer will force them into the same stale meta that Allied players have had to endure for years. It wasn't too bad if you played Soviets before they took the bombing run out of Mechanized, but it got bad even as Soviet after that. I'm not looking forward to autopicking Storm for the next 300 games because I see 7 B4 commanders in the 4 opponents loadouts every game.
I've made the suggestion a couple of times that howitzers should be given the same treatment as heavies, meaning a limit on them and possibly even a cooldown on building them. I hope that the balance team thinks about something like that instead of just nerfing the B4 and pretending everything is fine. As a point of reference, the balance team specifically made the Priest so that it could not be decrewed when Priest spam was a thing. They should've done that to all howitzers.
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- the thing is on arty war, Lefh alway got upper hand against every Alies Arty ( better scatter, shot per salvo, vet). Just use your mirco, sound and mini map to find their Arty.
- The reason everyone go for New B4 because how lovely it is in both old - current version. You cant stop people try and play with their RNG. Let it pass for 1 or 2 weeks to give a full picture of New B4.