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Jump back to quoted post9 May 2016, 08:09 AMmiragefla

What about giving the M3A1 some ability to actually scale into the late-game through the support role? It's not going to be on the front-line after the first 5 minutes and it's not that strong in counter-harassment, so give it something else.

I've experimented in the CE mod where you pay munitions to give it an ambulance healing aura so Soviets can choose to pay munitions rather than MP for healing, but there are plenty of other ways. Maybe some sort of stationary camo for scouting, mobile repairs, maybe have Kubel mini-map hack, etc, etc.

Jump back to quoted post11 May 2016, 04:22 AMMissCommissar

Molotovs suck just because of 2 things:

1. Speed of throwing.

2. Range of throwing.

Both of this things just making using that grenade too dangerous for your conscripts, cos they very often dying under fire, while trying to throw Molotov + it's very easy to dodge that grenade. Even MG-42 can move out of buidling before it will hit the ground.

I think, that here is 2 ways:

1. Improve both of those Molotovs stats - range and speed of throwing, but increase greande cost to 20-25 ammo.

or

2. Change Molotovs to normal grenades. Seriously, Molotovs weren't stock soviet grenade, specially in late war. There were a lot of normal grenades like RGD-33 or RG-42. Molotovs mostly used as weapons by partisan groups or at most early stages of war, when were problems with logistic and getting normal weapons to frontline soldiers.

Anyway, something should be done about molotovs, really. Those are worst grenades in game, and with them equiped worst soldiers in game. And excuse that "it's cheap, everything OK" doesn't work. I don't need cheap but useless shit. I want units and their abilities perform effectively. Molotovs don't do it right now.

Jump back to quoted post3 May 2016, 17:14 PMgeneral_gawain

Your wish is my command: Sadly the sherman is inferior in many aspects to the pre-buffed Brummbar. Ask yourself how many times you see them. I see Brumbars from time to time, sometimes even more than one. The last time I saw a 105mm was as I played it myself about 6 month ago.

Here are the stats, Sherman always first, then Brummbar:

Armor front: 200 / 260
Armor rear: 80 / 105
Healthpoints: 720 / 800
Speed max: 5.3 / 5.7
Damage: 160 / 160
AOE far: 3.38 / 3.75
AOE near: 1.13 / 1.25
Penetration: 35 / 120
Deflection: no / yes 50% damage
turret: yes / no
Scatterdistance: 4.8 / 2.5
Reload: 7.13 / 8.38
Manpower cost: 380 / 470
fuel cost: 140 / 160
Population 14 / 14

All stats not listed are pretty much the same. As you can see Sherman has three advantages: has turret / shoots about a second faster / cost less ressources

So while Reload, AOE and ressource cost of Brummbar will get buffed we hear nothing about 105mm which is pretty much inferior to the pre-buffed Brummbar combat wise. Less durable and especially its scatterdistance is awful. Sherman is more a specialist than the Brummbar because its purely AI (Brummbar can do something at least and has additional stun shot as a vehicle snare) but it performs worse when it comes to AI. Thats just silly if you take into account that it is locked behind a single commander in this game.

I personally think buffing Brummbar is the right thing, but please do not forget poor Sherman 105mm. At the moment I would always take the more versatile normal Sherman with its decent HE shells.

...and please put M10 + 105mm in Major Tech. Can't understand why they are still Call-ins.