Profile of Alexzandvar

"people talking about how to make an underwhelming unit that never gets built more viable"

Alex - "I make them all the time they're really effective"

Just between you and me......

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The KV-1 comes out the same time medium vehicles do and it has a better gun (faster reload) than the T34. Iv had great success with it so far because it can beat PIV's 1 on 1 and tank enemy fire while no longer having to deal with Tiger spam.

Yeah it could use a better vet 1 ability.

No. Better if OKW has more munition sinks. The LMG-Ober-variant of the MG34 is still a very good weapon surpassing the other LMGs. Only thing that may need looking at is the IR StG 44.

Things that need looking at are their veterancy as suppressing at vet 4 should be an ability or reworked while their survivability from the vet should be toned down. One hit of received accuracy is enough given they aren't mainline troops and already have that very good received accuracy. Once those are addressed, they can use lower reinforce as they will be less like terminators versus infantry.

I think your forgetting why Ober's exist. They exist because OKW's main line infantry (volks) lacks any real sort of punch and cannot put out enough long range DPS on their own. They are supposed to be support by Sturms for close range and Obers for long.

Right now Obers are just "decent" at their job, which misses the point of the fact they are made to fill the hole of AI which OKW doesn't have on it's non-doc infantry. They have good vet and shine when they get there; but the challenge is avoiding squads wipes on them since they enter the game at a point in time were explosives are starting to ramp up in quantity.

Once upon a time MG's couldn't really do shit against infantry, that day is passed us. Obers getting their LMG (and thus the entire point of their existence) for free makes sense if it's going to do reduced damage.

A lot of people love to think about how shit was in the past and go "oh well it was OP then...." without thinking about the context of why it was OP in the first place. MG's are no longer shit and can actually kill things. The KT is no longer a Baneblade. Much of what made OKW "OP" is gone now (with good reason is most cases).

I don't care for their suppression at vet 4 and would happily see it removed if they got a little cost reduction so they were more sustainable.

While I wouldn't be as negative/drastic as cardboard....going anything larger than a PIV against Brits isn't a great idea.

Just tone down penetration on the M5 so it wont tear apart 222s. it's only OP against light vehicles, versus infantry its the only thing soviets have that kills infantry quickly

It has really low pen, it's DPS is what the problem is.