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This thread is glorious.

Axis players get a taste of what USF and Soviet players have to deal with it and they are coming out in droves to nerf AVRE. I can't wait to see the reaction when the patch goes live. Heaven forbid if Relic makes more mirror units and commanders ranging from walking stuka and USF CAS Commander that gives axis players a taste of their own medicine.

At least you can see the AVRE before it shoots unlike the strumtiger where it can shoot outside of the sight range of units with little or no warning at all.

This is pretty hilarious.

Let me just copy the stock answers from the sturmtiger.


1. Don't blob.
2. Don't leave your tanks standing still to be hit by it.
3. L2P
4. Don't stand in front of it.
5. Plant mines
6. Damage Engines.

Its rather ironic, it also feels so nice as an allied player getting to use an army wiping unit that destroys fully vetted Grens/PG blobs and Volks/Ober blobs in a single click allowing my vetted infantry to destroy freshly non-vetted axis infantry.

Well played Relic well played.

how about adding them the ability to merge with other units like cons.

rifleman are the best all round front line infantrymen in the game. they're as dependable and adaptable as it gets. the changes will come tactically, primarily in area denial and pace. i can see double RE starts becoming more popular, not to cap, but to pressure key pts/mg nests early, allowing time and spacing for your rifles to actually fight, instead of getting instantly suppressed. changes like that are going to be crucial especially as we're seeing MG42's first out the gate, even with 10% requisition speed to add insult to injury.

look, i'm not disagreeing that seeing more options wouldn't be good, i'm not against that, that has been the attitude sine the WFA Alpha, but let's not get carried away, units aren't just going to fall out of the sky, and I don't think the USF are as inhibited as the general public are leading each other to believe.

+1

I use one RE doing cap work while one is acting like a scout for my rifles. You can even go crazy with going 4 x RE and going elite rifle call in and rush Strat points to pump out a quick M20.

Basic BO - 4 x RE, 1 x Elite Rifle LT, M20 and then decide to roll the dice and rush T3 or Go to T2 for a CPT for AT support to counter 222 or T3 Armor along with getting a Pack Howitzer to help with the MG Spam. You can help augment your combat power with the RE in the Mid to Late game by giving them BARs and using them to screen the rifles or push with them to overwhelm axis infantry.

I don't mind the hmg buff, it was kinda needed i guess.
But they already buffed the hmg42 a patch ago when giving it more acc and buffing Pio sight range.
Now the hmg42 has gotten another buff, it's fine in 1 vs 1 but not on most maps in teamgames.

I wonder if people realize werh now has the best sniper in t1, the best hmg in t1 and the best mortar in t1.

I learned as USF you have to tech to nades early game and go m20, you can win the engagement early game. Then when the scout care arrives (which got a buff btw guys the patch before) you have to tech to AA HT because it counters the m20. You can push werh back again, if there is not a pak or a vet 1 HMG. All the while spending all your fuel on teching, all the ammo om nades and smoke. Then you get a delayed sherman out vs werh's buffed stug. I like how werh and USA is now balanced in the early game, glad they have the same strenght in late game as well... Oh wait, they don't MVGame.

the hmg42 buff gives werh the option to skip light vehicles, like the pak let werh skip t3&4 and just stall to tiger before the pak got nerfed. Again it's fine in 1s, in teamgames not so much.

Yes the MG42 needed the buff, but it was the .50 Cal that really needed it. OST Grens can still rifle grenade it and kill the crew while being suppressed. It would be nice if the .50's sprint ability was replaced with AP rounds allowing it to soft counter light vehicles from OST and OKW. Being able for a team to lug around a weapon and tripod that weights 127.87 lbs / 58Kgs is stupid let alone sprint with it.

The fact that OST can farm PAKs and attack move them with their hordes of grens with MG42 support and effectively drive off USF armor or destroy it continues to anger me ( you don't see USF AT guns A moving to kill Axis armor..... why because they suck at penetrating the Axis Tank Armor) Axis players can get away with so much and not be punished for it compared to USF. As Looney stated the utility of the MG42 and PAK allows OST players to bypass tier 3 or 4 completely while the USF is forced into attempting to rush quickly to Tier 3 to pump out a tracked vehicle. Hell I would like to rant about the Pfraust and USF AT Grenade. Pfraust no minimal range while the rifles have a minimal range to through the grenade so SC scout car and run up into the rifles around a corner and they can't even snare it.

The Pros of the current patch is now hopefully USF players will go T1 and then T2 and then latter T3 forcing a combined arms of USF granted this increases micro and force management becomes extremely high and taxing which some USF players have never experienced since the USF meta was pretty much T1 into T3 for a fast Sherman mainly.

I'm not a fan of USF grenades probably because I suck with them but still MP and fuel invested onto something that is a constant Muni drain that can be negated by the Axis player repositioning the MG or dodging the pineapple.... heresss the wind wind up annnd throw once again compare it to the German Rifle grenade where you best counter measure is quickly responding to the audio cue of rifles saying grenade and moving squads. Also you can using them against vehicles but the vehicle can just back away from the smoke and can fire again it would be funny if the smoke grenade got lodging onto the vehicle completely blinding it along with masking it USF units.

The disparity in units in a couple of units and teching is just silly. I still enjoy playing as OST and the flexible in my builds due to the utility found each tier and how they are augmented by call ins while when compared to the USF its painful.

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