i don't want to play USF if it means losing every game that goes over the 15 minute mark, that's a load of horsey bullcraperinos
"flank tigers"
YEAH WELL TIGERS CAN MOVE BACKWARDS JUST AS FAST AS ANY EASY-8 CAN MOVE FORWARD, and stop telling me to flank with jackons, tiger kills jacksons in 3 hits
Now im all for adding a pershing for diversity but if they added it it would not change your issue. the tiger and the pershing will go into a slugging match with one another and the okw/ost has the better support AT. your pershing is still going to lose. you are far better of with 2 jacksons.
Now im for adding the pershing because the usf despereatly needs a breakthrough tank.
Make it more like the us quad. would solve a lot of issues. 320mp 45 fuel. 15/10 armor 320 hp the cannon mirrors the 37 mm quad and the mg mirrors the one mg of the quad. quad maintains range advantage and more dps as well as suppression but it will no longer be a lopsided battle in favour of the quad and gives the ost a good light vehicle to counter sniper spam and maxim spam.
Volksgrenadiers and volksturm are the same: criples, elderly, sick, children.
A good example of volksgrenadiers is a book and a movie "Die Brugge" (The Bridge)
Basicly a pack of 15 years old teens
Depends on what grenadier division. some where indeed of poor quality but some where of excellent quality. Volksgrenadiers consisted out of spare Luftwaffe and kriegsmarine soldiers , youths that came straight from the hitlerjugend and their fore already had some discipline and elderly who where veterans from ww1. more importantly they where led by recovering veteran heer soldiers.
The sturm indeed consisted out of criples, elderly, sick, children
Relic has stated multiple times that Ostheer represents 1944 army on full retreat, that is why they are so defensively designed.
The only early war representation is within mechanized assault doctrine with MP40 assault troops and stubby stugs, everything else is late war stuff when germans were on the run and soviets on the offensive.
Soviets are designed as early war army with 3 units from the end of the war.
That doesn't change the fact that the luftwaffe was very active on the eastern front. even in 1944.
So you agree with my point that the T-34 excels at nothing and needs to be buffed so it can be useful like the Sherman and Panzer IV. The only thing the T-34/76 is currently good for is being spammed with Soviet Industry in a 3v3 or 4v4, and even then it's not great because the manpower costs limit you.
The very definition of the generalist tanks. but i guess allied fanboys are not satisfied until the t-34 has the dps and penetration of the su85 and the ai of the kv8. also that the p4 wins is logical because its more expensive.
No, you can still fight the T-34/85 or Easy Eight with the Panzer IV, you're just disadvantaged. Disadvantaged like how the T-34/76 is disadvantaged against the Panzer IV. In fact the Panzer IV is less disadvantaged than that because you have Infantry AT weapons. Also the OKW gets Panthers in 1v1 almost every game.
not even fucking close the t-34 still has a chance of winning in an equal encounter but the p4 has no chance especially not against the e8.and what should the okw build anyway?
Everyone gives a damn, the T-34 isn't good at AI or AT, it can't even challenge its counterpart, the Panzer IV, on equal footing. Saying the Panzer IV is the worst stock is a total joke though, it has the strongest hull Machine Gun, the best armour, the best veterancy, and the best penetration-over-range of any stock medium tank.
It better fucking be considering the cost
I don't know where you keep getting your stats from, but the Panzer IV is 20 less fuel than the T-34/85 (Advanced Warfare) or M4A3E8, 125 vs 145.
This would only be a valid argument if the advanced warfare was actually used. but most soviets go for the significantly better guard motor. 85 is 130 fuel end of story.
You see the T-34/76 more because it's their only Tank and they have no Inf AT, while even Ostheer and OKW have Panthers and Panzerschrecks. The Panzer IV is the best stock medium tank, the problem is the M36 invalidates medium tanks and the Axis Meta is to rush Panthers and Tigers.
soviet callins invalidates ost tier 3 as well. A p4 has absolutely no chance in hell to win against kv1's 85's or soviet shermans and even get me started about the is. thats the reason ost safe for the tiger. and lol at the panther in 1vs1.
Nah it just has Smoke, HE rounds, and an HMG upgrade. But no, it's not that good.
so it has better ai who gives a damn. people are complaining about its at abilities and in that regard the sherman, p4 and t-34 are not that different. but yes the sherman is currently the best stock medium tank in the game. but its the p4 thats currently the worst stock tank at the moment. slightly better stats for 25% more fuel (only 5 fuel less then the 85). So whining about how bad the t-34 is while i see it in quite a few games while the p4 and the overall ostheer tier 3 is in a far worse state is biased to say the least.
Um... SU85 need lots of RNG luck to penetrate KT. KT is a bouncing machine if you are facing anything less than an IS2.
You always need the rng god against heavies including the kv1 and is2 . but the rapid fire of 2 su85's will very quickly turn into scrap. also the is2 has no chance in hell to win from a kt in a direct confrontation. 2 su85 will nearly always win.