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I guess this is true. Although (it may however just be my allied bias) I think there's something to be said about the fact that the faction with one of the most cost effective mainline infantry, arguably the best tanks, and a nondoctrinal heavy does not get to build caches.

Meh, the "reason" is scavenge. It's not about the resources you get out of it, but denying support weapons from your opponent.

I wouldn't mind seeing the resource conversion back for OKW but with a slight change. Instead of swapping fuel for muni or viceversa, it should lower mp gain for any of either resource.

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All "normal sized" AT guns have the same damage (160).
6Pounder is a clone of the pak40 but because DLC faction, it has a 50% bonus accuracy against vehicles. Some say it's there due to no snares, but i call bs. Still pak40 is god due to TWP.

Trenches are unhittable because for "reasons", they have a size of 2 (?) vs +20 of other simil structures.

I rate this thread a 79% based on reasons.

Hmm i'll argue that's it's more of a 5/7 due to entertaining value.

I can see your arguemnt for the pak gun/zis gun. As for the "turbo mortar" I'd say making the HM-38 mortar equal to ostheer wouldn't be bad at all, including veterancy. Yes asymmetric design but more or less it would be more balanced. If by turbo mortar you mean USF mortar then we have a problem.

I don't see how the HM-120 is "bad". It comes on very powerful commanders, has a larger AoE than other stock mortars and has a longer range. Vet 3 additional range are those mortars issues, not a soviet mortar issue.

But yes other acceptable nerfs could be reinforce cost and setup/packup time.

Guess what: USF mortar on AUTO ATTACK is completely equal to OH mortar.
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So no, getting your mortar stolen as OH is a pain in the ass, specially if SU get's it.

All (normal) mortars get same vet 2 and vet 3 bonuses. The thing is, 120mm has double the xp requirements. By the time it hits vet1, other mortars are at vet2 (which makes their barrage recharge faster and are more accurate), hence more damage done. At vet3 they have (currently) on AA more range than the 120mm. This will be kept on barrage after WBP. You can get 2 normal mortars to vet3 with the same amount of XP required for the 120mm to get to that level.

The reason? Well, before hand, the 120mm dealt 120dmg, had way more AoE and cost something like 400mp. So it could actually level up well for it's cost. Since the (deserved) nerfs, it's been overshadow by normal mortars IMO. It retains it's OOHM sound, visual effects and RNG hits, but other mortars are generally doing more damage (if microed or not).

The benefit of the 120mm is that it's a call in, therefore it's comes immediately and requires no tech. But it costs 330mp (?) for something which doesn't perform as "great" for that cost (normal mortar been 240mp).
RoF is bad (per min, OH lands 7.2 shots, 5.4 for SU 82mm, 4.3 for SU 120mm) and takes ages to move around. If we take into account barrage it's even worst.
The AoE is bigger indeed, but it's the same damage. AND the barrage for some reason has a worst AoE (lethal radius for normal mortars is 1.0, AA on 120mm is 1.5 but on barrage is merely 1.1).

TL;DR: if you tech T2, just get the 82mm mortar.

PD: from ALL the infantry and support weapons in the game (not counting AT guns since they fight vehicles), it has the 2nd highest XP requirement, barely behind the Pack Howitzer from USF (which cost an arm and a leg but at least has a REALLY good barrage, shame only 3 shots).

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So why not just lower all support weapon teams to 4 men? It's equally hard to wipe a 6 man HM-120 squad and especially so because it only requires 1 man to crew.

Cause then you have to buff them to be equal to their counterpart. This means giving them turbo mortar and pak40 level of AT gun. Also if you make the maxim a 4 model weapon, then you have to spread out the formation so a rifle grenade or any other nade kills at most 2 models AND you have to give it german teleportation capabilities which are not currently implemented in the game (animation).

Finally, the 120mm on the current live version is bad. Specially when mortars get more range at vet3 (which a 120mm will barely hit vet1 and a half due to xp requirements).

Nerfs: increase reinforce cost. The problem is the concept (offensive MG, short arc, fast setup, etc) but it's too late to change it.

Sigh: for this to be avoided 2 things have to change:

-Critical while reloading removed.

-Critical while repairing removed (if someone wants to test it to see if it can be done with other vehicles such as KT)


I'm not as sure you could classify this as a bug, cause it's working as intended. More of an "exploit" such as ghosting but not necessarily an unintended result.

Simil ex:
-USF can gift vehicles since release.
-OH could HUGELY economically boost OKW with resource drops. Now that income is normalised, it can still do so through caches.
-UKF can "lend lease" weapons with the HT.