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.50 cal is good because it has very good supression and set up / pack up time. You are welcome Blvckdream.

Honestly I think the volks price could be reverted back to 250 without much a problem. Issue is always gonna be their vet 1 imo.

This is offtopic, not really about Falls, sorry:
Imho what makes Volks strong is the ability to build sandbags and deny enemy sandbags with lavanade. While I like that one can change the map to benefit him/her in future engagements, sbags are pretty powerful and them being available to some units and not other units can make the power gap. What if sandbags were available to mostly engineer units? The problem I see is that engineers are usually overloaded with laying/sweeping mines and repairing vehicles and might not have time to build cover.

Hi,

some of us might have seen the video that tightrope made about a week ago about the new patch. He performed a basic test of Pak howie autofire vs afk volk squad. In the video, the squad got almost wiped after about 1m30s of continued autofire. Imho it's an RNG-cannon now.

I may be overreacting, but I wish recon support paratroopers would come without it.

Did you have a chance to use it in games or have it used against you? What are your observations?

Link to the video: https://youtu.be/ww_LlWDMkVI?t=1507

Increased heavy tank presence in 2v2+ with improved scatter and AOE makes AT guns underperform in their AT role vs heavies. Not only do these AT guns' shots bounce on heavy armour, but the weapon crew itself gets killed frontally by heavies. AT guns can't kite. Ever increasing presence of elite infantry like earlier Obers or Falls (due to earlier arrival) or units armed with weapons with great moving accuracy also mean that AT gun is lost the moment infantry comes within range of fire as the AT gun models drop easily. Ideally, an AT gun should never be in range of small arms fire, but with sprint abilities or camo such situations may happen and they are very punishing, maybe even too much considering AT gun cost range is 270-320 MP. AT guns are also the juciest arty target, all of us have lost some due to Katy or Pwerfer fire. AT guns being unreliable in late game is yet another reason why TDs are so popular.

You can throw your L2P at me, but AT gun preservation is the hardest form of unit preservation in this game imho. I think the damage reduction could be implemented with AT gun vet. IF grens can have it, why not the AT guns, especially that the shield was supposed to help the AT gun crew with shrapnels too. Or maybe the new heavies should be toned back down AI wise? I think that OP brought a pretty cool subject for discussion.

Also pulling back an AT gun for reinforcement or healing on larger maps takes more time.

I honestly find all the information in this topic very interesting. Thank you for digging the info and sharing it. I always had a feeling that lower RA/model squads like Tommies are more forgiving when getting a burst from MG42 than conscripts, as if they would take longer to suppress but it could be just my feeling and I could be wrong. Your test results are intriguing though.