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The sandbag argument doesn't hold water.

The mainlines that don't get sandbags/green cover have it on their engineers instead. Pios having sandbags instead of the mainline is a serious disadvantage, and you're misunderstanding it as an advantage. It's the same case for Rifles, except that Rear Echelons have significantly less duties - no repairs, no base-building, no anti-garrison (disadvantage actually).

I've always found it necessary to get a relatively early second pio since repairs/wires/mines/sweeping/cover building/anti-garrison/base-building duty require 2 pios combined.

I'm quite sure grenadiers would actually start being pretty good if they could build their own sandbags to protect themselves instead of getting roflstomped the moment allied infantry appears.

Only main lines that cant get stock ai upgrades should be able to build sandbags stock. Just look at how much more effective volks are then grens for just 20mp more because of it. Okw also does not have a fantastic t0 mg wich they can park behind it from minute zero. No long rane nade to be launched from safety.
Cons and sandbags only became a problem because of the 7th man. Its not even an ai upgrade but is getting nerfed in damage output regardless.

...and still are too potent because of the abilities I mentioned. Demos were just crazily OP as they needed no doctrine and were just too good and cheesy.

...and imo the are one of the worst designed units in the game.


I stand corrected (which means that they are even a worse design)

...but this becomes a dual edged sword once the game progresses. OKW has to keep buing 300mp squads to repair their vehicles ahile Soviets can do the same for 170mp.

...but it isn't as valuable as you make it be. This extra sight is just overrated. It is nice of course to help mgs early game. Still mgs must be behind other units and supported by more units than just a pio.

other OP cheesy units, especially UK sappers

But merge can make them unstoppable fire delivery unit - can be gamechanging.

Still, looking at all their utilities, they should simply be 200mp - just like other similar engineer units. Just remember that Soviets are simply slightlly OP compared to other factions. Lategame need for repairs makes Soviets overpowered, because of cheap pios. This is how it works: the fact that Sov can replace their repair units more quickly and then reinforce them more quickly on the field (through merge) speeds up the repair process of Soviet tanks too much compared to other factions.

Ce's have only the demo as a unique ability. other engies have 2 or even more. and that single ability is neutered beyond being usable in a live game. unlike some claim even when they where still good but cheesy, they could not be everywhere on every cap point, not even soviets had enough ammo to do that. The player cant watch multyple demo,s all the time to manualy detonate it. All of the soviet one shot abilities or units have been either removed or alterd. while esp ost stil has plenty potetial to do just that, the teller being the prime exameple closely followed by the rifle and bundle nades.

merge is a double egded sword. it costs 20 mp per use. it can cost you the con squad if you are unlucky. so its a balanced ability. Ce's only excel when cons merge with them and have the flamer or in a m3/m5, so OP.... 240 mp plus 170 mp plus 60 muni. and 20 mp per use/scout car/halftrack.

sturms are meant to hurt when you loose one. and okw has a non doc repair station so they are not even needed for repairing exclusivly.

the pio,s sight is underrated, recrew a mg42 with pio,s and they retain the vision. because of the vision you always react on time to turn or move your units.

soviets dont repair faster then ost t3 units. its just that al lot of end tech units of axis have larger health pools then soviets units do. that,s why they take longer to repair. soviet can replace losses faster because their units are cheaper and also weaker then almost all of their counter parts. they will lose more units during a match generaly. It would be broken if they had simaler repair times then axis who have larger hp pools and stronger units pound for pound. i hope you understand that.
all other repair options soviets have besides ce's are in doctrines, unlike okw and usf.

Again nothing wrong with soviets repair speeds atm. nothing wrong with ce's other then the demo sucking hard. only when the demo get back to being ussable should the price of the ce's be raised back to 200mp, only then.

(edit) soviet also have the least healing options stock, merge is not reinforcing its transfering models. ost has 3 ways to heal and reinforce, only one reinforce has to be in base. all the healing can be done out of base, unlike soviets.

Combat Engineers are too cheap. It makes them slightly imbalanced. Their performance and abilities don't justify 30 manpower bonus compared to other engineer squads. Very simple and not much to add.

No bonus sight. No 5th man with vet or upgrade. No stun nades or at weapon upgrade. No amazing dps at any range. 1 completely usseles ability nerfed out of the game.

170 mp is just fine considering the only unique thing about them is the demo wich is usseles atm.

+1 on that point.

They were a bit cheesy when only sweepers could see them, but now they are almost useless. You have to use sight blockers (not the actual LOS in-game system, but that block the view from the camera to the ground) to use them. So only bushes, trees, some buildings. That's even cheesier.

Also someone brought up a comparison to the Teller mine in a discussion months ago to argue demos should only be seen by sweepers as well. Hard to argue against that to be honest with the only exception that OST is not able to spam Tellers, while SOV often have munis floating for demos.

Soviets dont float ammo nearly as much anymore imo. That is less of an issue now. Not being allowed in cap circles would have been enough next to a price increase at the time imo.

I can only add it has been a glaring problem for years. It is far more effective than other units as it is basically a unit that deletes its counters (just like many other soviet units such as ZiS being able to barrage infantry and support weapons). You can outmaneuver it being a better player and hopefully not get snared or just ouranged. But you simply have to be significantly better to win, especially as ostheer. It is bittersweet to read about how powerful brumbar, panther or tiger or elephant are and, at the same time, the same people don't see anything wrong with things like, ISU, which is a combination of elephant and brumbar with insane range. The same people keep repeatning that it is the axis that have lategame armour advantage, etc. but fail to understand what tournament results show. The level of twisted logics here is just incredible. But I can understand that it was the allies who won the war and that asymetrical balance means that certain factions should be simply better. Why not admit it just openly? ISU has to be better and more cost effective than other units simply because Soviets won the war. It has to outrange all units and fight against factions without proper tank destroyers. It has to be supported by infatry with satchels because regular snares wouldn't be enough. Period.

The people that keep repaeting that axis "should" have the late game advantidge are mostly the axis players.
Those are also the people complaining about the zis that it can dislodge team weapons also selectivly forget that soviets have nothing like bundle or rifle nades or ai upgrade stock for that matter. When pgrens get a good flank on a 6 man team its a very high chance it wont survive. When a penal does the same to a 4 man ost team its odds to escape are better. Not that this is a problem its just how it was intended/balanced out.
The isu is available in much fewer doctrines then a tiger and viable only in big game modes. Panthers are fast and durable enough to threaten it.
The twisted logic you speak of extemds both ways. Isu one shotting and very strong very short range at satchels are bad, teller/and ST (when it hits) one shotting is ok. Demo bad lets give okw a mobile one. Katty wipes single unit its op. Stuka zu fub wipes multyple its fine....