Profile of Applejack

Don't know about everyone else but I really struggle to face off against MGs as brits.

What you mentioned is a major downside of brits, having no opening alternatives but I think an even bigger issue is the lack of indirect outside of mortar pit.

No non-doctrinal mortar or rocket arty and even then the doctrinal rocket arty a literal glass cannon that takes forever to aim and reposition.

Brit design also factor in emplacements as 'units' instead of optional buildings.

Every faction has 4 buildings/upgrades with 3 units per building/upgrade. Brits have 3 buildings/upgrades with 3 units per upgrade. The 3(4) emplacements make up the other 3 units that they miss. Because emplacements are easily counterable, they become a somewhat predictable and underpowered faction compared to all the other factions. The recent Brit buffs was a move in the right direction but only a bandaid fix to the real problem.
(I do ignore the fact that late-game brits have unit modifiers to 'add' variety but that is an argument for a different thread)

I think a lot of Brit doctrinal units should be moved to non-doctrinal and some abilities put in to replace them. Similar to how the IS smoke and Assault Officer was added to fill in a niche that Brits lacked. Units like mortar squad, land mattress (buffed though since the current one sucks), assault tommies and tank hunter infantry.

Yeah the creeping barrage is so incredibly useless. I've used it once a couple times and just relearned how useless it is for the muni it costs.

Yeah that's absolutely possible, but also depends on how many tests you've run. After all, scatter is heavily RNG dependent and it's quite likely two consecutive barrages have totally different impact patterns. One time almost all rockets land dead center, and yet another time they'll scatter wildly. You'll need a huge volume of fire to actually see the full range of possible scatter outcomes for comparison.

The picture below doesn't show this perfectly due to the comparably large size of the splats, but gives a good impression of the difference in scatter between creeping barrage (right) and barrage (left) at similar distance.



The number of impacts in both cases is well beyond 1,000 (you can replicate this by setting the reload of the weapon (katyusha_bm_13_16_rocket_mp) to zero and increasing the number of rockets fired barrage abilities (katyusha_creeping_barrage_mp and katyusha_rocket_truck_barrage_mp)) and the conscript sandbags are added for size reference.

Maybe its alternating between the high accuracy rocket weapon and the low accuracy rocket weapon?

If you put Piats on Commandos, you should be able to use vet 0 stealth to kill tanks. You are basically wasting 2 suppressed sten guns which is incredible waste of the entire squad.

Rifles feel like they are in a very good position right now. They are basically near-elite infantry available at the start of the game. Cost adjusted to the value that they bring.

MP bleed only exists if you spam Riflemen and fight without cover.

I still think if anything needs adjusted is doctrinal armour for USF. That and a 'nerfed' Pershing should be made available to all USF players similar to King Tiger.

no, crew are very good and carry the faction later in the game

obvs it's vulnerable like all engineers but an advantage they have is the repair critical ability to fix engine damages very quickly, u don't need to retreat further than other eng as they have the same hp and RA , or better at vet 3 which they get to ultra fast

and tell me why is Pershing not a heavy tank ? or do u mean stock ? if so soviet lack a stock heavy tank too, and are still very good late

>only 10mp and 10 fu
it's not a low number it's the fuel for a side grade, and Sherman has an all-purpose munition too, they just have BETTER AI munition too, it's not a downside u know ? btw u forgot the stock smokes shells, the better penetration and most importantly the 0.75 moving accuracy instead of 0.5 which is a lot

Repair critical is good but its a vet ability so its not available immediately. Its hard to do in combat too since the animation is very long. Its also very buggy to re-enter a damaged vehicle (theres no dedicated button). I will say its good but it has limitations.

Apples and oranges, you can't compare both tanks in a light box. The original argument was that the Panzer 4 cost more and I said stats are increased for adjusted stats. The tanks are obviously not a 1:1 copy of each other so they cannot be fully compared. You can say Blitz is an ability available to the Sherman or HEAT rounds from the Commander doctrine. Apples and oranges.

You still have to retreat behind lines if you want to safely repair from low hp to full. Its the same amount of distance if not more. Repairing on the front lines is a good way to lose your tank and give your enemy a free tank.

Pershing is not a heavy tank. It's more of a premium medium but cost adjusted as a 'heavy tank'. Stats are similar to the Panther. The increased cost is because the main gun is very good vs infantry.