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Then everybody will go smoke+flag cap - no risk & high reward.

One mortar/grenade or tank shot and hello dead squad.

Make t3 cheaper.
Put T70 behind 7 man sidetech so that M5 and SU76 come sooner and maybe actually are attractive but also skipping the T70 makes t4 hit a bit sooner. Not like the t34 with its inability to bounce any axis hard AT but the Puma will be overbearing if a bit sooner anyways...
. And again to reiterate making the su76", a soviet stug E, is as stupid as stupid ideas come. Let's lump that right in with stock 5 man grens..

And farewell T-70...if T3 will be cheaper with lock t-70 in upgrade, it will make only one thing - players entirelly skip any armor in T3 and build fast T4. Zis, baby-at guns and ptrs enough to hold any axis LV. Also it will be mean that from T1 you can only play defensive doc, because 7-th cons don't have sense for penals. It don't make SU-76 popular. M5 maybe, but don't SU-76. I already told before that SU-76 can even put in T0. No one will be build it as start unit. Any possible enemies next 4-5 minutes after deploy t-70 or SU-76 are infantry, team weapon and sometimes LV. SU-76 don't give you AI - no AI - no map control. The most earlier axis armor you can see in game flameht or 222. Do you need SU-76 to counter them?

Tbh T-70 could have nerfed down AI capabilities, buff its AT to make it more usefull against mediums. It would be wost at AI (but still usable), better at overall AT. Maybe even add somesort of AT ability. In other words mix between stuart and puma. Decent at both.

While SU-76 could use brummbar attack model, to make it mobile AI howi.

I this case:
M5 - mobile reinforcement\Suppresion platform.
T70 - decent LV counter with AI capabilities.
SU76 - dedicated AI support unit.

Problem is all AI and AT of T3 is concentraded in T-70, at all all you need by the time you can get it. And by the time something what cant be countered by T70 at all hits the field you already would have T4 or AT guns if you gone T2.

T3 is in general badly designed for soviets.

It sounds as good idea in right direction. If SU-76 will become main AI dealer in T3, while still not so mobile and friendly to use as old-70, it can find place. Then Axis could counter LV SU push much easier and don't suffer from T-70 that can kill any LV that axis have.

Main idea should be: T-70 could work as AI and AT vs LV, but SU-76 as AI much better. While SU-76 give for SU player good AI and support tools (smoke barrage as example) it still vulnerable to enemy LV and save possibility for Axis player to counter SU-76 by 222 or Luchs.

Has anyone played the open beta? What are your impressions of the game? At first I was interested in the game, but the simplified gameplay for the sake of the controller pushed me away.

I played and palying. Game changed pretty well from what i saw in alpha videos. 1v1 much faster than in coh2 (25-30 minutes if opponents both good, if not 10-15 minutes). In fact, game have future if it will be support by devs. IMHO in late-game you have 10-12 squads and controlling all of them even with mouse and keyboard much harder than in coh2. I don't understand how do this with controller. But some folks says that it not harder.

Game have balance issues and issues with unit control - not so responsive control like in coh. Sometimes you need hit Retreat twice to cancel current action and start retreating. Team weapon too slow but powerfull. 1 AT canon can easily kill top-mech, if you not carefull. All base infantry and team weapons have equal abilities. Difference only in special infantry (available only for this fraction in barracks -medics for saxons, flamers for rus and machinegunners for polania) and exos. Rusviet exos now very strong and i think will be nerfing. They can kill armor and infantry and have very high mobility due rocket jumps.

Interesting mechanic with weapon drops. Any infantry have 100 HP, but different combat stats, if you enges take flamers you will get 5 man flamer squad. There is tip with making from veteran soldier veteran enges by taking enges equipment (they repair much faster and can build improved bunkers). Mechs can moving back (hold C and click right button) and retreat to your base. 4 different armor - non-armor, light, medium, heavy. There is back armor.

3 fractions, mirrors included. In current situaion most powerfull rusviet and saxons, especially saxons with their OP hero. But it will be patch soon, that will fix some issues (nerf rusviet soldiers - they now kills any mainline in close combat without efforts, nerf saxon hero - easily kill now any non-top mechs and infantry, buffs for some units).

Tournament for 7k euro will be soon (in this Saturday starts matches for the place in tournament). I think game will be fine, at least i don't see now non-solving issues. Most problems lays in balance and control. For balance just needed big games base for statistic. For control - few patches.

don't know if its possible, but a suggestion: historically Su-76 was used mostly as a mobile artillery, with some tank killing too ofc.

how about changing it into a true multirole tank that it was?
making it like a mortar half-track and tank hunter?
removing the current barrage ability, for more slow firing, longer range, higher arcing shells. like a mortar team.
could function just like a mortar half-track, keeping the AT function, but both functions would have less performance than true AT, or true mortar.

It maybe possible decision: T-70 for aggressive AI, while SU-76 more defensive backsitting unit, like StugE or HTMortar, but not so mobile and potent. Smoke sheels, regular slow-flying HE shells, like StugE. And some AT ability to make it potent against light vehicles.
But again SU-76 need rework to find at least place in the game. Simple buffs not working in this way. Any strong buffs in current state make spamming again.