Profile of Greeb

The discussion could have been avoided if MilkaCow said that shots CAN bounce at all ranges against E8 Sherman, instead of "bounce at all ranges" that seems to imply that 100% of the shots bounce. It's just a semantical discussion what you are having there and it's pointless to continue with that.

Although he's right about everything else.

As always, grass is greener in the other side of the fence.

How many maxims consider you a spam. 3? 4? maybe 5?
How can you play a big map like Hurtgen Forest with 4 maxims if as you said, each maxim has to be supported by another one to be effective against more than one unit and unflankeable? That makes only 2 points secured for the soviet player.

As nordkind said, maxims can only suppress one squad at a time. The very moment a sturmpio gets close you can't even retreat because they kill the guy carrying the maxim and it gets stuck in the place.

Obviously maps like Rails & Metal are much more easier to play as a maxim spammer, and in 1vs1 games must be a pain in the ass to deal against maxims too. But maxim spam is not the "I WIN" strategy, everytime, everywhere, that some of you try to make us believe.

And accepting that maxim spam is a hard strategy to beat as OKW, what other option has a soviet player currently to play against them? Cons can't do shit to OKW infantry, penals the same; M3, although a bit more useful, gets raped by Sturmpios high DPS, and snipers are too fragile to be a reliable strategy.

I, as a soviet player, am the first to complain about being obliged to make maxims if I want to have a chance to win the game. And I'd wish that penals could be viable against OKW.

It happens to me too even with molotovs. Sometimes I've to click again to throw grenades as if the game didn't register my first attempt.

well you dont come off as an angry soviet player at all

I was angry at the moment of the game when a barrage instakilled my two vet3 ZiS and a vet3 mortar who couldn't escape of the barrage even being all three quite spread from each other and after trying to move them the very moment I heard the barrage. I'm not angry now, but still I can't understand how a "Wipe Enemies" button can be balanced for anyone here.
What difference is between Stuka's barrage and ISU instakilling infantry units? Isn't ISU expensive too? Losing full vetted squads with only one shot is always frutrating and the game should avoid that.

OKW needs a blob deterrent unit, that's true, but not one as the current Stuka because it's TOO effective, not only against blobs but all support weapons, garrisoned units or static units like howitzers. Obviously, its efficiency depends a lot on map size and number of players, but in 2vs2 and little size maps is too powerful. (Semois, Crossing the woods...)

Nothing should instakill full healed vetted units whitout a chance to retreat, I don't care how expensive was the unit. Reduce its power, its price and give the barrage suppresion or whatever you want to make it still a good antiblob unit. But in its actual state, that unit only makes players angry seeing how their vet3 ZiS guns got annihilated being unable to do anything to save them, because you can move them too fast to avoid the barrage.

By the way, as an apart, it is possible to talk about anything in this forum whitout being accused by people that has never seen you play about being a spamer, a whiner o anything?
It seems that critisizing the poster is the rule here instead of discussing his arguments.
The same goes about calling people "Soviet player" or "Axis fanboy" as if that was some kind of insult and invalidates his arguments. Not everyone likes, or has time to play and master, every faction.

What's the matter? Maxim spam not so easy anymore?

The funny thing is that you think that I do maxim spam.

I think that I made clear in other topic that I don't spam maxims because I lost nearly all the games I did that, neither I enjoy doing it, so for now I'll continue playing with penals + shocks. If you want to troll, I'm sure there are a lot of other topics where you can have more fun.

That doesn't invalidates the fact that a standard unit that instakills everything (full vetted units with 100% health) where its barrage lands (destroying buildings too), without warning smoke, ammo cost, etc is fucking OP.
Infantry still can leave the area when you hear the noise, but support weapons or garrisoned units can only retreat or die, and sometimes even retreating is not quickly enough to avoid the barrage.

Its AoE is fucking huge, and the rockets are so close one each other that nothing inside the AoE can survive.
Seriously, I can't understand how any player, independently his favourite faction, can think that unit is fine. How can anything instakill vet 3 units whitout possibility to escape and still think is balanced?

If that unit is so fucking expensive and delays tech so much, then reduce price someway but it really needs a BIG nerf.

No soviet artillery, even 200 ammo doctrinal abilities, can do such damage (and that easily) to infantry, support weapons and light vehicles in the game.