No need to pretend, they aren’t. Tiger is meta. You won’t be seeing many pfusies once the patch hits and people start having to pick a doctrine for them instead of them just being a bonus.
This is a good point, and some interesting perspective from a serving soldier (thank you for your service in NATO btw)
Just to clarify in Greece every male has to serve 9 months in the armed forces where you go through active training and basically sit around in case something happens. The only ones who go to NATO expeditions etc are professionals.
Other heavies have comparable AoE, why fastest firing one should be most accurate as well?
Tiger: fires at 5man squads and 4man weapons crews, as well as 7man squads and 6man weapons crews.
IS2: fires at 5man squads and 4man weapons crews, as well as 4man squads and 4man weapons crews.
Fully loaded Vickers K gun with full ammo is about 14.5 kg. No way in hell you’re firing that thing while running with any accuracy without training on it for months.
For comparison I’m actually pretty strong and tall and when I was in the greek army we did some fire and manuever with the 4.5 kg G3A3 and it was a bitch to fire on the move while trying not to fall over because you can’t pay attention to where you’re stepping all while you’re trying to manuever the gun around.
Too long didn’t read: Nobody can fire on the move with accuracy unless the terrain is good. Humans can’t multitask. Therefore the way you use the gun needs to be 2nd nature to th point where the weapon is an extension of yourself so that you can both fire accurately and move around, therefore training with your specific gun is extremely crucial to learn how it handles and behaves.
As for the game and back on topic, I agree with Katitof that it’s probably intentional since firing on the move is so difficult if you’re going for it you at least need a gun you’re familiar with and can manage. A foreign gun you’ve never used before is gonna surprise you with recoil/handling/spread etc and you’d probably waste too much ammo trying to learn on the spot, so I agree with the game not allowing elites to fire foreign weapons on the move.
Imo i think counterbarrage should be removed and have something more interesting and interactive added, maybe something like heavy mortar round barrage for ostheer mortar (giving it the 120 rounds or something for a single barrage) or creeping smoke.