Profile of OZtheWiZARD

I don't like the idea of paid experience even if it is somehow balanced atm.

Let's not degrade ourselves to the level of the official forum balance discussion.

I just go minesweepers regardless. Better safe than sorry.

"I am starting to get sick from all the bias," says the guy with a grand total of ONE German 1v1 game to his name, and more than double the Soviet 2v2s played than anything else.

Deal with the arguments on the table or go away. This thread is not about the Elefant or anything other than the ISU. And don't complain about bias if you yourself have a clear bias.

You can deny for how long you want but the truth is that Elephant was broken long before ISU was. What's more Soviets didn't have anything that would actually counter it except for heavy doctrinal call ins like IS-2. T-34/76 was pea shooter at that time and even if you managed to overcome all the support you could shoot at it all day long without any effect. Ram didn't work because you were able to retreat Elephant to safety or came back with help in the mean time T-34 was still shooting and shooting. Counter provided by Relic - Arty - would work, problem was that the same doctrine got heavy counter to howitzers. Stuka bomb plane. This dragged on for months while Germans were saying that Elephant is fine, learn to play and all that. I forgot to mention that Elephant can be equipped with an upgrade that will increase its line of sight drastically (commander).
ISU at that time was very situational. It was good against infantry but meh against heavy tanks + was way overpriced.
Now since it got decent AT and its AI is a side effect of increased lethality of all tanks + its gun mechanics (HE round). It's not even that outstanding if you compare it to other heavy tanks like Tiger, Brumbar and IS-2. Blobers got punished in this patch though. I bet they are these who cry the most.


As I said if you want to nerf ISU-152, be my guest, but tone down Elephant as well, otherwise is not fair and it will give one of the faction unfair advantage, especially that Elephant is a HARD COUNTER to ISU-152. You put these units together and Elephant will always win unless you are complete noob and don't know what to do. It's not like Germans don't have ways of dealing with ISU-152. IT IS EASIER TO KILL ISU-152 FOR GERMANS THAN IT IS TO KILL ELEPHANT FOR SOVIETS. It's not my fault that majority of Germans don't know how to use tanks because they were relying on broken abilities and OP tanks before. You know which ones I am talking about.

And yes, both Elephant and ISU-152 should be discussed together as they are similarly behaving tanks in CoH2. Both are super late, long range, heavy punchers. If you nerf one you will have to adjust another otherwise is unfair.

The Panzerwerfer cooldown mega-increase was needed? I always encounter soviet spamming maxim + mortars + zis with an M5 Behind to reinforce and I cant kill them even with artillery

Well, it is very accurate with its salvo. Katyusha is doing big bang but rarely hitting anything with Panzerwarfer you can snipe units so I am kind of with Relic on that one.