Profile of Mad_Hatter

You guys are right ... Ram like nearly every other soviet ability is op!

Let's even it out!

I propose we give every medium tank ram (so p4 and panther gets ram). But to further balance out tanks every tank now also gets the Soviet cap territory ability as vet one instead of blitz. Seems fair to me and its 100% even.

While were at it let's also "balance" out assault guns and give su85s and isu152s the target weakpoint ability!




In all seriousness the amount of one sided crap that gets spewn by the German fanboys is insane. You guys make it sound like a ram from a single t34 one shots a tiger lol. First of all if its 1v1 like that the t34 is nearly guaranteed to lose both its engine and the main gun whereas the tiger is not! Even if the soviet gets lucky and takes out the Rogers gun and engine you now have two tank commanders waving at each other as the Rogers slowly backs away cause neither vehicle has a gun. Oh ... Your mad the the units supporting the t34 get the kill on ur tiger after it rams it? Where is your support? Off having bratwurst at the barracks? shouldnt they instead be by your tank ... You know ... Supporting it?

Yes ram is rng as hell but good god stop making it seem like its so one sided. There have been many games where one ram disabled a tiger, but also many where 3 or 4 rams fail completely. I like the idea of having it be a set stun duration for both vehicles based on the vehicle your ramming. But oh well i also like it jist fine the way it is cause its fun. If you're too bad to keep inside minimum range or outside max ram range in obvious ram situations (obvious ram situations like a t34 at low health coming in all fast and furious style, or a t34 backing away from a foggt etc etc) then its not the ability that needs work butnyour playstyle.

You either are consistent or not.

No double standards.
Either you agree to both dropping, or none.

And the only balance issue ppsh caused is to shake out german players from the delusion that no matter what, conscripts aren't a threat.

PPSh is still ONLY close range upgrade and still have less dps then LMG.

We had for almost half year single player ppsh that never was an issue and was MUCH STRONGER then current tripple one, that alone gives ppsh QQ absolutely 0 rational base.

You do realize that the only reason the hoards of German whiners is out on force is because they got exactly what they wanted with shocks/guards. Now something else is op? Weird. It feels like no matter what Soviets use as a starting build order is "op" these days. Its rediculous! Shocks? Op. Guards? Op. Clown cars? Op. Snipers. Clearly op? Cons? Op! Wtf?? I bet if they go ahead and nerf cons/snipers/clown cars suddenly penals will be op.

If someone starts a serious thread about bringing shocks/guards back to 1 cp to stop the con spam I may die of laughter

Isn't there a thread somewhere already devoted to people bitching crying whining and bickering about snipers? I think so so why bring it here?

With regards to the suggestion in this thread I think you are (as usual) 100% wrong porygon probably because you didn't read the ops entire post. These units would not obsolete grens and woyld also not be useless. They would do more damage at range. But due to having to aim can be closed in on faiely easily as kiting will be difficult. Also if they are fragil enough and expensive enough to reinforce i cant believe people would use them over grens or cons as a standard soldier (well some people would and then thered be a thread here somewhere about how bad german marksmen are). They would and should be treated as slightly less fragile glass canons than snipers. I like the idea alot

In your mind would these squads maintain the camp abilities of the sniper (along with I guess the freeze protection) or would they be just like regular infantry?

Also (I known the numbers were only for an example) but it would have to be ensured that the squads have similar DPS at range. Either give the sovs extra men like the gren/con setup or just up the rifle damage to be equivilant for these particular weapons.

I'm not sure if i like doctrinal snipers though just because of the imbalanve it could cause. Imagine the amount of QQ you'd see here if soviets could call in their sniper trsms and still have mortars/maxims/zis and in additon the german player hss no sniper at all. (The same would apply vice versa i guess but since germans love to whine im using them as an example here)

In general its a good idea eventhough im in the "snipers are fine the way they are" camp (although a unit like jeeps/motorcycles/battlebarges would be a good addition)

Edit: Another nice feature to add to these squads would be a munitions cost snipe ability kinda like the brits had with the recon upgrade in vcoh. This way the feeling of snipers is maintained plus if you really need to kill a particular unit (say hmg gunner) you can do it for a cost.

While I do agree some suggestions on here are poor, I understand peoples frustrations when playing against Sovjet snipers. There is no real hard counter to the soviet snipers, everything is relying on chance and poor soviet play. If your dumb enough to get your soviet sniper rifle naded, you totally deserved to lose it. Not only did you not hear the soviet sniper scream something about a grenade, but you also missed the gren model readying for the nade AND the sound.

How do you balance it? I have no idea. THe survivability of the German sniper is terrible, but makes up for it with fast cloaking and faster fire rate. As I said before that soviet fanboys obviously ignored was that there are many bugs with the German sniper (vet 1 ability, weird AI when told to attack, attack-move complete fail). The soviet sniper can hide in a scout car and get to vet 2 with ease, he has great survivability, and an even better vet 1. WHat makes the soviet sniper so frustrating is once he scores a shot on a gren, pgren squad, that squad is now down to 75% of its combat effectiveness. Get 2 snipers into the mix, german down to 50% in seconds. Ouch! Who needs maxims and mortars when you can just send snipers in? And you can always get a 120mm mortar that's doctrinal and its included with several commanders.

If your sniper is prone you will have a hard time avoiding the riflenade. Even if you hear it (at least that's what I have found)