Profile of Kurobane

What is more probable that Easy8 had T34/85 level AI but it was nerfed in secret so that patch notes do not have it or that it was not particularly good in AI and you are simply wrong?

Yeah agreed with Vipper, many changes in the game weren't documented. Even in the earliest days they would stealth change things.

If I remember correctly one of the first stealth changes they made was when people took a look at the game files and they saw that Soviet Guards were named US Rangers which showed that they basically slapped together COH 2 from COH 1 and were so embarrassed they had to lock the game files for years until the mod tools were released.

I am not sure if Cruz is active anymore but he did a good job of finding many of the stealth changes during the games early life cycles.

I remember on launch how amazing the Easy 8 used to be, before it got butchered with stealth nerfs.

i like that. radio net was great and focused gunnery doesnt seem useful for the us as mobility is their thing

Focused Gunnery is just flat out terrible for USF and doesn't fit with the Easy 8. I could see it being something decent for Axis so that they could get 60 range on their tanks at the expense of movement speed/rate of fire but for USF they have the Jackson already so getting a psuedo Jackson which is worse in a shite commander makes no sense.

Though that could be an interesting way the current TD Meta. If every tank destroyer (including things like Elephant and ISU-152) needed to use a focused gunnery like skill to achieve the maximum firing range of the unit at the expense of movement speed/rate of fire.

Would make TD spam less of a thing compared to how it is now and you would actually see people make medium tanks though that is off topic.

Anyway regardless of how they end up changing the easy 8, we have way too many Sherman variants and some of them should be integrated into the core army.

I would use Rifle Company if Easy 8 was replaced with Pershing. Considering Whermacht have numerous commanders with Tiger, more Pershing wouldn't be a bad thing. Especially if one of the commanders would have Assault Engineers for those advocating for it as it would give more variety to the limited USF commander roster.

Or you could get an Ostwind

OKW doesn't have non doctrinal Ostwind and the Ostwind is still more expensive than the Flak Emplacement. It also has no issue hitting Air Targets.

Also they bundled in Bunkers with it now which is much better. If you want an emplacement to stop blobs get a Bunker. If you want super cheap anti air get the Flak.

You would be surprised how hard it is to kill a Flak Emplacement supported by a Bunker with tank traps and sandbags in front of it to absorb AT Gun shots.

Yeah OKW didn't really need much if any changes. They have some of the best commanders in the game in my opinion when it comes to diversity.

USF on the other hand is severely lacking in good commanders due to not having a complete faction so you are often forced to pick a commander for tools that most factions have access too (such as mines). USF overall is poorly designed in my opinion.

Commanders should provide additional supplemental units/abilities. For example the 120mm for the Soviets is not really needed but its nice to have where as USF need Calliope/Priest to deal with team weapon spam since they don't have access to normal artillery units like every other faction (minus british but they are already the worst faction win rate wise)

One question:
Why is it that the emplacement never suffers damage on the first 2-3 shots?
It's like a second health bar that is not repairable.

It always takes damage it just doesn't show sometimes to the opposing player (players who dont own the FLAK)

Here's a questions for the community as people argue about the B-4 203mm;

1. Would you prefer it to be tuned in its current iteration with stat adjustments. 3 shots with lower damage over a period of time.

or

2. Revert it back to what it was. 1 high damage shot.

Tuning the cooldown and the maybe reducing/removing the suppression would likely be priority on question 1.

I would rather it be turned into the Soviet version of the Pak 43 with the Vet 1 ability allowing it to fire a single high damage shot (with an ammo cost of course). This way it would be closer to the original design while also being useful.