Gammon is dodge-able never argued differently and that is why I described it as a gamble in it current form...
I only argued that if it to become cheaper and more spammable it should also become weaker. Less investment less rewards...
first of all, the satchel maintain its infantry OHK power at the outer radius of its AOE. In the absence of heavy cover, a satchel will deals 85 damage at a minimal, meaning that it will wipe infantry if it hits. the only way to save your infantry from a satchel is to dodge it entirely or bunker down in heavy.
by comparison, the hammer gammon bomb fall to 50 damage by 4.5 meter. This means that the Gammon have smaller ohk radius but a bigger wounding radius.
That would make UKF blobs more dangerous vs vehicles. Imagine a slow vehicle or a vehicle with engine damage making a ideal target for 3 tommies squad that can stun lock it with gammon bomb and destroy it with Piats regardless of it armor due to gammon high penetration and Piat deflection damage.
A tank with a damaged engine has already screwed up. Either it hits a mine or got hit by a Sov/US At nade. A slow and heavy tank like the King tiger would probably be vulnerable to the gammon bomb, but subverting the thick armor on the axis heavy seems to be the british atw's specialty.
The tommies would still need to get pretty close to a king tiger to throw the gammon bomb. 12 meter is farther than the satchel, but still pretty short. It's the difference between the last place and second to last place.
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