Profile of ikab

Always good fun when the player who builds AAHT vs Brit/Americans and plants his schwerer on an open road in view of AT guns decides it's entirely your fault your team lost and starts attack grounding your infantry and buildings.

+1

Ram isn't OP at all, you're usually sacrificing a tank with it. Its the follow up after that's potentially a problem

Ram in itself isn't necessarily OP, it's the combo with off-map that has no counter which is essentially a guaranteed heavy tank kill on most 2v2 maps that is the problem.

Sacrificing a 90 fuel tank for a 240+ fuel tank is generally a trade you want to make.

The T34 + Ram combo is far too effective against heavy tanks in 2v2, in particular the OKW heavy tanks like the King Tiger and the Jagdtiger that, once rammed, can't escape the subsequent indirect (either IL20 or rocket strafe) because of their lack of speed.

It is ridiculous that ~3 minutes worth of fuel income and munitions income can take out 9 minutes worth of opportunity cost and fuel income. It is also especially egregious because it has effectively no counter; once the ram begins, every heavy tank the axis get other than the Tiger will die to the combo; this is partly why the Tiger is essentially the only heavy Axis tank built in high level 2v2s.

Possible ways to balance the combo:

- Remove Ram. I would recommend this the most: The T34 is an excellent unit that is about as effective as all the other mediums in the game, and soviets have excellent late game besides the T34. The T34 does not need ram. Ram is an artifact of the era in balance when T34s were half the effectiveness of the Panzer 4 and most of the soviet late game AT would be dealt with AT guns, heavy tanks or the SU85/76.
- Remove the stun from Ram; it now only slows for a set amount of time, enough so that a heavy tank can escape on a standard 2v2 map before the indirect hits.
- Reduce the amount of damage the rocket strafe/IL-20 does to heavy tanks. I don't like this option beacause I think these abilities should do lots of damage heavy tanks, it just becomes unbalanced when paired with an ability that makes these indirect options unavoidable.

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Fusiliers are the best unit in the game, anybody who tells you otherwise is a nerd.

Who wouldn't want 2 CP volks? No I mean literally they're 2 CP volks, their DPS profile is exactly the same. Did I mention that the G43 is worse than the STG at almost very range except very close? Volks ->>> Dumpstered. They get flares but a better doctrine (Spec ops) gets even better flares for cheaper.

So in summary Fusiliers are the best unit in the game. 70% chance ur a nerd if u think otherwise. NO buff needed.

Edit: Looking at the unit more seriously, it is impossible to make this unit better for the reasons Jae covered. OKW already get amazing early game and then Obers late game. Very difficult to give them anything in between, especially in the doctrine that gives OKW Jagdtiger.