Profile of Klement Pikhtura

When was the last time you tested this ability?

I've lost several very close game precisely because of this ability. Pretty much OKW just pushes with armor and forces you to give up your position. If you lucky you can get unscrached, but often planes deal ~300 damage and can easily finish off bruised armor.

Here is a cast where the OKW pretty much picked the doctrine at ~20ish minutes just to have this ability. He did not build JLI, no goliath, haven't seen any use of "For the Fatherland" and of course no LeFH.



So, yes, it is an effective ability. If it were not, Scavange would have been more popular choice, then it is currently.

Yeah it should be 44 at both 8 m and 14 m, meaning the damage stays constant between these points and is zero anywhere beyond 14 m. A bit counterintuitive, but that's how I found it to work after running some tests a while ago (more details here).

Thank you for the info. Just updated the stats.

offtopic:
By any chance, do you have any info about repair speeds of assault engies, cons/penals and automatons?

Okay, I'll elaborate as much as I know, MMX will know better about this stats.

But before that, to answer your question. No, AVER deals NO DMG after 8 range, while ST deals some dmg after 8 (~14). Not quite sure about the modifier, so can't say how much it deals.

You can check actual stat from here.

Stats I'm relying on are Seralia's. So I'm kind of curios about the performance, since I've made a dedicated post about Sturmtiger and there is no mention about performance past 8 range.

Not sure what you mean by the last sentence?

OK (decent), as if level of performance, so basically I'm good with unit being meme like an old B4 used to be, but nowhere near meta. Perhaps unit should have some gimmick while reloading, like being stunned after getting hit during reloading and thus resetting it, or having incoming damage increased during that phase. Perhaps reduce range from 40-45****, to 35-40**** and remove self spotting at vet 4, reduce health by 160 etc.

Your posts ignore a few key aspects

1) The ISU comparison doesn't make much sense, because the ISU has actual armor and field presence, and will deal damage more consistently on top of being effective against all targets on its own. On the contrary the Sturmtiger was specialized to only be effective on armor with a direct improbable hit, after which it will still require at least (base medium HP) a direct hit.
It's overall easier to counter and punish a Sturmtiger, that it is to punish an ISU, which makes your statement about the Sturmtiger not involving risk wrong. This is especially true if we consider the range advantage at guns and tank destroyers have over the Sturmtiger.

First it is purely state of the meta comparison, not the unit comparison.
Second 2 rax into ST, or 1 rack, ST and JT if you struggle with tank destroyers. AT guns are not a problem for ST but the other way around. ST can pretty much drive to AT tanking shots and procced to wreck it. Seen in happen with Jabber, happened to me. The situation is far from ideal lmao

2) The ST, Avre and B4 being called NOW toxic is nonsense. I have had a brand new Panzer 4 being tracked by a brand new B4 that never fired and oneshot it because of a spotting flare that could barely be seen. I also had medium oneshotted by a Sturmtiger behind a sightblocker. Those tools are now more consistent but you will never lose mediums and heavy armor without any counterplay because your opponent clicked at the right time a single button

You cannot one-shot with neither B4 nor ST. B4 brings 640 unit to 240HP, ST to 60HP.

3) Both Avre and ST come around a time where players have various recon options. Even at their highest range, there's loads of tools that can track down those vehicles, that are loud.
The Sturmtiger may need to rotate on top of that

4) The Sturmtiger getting 10% additional armor means it has 240 armor at best. It's unlikely that anything will bounce from it. Durability through large HP pool is a double edged sword that requires large repair times if the player can't contain the received damage. When you factor in that 2 properly used at guns at their max range (60) can fire 3 volleys before it can even fire to them the Sturmtiger becomes only really effective when used as part of combined arms, as it should be.

They are loud, but ST still have more range then most units have sight, which makes it hard to predict who might get hit, hence nerve racking.

Health is more preferable then armor, especially with Axis, since TDs have plenty of penetration. IMO t34-85 will be always ahead of p4-j, precisely because of that. It is a reliable metric that you don't have to gamble on and effective regardless of penetration. Also 1280(1440) health pool means you need 2 (3) shots to pen before landing a successful snare (good luck killing it without one)

It would sound really easy to counter an ST, if it was like Tiger or KT that need time to do damage, so they are exposed longer to AT fire. But this does not work that well if the tank literally nukes stuff. And again, AT guns and tank destroyers should see ST before shooting it. It needs ~4 seconds after stopping to deal damage and then it just backs off.

Here I'll show some pickrate data across the ladder pre and post patch with addition of data including last two week. Sorry, 3v3 is not included
Special thank you to creator of https://coh2stats.com/ website. You are the best!

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As you can see the pickrate increased substantially. Pretty sure the culprit is the hero of this thread.