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This came up in the shoutbox, and should probably be addressed.

The 1.3 patch came with a clever change for medium tanks: reduced target size, making them all a bit more survivable. Specialist vehicles like the Firefly and the Sherman Bulldozer did not receive this buff: they've got extra range/health/armour already.

But this is also a buff to an upgrade that should never have existed in the first place: the Bulldozer Attachment for the basic Sherman.

For those who don't know, you spend a little fuel and lose a little mobility. In return, the basic 76mm Sherman gets premium medium's armour and can take an extra 160 damage AT hit, which lets it handily beat enemy mediums.

The existence of this thing undermines every other premium medium in the USF lineup. It's got all the durability and utility of the 106 Sherman Bulldozer, but keeps its AT capability. It beats Panzer IVs as handily as a 76mm or Easy Eight, but unlike those two gets to keep its HE rounds. If you go Urban Assault, it gets the Comet's White Phosphorus too.

This is like looking at OKW Mechanized and deciding it needs a 70 FU vehicle with the Luchs' AI, the Puma's AT, and the ability to frontally wipe ATGs. It's an awful design.



At a bare minimum, teching the dozer upgrade should revert the Sherman's target size to 23. There's no justification for this thing having a better target size than the 105 when it gets to steal its armour and health.

Better still, remove this thing from the game entirely. Mechanized really doesn't need it, and Urban Assault can have the thematically appropriate and sadly overused Sherman 105.

All of these points are so laughably bad and easily deconstructed I don't even know where to begin.


Lets start with using correct terminology first. You're referring to the non-docrinal M4A3 75mm Sherman getting the doctrinal dozer blade upgrade found on the also doctribal 105mm Sherman. The doctrinal 76mm Sherman doesn't get this upgrade. There is no 106mm Sherman.

The upgrade probably brings it on par with a standard Wehrmacht Panzer IV, with the Pamzer IV having a better gun while the dozer Sherman has better armor and health. The cost of the Dozer Sherman exceeds that of the OST P4. The vehicle is still greatly inferior to the OKW P4J as well as a Vet 2 OST P4. It is simply no match for a Panther which goes without saying, and neither is any USF vehicle besides the Pershing and even that is 50/50.

The AP/HE shell mechanic is inferior to the P4's main gun being effective against all targets without the need to waste time switching ammo. This is especially true for the P4J.

The Dozer Sherman, like any Sherman, is easily countered by properly placed AT guns or Stugs, and also any double Shreck sqauds out there.

It's rather amusing to see people have trouble against this little tank with it's little dozer blade.

Some obvious problems with this unit:

- too strong for a stock unit: so if you are playing USF they will outpreform any infantry unit you can field except for Paratroopers. They will beat Riflemen, Rangers, Cavalry Riflemen (and their available around the same time as this unit). They're also going to outpreform Conscripts (no surprise here), Penals, and give Shocks a run for their money (although these work as a decent counter if playing Soviets). Brits have now pathetic Infantry Sections so those aren't any kind of threat, and by the time Commandos hit the field they're probably at Vet 3 so they'll overpower them too. Really not much out there will kill them 1v1.

- They've got too many abilities: While they're among the best infantry in the game, they also can be equipped with the overkill double Panzerschrek upgrade. The upgrade is only 100 munitions, and before you say "that's the same price as two bazookas or PIATs", just remember panzerschreks can actually kill vehicles unlike those other two poorly preforming AT weapons. This superior AT ability combined with its low cost and more fragile allied vehicles means only two or three upgraded panzergrens will one shot a Sherman or get close. The other problem is they retain much of their AI abilities even after this upgrade. When grouped together they lay waste to tanks and infantry alike. They also still retain their bundle grenade.

- They are available too soon: this is a problem with many elite Axis infantry. I do not understand why this community thinks it necessary for Axis elite infantry to always be more assess able and available sooner than their Allied counterparts, especially the western allied factions. Upgrading a Riflemen saqud with two BARs or an Infantry Section with two Brens most certainly will NOT make these into elite infantry units.

Soviets don't even have a T4. Neither does USF. Really the only T4s are with OST, OKW, and maybe Brits.

It's called asymmetrical balance.


It's called asymmetrical balance. And there's nothing "super OP" about an early HMG for factions that need it, like Ostheer and UKF.


How on earth is the unit that safeguards you from needless low-HP MP bleed - allowing you to stay in engagements - and saves you MN for healing compared with some other factions, useless? Are you trolling or do you even know what ambulance does?

I hate L2P comments but there's nothing else one can respond with to this silliness.

I didn't mean to say the ambulance was useless over all, actually it is a very useful unit later on but as a starting unit it is way too expensive to be of any use. It can't fight, has almost no armor or health, it's slow as hell, and healing isn't that important early on. So why the hell is a 250 MP 10 fuel unit like this even available at T0?

I agree 100% give them 4 bars from the start

That would still be less OP than a T0 MG42.