The maxim sets up once and gets to business or it loses its chance. If all the crew happen to stand in close order drill after you give the facing command, there's not really an opportunity to fix that. So yeah it'd be nice if relic got rid of their occasional football huddle.
My problem's not been so much with occasional-but-infuriating squad whipes, but with losing the gunner and two other mooks to a riflenade, then watching the other three get picked off trying to recrew the gun. It's supposed to stop infantry from the front, that's what MG's do. It doesn't stop grenadiers. Grenadiers are a feature in all german builds save the weird stuff. This is a problem. |
Edit: Putting in the stuff I thought I put in the first time, no idea where that quote came from.
Snipers, mines, and demo charges. None of these things care how vetted the enemy infantry are. |
Flank with engineers and bite the bullet for a demo charge. Yaay 95 munitions. Not fun but it gets the job done. Don't grab t1 unless it's in your plan, and flamethrowers are super slow at bunker killin.
If you happen to be in a bigger game, you could build around one player going for the doctrines that give the 45mm ATG and spend your manpower on something else.
For tier 2 starts, double mortar is just good at killing everything in general, and is decently fast at ridding you of bunkers. Yeah it's 480 manpower, but unlike a fast AT gun, it has a purpose against everything else fritz fields. |
They are a pretty weird unit. Those SVT's are good at all ranges, but their other powers are all about the close fight, and their DPS is spread out on 6 low armor models, like you said, so they can't really be used in a frontal charge like shocks or panzergrens.
A 40 mp cost decrease would be nice. They'd come out just a wee bit faster and wouldn't cost you as much when you don't have the opportunity to reinforce them through merge.
Instead (or maybe even additionally) a bit stronger vet would make them a better investment, without making them a no-brainer unit in the early game. |