Profile of Blovski

Seems unlikely that this is the case. The maxim buff still leaves it way weaker than in the beta. The main point of the maxim changes was that maxim close range suppression is faster (I think it's a nice improvement) which doesn't really impact MG on MG action. The damage on the 2 HMGs, as you've been told repeatedly, is actually basically even, and prior to the patch the MG-42 actually had more DPS at close range. I don't know whether it does now, but the numbers will be very close.

Personally I really enjoy a lot of the winter map features. I think campfire radius going up a little would make them more fun/would make blizzards not so much of a drag.

The big exception is Langreskaya Winter. While the deep snow allows a few curious neat tricks and kiting and such, it also exacerbates the map's very strong options for campy play, makes harassing resources harder and riskier on account of the slow retreat, further increases the power of MGs in certain buildings and so on and so forth.

My experience of the ZiS is that it's very reasonable AT until you come up against a Vet 2 Panzer IV, at which point it stops really cutting it.

Devil and Jager... this has no basis whatsoever in reality, does it?

The change to AT nades is such that they will still always penetrate on the rear armour of a P-IV or Ostwind or what have you but they are now only about a 60% chance to penetrate a P-IV or Ostwind head-on. Against a Panther, they are less likely to penetrate, against a tiger there's only a 40% chance of penetrating even on the rear armour. Against an elephant, head-on, an AT nade has only a 25% chance of penetrating. Sometimes, a head-on AT-nade *can* hit the rear armour though it's not very common unless you're at very close range.

As with all penetration things, the rear armour is easier to get through, so it's probably you charging past conscripts and leaving the rear armour exposed.

It could just be you're both exceptionally unlucky, or it could be that you just haven't noticed when you've had a deflection, or it could be that you're making things up.

The things affected by the Panzerfaust change (I don't know what the ISU-152's armour is) are the SU-85, the KV-8 and the IS-2. Two of which are units you shouldn't be fausting and one of which is a unit that shouldn't be in faust range (if an SU-85 is in faust range, the Russian player has done something wrong). I think the chance of deflection of a faust on an SU-85 is lower than that of an AT nade on a P-IV. Russian T-3 tanks have no chance of deflecting a faust.

If you did *that* well in the early game, you would have an Ostwind before the SU-85 came out.

I don't agree. Remember ostheer have to research before they build, which also takes time. The total time to build(research+actual build time) should be similiar to russian build times if i'm not mistaken (save for tier one which doesn't require research).

This does also mean that the Russian engineers have to be doing nothing for much longer, and backteching is much slower and pricier, so I'm kind of OK with that.