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It's funny how people who have no idea about the game have ruined this forum by making everything about Axis fanboys vs Allies fanboys.

the only one here who has no idea what hes saying is the one saying penetration and armor is useless...

I need to elaborate: In practice armor doesn't really make that much of a difference when it comes to mediums because you cannot expect your tank to bounce ATGun shots. So you still have to calculate with 4 shots -> dead when making decisions. Armor onyl comes into play when the mediums battle each other 1v1 or one gives chase to the other. Both of these situations don't happen frequently.

soo are we arguing about penetration or armor? because your argument has 0 application on the major advantage of the Panzer 4 over the T-34 (which is penetration)

saving 30-50 fuel compared to their axis counter parts goes a long way. Yes they are not even close to the best medium but reaching a critical mass adding other t4 vehicles is very easy, ram and cap on top makes them very versatile.
IM not sure about this, but isnt the p4 and t34 usually out around the same time cause soviets get a t70?

while agree they are effective when mass they would still lose to an equivally priced mass of panzer 4s pretty handedly... where the T-34 really excells at is fighting panthers and tigers due to ram + offmap/AT nade/SU-85 combos... but against panzer 4s? the T-34 is actually not efficient...

yeah the soviets get the T-70... after being bullied for 20 minutes by the lack of weapon upgrades and the impotent machinegun (airborne soviet need not apply)

t34/76 is the most cost efficient tank in the game and zis gun is op, there isnt really something to argue about that.

If you want to disagree with GiaA's statement that soviet is OP i suggest you start mentioning healing and ostruppen

well cheap at 90 fuel doesnt mean its the best or the most cost efficient... its very lethal infantry and it wrecks heavies in ram + offmap combos... but the P4 is much better vs vehicles and arrives earlier/at the same time as the T-34 due to teching cost... the sherman on the other hand has a good gun superb HE self repair and directable smoke...

yes the T-34 is a good tank but its impact is reduced because of expensive sov teching...

1. Because you generally play a green cover negating sniper vs brits. Try that vs soviets. You need to outclass your opponent by at least one level to make it work.

uhh why? tommies can do 90% of what cons can do except snare and oorah in exchange for being able to bully everything except a rifle squad...

2. Manpower reinforce cost reduction is completely insignificant either way.

soo the manpower cost reduction of 7 man is completely insignificant with both of them being -2 mp

3. Maxim isn't hot trash. You make it seem like a meme unit. It's not. It's not good but has its uses.

is it a crime for the soviets to have a good machinegun?

4.I was only responding to your point that it is not a no brainer upgrade. Never said the otehr factions don't have no brainer weapon uprades.

then 7 man being no brainer isnt exactly a soviet strength since literally everyone else gets no brainer upgrades...

1. Merging Flamethrower - Insanely strong vs OKW because it doesnt have early suppression

at the price of not having nondoc weapon upgrades on infantry

2. Sandbags - Cons behind sandbags are the most cost efficient unit in the game, you need at least two close range infantry squads to dislodge them

everyone but USF gets nondoc sandbags and tommies would like to have a word with you

3. Mines - the wide availability of mines due to low ammonution needs and cheap engineers requires axis to sweep all their attack routes and doesn't let them cap freely on the flanks without risking wipes, sufficient sweeping is almost impossible when you only have one sweeper as OKW, a second Sturmpio ruins the army composition due to terrible OKW pop cap

OKW gets mines and OST gets even better mines

4. ZIS Gun - two of these combined with mines, at nades and t70 vision keep any realistic amount of medium armor away, they also severely limit Axis ability to use support weapons aggressively and offer significant late game wipe potential both thanks to the broken barrage ability

yeah the zis is strong since it has barrage but its DPS and penetration is kinda low for an AT gun soo it doesnt exactly come without drawbacks

5. T70 - Super reliable Anti Infantry, very high wipe potential, insanely strong vision ability, only weakness is timing

yep the T-70 is strong

6. Trip Wire Flares - with ammunition barely playing a role for soviets these can be spammed everywhere, kill+vision is too cost efficient

ehh no opinion on this... but yeah the flares are considered good

7. Pop Cap - 100 Pop soviet army straight up beats 100 pop OKW army, 100 Pop Soviet vs 100 Pop Wehr is at least equal in strength and way easier to play

wehr lategame just recieved several buffs such as more brummbar armor and cheaper T4 reinforcement and capping

8. KV1 - Insanely strong combined with ZIS

yeah the KV-1 is really gucci

9. KV2 - Wipe machine, unbeatable on certain maps (Brummbär is similar in that he excels on certain maps like Elst in 2v2 or Bayeux Assault in 1v1, but Brummbär is much harder to use)

the KV-2 isnt as meta as something like an IS-2 or a tiger... granted urban defense is a strong commander

10. T34/76 - Way cheaper than P4 but does the exact same thing, direct battles between the two rarely ever happen anyways and even then T34 isn't much weaker, very easy to reach critical mass with these

the T-34-76 is good unit but compared to the panzer 4 the T-34-76 would actually come later than the panzer 4 because soviet teching is more expensive than OST teching... as a result when the panzer 4 faces the T-34-76 it is usually forced into a backfoot role of flank defense as opposed to a proper medium tank

11. T34/85 - Strongest medium in the game?

definitely

12. Dshka - Broken

its the only usable soviet machinegun... buff the maxim into a proper machinegun then you can nerf the DSHK

13. Ram + AT Arty/AT Strafe - obviously op

ram is probably the best use for the T-34-76... if you want ram gone then you need to give it something else like APCR rounds else it literally will not be used

14. 7men cons - nobrainer update that can be easily afforded most of the time and has no real trade offs and makes it almost impossible for Soviets to lose infantry late game

it has trade offs
1. it doesnt have the DPS of weapon upgrades/pickups like the SVT/LMG42/34/bar/M1919/bren/stg/DP-28 having lost its reload buff in cover soo its DPS is purely from the additional 1x mosin nagant whereas the DP-28 has thrice the DPS of a mosin while the LMG-42 is almost twice as strong as a DP-28...
"Reload cover bonus from the Mobilize Reserves has been removed."
2. it still requires reinforcement to hit seven man
3. it comes soo late to all of these weapon upgrades that the upgrade if anything needs to come much sooner... maybe T1/2 + sidegrade unlock