Profile of Imagelessbean

I find the USF lack of indirect fire frightening to say the least. If I cannot keep my opponent off balance all game they quickly convert to a static battle and force me to use munitions heavily to even move on the map. At this point its a waiting game since better and better units are coming down the line, but I will cap out at a mobile AT gun called the Jackson.

USF has limited combined arms, its pop is eaten up by tech costs(!) and healing, rifles require tons of micro, and the tanks are interesting but are difficult to keep alive. The need for vet 1 for a number of USf abilities (Rifle nades, radar net, smoke) means the loss of any veteran unit immediately places you on the defensive since all other units are now affected. The pop cost to tech is brutal late game as you may want something in a tier you don't have access to (like mines) but your tech will push you to near pop cap. Even if you manage to have the pop unlocked you still pay to have another rifle squad in upkeep at minimum and if you send it into combat another MP bleeding unit when you may not want it. Locking tech behind pop cap was not a good move.

Until such time as the USF plays are more interesting than building some form of rifled infantry I don't see them as particularly impressive faction. USF is currently a chore to play.

Also where is my arty? One of the most artillery based armies of the war and one doc piece of arty? Really?

No.

Completely undermines the point of changing things around and opening up sandbox.

As a reminder T34 still comes before P4, do the math.

Why would a minor nerf to the SU-76 reduce Soviet options? Because right now the SU-76 just dominates everything else Soviets can build because it's incredibly efficient for it's price and it can fulfill multiple rolls.

Soviets SHOULD NOT have the option to refuse to tech up at all; the whole reason behind call in meta being killed was that it allowed people to refuse to invest or risk anything but still get rewarded. OKW can't refuse to tech, USF can only with 1 doctrine, and Ost can't refuse to tech either (again only 1 doctrine really enables no teching) so why should Soviets magically have the privilege of being able to refuse to tech?

The SU-76 just needs a minor change such as a reduction in pen so it can't slap around heavies easily and or a reduction to 50 range to give the SU-85 some sort of reason to be built. I don't see why people are so attached to it outside of bitterness about the days it was once useless.

You seem confused. You keep saying Soviets don't have to tech and yet getting to SU76 requires at least two tech buildings to be completed. You also don't seem to understand that Soviet T4 is now an option not a requirement, but requiring it would reduce commanders that have units that appear in the mid game to disappear since you could not do T4 and use those commanders.

Again, I hate to say this but your first question in your post is directly answered by the first three sentences of the post of mine you are quoting.

Ost can choose which tech to take, but generally it goes T1 T2 T3 (can go T4 in long games). However, some commanders allow for this strat to be modified.

Reducing the range of the SU76 would make it completely useless once T3 hits since a single stug would kill it everytime if it used TWP. Besides it would have to trade damage with Stug on every shot. The reason you get and SU85 right now is because of the vet, focus forward, and deeper health pool. If anything needs to be done the SU85 needs buffs to its accuracy.

The SU76 allows Soviets to play with all of their commanders, that is why we like it where it is. I don't care that it was bad once, I like that more commanders are usable now that it offers reliable AT.

In every game I have seen people complain about SU76 they send tanks straight, in predictable areas, to try to break through and are then surprised that the "terrible" SU76 is able to deal with this threat. Every time I see players using other units intelligently (or even flanking with tanks) the SU76's are useful, but die regularly causing a serious fuel loss and preventing the Soviet player from ever getting to T4 (a serious cost) while also causing them to spend lots of MP to stay on the field. From my own experience I consider them valuable units when I play Soviet, a reasonable threat when I play German requiring some work to bring them down but far from unstoppable. My view is therefore that they are good but not OP.

How do you target the gun with a Stuka Zu Fuss barrage because I need to know, thanks in advance.

EDIT: And you can reduce the howitzer to 0 health but if the crew isn't alive it won't die; Iv had LeFH's with 0 gun health before but because I had a command tank and a bunch of reinforcement and healing bunkers they couldn't kill a single one.

Targeting the gun does nothing unless the crew dies. Sure you might damage the artillery piece but if you can't kill the crew...

You are still incorrect. Just checked this in cheat mod with Soviet and German howitzer.

Howitzers can be killed by targeting the gun with tanks (aka just right click on it). When it happens the gun and all crew die as they did before if the gun health falls to 0. Protection of gun by having crew does not apply to this artillery. Said another way, having crew around a gun does not help the gun survive.

Having decrewed guns proceeds as normal (as you would expect) with gun being destroyed when health falls to zero. Please upload a replay of gun going to 0 and surviving. The only thing I can think is that the CmdTank did something weird.

I see what you did with the first part of your comment. Since the question is insincere I will answer it only briefly. Targeting, in the case of artillery, is based on the players ability to drop the maximum amount of damage on an area since you cannot directly select a unit to hit.

Guns no longer explode till the crew is dead, so you could have recrewed it and THEN had the gun blow up the next time or just had the gun take enough damage (while the crew stayed alive) so that if the crew died THEN it blew up.

This is not true, arty can still be taken out by directly targeting the gun. The grace provided to weapon teams does not apply to arty. When you see arty target the gun.

On a side note the IL-2 bombing run often decrews the gun and then another bomb hits destroying the low health gun. This may need to be looked at. On the other hand IL-2 is vulnerable to AA, warns the targeted player, and is slow to arrive.