Profile of FelixTHM

Not really. You chase with a PIV at half health a T3476 with 1/4 of health. T76 fires and gets main gun destroy, PIV can't chase no longer and possible dies.

The problem is that suddenly tanks no longer have 640 HP rather than 480HP.

I wouldn't mind soft critical such as turret jam/lock, driver/gunner damage, etc. Main gun destroy is too binary on it's effect.

It can be even worse. P4 with 3/4 health brings a T34 down to 1/4 health and gives chase. T34 pens P4. P4 bounces or misses T34. T34 pens P4 again, triggering main gun crit.

Sometimes the stakes can go even higher. I've had one absurdly unlucky sequence of events. Diving his low health Panther with T34-85. After managing to rear-block him for the final shot, Panther + rak fired and brought T34-85 to main gun crit. T34-85 is destroyed and abandoned.

The swing was (490 + 185 fuel) + (380mp + 130 fuel) X 2.

The problem is that when you play this game thousands of times, a 5% chance of getting randomly fked over ends up being quite a lot of occurrences.

In 1v1 Everybody seems to be giving up on penals myself included

But why though? I'm still using Penals + scout car openings. It's especially effective against Ost players who go ass grens or skip T1 for quick pgrens and OKW players in general.

Thanks for the info, i appreciate it.

And do you not see it? Players spamming Engineers? They will have like, 4 on the field, they wreck havoc

Tbh that is one of the worst possible builds I can think of. Even getting a 2nd sturmpio is relatively uncommon and off-meta.

Are you playing 4 v 4? Maybe it's possible in such game modes to spam sturmpioneers and be the designated team "repair guy", I dunno.

Is there some unit USF has that costs considerably less than OST or OKW's counterpart? I can't think of a single one besides maybe RE vs Strums. I can think of many Axis though that outpreform what USF has. Is it some inalienable right for the Axis factions to get both inexpensive and quality units?

Best HMG? 50 cal. Lightning fast setup and tear down, high damage, good suppression, vet 0 AP rounds which massacre Ost LVs and Pumas/halftracks. Flak halftrack literally dies on the 2nd burst.
Best TD? Jackson.
Best mainline inf in current patch, early game? USF Riflemen.
Best mainline inf in current patch, late game? USF Riflemen.
Best infantry support gun? Pack howitzer.
Best mobile infantry support gun? Scotts.
Best scout car? m20.
Best all-rounder Light Vehicle? Stuart
Best anti-infantry tank? HE Sherman, with 4.0 AOE whilst P4 has 2.5 AOE, and incredible performance on the move, compared to Ostwind which is deadly when stationary but has terrible moving accuracy.

Hey, it seems like cherry-picking very specific factors in which one faction is better than others is not only super easy, but really fun. Not only do units have different costs and different roles, they also come at different timings and have different tech requirements.


The thing about CODGUY is that when Double-bar Rifles run up to vet 5 stg Volks in green cover and massacre them, "it's fair because I paid 120 munitions and a small one-time tech cost".
When Pack Howitzer deletes a gren squad with a single shell, "it's an expensive and easy to kill unit so it's fair that it's super potent".

When your 380 manpower 140 fuel P4 defeats his 340 manpower 110 fuel Sherman which was on HE mode and didn't use smoke, "it's overpowered".
When your Panzerwerfer manages to kill a team weapon that didn't bother to pack up and retreat, "Axis rocket artillery so OP".

He's also the type who thinks P4s are the counter to Jacksons - because if both units spawn within 20 range of each other in cheat mode, the P4 wins.

P4 has less reload than T34/76. And double the health would equalize that one T34/76 will likely do half the damage as a P4 due to chance to pen. So yes on paper the (OKW) P4 will still win in a vacuum due to less reload. I know that you can flank in game but the match-up between two T34s and one OKW P4 is way harder than Felix makes it out to be.

A thoroughly unfair criticism, since I was simply rebutting Mr. Someguy's claim and poorly-worded example. I never "made it out to be" anything, as I was merely responding to a grossly-exaggerated claim.

Which if you had bothered to examine, constituted a single OKW P4 waltzing in, taking on 2 T34-76s, killing one of them, and leaving with supreme ease mostly unmolested. That already presupposes the targeted T34-76 was somehow incapable of retreating. Or that a diving P4 would survive with its rear armour exposed to the 2nd T34. Or that a diving P4 would, while moving and firing against a moving target, hit as well as pen reliably. Or that the OKW P4 can kill a T34-76 and easily extricate itself from the situation whilst the other T34-76 mourns the death of its partner.

While I definitely recognise the massive advantage conferred by having a qualitatively superior unit, the example crafted was simply ludicrous. With Soviets my biggest issue is usually the repair time of my T34s, and not the fact that I'm losing medium tank fights 2 vs 1.