Profile of FestiveLongJohns

First replay review for Fearless is up!

If you're saying that the barrage is bad then why would removing it send the su-76 back to the shadows???


It's good now because of its TD range and penetration and would be balanced like that. The barrage gives it too many advantages.

Touche! I don't think it's terrible and it gives the unit some nice flavor. Might be a little bit too cost effective, but it's not on M5 levels of stupidity.

I never hit anything with the SU-76 barrage unless I have like 3+ of them barraging the same area. Let's let the SU-76 have its day in the sun before we send him back to the shadows eh?

Well the current soviet tech structure is certainly better than the old one but it's still not ideal. The fact that soviet mediums come out faster than wehr mediums doesn't really have anything to do with our topic tbh. The problem I'm having with soviets atm is the lack of tech choices teching speed is not really relevant in that context.

The issue is the exact same with Ostheer. In all reality you can't afford to skip T2 and go without paks. The units in t3 are very effective, and the teching cost for T4 is prohibitively expensive for the units they provide so rushing it is not viable.

I don't see how skipping tech as ostheer is any more viable, or gives you any more advantage than "skipping tech" by not producing any units out of T3 as soviets. The only way T4 is viable as Ost is if you skip it by going command P4. I get what you guys are saying, but to claim that the ostheer teching structure is somehow more flexible than the soviets doesn't really hold water. The issue here, imo, is that units in soviet T4 aren't worth skipping the T3 units for.

most likely you didnt count anything before posting that. Obviously its vice versa.
Plus currently if you dont win fast (which is rare) you cant skip anything. T1 and T2 are both must have. T1 can only be skipped on maps semosky and laglez (if I remember their names).

Really, you're going to call BS without actually doing the work? Well here you go:

Soviets start with 50 fuel.

T2 Cost: 50 Fuel
T3 Cost: 80 FUel
T4 Cost: 90 Fuel
T34 Cost: 80 Fuel

Total cost to T34 minus initial fuel: 250 fuel


Ostheer start with 20 fuel

T1 cost: 10 Fuel
BP 1 cost: 40 fuel
T2 cost: 20 Fuel
BP 2 cost: 45 Fuel
T3 cost: 75 Fuel
P4 cost: 125 Fuel

Total cost to P4 minus initial fuel: 295 fuel

It is different because you automatically have access to all light vehicles as soviets so there's absolutely no reason not to build them. As wehr you can skip light vehicles/medium tanks and gain an additional advantage from it because you save the building cost which is quite significant.

Except the building cost isn't all that significant for T3, you can still get your non doctrinal medium out faster than ostheer if you choose not to build any units out of T3. Soviets were really restrictive and annoying to play with the old tech tree, I like the flexibility it gives now.

I understand what you guys are getting at, but i'd say this is much better than the previous Soviet tech structure. I don't agree at all with the OP that this solution is "stupid" because IMO the soviets feel more dynamic and fun than they ever have, aside from their reliance on call in infantry.

However such a change would require an increase to the price of the T4 building. To avoid recreating the situation we had in the last patch where you never built both T3 and T4 I would suggest to give a "discount" on T4 when T3 is already built.

I like this suggestion, especially when the M5 gets nerfed and rushing a T34 might be worth it