Profile of Firesparks

But the mg can only face one direction, and since mortars now do a lot of damage to garrisoned units, the mg crew is more vulnerable to them, and can't really do anything to a flanking squad either. I think the mg inside the bunker is only useful against long range blobs, like tommies or paratroopers with lmgs.

the idea is to deter raids. On certains maps they are useful for locking down a remote vp, fuel, or munition on your side of the map.

It will force the enemy to dive with tanks, atg, or mortar, all of which are vulnerable diving that deep.

Imma just say, just bcs nobody plays brits this doesnt mean that brits are bad. It just means that sov and usf have more op strats atm. You see some okw players playing ost now, just bcs of how good mobile defensive is.

the british was still used ten times in the tourny, and they lost all but one of them.

even the other allies's trend isn't that great. The USF lost more than it won. The soviet did great against the okw but still under perform against the ost.

If you folks have seen the last tournament games, you can clearly see that the MG42 is supreme in almost every single match, the amount of pressure this thing puts on the players is ridiculous and compared with the other mg's it's just disgusting how good it is.

Ostheer MG should have been a nerfed long time ago considering they just kept nerfing allied MG's to favour axis once again. Maxim especially is useless these days that you can just rush it with 2 units because it is so inaccurate it won't even suppress half the time, has narrow as fuck angle/range and a riflenade is more than enough to wipe over half the crew without green cover. Maxim is a living meme. The setup time isn't that impressive either to compensate for the rest of it being dog shit. Not to forget how useless the Veterancy is compared to Balanced incendiary AP rounds and even more suppression at vet 2. But of course they nerfed the vickers from T0 to uselessness and USF 50.cal to encourage "diverse" builds, yet they wont nerf ostheer builds? Did the same with all call-in tanks, for example soviet Sherman call-ins were nerfed and now the doc is rather useless. But ostheer still gets call in Command pz.iv and Puma with mobile defense tactics thats just spammed in higher tiers of games? And USF Wolverines armored with wolverines /105mm sherman was nerfed too.

Not to forget Ostheer alone has million crutches for mistakes from their doctrines like Tiger ace still and panic pumas.


Let's not forget they also have the retarded mortar that still wipes everything in it's path, nerfed mortars my ass.

the mg42 is strong, but I think this is more of a matter of the other mg under performing.

if I managed to capture an allied mg as the german, they struggle to keep up again late game upgrade allied infantry.

the current cromwell is a mediocre unit. the speed alone doesn't make it an useful unit. For this unit I think the cromwell need a boost in firepower and survivability

1) the cromwell should get its size decreased back to 18. This will allow it to survive longer (and escape) by dodging incoming fire. This type of survivability buff is much more suited to a fast tank like the cromwell.

2) The current firepower of the cromwell is also disappointing. The sherman have its HE round. The panzer 4 combine good mg, good reload, good aoe, and good penetration into a versatile gun. The MG can often kill off infantry wounded from the pz4's main gun.

To go more into the Firing rate, the axis panzer 4 have the fastest reload time of all the medium in tank at 5.7-5.3 second. The sherman ap/he and cromwell all have a reload of 6-5.6 second, while the t34/76 have a reload of 6.1. (note that the info on sherman and t34 are provide for comparison purpose.)

To reinforce the cromwell's role as a raider, I believe the cromwell should receive a reload buff in exchange for a minor penetration nerf.

A faster reload is useful against both infantry and vehicle for obivous reason, and this would allow the cromwell to deal the maximum amount of damage possible before retreating from heavier german armor.

As a possible value, I would suggestion a reload time of 5.5-5.1 seconds and a penetration of 90/100/110 (from 105/120/135). This would allow the Cromwell to snipe away at germany infantry at long range, and to exploit flank as the opportunity present itself.

This would compliment the comet and churchill, both of which are more suited to a stand up fight.

*in before people claiming how the win rate doesn't prove OST is the best faction in the game and how UKF is not the worst faction in the game*