Profile of blvckdream

Increase pop cap of tank crews so the difference between tank and crew is smaller?

OP makes very good points and speaks from experience in higher tiers of gameplay. ISU is a huge bully in teamgames and its ability to wipe retreating vet3 full health squads at 70 range is absurdly frustrating, and as he also points out, requires next to 0 input from the player in terms of micro to pull it off. Let's not forget it nullifies its only logical counters as well, AT guns, thus forcing a player to pick Ele or JT just to have a CHANCE to counter it (doesn't guarantee jack.) A single T34 supporting that ISU-152 and you can bet your Heavy TD is getting rammed down its throat whenever it tries to engage said ISU, then donkey-punched by the rest of the Allied players' entire army.

Dropping standard HE range to 55 or 60 (I think AT guns are 60, right?) would help a lot with the incredible abuse an ISU can lay down without even being micromanaged. It doesn't necessarily have to be as low as 50, but it definitely is waay too long right now. This thing has no real counters that aren't buried deep in a doctrine, and even those are soft counters, there is no hard counter. It destroys pretty much everything available non-doctrine from Axis period.

Yes and as I said the ISU doctrines come with the perfect tools to take out JT and Ele. Mark target + IL2 precision bombing. T34 ram is non-doctrinal so the combination of T34+Bombs+Mark Target+ SU 85+ ISU makes using JT/Ele very very hard.

If Ostheer is still being considered can we throw in a nerf to panzer tactician?

Smoke drop delay? Dropping infront of the tank instead of on the tank? Muni increase?

It's just too brainless.

+1

50 is too short. I agree ISU is op but it would be better to either reduce HE and AP range to 60 or just reduce the AOE of the shell a little.

Jagdtiger doesn't need cost reduction but better performance IMO.

It's just not good enough as it is. It often gets countered by the same things it is designed to counter.

- Mark target + 2 SU85s delete it
- 2 HVAP Jackons delete it
- T34 ram + IL2 bombs delete it when trying to counter ISU etc.
- You only need JT to counter ISU but ISU has mark target + IL2 bombs with it and both make using the JT very hard and risky. So I don't really know how this is supposed to be balanced.

IMO just not good enough. It takes so long to rotate, aim and shoot. Give me Elefant any day over this unit. Better to get two JP4s instead and combine them with Tiger or KT in almost any case.

Tiger can not be locked behind SWS when OKW tech is so much more expensive than Soviet tech. In what world is an IS2 arriving 50 fuel earlier fair?

At the same time Tiger needs an anti-infantry nerf as aerafield said. No matter what CP or tech requirements people will always go for Tiger because it's an absolute killing machine and feels absurd when vetted. Considering IS2 got nerfed it would only make sense if the Tiger got a nerf too because it's even stronger than the IS2 at the moment.