Profile of dOPEnEWhAIRCUT

LiG counters any infantry movement, Pack Howie is crap and the Katyusha is weak+too expensive. Also, as of now infantry can just run straight at allied HMGs and throw their nades.

The Crocodile is a good counter though. Such a terrifying thing.

If your opponent is truly schreck blobbing there shouldn't be enough le.IGs to stop your infantry from advancing to close range (assuming you yourself are not blobbing). Pack Howie is not crap, it actually performs better than the le.IG with vet. Katyusha is a weaker and more expensive counter, but if you are able to cover it with shot blockers and get a close range barrage off on a blob with it you will likely wipe a few squads. As others suggested you can either layer suppression or simply move the team weapon back (it shouldn't be hard to tell why he's charging his volks/grens into your machine gun, just dodge the obvious nade).

Just got done playing a 2v2 as OKW. Built 3 ISGs and kept them throughout the game, constantly firing and moving (at one point one was decrewed, but I quickly recrewed it). Between both teams I led in kills that game, and my ISGs accounted for half of those kills (91 kills from them). My teammate was only 10 or so kills behind me. Guess who won that game?

Not my team.

While I agree there is some toning down that needs to be done, a lot of the banter on this thread is the typical coh2.org over reaction to relic patch changes - The game is not instantly won for axis upon the arrival of the ISGs like most of the people posting in this thread would like to believe. If any changes are to be made I'd suggest decreasing the amount of suppression dealt on each shot significantly, but leave everything else as it is. The miracle wipes usually happen on pinned squads that are overlapping models; changing the unit so it doesn't instapin would help prevent this.

Nerfing this unit (and the pack howi) into the ground by greatly decreasing their aoe/damage/range/accuracy is not the way to go. It sucks that in the current build OKW relies so heavily on the ISG crutch, but that speaks more towards OKWs bad design rather than how OP the ISG is.

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So I post one picture of a neckbeard in response to Katitof's neckbearding, it gets invis'd. This guy creates 1000x whineposts daily and he still runs rampant. Mods, what gives?