Profile of comm_ash

I don't understand why people think USF needs such a broad rework. USF needs 1 thing, a T0 mortar to let them spam smoke without delaying tech and their own weapon upgrades.

USF isn't some faction that is nigh hopeless like old stock Soviets, it is very close to being a well rounded faction. All it needs is a way to reliably counter the MG42 without bleeding munitions out the ass.

Well, that and maybe the reversion of the Ostheer 80 mp extra mp.

This mortar was shit, it was good only for free smoke, oh wait, all mortars have free smoke.....

Thats the point though, USF is at a severe disadvantage because they not only have to delay tech by getting grenades every match, but they end up bleeding munitions due to the need to spam said grenades.

A manpower only early game investment smoke platform would do much to alleviate USF's problems.

Man, I didin't play soviets 1v1 this patch so I wouldn't know what you should do, I'll try them myself on 1v1.

BUT what I can say from other game modes where I played them is that they are feeling quite UP this patch. I mean, I find it verry difficult to survive with them and actualy win. The importance of T34 presence in t3 is now obvious. Also the call-ins importance. You don't have a generalist tank in t3 while ostheer - and now okw - have it. You don't have the proper tools to deal with what axis can throw against you at different game stages. Everything is comming far to late now, and what you build from your soviet t3 is no match for what ostheer can build from their t3 for instance. Same story with t4. Maybe the things were quite similar in the past but now, somehow the difference is even more obvious, and I think it is because of changes in teching and building costs. Let's face it, SU-76 is not an offensive weapon as T34 is. What is the point to have T34s in T4? To bring a vanilla weak medium tank in lategame? What to do with it? Before patch it made sense, all was about timing, you could turn enemy lines upside down with T34 rush and agressive thinking. Furter, the soviets call ins helped to compensate against heavy german armor. Now, by the time a soviet player has an T34/85, the german player will have a panther. By the time soviet player will have an SU-76 the german player will have a PIV. The quad feels now as the only chance for soviets but can be efficiently countered just with some ostheer t2 combined tools, not talking about stug, if the german player manages to build it in due time.

I don't love soviets, but the changes for them created balance issues in my opinion OR I totaly have no idea how to play them in this patch. Could be that too, but still logic tells me there is something wrong about them now.

This is all completely wrong. First of all, tiers have to be compared by fuel cost, not by number. Ostheer t3 is equivalent to soviet t4. If a t34/76 is rushed, it will arrive at relatively the same time as a p4.

T3 is a light vehicle tier which has no equal in any axis army. It gives access to light armor that can give enormous field presence in the midgame, whilst the su76 is currently capable of defeating any tank in groups of 2-3.


In terms of fighting okw, relying on maxims and the new and improved ml20 will get you far. Maxims are hard to counter for okw due to the hard time okw has clearing buildings, and the ml20 can decimate okw buildings, all the while being safe in your base. (Okw only has scavenge arty to kill arty in base).

SU76s also do very well against anything short of a jp4. They will give you mobile indirect fire, as well as a good at punch. The M5 AAHT supporting your maxims will also be hard for your enemy to push back.

All in all, you never really will need to tech past t3 as soviets vs. Okw. T3+T2 gives you just about everything you will need. Callin mediums like the m4c sherman and the kv1 will complement T3 builds quite well.

I have some quastions about this unit.

What is is fire rate ?
How much it damage vehicles ?
What type of camouflage he uses ?


Sorry if this still belongs under NDA , i think it dont belong under it because this unit was anouced by Relic officialy.


Discuss

It is all technically under NDA, because the data from the Alpha balance wise could have changed quite dramatically since then.

Hypothetically, however, I would assume that the AT sniper would have the lowest ROF of any sniper. Its HP would most likely be the same as that of the Ostheer sniper, and its camo may be similar to the Ostheer sniper's, but with a longer recloak time.

Hypothetically, it's damage vs. vehicles would be the same as that of an AT rifles', with the snipers main role being that of a defensive, support unit.

standart reinforcemrnt cost for all units must be the same cost to buy/number of units.
So MG42 must cost 33 to reinforce.

Actually, team weapons have a cost based off of their crewmembers and the cost of the weapon they crew. This is why the Maxim crewmembers cost 15 mp, even though the squad costs 240mp, which should make the Maxim crew 20mp each.

The increase in MG42 price with no increase in crewmember cost shows that the MG42 as a weapon is worth more mp, not the crew using it.