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theres a line drawn across the middle of vehicles. hitting a tank in the green will be front armor, hitting in the read is rear armor. there is no side armor value. this means you dont have to get completely behind a tank to hit its rear armor.

well considering the fact that its

a)A doctrinal only unit on a commander where half the stuff is useless except for the elephant.

b)VERY expensive and requires 5CP which means it comes in late game only

c)elephant immediately loses los whenever it turns

d)is the only solution to the su85 spammers

I would leave it as it is. Russians have the T70 recon mode too ....

i agree with everything you said except A (i guess D is kind of debateable too, but im not going to talk about su85s). i love every ability on that commander. even the riegel mine is amazing, the only problem is i rarely build a ht (or have the munitions) late in the game to plant them. 400 damage, 1000 penetration, guaranteed to immobilize. i forget the cost now, but i believe its cheaper than the regular AT mine. i think the only reason its not used more is it has to be placed by a halftrack and everyones too busy using scout planes and stukas. if anything, theres TOO many useful abilities, they end up competing with each other.


back on topic though, i tried to look up the stats for spotting scopes and the focus sight ability. i couldnt find the modifier for scopes, but focus sight does double the elefants sight. it starts at 35m, so thats 70m with sight on. i dont think scopes double it again. i never felt like i had 40m of sight past my max range. my guess is scopes are more like a 1.6-1.75 modifier

It really isn't hyperbole. It bounces Panzer IV shots like crazy, and the 45 mm hurts a Panzer more than the 75 hurts the KV-8, I said this a couple pages back, do you believe me now?

kv8 certainly doesnt do more damage to a p4 than vice versa. p4 does 160 damage with a 46% chance to pen and shoots every 6 seconds. kv8 does 55 damage with a 31% chance to pen and shoots every 3.3 seconds. that 45mm is really only good against light vehicles. i dont think the kv8s issue is the 45mm or the armor, its that flame dps.

So in a nuttshell,MG is better than the Maxim...then why all the crying on the forums?

its not really fair to simplify such a complex balancing issue down to 1 sentence. the mg42 has better damage at all but the longest ranges. id say the maxim is the much better suppresser though. maxim can easily suppress at long ranges (where you want to suppress units), while the mg42 is better at suppressing up close. the other differences like arc and setup time are well known so i dont even need to mention them.

basically, the mg42s damage is very good, but i dont think its enough to balance it currently. its lack of mobility and suppression make it extremely vulnerable to not only flanking, but head on attacks. its so easy to displace that its high dps is rarely realized.

theres obviously been a lot of talk comparing the mg42 and maxim lately. one question that some people like to ask is "what does the mg42 get to balance the fact that maxim now has such good suppression and survivabiltiy?" the answer is damage. it was brought to my attention that my old dps numbers were incorrect for the mg42 though. the reason for this is incremental accuracy. this means the mg42 gets an accuracy bonus for each entity within its search radius. this increases the mg42s dps substantially, although it caps once accuracy reaches 100%. maxim does not have incremental accuracy, so its dps numbers have not changed.

ive added a new tab on the spreadsheet for incremental accuracy. the only other weapons that have this are tank pintle,hull and coaxial mgs. theyre included as well.

for comparison, i chose to compare the mg42 firing at 1 squad of 6 men.

MG42 DPS vs 6 entities:
near: 48.57 mid: 26.62 far 4.67

Maxim DPS vs any number of entities
near: 24.18 mid: 15.08 far 5.99


as usual, endeav contributed nothing to this. he was too busy eating noodles and hanging out with his cat.