Nitpicking at its finest. The Jackson's gun is also not comparable to the tiger's, as they fill different roles (tiger is still probably UP in live, also not a hard at source like Jackson since it can kill infantry) and I said hard at options, not p4 (also somewhat UP). Panzerschrecks have way more pen than their allied counterparts, paks are better than the usf at gun and zis (not sure about the 6pdr) and those are the main vehicle counters, along with panther and jp4 (and stug spam).
Lol .50s cannot kill luchs, no matter which way you swing it. The ap rounds give it 25% more damage and 10 more penetration, which comes out to 20 damage and 16 penetration. Luchs had 55 armor and 35 rear armor. It can barely even rear pen it and even then it does 20 damage per hit, with the luchs having 400 hp. The luchs will also shred the .50 before it dies anyway.
Talk to the people who make and participate in tournaments. They will tell you it's skill. And they will also wreck you with any faction, because they are actually skilled, not cheesy abusers. I think I played you on Arnhem checkpoint today, a couple hours ago. You were brits and I was okw and I wrecked you without even making t4. You put piats on sections ffs, and the got wiped anyway by my luchs. Unless that wasn't you. "Heisenberg" was your steam name if it was.
Jackson is squishy af (80 more hp than a luchs), can't fight inf, and has only marginally more range than panthers and kts (the range difference is the size of a Molotov impact zone). They also get completely negated by jts and elefants.
Doctrine choice is very valuable to usf because they lack a lot of basic tools that doctrines give them. Garrison clearance, rocket arty, a heavy tank, advanced mediums, normal mines (ffs), a way to cut bleed (wc51, I end up with about 400 more mp when I use this thing well). That's not even going into all the other doctrinal stuff like offmaps, elite infantry, other abilities etc. I honestly believe that doctrine choice matters a lot more for usf (and brits to some extent) than any other faction because of this.
That's not nitpicking at all, i didn't compare jackson with king tiger, i compared jackson with jadgpanzer and king tiger with pershing.
You simply got debunked by facts....there is no WAY MORE penetration.
To complete...
http://www.stat.coh2.hu/weapon.php?filename=su85_d5t_85mm__mp
http://www.stat.coh2.hu/weapon.php?filename=sherman_firefly_76mm_mp
http://www.stat.coh2.hu/weapon.php?filename=jagdpanzer_iv_pak_42_75mm_mp
http://www.stat.coh2.hu/weapon.php?filename=stug_75mm_mp
http://www.stat.coh2.hu/weapon.php?filename=panzer_iv_kwk40_75mm_mp
http://www.stat.coh2.hu/weapon.php?filename=cromwell_75mm_mp
http://www.stat.coh2.hu/weapon.php?filename=tiger_kwk36_88mm_mp
http://www.stat.coh2.hu/weapon.php?filename=is2_d25t_122mm_mp
http://www.stat.coh2.hu/weapon.php?filename=m26_m3_90mm_gun_mp
USF at gun has the fastest ROF, MELTS mediums because penetration is just enough and has a muni ability that increase pen, like most of the stuff, just need a barely competent player.
Of course, it should fire like if is manned by jamaicans yet have high penetration....
20 damage, it comes up to 20 bullets to kill, and considering 30% of the bullets penetrate it by statistics (16/55x100 = 30%), It means 60 bullets in average considering pen rates, but used with a snare.....
YES, people have been using 50 cal against lights in liutenent builds and it works perfectly.
I find it unlikely:
1) Heisemberg HAS NOTHING to do with Heisenberg, the matematician or the Breaking Bad protagonist.
2) It's not my steam name anyway
3) Piats on IS, you play lvl 3 or something around ?
Jackson is a fast glass cannon, not being able to use it or use it by throwing it against unturretted tank destroyers isn't a balance argument.
The only tank destroyers that suffer from Ele/Jadg are su85 and, at some point, firefly, that can still manage to overcome those with tulips.
Because every faction has advanced mediums non doctrinal right (it's not just a brits thing), and not a single faction lacks the at and ai mine at all, and it's not like ALL heavy tanks are doctrinal but king tiger ?
Yes, usf SURELY lacks anti garrisons, i mean it only has:
1) smoke on mainline
2) smoke on mediums
3) smoke on mortar
4) tier 0 mortar barrage
5) proper grenades
6) the most powerful Howie, specifically built to demolish in 1-2 barrages buildings
7) non doc major arty as building killer
8) 2 doctrines with flamethrowers, both meta unlike brits and okw doctrines.
9) flare trap from major
10) a scott.
11) a mobile howie everybody get automatically as starting doctrine.