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Jump back to quoted post11 Aug 2015, 04:01 AMBulgakov

Well then you wouldn't miss it would you?



The barrage is hit-and-miss but it can wipe a squad fairly regularly. Every game I see SU-76s and every game they use barrage a lot.

Jump back to quoted post10 Aug 2015, 08:12 AMAlexzandvar

Soviet T4 costs 90 fuel, and the fact that Ostheer legit can't go above T3 in normal average length games is dumb. Like the fact they did a stupid thing and made Ostheer T4 harder to get with the idea "oh you go T3 or T4" (despite the fact they intentionally changed Soviets so they didn't have to do that) does not excuse Soviets getting to rely only on T3 for the entire game.

T4 shouldn't be optional for either faction in a long game, it's just that Ostheer doesn't go T4 because it costs way to fucking much and Soviets don't go T4 because it offers them nothing they don't already have with T3 + call in's.

Jump back to quoted post9 Aug 2015, 16:49 PMAlexzandvar

When your outnumbered and facing a lot of DPS with fragile units you have to use a LOT of micro. It's a different type of micro, but it's micro none the less. What the OP is talking about is macro; controlling a large force of units as opposed to a small one.

Let me give you an example, when your OKW PIV hits the field it will be facing a large amount of AT which means you need to be on the ball with reversing it and moving it around the field. It represents a very large investment which means it's loss is a big one. When you dealing with cheap spammable units one loss isn't a huge deal.

"spam" such as maxim spam, SU-76 spam, and whatnot is brainless because it relies on simply overwhelming your enemy through the shear impact of so much suppression/DPS in the case of maxim spam or barrage + AT in the case of the SU-76. When countered both these things fall apart and almost always result in a loss for the executing player; but countering them requires far more skill than executing them does.

Thank you for the civil conversation

Jump back to quoted post7 Aug 2015, 19:56 PMImagelessbean

If you nerf the SU76 you will remove a number of options for the Soviet player since they will need to tech to T4 to deal with late German armor. As it stands a Soviet player can decide not to tech up and use other strategies. If you make them sink another tanks worth of fuel in tech cost than a number of possible options are lost.

Stop trying to counter SU76 with tanks, long and short of it.

The barrage is a nice bonus to the unit but it is only able to decrew paks with lucky shots. With more light vehicle play plan on getting a HT and recrewing paks quickly if you lose one. Paks are extremely dangerous for SU76's. A single bit of poor pathing and they are gone.

As OKW this is even easier. Get JP (or JT), puma, or a couple of rakentens. Mix in some shreked volks to really get nasty.

Soviet T3 is quite good, if anything needs to be done it is just a slight fuel increase to delay their appearance until slightly later.