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i said it's unfair to give absurd bonus to RA during retreat to fix death loop, as it would just make them immortal during retreat

and i pointed how to fix it

Nobody said it had to be absurd. I also hardly think removing a model entirely from the game and replacing it with a gimped MG42 is fixing anything.

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Also, is everyone at least on agreement about the OP?

Easiest fixes are either bringing its moving acc down to match every other TD in the game, or reducing its speed to match similar TDs (panther?), so it can't speed around/past everything in the game.



In real life no WW2-era tank could hit anything when firing on the move. It's also a game, so gameplay > realism.

Gyrostabilized tank guns were a thing for the US, and the reason why the Shermans have better move accuracy here. It's worth noting I don't think the M36 actually received such equipment, but that's beside the point there.

I wouldn't be opposed to giving the normal 0.5 move accuracy. I think the speed is a bit more important to the unit and USF in general. Especially once panthers roll out.

that does not change that it can still easily out run them

I mean, the M36 was quite a bit faster in real life, the speed being mostly equivalent here, and you've always got blitz.
The muni expenditure to hunt down a M36 seems perfectly valid considering it takes muni to defeat heavy tanks anyway.

This gets brought up every now and again and then gets forgotten. Every single squad in the game other than the M2HB squad receives a 0.4 received accuracy bonus, the M2HB having it at 0.5 instead. It's been like this for years and is part of the reason why these things die on retreat so often compared to other MGs. This statistical difference is not noted anywhere in the game UI or unit description and is, as far as I can tell, entirely unique to the M2HB squad.

Therefore, suggestion: give the M2HB the exact same retreat RA bonus as every other MG unit in the game.

You could argue the huge mass of the bodybuilders / strongmen / supersoldiers required for this squad to be capable of running with a M2HB + tripod over their shoulders in the first place should be easier targets to hit than the average soldier, but then the .50 cal BMG rounds the gun fires should also be capable of reliably penetrating just about every vehicle short of the Panzer IV, so reality is already out the window with this piece and there's no way a M1919 is getting implemented at this point.

Why this stat aberration exists is completely beyond me and if nobody can come up with a reason why it exists the way it does than it really should be normalized.

If the M10 was non-doctrinal you could do a lot more with the Jackson and make it work.

Jacksons are absolutely needed to counter the Panther and Axis heavy cats, which Shermans are entirely ineffectual at combatting and which can easily outmaneuver or (with exception of Panther, generally) even outfight AT guns unless built in bulk (subject to its own limitations). Often, particularly in team games, multiple Jacksons will be required. In this regard, any sort of nerf regarding damage capability seems unwise.

If it gets nerfed at all it should be a higher fuel cost, which pushes its availability back further towards the Panthers and etc it is required to counter. Even that's a little bit iffy to me. This thing has absolutely 0 AI capability, and seems to me just to do its job of destroying tanks, and actually reasonably well. A Jackson cannot lead a push or dive on an artillery piece, or soak up AT damage in the way that, say, a Panther can. Considering the flaws and weaknesses in the USF design it also seems reasonable to me that it could be the best TD at its price, as it's not like there aren't other units in this game miles better than their competitors at the same or comparative price (the MG42 comes to mind).

Of course, if the M10 was non-doctrinal, a price raise would be totally inconsequential, considering a budget TD exists to tackle lesser AFVs. Not saying it should be, but that'd solve a big part of this balance problem.