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The difference between these two is that for mg42 proper manning more micro is needed that in maxim's case.

I would say I disagree here, Mg42 with its large arc and all, so long as you position in a good place with no obvious flanking route you can leave alone. I find that the difference in pinning is split seconds so long as the MG42 does not have to rotate to target across the entire arc. Once both guns reach vet they both pin very well.

Maxim however can easily be flanked if left alone the cone is so narrow, you can even rnade the gunner and run through the cone whilst its re manning.

I would say the whole argument about fast re positioning being OP but requiring less micro is flawed i.e.

Op because the soviet player can micro the gun to suppress lots of units quicker than an MG42

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Maxim needs less micro...

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because of asymmetrical balance.

There is no imbalance end of story.

Played a 2v2 the other day and my team mate says I'm going a-grens and proceeds to spam 3, 4 then 5 squads into a maxim at a choke point which he could easily of flanked, calls unit op and quits. true story..........

but stun shot for pak43 does not work through houses. So you can almost never use it.

Actually never noticed this will bear it in mind if I'm ever raging at the screen for the game been bugged

Yeah good point, also agree with the teching requirements as an indirect limit to heavy tank numbers

Limiting heavy tanks would be good way to go.
Didn't they did try to do this some time ago when they increased the pop values?

I think ISU and elephant both need looking at, personally with the ISU I like the idea of the HE/AP round switching meaning its either AT or AI then its comparable to elephant but for its inferior AT it has AI capabilities.

A lock down ability on the elephant and/or removal of scope or forward sight is necessary I think. I would argue for lock down on the ISU but then its basically just an expensive KV2?

Alot of people are arguing elephant is balanced but ISU not? don't see this at all tbh. Yes ISU is OP atm and this is more noticeable than with the elephant but imagine there is no ISU then look at elephant and you will see its crazy OP.

I think that it has always been unbalanced its just people didn't capitalise on it before because of the broken tank system with panthers p4 blitz etc made it unnecessary. I have played alot of 2v2's lately and tried to not use the ISU and use IS2 or t34's and yeah it works great till Germans pull out an elephant then its gg.

I admit sometimes I do the same as German's if I see the enemies have not gone with an ISU commander and I have option for pak43 or elephant I know I just need to hold on till end game and I will have a huge advantage. The damage of both of these units is ridiculous a trick I like to do is use the map hack ability, hold fire till the enemy tank is well into the range then by the time it realises it’s been attacked it can’t escape before you kill it.

Medium tanks in 2 shot? wut? lol keep exaggerating. It is 3 shots. And yes, with the slow firing rate of the Elefant, 1 SINGLE shot can make difference, so saying 2 instead of 3..thats too much.
And it kills ISU in 4 shots, not 3.

Also correct me If I am wrong but su85 and t34 have 640HP elephant dmg is 320………

With a pak 43 it’s even worse because the stun shot lets you effectively kill any tank with 960hp or less. (it has the same bug as ISU where you can use the ability shot without waiting for the reload time = 2 shots and stun in few secs then final shot whilst tank is still stunned).
Given this unit is static however I don’t have any problems with it atm but it is rarely used so who knows.

Both units need addressing and yes this is the biggest problem in 2v2 atm.

Nebel seems to be a little weaker on wiping squads I feel