Profile of Puppetmaster

While it's true that it's easy to take out a PaK 40 because it has very few crew members, it's very effective against almost any Soviet tank, fires way faster than a ZiS and is overall just a better AT-gun than the ZiS.

The strange thing about the game is its often better to steal german support weapons rather than using your own because for the most part they are better.

The Panther is the German end of tech tree anti tank unit. It is the most expensive non doctrinal unit in the game. It either needs speed or the range of the Su-85. As it stands a slower Panther wouldn´t be able to handle Su-85 that has more range while being able to spot for itself.

If you give one faction a non doctrinal high range tank destroyer, the other faction gets something with speed. It´s basic asymmetrical balance.

It has speed and armour and a decent gun though and with the mg42 upgrade its not too bad against infantry. When you add in blitz and smoke it is imho too much. It isn't like the SU-85 auto pens the panther from the front either.

Once again you are thinking I have said something I have not. Let me make it clear

MG42 has a wider Arc.

To get supressed (the job of an mg) you have to walk into the arc.

There is a higher chance that you will walk into a bigger arc (obviously, its simple maths).

If you leave both mg's alone, the mg42 is better without support because, guess what. It has a bigger arc. I am still not saying you can set and forget. I am saying it is more capable than a maxim for the above reasons. I do not need to correct my self because I am not wrong. You are arguing against simple numbers.

Your logic is flawed by maths. Your calling my argument irrelevant because I ask to see your stats and yet you were basing my arguments validity on how good or bad a player I was and how much I favour one faction. I provided evidence to you that you now ignore because I proved you wrong. You won't post your own stats because I suspect you only play Germans and not soviets. Thus your argument is not valid because you do not have sufficient experience playing as soviets. You fail to prove me wrong on this.

Also, since when did playing the game involve writing on a forum? Do you <all> chat your enemy to death? The difference is my record shows my stats playing the game, posting on a forum does not.

But you don't if you are telling me that you can set and forget an MG42 in the current patch.

Wider arcs do not mean they can be left to guard even direct advances, let alone multiple units within it's arc. The wider arc just means it doesn't have to reposition to acquire a new target...suppressing and pinning that target is another story. And MG42 that has trouble with these basic MG requirements in the CoH world can never be left alone or forgotten.

I'm not saying rifle-nades are perfect right now, not what I was talking about. I have a huge problem with the way MG42s are being describes here as it is totally inaccurate.

I could be the worst player ever, and yet...i'm still right about this so my player card is again, irrelevant to my argument.

You said what I was saying was wrong because I only play soviets (wrong) and that I was terrible at the game (very wrong). I want to see your player card to see you playing something other than just Germans and having a higher rank than me, because according to you how good someone is makes a difference.

I am not saying you can leave an mg42 for 5 minutes without support and win a game. You think I am saying this.

If a man armed with a stick runs towards an mg from a random direction, without touching the mg which one will have a better chance of suppressing him first or at all. Bearing in mind that to suppress (or have a chance to) it needs to be in that arc. MG42 has a bigger arc than a Maxim. Bigger arc > smaller arc.

Once again, I am not saying you can set and forget an MG42, only that it will do a better job than a maxim will (regardless of how good or bad it is at doing that).

Exactly. For instance playing Germans even once can teach you that you do not place an MG42 somewhere and "forget it".

Reading a sentence properly teaches you not be an ass You missed that lesson though