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FHT is indeed a very formidable AI unit, particulsrly in a short window before Sov can develop proper AT, but it is categorically different from the T70 in ways that are very important for xonsideration:
A) It is vulnerable to small arms.
B) It is extremely vulnerable to ATNades.
C) Guards are an automatic and serious counter.
D) In non-Doctrinal, two ATNade Cons is all you need.
E) You can even seriously dmg it with AINades.
F) The multipurpose Sov mine counters it at a ridiculously small cost, in terms of aggression. And rightly so, since suicidal infantry chases by vehicles should be punished with extreme prejudice.
G) In a situation of even infantry support, or alone, an M3 can flat out dmg it. The FHT does fuck all to the M3, whereas the M3s 50cal does the equivalent of g43/SVT small arms dmg to it.

Ad. A. Good luck shooting to it with infantry
Ad. B. You need 3 to kill it off but the problem is with throwing them without getting your squad wiped
Ad. C. Guards are doctrinal and still need to shoot at it for a while. Any decent player will escape without problem even when button is used
Ad. D. You haven't played against FHT even once did you?
Ad. E. As said above landing these nades is a problem not the amount.
Ad. F. Very luck dependant
Ad. G. Agree but we're talking infantry arn't we?

Important difference:
A halftrack can actually take damage to small arms fire. So even without hard Anti tank on the field, it's still possible to keep it away from you. It's requirement to be at close range to do damage (making at 'nades much easier to get off) and its lack of mobility make it much harder to harass infantry all through the map.

A T70 is nearly invulnerable to small arms fire. And unlike the flame haltrack, works surprisingly well at sniping German models from long range. It has very good maneuverability which makes it quite effective at keeping distance from Grens getting of a panzerfaust. Even if it does, it has a convenient self-repair ability to get it right moving again without the need for combat engineers to march over.

Additionally, soviets have access to guards rifles (quite an effective counter to the halftrack) which can avoid investing in t2 for a ZiS gun.

Yes and because of this FHT is actually more robust and more lethal to infantry than T-70 is. If I remember correctly you need one more AT nade to kill FHT than you need Panzerfausts to kill T-70. Same goes for AT guns.
By the way have you even tried to shoot FHT with infantry? You know what is going to happened to a squad that tries that? If not then do just that and share the results with us.


Now about the idea to make T-70s range equals to Panzerfaust. I don't remember who wrote this but are you serious? Why would you even consider building this unit after such change?

It's not the unit that's broken it's the commander that comes with but I guess that's the desire of vocal German players to nerf any decent Soviet unit to the ground.

Let's talk about true OP and how Tiger Ace destroyed 1v1 as you can quit your game when one hits the field. It's not like you have to save resources for it or anything because it's free of charge so all you have to do is to stay in game long enough to gain enough CPs which is an easy task for any decent player.

I wanted to give my counterargument here but there is no point really as balance in this game is a joke right now and I don't really feel like playing this game anymore.

Short and sweet: People are whining like hell about the Tiger Ace. But what about the KV-2? It tears through 2 vetted Panthers like they were clown cars. It's not even enjoyable anymore.

What it does to infantry isn't even worth mentioning because no infantry so far has seen a KV-2 and lived to tell the tale. It's completely insane.

Other than that.. Vetted units feel way too weak now. They die like flies.

This patch changed alot.. way too much if you ask me.

When KV-2 is set up in its "static mode" it's a static defense and have usual flaws of a static defense. When its not then reload time is around 18 seconds? So it shoots 3x a minute. Yeah, clearly OP.


I think that general trend for German players in this game is to call every Soviet unit that can actually kill and is decent OP and whine for nerf.

Is this live now or a future changelog?