Profile of gokkel

I would happily trade them for the S-mines, but whatever, we have to make do with what we have I guess.

What makes the MG34 a "super MG42"? Unless the stats pages I checked are wrong, the MG42 indeed does more damage and more supression than the MG34. Putting it on a similar price as a supression buffed Maxim also feels wrong to me. The whole concept of basically declaring a WW1 machine gun the best and most expensive machine gun of WW2 feels ridiculous as well, completely apart from gameplay point of view.

There are some other changes I find weird, some others are good, but I am not going in detail on all of them now, after all I won't pretend to be a balance expert.

Want to compare penetrations of weapons its up against?

300 allied armor =! 300 axis armor

Why did I know you would appear again to say something like this?

Armor is armor. Anti tank guns are nearly the same, IS-2 has slightly better penetration than Tiger, T34/85 has slightly better penetration than P4 etc., you cannot just say that allied armor is worth less than axis armor overall, not everything is a Panther.

And even if there is a slight difference, it hardly disqualifies my statement that the ISU-152s armor is not really a weak point, unless you think Tiger armor is weak.

In some way I find it really cool that planes crash and can do some damage, but I think it may be a bit too random and too impactful for such things to make sense in this game.

I already often lost squads to crashing planes, but today I had an especially absurd example.

My King Tiger was being repaired at some point while standing still; the enemy player called in the American rocket plane to attack the King Tiger during this (he got vision from a Scout plane or something like that, there were no enemy units around). The King Tiger was now already at full health when the rockets came in, which didn't do awfully much to my King Tiger as it was not driving into the rockets (this is when the ability would do significant damage), however my T4 truck Flak cannon shot the plane down just after the rockets have been fired and the plane crashed directly into my King Tiger. While the King Tiger was at full health and only slightly damaged by the rockets, the plane brought it down to only a tiny amount of health, and it also killed the Sturmpioneer squad that first survived the rocket strike.

So if my King Tiger was not at full health by the time this happened, I would have lost the whole tank just because of some incredibly random incident that you have not much control over. A tank with a smaller hit pool would be destroyed even at full health.

I think it would be best if the effect of planes crashing was at least reduced significantly, if they don't want to completely remove this aspect of the game, because it is in some way quite fun and exciting I admit.

The upgrade seems decent at removing units from buildings, I think it ignores the cover bonus there as well. Otherwise I only see a point in that upgrade when fighting on maps like Ettelbrück Station where you are nearly always in close combat, however the upgrade will still not let you beat Shocktroops on their own in close range, so you still cannot just rely on that.

Otherwise I think it is better to keep the LMG and save the munition.