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Jump back to quoted post19 Jan 2017, 10:07 AMHighfiveeeee

You have to keep in mind that the land mattress shoots its rockets against Germans which have a very different play style in order to keep themselves in the game in comparison to the Allies.

USF and SOV are front line factions that have good/large squads that deal good damage which is needed against the superior German MG42. They have fast and mobile tanks that can move to different parts of the map very fast. UKF is very static but has brace to stand against Panzerwerfers and Stuka zu Fuß.

Germans (especially) Ost rely on their superior weapon teams. The PaK40 is the best PaK in the game, the MG42 is the best MG (on par with the Vickers IMO). These both units are the backbone of the German forces and a Land Mattress simply roasts them with a single barrage. You kill the two PaKs the Ost player has and the chance is high that he can't do anything against your tanks, because the P4 is weaker than your Cromwell and the StuG is easily circled without PaK support. Panther comes too late. The huge area of effect and the many rockets of the LM makes it hard to miss the support weapons.

OKW on the other hand suffers in general against UKF because it was designed to be a faction that has its headquarters on the front. With an OKW medic HQ, which is needed against UKF in team games because of LeIGs to fight all the Allied artillery stuff, it is easy to wipe whole squads as UKF if you know where the HQ is positioned. The land mattress denies one of the core mechanics OKW has.

Artillery currently is way too strong. The only artillery pieces balanced are the German mortar and the russian small one IMO. LeFH and the russian one (including B4 which nobody uses) are also okay because they fire huge shells slowly in a large area.

Panzerwerfer and Stuka at least are halftracks that die to a single tank shot (just like the katy). But the Calliope is a tank that does not require any teching and has the armor of a M4 Sherman, meaning it takes about 4 to 5 shots in order to kill it, which you won't achieve unless you have a huge tank army which means you would win the game either way.

Jump back to quoted post18 Jan 2017, 12:36 PMspajn

The model spacing rework won't help grenadiers, it only improves so squads doesn't clump when rapidly clicking them in different directions. Grenadiers still get wiped to 1 mortar shell, 1 tank shot, 1 grenade by just standing in their standard formation.

Jump back to quoted post16 Jan 2017, 10:50 AMcapiqua

With the changes of MortarUSF in v1.05, I have done some tests in the WBP v1.05, some issues and inconsistencies continue in the patch as in live

Jump back to quoted post16 Jan 2017, 18:34 PMMirdarion

If they get the same costs, I would even be all for that. Considering the cost of the Ostheer Panzer IV in relation to its performance, the Sherman offers a much better deal (being almost as good at dealing with medium tanks, significantly better at dealing with infantry, and having duct tape right off the start). And seeing as the Ostheer Panther is not much better off, I also doubt that many players would be happy about the equalisation of the Easy 8.

Over the last year, we have seen the tank superiority (what was left of it) on the Axis side being obliterated, with nothing in the slightest being done to make up for it. The Sherman got multiple rounds of buffs without any cost increasements, and the British tanks have been punching significantly above their weight since release (for the most part, the Churchill is the overwhelming exception to that). Hell, even the Soviets saw some rework to their tanks (with the IS-2 in the end receiving the same frontal armour as the King Tiger, while Tiger I didn't see anything but nerfs). The claim that Axis tanks are a better investment for their cost is a pure lie at this point - and the only exception to that in the other direction is the StuG, which is kept in check by its numerous downsides.