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A Panther costs as much as 2 T34/85's so why does it always lose? And before you ask I'm counting teching costs for Ostheer and OKW (with the fuel penalty).

Panther does not lose all the time vs 2 T34/85.

You will lose if T34/85 will get behind you, but since Panther is faster, it's not that simple.
If you keep them in front, there is a chance close to 0 that Panther will lose.
Outrange them, better armor, better penetration, better speed.

When you are saying things like that, you can also say that Panther will lose vs 2 T34/76 because if you get behind it, you will lose one T34, but you will also kill Panther; yet how many times have you seen T34/76 killing Panther?

Flank MG-> Get ready to wipe it-> Realize there is another MG covering the one you flanked -> Notice that there is also sniper who snipes your rifles :foreveralone"


Von, can you upload your 7MGs strat?

It's not about how hard is to smoke. It's about how much micro and resources it requires to counter just MG, while OST can simply throw rifle nade vs 50cal.

Placing MG does not require any skills, but dealing with it with Rifles requires at least some skills, yet you cannot be sure you will flank it, since there may be another MG behind.

It's all about mortar for USF and OKW.

By the way, best HMG, best mortar, best sniper, best at gun,... What's next?

This. And Allied tanks have many other advantages, they can even cap points and self repair ffs.

Brillant. So would you swap blitzkrieg with secure mode? Or SU repair with smoke?

OKW has the least starting MP of any faction, meaning that it being mandatory to build a puppchen as early as possible is hard.

Regardless; the fact that you have played against awful players doesn't mean the .50 cal is bad. LT is still the most meta USF officer, and the .50 cal is in the LT tier. There is no reason not to get 1 anymore.

No one said it's mandatory, but it makes life easier.
Just like no one said you must get mortar if you see HMG, but again, it will make your life easier.

And where I said that 50cal is a bad? Come on... Contrary... I said that it's almost as much painful for OKW as HMG42 for USF because they do not have early hardcounters but since you don't see 50cal as often as HMG, and even if you do, it's only 1, not 2, it's not that big deal for OKW.

Still, 17/251 is great to deal with support weapons.

Game should be made around counters so when I'm playing soviets and I go for M3, OST can get Scout Car.
If I go for T2 and I want to get maxim but then I see HMG42, I cancel Maxim and pick up mortar.
When I see SU T1, I pick up OKW Rep station.

And on... and on...

Infantry->HMG->Mortar->Infantry this is classic food chain.

Infatry->Tanks->AT Guns/TD->Infantry, again classic food chain.

Such design allows you to react to enemy's moves.

So when I see 17/251 I pick up ZiS/Guards/Su76 etc.

M3? There is always Raketen.

But there is one problem. All factions have bigger or smaller holes in this CoH2 food chain which is agasint rock-paper-scissors design.

For example:

USF cannot counter HMGs becasue they lack mortars. Same thing about OKW, but since yoy don't see 50cal to often and Maxim is not hard to deal with, this problem is not raised up to the light.

USF and SU cannot counter JPIV/Ele/JT becasue they don't have AT infantry (which is classic design that pure TD should be countered by AT inf).

There are plenty holes like that. Bigger, like lack of mortar for OKW/USF or smaller becasue there are units that allow you to counter but they are not designed counter.