Out of the t34 p4 wich gets penned far more feqently and wich gets armour bonusses with vet? The p4 does. The p4 has a higher chance to bounce a zis tje a t34 has of bouncing a pak shot. In the t34s case its 0%. A vetted p4 can bounce lower vet zis3 and su76. The p4 has many many doctrines wich give ptac, wich greatly increases its survivability for a small muni fee and tiny micro tax.
Not saying t34 is bad but its cheap for a reason.
Also that you have to say a well micro t34 can handle a pak40. A less well microed p4 wich has much better dps overall and reguraly kills multyple models in on shot can handle a zis better because its ai dps is not on its bow mg.
Pnz4 armor bonus doesn't hold with the extra price it costs. It doesn't perform better than T34. Not saying Pnz4 is bad, but it simply doesn't has the correct price. If is would survive 5 Zis hits instead of 4 maybe.
And as I said, look at the support of the PaK40. Soviets can hold better. e.g. I never saw a german Tank trying to road-kill a Penal with upgrade, while it is easy with T34 to roadkill PnzGrens or Grenadiers because of Faust-animation.
A a gren or pgrens squad is also a lot better at clearing out a zis then sov cons or penal crear out a pak40. The tricky part is getting them there at full health esp pgrens or lob their fantastic wiping nades. In fact ost excels in near or one hit wipes. Riflenade bundle nade teller smines to an extent brumbar and pwerfer all are quite capable in this regard.
The only option soviet have non doc is a lucky siz or su76 arty barrage. But that fine cus of 6 men squads acros the board.
Dont forget the 6men squad, also Zis can support the defensive by barrage.
Geballte Ladung of PnzGrens isn't much better than normal non-doc grenade of Brits. It is no wiping nade, it is overpriced and has worse range in comparison. I can't hear "wiping-nade" anymore, it is simply not true.
Yep, Tellermines are good. Shouldn't fuck T70 instant, but T70 shouldn't be that op as well. Sad situation.
S-mines have shields.
Brummbär is good, but also a joke. Scot can perform same way, while beeing in save distance and be protected by 60 range tank-hunters.
Try normal soviet mortar, you will counter Ostheer's mortar with ease.
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In fact Ost and West lost all real advantages they had in their fraction design, while not getting micro benefits or real alternatives outside of commanders. It is my favorite argument, for me the fraction-design faild after these 7 years of balancing.
Merge is without a doubt ussefull. But its only transvering hp. Nothing more. You still end up paying antyhing from 17mp to a 100mp.
Preventing pressure is a very powerful ability. Also preventing the Vet. Same for Maxim with 6men, able to manage a battle way longer, because they don't have fear real grenades and maxim is more or less ignoring counter-suppression. If Ostheer also gets 6 men squad at Maxim it would be game-breaking as hell, because it is a good weapon.
As for they katty being better i do not agree. The katty is more vunerable because it has even less armour and small arms hurt it reliably. Its only good at wiping in a very short range barrage. Its barrage is spread out over a much longer time. It has no turret and cant benefit from something like ptac wich to my knolidge the werfer can. The one advantidge for the katty is the shorter travel time of the rockets.
For me it sounds like Katjusha is better. Because also PnzWerfer has to shoot up to min-range. And then the Katjusha has way more potential while fighting versus smaller squads.
As for the abilities of werfer and katty. Both are pretty usseles. If the werfers gets changed so should the katties.
I see it the same.
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All together, I am modding this game since years, playing it since years. There are so many unfair mechanics simply are a joke never got fixed.
e.g. Remove UHU when it isn't possible to fix the minimap-bug and overwork its.
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