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Why is it every day there is a new thread about how BS the maxim is?

Because you and a couple of other forum heroes have to make a new one every day?

I'm quite sure there's a lot of potential in Urban Defense and Defensive vs OKW mechanized HQ openers, since the small AT gun is sufficient to deal with all the light vehicles, the 120mm is very strong against forward trucks, and the FHQ has some niche applications... but why would I bother when shocks -> call in tanks or guard motor is so strong anyway?

But instead of going for these doctrines, you could just pick a Guard doctrine and get a squad that does both the same AT as the light atgun, plus deals with infantry decently, scales better and is far more mobile, for 160MP more. And then you have a bunch of other decent abilities from your commander too, instead of doucheguns and tank traps.

There's nothing of particular interest in T1 except snipers, so being able to skip building T2 thanks to having a bunch of expensive replacement units taking up your commander skill slots is not really a worthwhile trade.

FHQ is a bit better (on the maps that have cutoffs with nearby buildings, anyway), but is also a doctrine which is basically saying "I win in 10 minutes or I lose the game".

Late game scaling is an issue for all mg's. and only the most open of maps would allow you to exploit the smaller suppression aoe. And to be honest the mg42 at the moment is only good at suppresing one squad because of its very slow gun traverse.

mg42 scaling with vet is fucking amazing. It's literally the best scaling unit wehrmacht has, a single vet3 one is better than two vet0 ones. Maxim vet scaling on the other hand...doesn't really exist, you won't notice when you lose your vet crew to a riflenade. And while you're right about the traverse (on non-vet2 MG42s, anyway), you try stopping a blob of 4 units together with a maxim and come tell us how that goes. An MG42 in the same situation instasuppresses all the squads when it starts firing.

I know of at least 2 examples (don't remember nicks) and there was this Jelly guy who said himself he went from 2000 rank into <100 just utilizing Maxim spam.

So you don't know. And jelly is barely even in the top-200. A rank range to which pretty much every single player who plays a lot of games will end up getting into because the player base isn't that large.

Maybe the very elite 50 players don't have problems with it or maybe this is because it is very unlikely to see spam of a single unit in these super pro games.

If anything the high end game tactics are more stale than in midrank games and you're more or less guaranteed to see whichever unit is the most effective being spammed. And what can we conclude about what the high level players think about the viability of maxim spam (in 1vs1) from this?

The solution is simple. Make so supports weapons can't cap territory. Maxim performance won't be affected at all so if you want to spam them - be my guest.

To be honest this would barely make a difference ingame except by making mg42s even less enticing against soviets, and the "omg maxim op" crowd would be back to crying that it wasn't a big enough nerf 5 seconds after the patch notes hit.

Played properly its worse in 1v1 too.

Riddle me this: Why can't a single maxim spammer even make it into the top-50 of 1vs1 if they're so insanely op like you say? And why doesn't a single one of the "top" players actually do it?

and what about the molotov-factor? ofc grens have riflenades but a naded maxim is till able to hold its position and shoot at the enemy. try that with an mg42 that got 'toved. if its not dead already it will be in a matter of seconds

You already fucked up if conscripts got into molotov range of your mg42 before you atleast started unpacking.

Riflenade has longer range than maxims at vet2, so getting riflenaded only means your enemy knew where you were, he didn't have to commit in any way.