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No one said either tank would frontally engage a Jagdtiger and expect to come out on top. The point I've been trying to illustrate is that, contrary to what you've claimed earlier, the KV-2 is very much capable of engaging heavily armored tanks - even more so than the IS-2 thanks to the innate deflection damage. Against lighter armor, such as a Panther or Vet Pz.IV, both tanks are actually pretty much equal in terms of AT. The graph below shows this:



This is the probability distribution for both the IS-2 (blue) and KV-2 (orange) to kill a Pz.IV, Panther and Tiger Ace at 40 m, assuming all shots hit for the sake of simplicity (The Ace is chosen solely for illustrative purposes. It as it has the same armor of the regular Tiger, but greater HP pool and, thus, the curves in the plot overlap less).
You can clearly see that against the more lightly armored Pz.IV the IS-2 has a slight edge as it is guaranteed to pen the target every time and every shot deals the full amount of damage.
However, the lower the chance to penetrate gets due to higher armor the contribution of deflection damage gets and the KV-2 starts to deal more DPM than the IS-2. Against a vanilla Panther both tanks are already roughly equal in terms of T2K and against anything heavier the KV-2 is superior (if only slightly).

Huh, that's a pretty interesting analysis. I'd never thought about the "actual" performance of the KV-2 with regards to AT, in comparison to its' ostensibly "intended" (and logical) performance.

DO you think it warrants any changes?

LoL developers have a different opinion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpBh9UMOvlU

Imagine using Riot as a positive example, especially if you're assuming they're not completely bullshitting.

I was just wondering why most axis troop carriers don't allow infantry to fire out of it. Besides the mini Halftrack from a few commanders, neither the 251 or OKW Opel truck are open-topped.

Is this because of LMGs? Genuine question. And I'm not saying they need open topped transport either. I just want to know the design reason.

I expect it's because of Panzergrenadiers.

(For OKW I'm not sure, they're not really designed to have an HT at all.)

An approach might be a really fast plane, but a longer time between the smoke and the strafe. Then distance covered is less relevant but the time to dodge is consistent.

Alternatively (Or, perhaps, in conjunction with); Would it be possible for the planes involved in these abilities to spawn a set distance from the aim point, rather than having them spawn at what I must assume is a fixed point on the map's "edge"?

That way it wouldnt make any difference at all where you place your smoke on the map, it would always arrive at exactly the same time.

Going by match stats, constant winning.

A faction winning/being strong doesn't necessarily have anything to do with how boring/frustrating they are to play against.

UKF is dogshit, but still very boring to play against.

What makes UKF more boring to playing against than OKW?

Extremely static and defensive play that's very difficult to break for weaker players/players without certain tools, but becomes trivial for higher level players/those with access to certain tools. A primary example being the Mortar Pit. It isnt fun to play against emplacements.

As well as particular units, such as the oft overtuned nature of Sections, which often necessitates opponents go for very specific strategies, and the UC, which can be exceedingly frustrating to deal with due to it's fantastic bleeding power, and subsequent upgrades that make it very very potent.

OKW, of course, have the Kubel, but that's much more fragile, and doesn't scale nearly so well.

The latter two are functions of UKF lacking some fundamental tools, and the design team being hamstrung by Lelic so they can't do away with some abysmal design decisions (Bolster, etc), nor can they patch the gaping holes in UKF's roster, both of which would allow the remaining parts of the faction to be made less frustrating/boring to face.