Profile of wooof

already wrote this is another thread, but it keeps coming up

people are way too quick to write off the american AT gun. its amazing with vet. 70 range, forward sight and AP rounds are amazing. AP rounds and vet 3 give a total bonus of 95% to its pen.

thats 224-273 pen depending on range. compare that to a vet 3 pak, which has 247-273 pen.

soo im not exactly sure what you want a 3" AT gun to do that this one wont already.

Maybe give handheld AT weapons greater penetration the closer they are

I'm sure a guy trained to use a bazooka knows where the weakest armor is on a tank, and the closer he is the easier that weak spot is to hit

and that is already how it works.

do you actually know of some ninja change? they nerfed its building damage bonus, besides that im not seeing any change in the files recently

http://www.coh2.org/guides/11637/extracting-statistics-guide

youre going to have to look at the files yourself. tensais site doesnt show anything like abilities and upgrades. stats like that also dont lend themselves well to spreadsheets, so im not going to include them on my sheet either.

They can tell us what they want, this commander design is made so to make money, nothing else. This is my opinion! I hope relic prooves me wrong!

of course the commanders are meant to make money, so are the skins and faceplates. thats not a reason to make shit commanders though. that might make sense if all the free commanders sucked and the premium commanders were the viable ones. thats not the case though. i believe most of the commander design is just an oversight since the commander meta changes quite a bit with each patch.

for example, assault grens never saw much use after they got nerfed right after release, but is now quite good after americans were released. conscript support tactics (a paid commander that no one has ever used or purchased) was and probably always will be shit. if the idea was to just make p2w commanders, why would they sell commanders that are obviously terrible and would never get used?

even changes unrelated to commanders have had indirect changes to the commander meta. like the increased teching costs is entirely to thank for the call in meta we have today, which completely restricts the number of viable commanders.

so id say its not a greedy business model as much as poor balance foresight that makes most commanders bad. it would actually be in relics best interest to make all commanders desirable if they wanted to make the most money

I dont disagree with what you are saying, but the ost sniper is even worse than the soviet sniper to play against because of its very fast reload. Try going against it in team games as USF, its a nightmare. I had many games where my sniper did 50+ kills in a 30 min games. That is just way too much for a single unit to do.

keep in mind that the german sniper shoots almost exactly (a little less) 50% faster. that speed only negates the 50% larger squad size. that means a german sniper will kill 6 men in about the same time a soviet kills 4. also, 50+ kills isnt that crazy when you keep the squad sizes in mind. thats like getting 33 kills with the soviet sniper which isnt unusual at all.

the 50% difference in rate of fire means the german sniper should be just as easy/hard to catch as the soviet sniper, at least in theory. in reality, the soviet sniper is much much harder to catch. first of all, people will retreat with 1-2 entities left. in either case, the german snipers speed is not as useful as it should be. in the time the soviet has taken 2 shots, the german has taken 3. both squads would now be at half hp, but the german squad is at a much higher risk of a squad wipe and would be more likely to retreat now.

if the german squad risks it and gets shot again, its now down to the last entity, but the soviet squad will still be at 2 men. so the soviet has taken 3 shots, but the german has only taken 4.5 (halfway to the 5th shot). thats not even mentioning the difference in durability, abilities (sprint), the synergy between two soviet snipers, or the time it takes to turn and take a shot (fewer shots = more time moving = harder to catch), but its safe to say a soviet sniper can kite and force retreats much easier than a german.