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Jump back to quoted post5 Aug 2014, 14:06 PMMilkaCow

Who says Relic ignores them? Just because something does not get implemented does not mean it never gets tested. I'd love if Relic would communicate on those things more, but as you can see with the 4 men Soviet squads such things get tested / evaluated.

On topic:

I personally do not think this is a good idea, but I'd be up for testing it. Su-76 might be slightly useful in T3, but only slightly. It's barrage is neat, but it's AT is by far not good enough to make you forego a ZiS-3. So you got a barrage tool anyways. The only thing it does is give you a free barrage at a high initial cost and mediocre popcap drain.
The T70 on the other hand would greatly supplement T4. It can spot, which is a huge bonus for the SU-85 (flank protection) and the Katyusha (higher accuracy / protection / better target finding) as well as protect both of those from infantry attacks. SU-76 and SU-85 both are weak to Panzerschreck PGrens as well as flanks. The T70 fills that gap really well.

These combined make me think it might switch T3 and T4s prominence and make T4 the new go-to one since you have the good early harasser (T70) and the great lategame scaling of Katyushas and SU-85, while at the same time not being forced to get T2 for anti tank. Compared to that T3 suddenly seems less interesting. Since I always prefer a mobile and flexible gameplay over static one (that's also why I don't like playing Ostheer ) I personally would dislike that change.