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But Maxim isn't suppoused to be support gun. Relic designed it as "frontline assault HMG", which should be able to fight on equial against Axis infantry. So, people use it, like Relic designed.

They did not design the maxim to be used as frontline infantry.

They designed it to work well with the extremely mobile Conscript force. While the MG42 better complements the long range grenadiers.

There is a time a pziv is invincible?

When it first comes out and you haven't shown much AT, they'll get really cocky and aggressive with it.

I think what's worth discussing is:

There's any point of having a wide variety of results with extreme opposite outcomes/results?

Take for example ram. While i'll not be pulling the exact value, is there any point of having a 1% chance of immobilize or main gun destroy? Does this improve gameplay at all ? Wouldn't it be better if we normalize the behaviour such as this kind of crits never happen unless the enemy tank is already suffering from other crits or is too low on health ?

Same thing here with mines. RNG/Formations aside, it's good to have mines only killing a single model and next wiping full health squads ? Would a middle point be better? If we reduce damage to 70/75 to avoid full health squad wipes but add suppression to them... wouldn't this makes them even better against blobs than their current iteration?

Answer: Yes, it forces players to play to the situation at hand and consider rare possibilities. Abandon vehicle is a great example. It's exciting to steal an enemy vehicle and use it against them, but it's rare enough that it doesn't happen very often so when it does both players are scrambling to take advantage or deny the advantage from each other. It's one of the best mechanics in the game honestly, as much as the competitive tryhard playerbase whines about it.

Mines are incredibly consistent.

If InfantryinAoE=1 Then blowitthefuckup=true.

The solution is to avoid bunching up your squads and practice Safe Mine Sexploits.

Reducing mine damage marginally won't stop squad wipes. It just means it will be even LESS consistent because units aren't always going to be at full health, just like how their formation isn't always going to be the same either. You'll still have wipes, but mixed in with lots of non wipes. Or situations where half the models die and the other half are left with 10% hp and suppressed. Ironically you're introducing even more possible outcomes.

Tough to deal with.

When the amount of front your army is capable of contesting is constrained by the fact that you don't have 2-5 sweepers, that is a problem. Now when you send off a bunch of solo units, it is an expectation that you will hit some mines, but those should only force you retreat and concede that area temporarily, not lose an important unit.

*This is really important. Dividing your troops up correctly, and having the micro skill to multi-task them is the single most important skill to improve to get better. Blobbing your shit to cut down on squad wipes is really detrimental to gameplay. Increase skill gap= profit!?!?!

On the flip side, the enemy often has a limited supply of munitions are only a couple of mine laying units at most. If you see things like weapon upgrades, recon planes, grenades etc then you can safely assume he isn't blowing a ton of munitions on mines and can send your sweepers through the most likely areas. If you see none of those things, it'd be prudent to invest in a second engineer for sweepers. You can even put them in a halftrack and still detect mines.

You don't need to blob to counter mines, you just need to make sure your sweepers are roaming through uncharted territory first. You can also not take the obvious, direct path to the strat points so you walk right into the mines.


It's ironic to be arguing for a bigger skill gap when one of the biggest divides between players is how well they sweep for mines and use game sense to avoid critical losses.


In other words

1. Mines punish simplistic map movement. You have to carefully path your infantry so they don't cross through obvious mine spots.

2. Mines punish a lack of scouting into fog of war or the enemy backline. (Both with recon flares/planes to keep an eye on his engineers and sweepers to check for mines.)

3. The skill ceiling is ultimately higher when players have to consider their movement through the map, and likewise consider the best mine placement to punish that movement.

4. On the defense, using mines to zone out and slow down your opponent is a great strategic skill to have.