Profile of Ginnungagap

New insight: The damage output of the WC51 with Riflemen inside especially up close is too damn high. As OKW, you are forced to get a Raketenwerfer out, which is not a good thing.

I had to pleasure luck to play a few games with the US Jeep and the mechanised company in general:

WC51 feels pretty much like a M3 scout car, but with one major difference: It is slow as fuck. It takes ages to turn an accelerate, which makes it kinda balanced i guess.

M3 Half-track has great damage output (with flamethrower assault engineers) and squad wipe potential, but dies in 2 schreck hits.

155mm Artillery strike is pretty good, but should not one shot OKW T1/2 buildings.


Overall i think infantry company with AA HT and 1919s is still the way to go as USA.

A thread about massing the by far most expensive unit in the game? Sounds legit.

I played a game last night where I buttoned a Jagdtiger and dropped bombs on it, which took it down to about 65% health. I flanked with a T34 shooting it in the rear three times, an ISU shooting it in the front 3 times, and an AT gun from the front 3 times. The end result was a dead T34 (thanks to an AT rocket), a dead ISU from the Jagdtiger, a waste of 280 munitions, and a Jagdtiger with 40% health. The majority of the shots were deflected.

Ah, right. That was my Jagdtiger you were fighting against. The mentioned scenario happened, but not all at the same time. The IL2 bombing strike didn't hit fully while the Jagdtiger was backing off. After that a single, unsupported T34 was getting some rear shots in before it was destroyed - deep in enemy territory, surrounded by veteran Volks with Schrecks, Rakenwerfer 43 and a teammates Puma. After that the Jagdtiger was repaired to full health and forced the ISU152 back. And with 525 front armor, you can expect that the majority of AT gun shots will be deflected.

Anyway, the Jagdtiger is stupidly good and stupidly expensive. One might think it is a counter to the ISU152.

But more importantly the whole engagement must be put into perspective. It was a 2v2 on Rails against double soviets. Double T2 with Shocks/KV8 and Guards/ISU152.

If you want to get a fast Jagdtiger out, you have to play about 25 minutes without any vehicles at all, assuming equal map control. That means as soviets you can reign 25 minutes supreme and basically pin the enemy at their base trucks.

And you failed at that decisively. You lost carelessly one maxim after another to a le IG 18. No coordinated counter mortar or artillery fire. Not a single mine was build. Fraudulent unit preservation, loosing the manpower attrition for 25 minutes despite having vehicles of all sorts. Still, you were complaining furiously throughout the game, because you are apparently ranked high in 2v2 and outplayed me like all the time.

Strat is neither uber nor abusive, opponent was apparently new and played bad.

Defending Udos behavior in any form is unacceptable in my eyes. There are no excuses.

From my limited experience it is reasonably priced. I don't think the accuracy is bad at all. Good range and damage against light vehicles is a plus. The explosion doesn't look very spectacular, but when it hits i often see multiple models die at once.

The only real weakness i see, apart from the MP cost, is enemy mortars positioned right behind obstacles, because due to the trajectory you can't hit them, but they can hit you.

It's a completely new unit to learn and most of us are WFA noobs, so i voted for "too early to tell".