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The feature because floating MG's would look funny argument is abit unfounded. The Maxim and the DSHKA force a crew member to pick up the mg, if a model is killed during the tear down animation another must complete it entirely before retreating. Whereas the mg 42 after the tear down time can teleport to a surviving member even if the last member operating the gun was killed before the tear down animation was complete.

It shoots down Recon and other attack aircraft.

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The Allied drop although dropping in the allied base must traverse the entire map from the Axis base sectors which is specified, and also means once countered the allied drop will not work. The article also specified that there is a bug that makes it impossible to shoot down the Allied plane on certain maps tested making this. Big pointer here is now you can use Osttruppen with the supply drop so MP is not an extremely critical resource in that case with a Sniper + Osttruppen build.

The two main concerns are:

It was stated in a patch note that the Axis drop should be using a different flight path, and that the planes should be destructible objects, both of which currently do not seem to be happening. Relic would not have stated the change to Axis supply drop zone if they felt the drop was already easy to counter.

The allied drop also has a bug on maps where you cannot intercept the plane.

The conclusion of the article is that both abilities should have these bugs fixed and find a middle ground, which is what you asking for aswell I take it.

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Caches cannot really be considered abnormal resource modification, they are available to all but the OKW faction at this time. Opels are also not much of an issue as both of these mechanics have a very distinct counter play as you must control the territory the entire time they are present, not for a prescribed a time limit. The two abilities in the article can allow for 30-50 fuel resource changes in ~30-57 seconds, which is significant pacing change for a game that measures income in resources per minute.

Rifle blobs don't cap vehicles to the same degree the mighty shriek horde does, so no they don't rofl stomp tanks like volks.