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Jump back to quoted post16 May 2014, 06:06 AMFlamee

You may be right, 2 paks wouldn't have maybe prevented that situation (rescuing those grens).

BUT there would have been chance that they would have killed that KV8 (if Soviet player was careless). There was another gren there on the left, it could have fausted (succesfully) that chasing KV8, then it would have been bye bye KV8. Even without any fausts, KV8 doesn't just have that super armor anymore. It goes down quite fast.

That trade I would have done any day of the week.

Jump back to quoted post15 May 2014, 18:42 PMpantherswag

Just a funny moment I had the other day. Gren saw the KV8 at 15:05, retreated at 15:07 and died at 15:09.
I agree that KV8 should punish heavy T1/T2 play, but giving the German player a one second window to retreat is brutal. Killing squads on retreat should usually only happen when the enemy is between the retreating squad and its base. Just driving forward and chasing a squad that instantly retreats to its death is approaching PE armored car level broken.

Jump back to quoted post15 May 2014, 11:38 AMCruzz

There is no such thing as a "received scatter" modifier in the engine. So any accuracy modifier (which makes up a large part of the retreat modifiers right now) is not going to affect tanks except for their MGs. Received damage modifiers will penalize tanks and small arms alike, but because they more or less have to be higher than 50% just to make a tank shot not outright kill infantry units, they would effectively make small arms unable to kill anything that is retreating ever again. I'm sure everyone would just love trying to deal with soviet snipers (who in turn would not be getting affected as much by these changes because they don't work through damage values so they'd only suffer the accuracy penalty) when they'd turn unkillable whenever they hit retreat.

Jump back to quoted post15 May 2014, 10:56 AMCruzz

And what in your opinion would the role of the KV8 (or flameht for that matter) be after it's made even more useless compared to normal tank guns?