Profile of JPA32

Il 2 strafe and ram have both been hammered to the point of inefficency that it does most certainly not hold water well anymore.

Just because something got nerfed doesn't mean it's still not powerful (Zis Barrage). Go into cheat commands mod, spawn a T-34, a P4, and even just 1 Zis Gun in range of the ram. Spawn the Bam, hit the Ram, and the P4 turns into Jam.

That's with just 1 Zis when you really should have 2. Ram does 25% damage + if the T34 hits a shot that pens that's another 25%. Zis Gun does 25% (50% if you've got 2). IL2 Rocket Run does 50%. In most situations you have 3-5 chances to land a single penetrating shot on a medium between the Ram and Rocket Run doing 75% of it's life guaranteed. Literally if your T-34 pens it's first shot you can ram and bam with no support at all and come out positive. The 75% damage burst from Ram and Bam means that if the Wher/OKW player takes a single hit they can't afford to stay in lest they die to a wombo combo they can't stop which is quite powerful.

Even against heavier tanks, having 2 T-34's in combination with the ability to Ram and Bam is a trade up almost all of the time since with some luck your Rocket Run can hit twice on a Panther, and 3 Times on a King Tiger while the immobilization effect prevents the Panther/KT from moving out of range of the At Gun before it gets another shot off, and it's rear armor away from your other T-34 if you decide to swing around the side for Rear Armor shots.

All this for nearly half the price of Anti-Tank Overwatch (125 vs 200) and not even mentioning the fact that Ram can still engine crit which even without the rocket run is usually going to be a dead tank.

This all being said, I don't have a problem with IL2 Rocket Run by itself. Powerful abilities should exist and there is obvious counterplay (Don't get rammed lmao). The entire problem with this doctrine is SVT Cons who are still entirely too fast for the value they provide at 2cp and I hope the balance team has done more to them in their secret hidden update.

SVT Cons are fine. Keep in mind that the commander doesn't have a heavy tank or anything amazing late game. They do a good job at countering blobs as conscripts become useful instead of shooting wet noodles at the enemy.

Zis Guns + T-34 Ram into IL-2 Rocket run gg, plus you have DsHK's in this doctrine which cover the massive hole that is the existence of the Maxim.

Also you vastly underestimate 7 Man Cons. They're absolutely fantastic and are near untouchable in Green Cover with their firerate buff. So it's telling when you can get an even better stronger well-rounded version of them 6-7 minutes earlier.

So I don't think anyone has brought this up yet, but on the topic of SVT Cons, they still aren't okay with the known existing changes to the doctrine. Increasing their cooldown time and CP cost by 1 does nothing to change the reason they are broken.

SVT Cons out-perform 7-Man Cons in every conceivable way in combat. Doesn't matter in the open, in Green Cover, Yellow Cover, short fights, prolonged fights, no vet, full vet. Doesn't matter. Not only this but SVT Cons come significantly earlier, and are only 10 Muni more to upgrade. The minor benefits that 7 Man Cons provide in relation to SVT Cons isn't even close to being worthwhile.

The fact is that SVT Cons just step on the toes of both 7 Man Con upgrade (Both of them significantly increase the combat effectiveness of Cons yet SVt's are better and faster) and Penals (Cons are just cheaper slightly weaker Penals with better utility)

The SVT's need to fulfill some sort of role to be of use besides just being a giant damage buff to the Con squad at all ranges. Maybe they could act like Panzerfussiliers G43's and have excellent moving accuracy to enable a more mobile con squad, maybe they could give Cons a grenade, maybe they could synergize with Airbourne Guards (Give Airbourne Guards an ability like "Heroic Charge" that can target SVT Cons or PPSH Penals to give them some buff) (Or alternatively whenever you call in the Airbourne Guard strafe, maybe all SVT Cons you own gain a combat buff for "x" seconds)

Literally anything that isn't just "They do more damage now."

Tripple elite bazooka Rangers are far, far superior to any other bazooka squad, they are very far from irrelevant in that role.

I'm not saying they're irrelevant at the role itself, but the fact is I already have 5 Bazookas on 2 squads who can't fight infantry (Rear Echelon (0MP) The Major (Tech Bonus) and have effectively no other purpose in combat, and one squad who needed the Bazooka as an LV deterrent where most of his damage comes from his Thompson anyway. I don't need to be spending 350 Manpower on even more Bazookas on top of that, even if they're superzooks.

It's a matter of the role being filled more efficiently and cheaper by squads you just passively already own rather than having to dedicate tons of resources into a role that you already have fulfilled. The manpower is just better spent elsewhere.

Generally you need to be watching the Gren squad and observing that one guy is kneeling and trying to fire the grenade, not trying to react to the grenade itself. The tell is Hans trying to tie his boot, not the smudge whistling towards your squad.

Obviously, but you can't spend the whole game examining Dietrich's boots to see if they're untied yet. It's the moments he catches his lace on a bush while you're not looking that are deadly.