since alpha we voted to have a pershing as a commander and the votation was in our favor, but still the same shit..
The most recent poll put us at 47% Yes, 49% No. Not a huge difference, but it was not on your favour.
all factions have heavys except for usf :|
Which was part of USF's design, just like all factions have 100% fuel income except OKW. The difference is how the armies are compensated, USF's compensation (Crews, AT Infantry, Strong TD) are insufficient to make up for their lack of heavy. |
Upgrades aren't listed under Weapons, you have to find them manually.
That said, I never found the 222 upgrade either, I found one named similarly, but it's not the right one. The DPS bar says it's weaker than the weapons used by gun crews. |
Just to point out for all the people asking for a sherman jumbo: The sherman jumbo was outclassed by the easy 8, the ez8 was the ultimate sherman design of WWII, making the jumbo the big bad "heavy" of the US faction wouldn't make much sense, it would be more similiar to a KV1, slow, good armor, kinda shitty cannon.
Wrong, it would be better than the KV-1. Exact thickness varied on model, factory, etc, but generally the KV-1's armour protection was considered similar in effect to the T-34, which is why the KV-1 was halted and it's chassis used for other means. On the other hand, the M4A3E2 Assault Tank had at least 4 inches of armour at a much lower angle.
As we know the T-34's armour didn't age too well, and a Panzer IV Ausf. F2 or later were able to take them out. The Sherman Jumbo however was known to have survived frontal hits from Tiger Tanks, putting it's armour strength way above that of the KV-1. |
This game uses an alternate history in this patch....the germans were winning in 1944-45 while the allies had to cheese to survive.
I suppose you douln't be satisfied until every game ends with T-34s / Shermans rolling over the enemy base at the end screen, with an Allied victory, regardless of who won the actual game. |
If every tank had deflection damage and a chance, on deflection, to deal a minor crit? There would be a reason to have a T-34/76.
It could leave a PzIV hurting, rather than the current plonk fest.
There would be some reason to have cheap tanks alongside your super heavy call in tanks- their deflection damage would add up over time, and the minor crits (traverse damage, crew injuries, optics damage, whatever) would offer them some utility in helping to keep heavy tanks sensible. I don't care that you're in a tiger, 76mm steel slugs slamming into your turret and hull do fuck up the modules and hamper the crew.
They tried that in CoH2 Beta, and nobody liked it. It was neat at first, but then you realise RNG will decide every tank fight for you. Wanna pull out? Too bad, driver injured. One more shot to kill? Too bad, gunner injured. Gonna send in a second tank to take out that lumbering wreck before it escapes? Oh they just got crew shocked, and he got away! |
Yeah USF is sorely lacking an air superiority commander, considering we owned the skies. |
Plz, display ur ignorance more why dont you....
Or you could read your own bloody thread. He wasn't talking about the M26 Pershing, it was talking about the M6 Heavy Tank.
The notion of faction uniqueness is bunk. Okw is the "no mg/no medium tanks" faction, but there are totally doctrines that provide those things.
OKW is not the "No MG / Medium Tanks" faction, and the Panzer IV's were shown off in several screen shots. A better comparison would be if OKW had a doctrine that gave them 50% increased fuel income, which would put them at the same fuel income as every other faction. |
Yeah what Arclyte said, the Raketenwerfer is weak because OKW is expected to spam Panzerschrecks and rely on the Puma, Jagdpanzer IV, and Panther for theirs hard AT. The Raketen is just another supplementary unit in an army of supplementary units and crutches. |
Every piece of german (and to a lesser extent Soviet) design work gets added including the obscure stuff built in handfuls, but that's not the case for the US
It never saw combat, but you want it in the game anyway? By that logic, Soviets should be getting T-44's and IS-3's.
ok..ok...OK let me make myself clear. This is a thread about the pershing. Dont bring up the damn sherman jumbo!
Too bad, there's a lot of opposition to that idea because the US Army wasn't known for its heavy tanks, of which it only operated one for a brief period before rebranding it a medium tank. |
I suggest we compromise and go for the M6
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M6_heavy_tank
It has almost as much right to be in the game as the Ostwind apart from never being deployed
Read: it has no right to be in the game. |