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People complaining about that video should see what happens when five T34s fight a Jadgtiger.
Four them getting rear shots and none of them doing shit.

Super heavy tanks are a pain in the ass to deal with, that's why we only see call-ins lateley.

I'll vote for an elefant buff the day allies had some kind of infantry able to destroy it.

Having a tank that rapes every other enemy tank and that it's virtually invulnerable to infantry is a pain to deal with. Having to rely exclusively in ATguns and arty to destroy it.
And with schrecks and the superior ATguns and HMGs that Ostheer have is much easier to support and defend an Elefant than an ISU.

At least schrecks do a good damage to ISU-152, IS2 and such. The most that allies can expect of their infantry against elefant is buttoning it or throwing ATnades that most probably will do nothing.

ONE maxim? how about 5 or 6?

Smoke, walking stuka, gren's LMG, etc... they all destroy completely any kind of maxim play.

And precisely, people spam maxims becase one alone is crap (and because all non-doctrinal infantry is garbage). You need two or even three in the same place to effectively stop blobs.
It can't supress more than two units, and that being lucky. Without manually switching targets maxim usually only supresses one, giving to the rest of units plenty of time to get out of the shooting range.

Seriously, you won't see maxim spam in high level games because it's to easy to counter. As Cruzz said in other thread, the unit needs a cost increase to avoid spamming, but it also needs a suppression buff to make it a reliable blob control unit.
Maxim only overperfoms against bad players.

Katyusha is fine. build 2 or 3 they are cheap and low pop cap.

I don't remember the exact cost, but I think it was around 300 mp and 80 fuel. Not cheap for a unit that, I repeat, doesn't give any kind of blob control.
It's just a manpower-bleed unit which can't stop infantry or armor pushes. It fulfills a similar role as snipers, bleeding manpower, and like snipers, only effective if you gather 2 or 3. They share even the same fragility and punishment to mistakes.
But unlike snipers, Katyusha is unreliable as you can't predict the outcome of the barrage.

With just ONE Walking Stuka or Pzwerfer you can almost be sure that everything under the barrage area will be killed or severely damaged. And you suggest to build THREE Katyushas to achieve the same effect?
We all saw weeks ago what will happen if katyusha were placed in the same tier that other mobile arty.

Katyushas are only useful right now to destroy emplacements and OKW's trucks. A task that mortars does equally fine being much more cheaper.

Maxims, Katyushah, 152mm Howitzer, KV-8, IS-2, T-34s? Ye, I nailed it. On the blob control front, Soviets are terribly lacking.

Maxims are not a blob control unit. One maxim can suppress 1-2 units at best. More than 3 units together can easily walk towards the maxim and kill the crew.
Assault grenades have 100% success decrewing a maxim for 10 ammo.

Katyusha is not a blob control either. At least no in a reliable way. Only the first 4-rocket barrage will land over the blob, and sometimes it wipes full units, sometimes it doesn't do anything.
Nobody will build T4 and make such expensive and fragile unit for that unreliable result.
Katyusha is only good to wipe retreating units or destruying OKW trucks, but not as blob control.

Same applies to Howitzer. Nobody uses that. Air strikes and offmap arty made them useless.

KV-8 is still good even after nerfs, but doctrinal. The problem is that the current meta involves superheavy tanks for all factions. Investing fuel lategame in that tank is not wise if you now that a Tiger or Jadgtiger is approaching.

IS-2 and T-34, yes, are fine against infantry blobs. Together with ISU-152 are the only units able to deal with infantry blobs and heavy tanks.

It's not suprise then than most players just don't tech T3/T4 if call-ins are better in everything compared to non-doctrinal units.
Only T34/76 and maybe M5 have their place in the game.

Cruzz's ideas aren't bad but it needs to have the squad-wipe ability removed. I can only ask you to trust me that if the elefant was deleting one of your vet squads every 10 seconds AND destroying your tanks, you'd be saying the same thing as me.

Add 1 sec setup time to be able to shot (like the OKW's Flak HT), and switch between HE and AP rounds.

That way the ISU-152 will retend its flavour but it will be much easier to approach, and it won't wipe squads on retreat or fight effectively against infantry and armour together.

Being the current meta a huge infantry spam (volks+schrecks/gren+LMG) and later supertanks (tiger/king tiger/jadgtiger), T4 is useless.

Katyusha is absolutely random in their barrages, so not reliable to stop infantry.
Su76 is useless and SU85's slow speed doesn't match their pathetic frontal armor.

T3 and call-ins are much more safer and versatile options, mixing AI and AT capabilities.