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Thats true, however its pretty hard to "dominate the battlefield" with a unit that has to stand still in order to shoot. AT guns, light tanks and more than 1 AT inf squad hardcounter it

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Improvements and buffs are needed in order to make such a unit viable.

At least viable enough to counter infantry and lights even more properly.

I do think it could have a vet requirement reduction, too.

The Flak Half Track already got that a while ago (a decrease in Vet requirements).
https://community.companyofheroes.com/discussion/67/coh-2-changelog/p5
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What it did not get is a real improvement in performance (that is why it has a hard time vetting).

Performance increase is required and necessary.

Buff the overall performance and in turn, nerf (all) the vet bonuses.

So that it becomes more reliable, viable and consistent.

Move Vet 2 bonuses to Vet 0. It would fix its performance.

or simply reduce the value of vet to make it a little easier to get veteran

It already got that a while ago (a decrease in Vet requirements).
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What it did not get is a real improvement in performance.

Performance increase is required and necessary.

sincerely disagree. I still remember how it was before I needed to fold to move, now it only takes about half a second to march back, although I think if you need a small suppression buff

When I meant a moment, it is a window of undeploy similar to an MG but shorter.

USF AA Halftrack can just accelerate faster because it does not have to do that.


Surpression buff is what it may need on top of other things. Rate of fire would fix that too honestly.

It needs damage set to 20 instead. Also accuracy buff.

For all that, increase the smoke price by 10 ammo.

OR just even Simply move all Vet 2 bonuses to Vet 0.

"easily" by 2 VERY good USF light vehicles.

I think you are too focused on the "kills" thing, you have to remember that supression and area denial are a big thing. Not to mention some other stuff like how flaktrack have a big AoE attack that completely destroy cover and supress units behind cover at the same time.

Kills is an important factor on how it can Vet and to clearly evaluate the quality of the unit.

FHT does not do a great job in area denial. It surpresses but it does not damage them to a state where they would retreat.

It cant even fend off the lightest of vehicles. Instead the lighter vehicles counters the FHT.

Its AOE is 1, not big at all, in fact it is small considering even how bad its accuracy is on top of scatter.

It does not surpress either consistently, when it misses which it does, suppress does not take effect.

Terrible against units behind cover, since damage is terrible. I am sure you should realise that by now when I have watched your vids as well as other vids. Even bad at destroy cover other than yellow cover.

When USF AA Halftrack is stationary against cover, it does around 80 damage per shot. Far more efficient and surpresses even better due to the higher rate of fire. It is not comparable. USF AA is simply superior.


The real unit in area denials are:

Puma, Luchs, MG34, USF Halftrack (which is far better), STUART and amongst many other lights that have far more an effect.

FHT is simply terrible at denying areas. One of the Worst units in game in doing anything efficiently

It is like a Maxim but worse considering its costs and effect. It has a deathloop simply. Does not do anything really efficiently. Maxim is even better against units in cover than FHT.


Zerocoh, I am just saying this as nicely as I can but your matches have not encountered any real threats for FHT, not even any real AT or even units like STUART, AEC, T70 or even having a Penal AT on top of a halftrack for that matter.

FHT is useless.


If anybody can see for how it actually performs. I am sure you would agree. If you consider some factors and comparisons.