Funnily that's exactly what happened in my game - now that the OKW Elite Armour commander is actually useful, I think we're going to be seeing HEAT a lot more. And damn, that stuff is effective. If I hadn't happened to have been playing Mechanized with the better Sherman, I think I would have been screwed, but pretty sure those Shermans allowed me to scrape a win.
Still haven't had much chance to play USF but looking forward to try out some inf other than rifles for a change 
Actually HEAT doesn’t affect usf that much since their tanks will almost never bounce anything anyway. IIRC the increased damage isn’t enough to let the 160 damage tanks (p4, panther, jp4) kill mediums in one less shot either, so it’s not a huge deal vs. shermans and Jacksons. I think it reduces the amount of hits that the kt takes to kill mediums by one though, and lets the puma 4 hit mediums like a tank (which is really funny and useful actually). |
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*Gets one of the highest close dps weapons per gun in the entire game as a free upgrade on a squad that can now camouflage even better*
*still complains* |
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They’re still the most expensive mainline infantry per model to reinforce. It’s annoying to play against but very easy to punish pretty hard with explosives or suppression. Also, I’m pretty sure lmg42 grens have more dps than the 5 man g43 grens (but the latter is obviously more durable per squad). |
Found out why on the official forums: on top of the Thompsons great profile rangers actually have a damage reduction modifier so even a direct grenade won't drop a model. Knock %10 off ever bullet too and you have a very strong squad...
On top of their RA already making every one of them Neo from the matrix. |
It's much easier to survive with Pathfinders until you get Paratroopers now, just double upgrade a tier for the CPs, you can go Captain and drop the MG to man it with Pathfinders for selfspotting more easily now too.
Having paths come at 0cp makes this strat a lot more viable now I think. Hyped that I’ll be around for the weekend to try it out lol. |
you can have fragmentation bombs, no problem.
can i have hawker typhoons then?
Lol you’d take typhoons over AT Stuka loiter? |
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Haven’t had a chance to play it much but I’m very much looking forward to playing with airborne now that it’s abilities are better timed/priced. Thinking maybe rifle, path, rifle, captain to open instead of 3 rifles, officer like normal builds.
Also wanting to play with mechanized; I might actually try going 2 rifles 2 dodges since it’s fairly easy to go all of early game without losing a model with that opening, leaving you with a lot more midgame manpower than usf is usually used to. From there you can go cav rifle heavy or support weapon heavy I guess. |
idk if its just me, but has anyone had tank shells fired go through the enemy tank and disappear without impact?
IIRC I’ve had that happen to me before the patch even came out. May or may not be unrelated but I’m not 100% sure.
Are we going to be seeing hotfixes for this patch at some point? To clarify, not trying to be obnoxious, but just wanted to know, since some of them seem pretty annoying. |
Its a one click skill remove of enemy tanks. I do not know what you guys were thinking with that ability.
Not like we already have that in the game already...
On a slightly different note, how much friendly fire does it tend to do? I’m imagining blocking tanks with t34s lol. |
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I get Thompsons every time. I’d personally rather have a squad that shreds up close than one that performs fairly well at all ranges by comparison, especially when literally every other squad I have does the latter rather than the former. Something about rangers with Thompsons is somehow a lot more forceful and intimidating than any number of rifles with BARs IMO, and they make a great flanking unit with Thompsons. As an added bonus it’s half the cost of 3 BARs and they won’t drop them every other model loss, and they’re just super satisfying. |
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