Profile of Hannibal

/closed for dumpster fire...

Oh boy. Standard video of two idiots insulting each other.

I'm not sure what your point is. The other player was a dick to you. You've then been a dick to him. But only your opponent is at fault because "he said it first"? Really? I think this does not even work in kindergarden.

Are you guys really missing the point of why I did the vid 3?

My point is you can play SOV easier with clown car with no regard/reckless compared to its counterpart AT infantry.

As Soviet, you can always dive your clown car. It's a safe throw away for the clowncar though, whereas it is not safe that you get a reward for it. Where's the issue? Especially

How is it not punishing for a clown car to just dive carelessly that's my point. As I have said I could move it away to my base but I did not, to show how you can easily play Clowncar+Penal or Flame with little risk high reward play.

Tell me a sturm or PF, RE Zooks, Ranger Zooks, Para Zooks AT build that hits 100% on a light tank every time? Whereas you with Penal PTRS that 100% hit and you can just right-click light armors with no skill involved. Not to mention it outranges most of the infantry.

The video proves that you can get your flak HT out of the situation, how is it prooving anythhing different? You could have even gotten his clowncar if you snared it. Plus he risked and in this case also lost his upgraded Penal. If you trade your flak HT for both Soviet units, it is still not a bad trade. Down in fuel, up in MP and mun.

Regarding the second paragraph: most to all of these builds are backed up by ATGs, snares and MGs. They also can double volley you. PTRS Penals are strong vs LVs, no doubt, but you completely neglect all the down sides they have.

interesting, i always thought the scatter values would only define the area in which the damage is spread around the targeted model. so if i got this correctly increasing scatter by a fair amount would actually increase the damage output quite significantly via the additional accuracy rolls? that would be interesting to play around with for sure.

I am not sure if there are additional roles or if the damage is fully transferred. I vaguely remember a post about this but can't recall the content. This is easily testable though.
I didn't do throughout tests, but in cheat mode I saw that MGs do damage to a singular model. When I increased the scatter angle to 20 (plus increased ROF and decreased damage per shot), the all models got damaged roughly at the same rate, but not fully the same.
I also don't know if there is a check per model or only one check and then damage to all models in the scatter area is applied. There are many options how Relic could have implemented this.

Playing around with the mod tools, by accident I got a decent idea how focus fire works:

Every bullet that rolls a hit, gets re-rolled to potentially hit another model nearby. What means "nearby"?
Turns out the scatter values of small arms are not just there for calculating where the tracer should go visually. They define the area which models are considered "nearby".

MGs in the game are actually a prime example of a weapon that is able to deal high damage to singular models in order to take them out early. While some MGs in the war were very accurate, their main task was to get fire superiority and suppress a large area rather than taking out one soldier after the other.

This could be simulated by increasing and adjusting the scatter values of most automatic fire units. Currently, most weapons have such weird scatter profiles that the chance of another soldier being in the scatter area is fairly low, unless the target is in cover. Iirc, the HMG42 has an angular scatter of 3 degrees, which basically means that a second model should be closer than 2 meters on most ranges. Additionally, The scatter ratio values are set in a way that mostly models behind the actual target can be hit, but not in front of it. This makes some sense since a machine gunner will not aim towards the feet and recoil will make the weapon kick upwards. But in the end this leads to these weapons often focusing all of their DPS on the same model instead of using the damage spread mechanic that is in the game. There are some exceptions like the BAR that has 12 angular scatter, but from the weapons I checked most of them behaved as described above, both Axis and Allies.


Obviously I have no intention to mess with in game balance that much at this point, so please consider this more of an idea than an actual discussion about balance (hence why this is posted in the gameplay section).