Profile of MilkaCow

Sturmpioneers:

• Added a received accuracy modifier of 0.87
  
• Near range distance from 8 to 3
  
• Mid range distance from 16 to 15
  
• Far mid distance from 35 to 28
  

Make up your own mind if they are good or bad. I added Rifles, Cons, Con-PPsH and PGrens to the list - All just one weapon, not a whole squad. Stats wise I'd say the SP are still better than most squads at close range, but they certainly excel at mid range. Why?
There are a lot of squads that beat them in long range damage, so that certainly isn't a point where they are great. There are a few squads that can beat them in close range damage (Shocks, PPsH41 Cons, AE, BAR Rifles, Thompson Paras, ...), but there are few squads that can beat them at mid range.

The following picture shows the DPS per range of the weapon of the named squad divided by the DPS of the weapon of Sturmpios. The lower the value the better is the performance of Sturmpios vs the unit at that range.



As you can see while every squad has a different point at which the Sturmpio should fight them they can tackle all of them reasonably well at mid range. That's why I'd personally classify them as a mid range squad - not because their weapon is best at mid range, but relative to others their weapon is on average best at mid range.

Read what you write. Read it again. Read it again. It's fuckign disrespectful towards people who spend the time to provide you with graphs in order to actually help you understand it. You disgust me. Feel free to report me, I'm done with this.

No one seems to be talking about the fact that its a bug fix for both the T34/76 & the T34/85. Maybe the intent was to affect just the 85? Without a relic staff member commenting I think we're not going to get any answers.

See my post earlier. It's just the T34/76.
T34/76 and KV-1 had the same file for the gun. When the KV-1 received a 1 second reload reduction this file was edited, which meant it was also affecting the T34/76. Now this file is split into two separate ones and the T34/76 has it's intended reload back, while the KV-1 still has a 1 second shorter reload.
T34/85 was never touched.
There you have your intent and reasoning and everything. It's a bug fix.

I feel this unit was improperly changed this patch. Increasing the reload time causes the T-34 to become what it once was, allowing p4s and other types of AT to run all over it again. I'm not sure why it needed a change(thought it was fine as is). Especially since Ram is pretty much useless nowadays. Thoughts?

The T34/76 got a unlisted buff in the last patch. The KV-1 should have 1 sec less reload due to the fact it has a bigger turret and crew, but since they shared the same gun (file wise) this also buffed the T34. This patch fixed this. Should have close to no impact on the game anyways as it's still dominated by call-ins. If the T34/76 is too weak now then it's probably giving a buff. Considering that out of each 30 trials at 10 / 20 / 30 range the T34 won on average 43% of the times vs a PIV (Most on short range, least on long range) I guess it's fine. I know it's not a perfect test and the sample size is small, yet it's the best data I could create without dedicated tools D:

Most people here seem to not even know what this artillery does and how it works.

It is definitely the strongest artillery in the game (from the pure damage potential), but also the hardest to use. Similar to "Sector artillery" or the "Offensive Artillery" or however it's called for the OKW Sturmofficer commander it has certain requirements that need to be met in order to be able to use it.
In this case the artillery targets cut-off enemy sectors and will barrage the units inside those for a long time as long as the requirements are met. It does not work on neutral sectors and AFAIK not on additional territory (meaning if your enemy captures another sector adjacent to the cut-off ones, this one is not getting barraged). Reconnecting the territory instantly cancels this ability. I'm not sure anymore, but AFAIK it takes 10 seconds for the artillery to kick in.
The commander itself has several units/abilities that can help with this artillery as the stuka decapture or the infiltration squads.

It's an incredibly high-risk/requirement, high reward ability that's probably fine 1v1, but can be quite OP in the bigger teamgames. With the bigger sectors in those it's harder to evade the artillery and harder to reconnect territory. Besides that it's the most map-dependent commander to this date.

Edit: Caches do provide a certain protection, but only in smaller games. As they delay for a bit and the stuka divebomb requires 3 hits to take them out they usually make it pretty obvious what the opponent is trying to achieve and allow ample time to react. In bigger games this time might not be enough due to the bigger space each sector covers.

Edit2: Regarding that coffee discussion. Most coffee that's made by machines is actually done with water slightly below 100°C. It's heated to boiling temperature and this expands it and causes it to be pressed through the actual ground coffee and in the cup. By the time it hits the coffee it's usually already cooled down a few degrees and even more when it exists the machine. There are a few coffee machines that work with temperatures above 100°C by having a completely isolated brewing system that is pressurized, but even for those by the time the actual coffee leaves the machine it's below 100°C and quickly cooling. Fresh coffee is hot and people usually want fresh one as it starts to get sour when it cools off.