Profile of Protos Angelus

People like to say that the Combined arms affects the Pershing balance wise. And they are correct in a sense. However, that is mostly a 1v1 problem where it's actually useful as there are no 2x raketen + 2x paks in lanes. One can make the same argument for the Falls and their "buff all infantry" ability Valiant Assault. I've always seen okw popping valiant assault and blobbing falls + volk or two and melting 2x vet3 rangers in 6-7 seconds in yellow cover.
There are a couple of proofs:
1) OKW Winrates compared to previous patches have grown
2) A few months ago there were a lot of AI tests, Tiger vs Pershing, where the Tiger won. Pershing only having the occasional clumped up shock value
3) Combined arms promotes blobbing which is easily counterable in teamgames, unless you send one or two infantry squads with the Pershing and just lose because you have no proper AI power
4) Behold, Rifle company is still among the least picked commanders in the loadout, let alone actually playing with it

I mean, it's no surprise that the balance team is incompetent and in my view, biased AF, but the last two patches didn't really do anything. I don't play COH2 a lot, a game or two per day, but in each and every one I see at least 2x Sturmtigers that vet up to 5 in 5 to 7 minutes. Of course, I play only 3v3 but still, I don't want to imagine what sturm does from FOW with that range in 4v4

Current 1v1 winrates are pretty well balanced, with every faction having around 50% winrate, give or take a few .%
The teamgames is sitting pretty with 55%+ for axis, which is much larger than any margin of error and the over-performing units are those which are not picked in 1v1 anyway.

I'm pretty sure that buffing the survivability through armour or agility on the Pershing would not make it over-perform in 1v1s.

Ahh yes top 10 rank in 3v3 SOV among other things = garbo.

Guess I should quit the OKW 3v3 ladder then, I still get lectured basic OKW concepts lectured to me every now and then lol.

He is a good player, but I've just played with a pos 4 soviet player that blobbed 4 penals and 2 T3485s and lost all of them to one bombing run xD then quit. It's chaotic the skill difference in some factions

Both B4 and Sturmtiger should be capped to 2 Models with the exception of Team Weapons.

This would make these units more fair to deal with and give them more of an anti team weapon role as oppossed to anti everything nuclear launch activated unit that they both are at the moment.

That would promote blobbing even more. Imagine blobbing 21 conscripts and knowing that a fu***** NUKE will only kill 6 models, 2 of each squad. I'm fine with Sturm wiping everything in the AOE, however, the AOE is too large. Alongside the self spotting and 40 range with veterancy, it's crazy OP in teamgames. Especially now that it can shoot over obstacles much more proficiently. Sturm is 8 hit hp pool with a good chunk of armor that only TDs can penetrate. If you combine it with the fact that OKW has the super aggressive raketen which can retreat after the initial salvo on the fronlines, you have a sturdy AT/AI line that will not be broken unless you spam 2 rocket arty on the whole area before-hand (which only soviets can do stock) ON MOST TEAMGAME MAPS.

Both AVRE and Sturm should have clear advantages/disadvantages. Sure the AVRE has a turret, but unless the ST is snared (rarity), the turret is the same as the ST rotating it's hull in the general direction, and then the turret. I mean, it's a 50 degree arc. Unless you're shooting at something directly in front of you, the arc is large enough that the turretlessness on ST is negligible (lines extending the further you are).
Both AVRE and ST should have clear advantages and both need some reworks in lines of:
1) Increasing aim-time by a 1.5s
2) Normal 35 sight at all veterancies
3) Fire range 35 at all vet
4) Slight AOE reduction in both. Sturm keeps the larger AOE due to lack of turret
5) Reloading both makes them be completely immobile. If you cancel the reload (in order to get out of danger), it takes it about 2-3 seconds

Side note: Same should be done with the hull-down. There should be a delay from the time you exit hull-down and being able to drive/shoot. Right now you can hull-down, get all the advantages, and if in danger, just quickly zip away out of hull-down and drive away. Or just make the hull-down to be a channeled ability.

This thread killed off some of my braincells. This is why you should study kids, so you don't go spewing BS like the current thread.
Except for the Pershing needing either an armour buff to 290 OR an MG buff so it's AI is overall not the same as the Tiger's, this whole comparison is so braindead. Panther's are expensive and designed to fight heavies mano-a-mano. A tank like Jackson is cheaper than the Panther, much less durable, and has virtually no AI, but for the price you get 60 range to effectively fight Tigers and King Tigers. IS-2 is a wildcard in the AI department. If you miss, the long reload will punish you, but if you hit, you do really hit.
Tiger is probably the best heavy tank in the game, by far, but making it fight the Panther is moronic.

Also, range is highly bound to sight. Except for some ground target action, most of the time you will need something in front of the TDs or premium tanks to screen for the extra range they have.

Sturmtiger needs to have a weakness. Right now it's one of the most oppressive tanks in COH2. Played vs 3x sturms and 3x KTs right now and it was not fun at all. Shooting from fog of war, over hedges and sightblockers. Bouncing pretty much everything below a TD and wit the HP to back it up. Not to mention heat shells for JP4s.

In the teamgame format, it has no weaknesses. The AOE is large enough that even if you retreat the moment you see it, chances are the AOE will get 3+ models or more if you have 2 squads in control. It's not fun when you are winning for 35 minutes but can't really get that VP lead only to be completely broken by the cheese heavy tank spam. Why not reintroduce KT/SturmT choice? Why not add some sort of counterplay vs it that does not boil down to "spend 3x the worth of resources of a sturmtiger to kill one"