Maxim will win vs the mg42 in a building duel because the maxims Supression won't apply and it's damage will. It will simply outlast the mg42. Oddly all allied mgs are pretty good against garrisons.
That is mostly true, however it depends a little on RNG.
But mostly u use MG not in duels with other MG, and not in clearing garrisons, but in blob-stopping. And maxim is much worse in this - less firing arc, less suppression. |
hoohho hoohohoho https://imgur.com/VE15qPE  cons are still the most cost efficient unit in the game thanks to their vet and being 6 man
This is DPS graph, and we're talking about suppression. MG42 has 0.012 and maxim has 0.0065, which is almost double less. So maxim is far worse in dealing with blobs. |
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Yeah, osttruppen don't get faust by default. But osttruppen are doctrinal, and i've only seen one or two times in my life when OST player used osttruppen only))) Almost always OST gets T1, where faust are included. |
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I think sturmpios are pretty much fine. Yes, they give OKW good starting pressure power, but they are counterable, and expensive. Losing them early is a heavy blow to OKW build up. Allied player should always keep in mind where SP are and focus them down first, for they have good DPS.
But since the volks are pretty strong now, maybe givind OKW volks as a first unit (and +50 start MP) will work good? In this way OKW player will actually have to decide wich unit to get. For what i see now - in 80% games OKW just continiously get volks. |
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Maxim wins vs MG42 in covered battle. Yeah, that happens often. But MG duels are not what MGs for. MGs are for dealing with "massed infantry" as the in-game descripton says. Massed infantry is blobs, right? So MGs are for dealing with blobs, not with other MGs. And the main problem with maxims is low suppression power. Often it cannot stop massed infantry heading right in the front. |
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As OST u need tier 1 to have fausts, but if u don't have tier 1, you don't have grens to fire fausts, so it's incorrect to count 80 MP and 10 FU as a price for faust. This is not a side tech, u build a base to get grens and voila! - grens automatically have fausts. |
Then people will only build HMGs, like soviets did long time only builds maxims as mainline infantry.
Yeah, there was a problem of maxim spam. But the solution of unit spamming is not making it bad i'd say. It's making the spam punishable and maybe more expensive.
I'd say the only MG that's working as it should is OST MG42. All other MGs, icluding HMG34, are inferior.
They may deal more damage, have more men, have faster set up, but they do lack in the HMG main purpose - suppression.
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The prioritize vehicles on the KV-2 doesn't seem to work, and I don't know if it's intended or not, but is not possible to plant bobby traps on VPs.
Yep, the KV-2 doesn't proiritize vehicles |
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There is the other thing. MG42 usually is supported by pioneers, who have good sight range, so they don't have to stand far forward to spot enemies for MG. But allied units have to (except pyrotech IS).
The difference between allies and axis on MGs is not just about the MGs, but also about the attacking infantry. OKW have flamenades with great range, OST have riflenades with great range, allied grenades and molotov's range is shorter. So this makes attacking MG frontally much easier.
IMO the HMG (no matter axis or allied) shouls be dominant vs infantry that is in firing arc, no matter veterancy and range. HMG is a counter to blobs, so blobs shouldn't be able to kill it face to face. |
Shocktroops grenade doesn't have any cooldown, I know it's a bug but can you leave it that way please? 
I didn't have this problem myself.
Can you be more specific? It doens't shoot at all even when there is a target and you click on it?
Did you switch to canisters or maybe you ordered the unit to not fire?
It was on AP-rounds, not canisters. I ordered to attack luchs. The shot animation goes, but there is no projectile. it looks like it fires empty shells. As i recall, Tightrope had something like this issue when tested Soviet urban defence in his video. Looks like this bug happens only if the ATg hits cover. But to me it happenned 15 times in a row. I'll make tests in cheat mode to see how it works |
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