Yeah I don't play OKW (I don't have them yet). But I play all other factions and against OKW and see that rak can be used quite successfuly and it is on par with other allied ATG.
It can be used successfully but it is by far not on par with allied ATG. A common tactic with raketen is to get at least 3 of them. I never heard that it is the same with Pak 40 or any other AT gun.
Sorry but looking at your rank you are either playing against\with people who don't know how to use the gun (and probably any ATG for that matter) or it might be you.
Maybe you actually start playing OKW instead of blaming others for not knowing on how to use a AT gun?
Raketen is a really good and balanced ATG. It can be used agressively thanks to cloak and retreat, it is really forgiving to use since you can always bail out with retreat. One can only complain if he uses it incorrectly. Though I understand that it's misssing more often than other guns and that may be an issue but nothing too serious.
Now back to topic:
From my point of view OKW is a bit UP f.e. because they lack a decent AT gun. I mean it is nice and dandy that your AT gun can cloak (and retreat) without having to choose a doctrine but it would be even better to have a raketen which doesn't miss 50% of all shots, is able to penetrate heavy tanks reliable like other fractions AT guns and doesn't decrew after 1-2 hits(I heard that this is because raketen offers no cover to its crew unlike other AT guns?)
Axis naturally have a faust screen while most allies either require side tech or veterancy (or none if you're brits) to protect yourself from LV attacks. You can effectively snare tanks as Axis while you get your panic AT gun out. Sure it costs munitions, but only munitions. SU has to side tech which slows down a counter while axis don't need to side tech to counter.
Allies have side techs, axis have higher teching up.
also if poor "Axis" has to build multiple pios to repair (psst. Sturms can speed up their repair with an upgrade and have a truck that will repair) what does the Soviet have to do?
Since we are talking about doctrinal tank smoke. What about Cons repair kit or self repair for tanks(or Repair Facility)?
Yeah I'm afraid I played 2v2 mostly, over 300 games as axis, and 500 as allies in 2v2 alone. But sure, lets pick out the 1v1 mode!
I am not the kind of guy who says "hurr durr you only played "X" matches in this mode or only have rank "X" in that mode (as long the other guy has at least played 2 vs 2 and acutally has played the fraction hes talking about) but since you started with the Playercard stuff ... . But whatever.
Blitz and Smoke make it hard to get a tank w/ AT nades as its zooming out of conscript AT nade range, have no non-doctrinal AT grenades for us to discuss.
1. Russian AT nades can be used through smoke(and if he is using blitz + smoke then he is spending a decent amount of ammo which will lack him later)
2. UKF will get AT nades for infantry next patch.
ram, a sacrificial lamb to take out an axis tank and even if it meant a suicidal attempt on the Soviet side of things the ram was nerfed so hard it's almost never used now. Sure, it was very powerful but nerfing something to the point it isn't viable anymore is just sad and ruins the asymmetrical goal of this game.
So are we now complaining about Tank smoke on axis vehicles or about T 34 ram ability not being able to kill tanks?
and judging by the numbers more people need to start complaining about allied factions unless you enjoy the search queues going back up to 80-90% axis and 10-20% allies huh?
Nothing against a justified complaint but complaining just to complain in order to switch the search ratio to the other side doesn't sound that nice to me.
I've been training a friend up to be viable at coh2, but his frustration with pop smoke has him begging me to queue as axis instead because he always finds the Wehr a far more reliable, solid faction that he can depend on.
I mean it is not like SU performs better than both, OKW and OST...
What I mostly do in order to counter pop-smoke is "hit the ground", AT nades or to chase him down with a tank.
Flame nades are completely different thing and are incomparable.
You don't build 5 UCs and upgrade flamers on them, but flame nade can hit you from any of multiple volks and put team weapon into death loop.
When was the last time you lost a MG due flamenades? (or when was your last real match at all?)
Also, I find it hilariously ironic that you claim puppchen can't counter UC reliably, but yet, you decided it'll be a good idea to bring up one example when you lost UC to the very puppchen you claim is ineffective against it.
As you may have noticed I wrote that it was my fault losing it in this scenario.
It was damaged and was way too close to the enemy. But nevertheless it helped me to force my enemy to fall back with most of his forces and thus allowing me to take the ammo, fuel and VP on my side.
The UC costs no fuel for the same reason the Kubelwagen costs no fuel: Relic decided to give these units a high manpower cost instead of a high fuel cost.
Which is a bad decision (at least when it comes to the UC) anyway. In my opinion there should be made some changes (not only to the price)
It has a flamethrower because the Royal Engineer squad doesn't. It's literally UKF's one garrison counter without an infantry flamer or a proper mortar.
Same goes for OKWs flame nades and yet ppl want to remove them. (Please do not get me wrong. I understand that flamer is needed on UC I just wanted to point out that UC has a big versatility compared to other early LVs)
It's a decent unit but if you really think it's impossible to deal with go play UKF and let your opponent teach you how to counter it.
Did I say it is impossible?
And I acutally did play UKF (1 vs 1 and 2 vs 2) and most times the UC is doing a pretty decent job. Can only really remember one situation where I lost him in the first few minutes and in this case it was 100% my fault(was too close near my enemys base while shooting at Volks and ignoring the warning of my senses that he'll get a raketen soon)
Could you show your playercard since you throwing others' around? Sound like a low rank 4v4 player
I am the one throwing others around? Sure ... I mean it is not like Katitof falsely accused me of not beeing able to break rank 2000 ... Also its kinda funny that you make fun of me because of my playcard while having 0 matches with OKW.
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