Profile of Sander93

Afaik it's caused by the pintle mount firing and reveiling the tank to the plane, after which the tank can be targeted even if no other units spot it. Lost a King Tiger because of this once. It's kinda unfair because even knowing this there's nothing that can be done as the pintle mount ignores the hold fire button.

wait, are demos dischardgable in the first place? 'Cause every time im trying to defuse it, soviet will blow it up with my pios squad.

Demos used to work like mines: infantry couldn't see them except with a minesweeper. Now they are revealed by proximity by all infantry and as long as the squad doesn't have a minesweeper equiped (it bugs out) it can shoot the demo to kill it.

Demos were nerfed like this because logically it's impossible to accompany all 3-5 infantry squads with a sweeper and squads would get wiped all the time, which was unfair. As opposed to the counter to teller mines, which is to have your 1 light vehicle accompanied by 1 sweeper, which is slightly unfair but very doable.


That said, I personally wouldn't mind tellers changed to 300-350 damage with medium/heavy engine crit so light vehicles can survive the initial hit (giving them at least a chance to escape) but will be easily finised off if there is a faust or any sort of AT nearby.

Daily reminder that we got Soviet demo nerfed because it wiped 250 MP squads for a little ammo price but its bad for ostheer mines to one shot kill 70FU 260? Light vehicles. And both had the same counterplay

Although I do not think tellers should OHK light vehicles, this argument has been rebuked many times before by the fact that the counters to demos and to tellers are not equal. For the teller mines you'd need one sweeper squad to accompany your one light vehicle, which is doable. Demos on the other hand couldn't be countered 100% because there would be 2-4 squads running around for every 1 sweeper squad.

Rekketen question I think its ROF is clearly an issue as well as its detection range. I think if we increase its detect-ability as well as maybe its ROF (either of but not both) would help deter armor but also not over punish b/c light vehicles cant back out quick enough before the second shot fires.

Its ROF is already the worst of all ATG along with the ZiS-3.

I would much rather have normal 60 range, slightly better aim time and decent crew protection. Then the stealth can be stationary only.

Sturmpios I believe the unit is fine outside of their early ability to grab a building and ez pz lock it down. maybe a 20-40 muni STG upgrade would work to help scaling.

Early aggression is also the only merit of Sturmpioneers, as they get outscaled very quickly by vetted/upgraded/concentrated infantry and after that point they become just really expensive engineers.

Counter-less recon is defo a problem and I would like some sort of way to counter.

Allied flares have the same problem. Recon flares should be reworked to just be a visual clue with the actual ability being increased sight range for units in the targeted area.

Obers I believe are fine.

Obers are not really fine, they come out too late and have a lot of trouble going up against vet2-3 enemy infantry. OKW T4 should be split up so Obers can be deployed much earlier from a 150MP/50FU setup with the AA gun upgrade, Ober LMG upgrade and armor being behind a 50MP/70FU upgrade. Moving Obers down to the early mid game would probably also allow for Volks opening to be nerfed a bit.

I believe some form of these changes / edits would help even it out but ofc not all of this has to come forward and OFC stuff is always up in the air but I agree OKW is rather easy to play compared to OST and allies. Thats not to say in 1v1 they aren't hard but 2v2+ they surely aren't as punishing as other factions.

OKW has plenty of gaps in their lineup that makes them arguably harder to play mid/late game than the much more rounded Ostheer, such as lacking a good AI vehicle or proper handheld AT infantry. It doesn't help that their HMG and ATG are basically trash (with camo cheese being the only thing that makes the ATG somewhat usable).

The AC tourney stats seem to comfirm Soviets are overperforming slightly, but consistently.

I think it would be interesting to test Soviet team weapons going down to 5 men. This still gives them a faction trait survivability increase in comparison to all other factions, while becoming a bit easier to counter for Axis. Especially late game as the 6 men crew gives them a huge advantage. It would also allow the Maxim to be buffed a bit.


Perhaps with or instead some minor nerfs to seemingly overperforming units, such as:
- T-70 wiping-on-retreats being toned down a bit;
- Guards moved to 3CP;
- SU-85 toned down a bit (sight or pen);
- Penals early game somehow toned down a tiny bit.