Profile of Mr Carmine

Okw mp starved... you hear somethings strange every day lol.

AFAIK, that is not true. Only mg42 teleports the weapon itself when carring-man dies.



This, TBH feels like you are trying to justify your opinion by devaluating merge. As long as you are not going for the penal build (with no cons), merge is almost always available for Soviet player and you have to admit it is really viable tool.

If you let team weapon without infantry near it. That's on you.

Vickers mg 42 and 43 have the gun teleport when the running model dies. .50 i dont know fore sure. Dshka and maxim both need to pick upagain if the model carrying dies.
This with axis inf being mostly better long range increases the chance to wipe the maxim and dska.

I dont see how i am devaluating merge. Its a great ability. You said maxim has very strong staying esp with merge. I mentioned you that it better be for 500 mp at that location. And cons merging means they are not pushing or drawing fire. Thats what i said. Its a fair trade off again 100% fine.

I didnt say anything about leaving a maxim or any mg without support.
On that note maxim fairs the worst on its own. It can stop inf but without the suprresion it really struggles to do so. In the sov faction it is fine, esp because they can be merged into. its price still isent fine.
The t34 despite being a medium is justly the cheapest medium. Because its the least effective off them. Would be trash if it costed 125 fuel with its current stats.
The maxim is unjustly expensive because people cant let go off the past.

What I'm saying is - tha maxium would have been 220mp if it was 4-man crew.
But since it has +2 crews, it is added to the squad production cost - thus making it 260 mp.

Same thing goes for UKF. Normal sapper (with 4 men) costs 210 mp. But Sapper Recovery Squad costs 230 mp because it is 5-man squad.

If you consistently gonna say 6 men provides a minimal to no advantage, why not just remove it from Sov's team weapon mechanism? Then we can talk about reducing mp cost for team weapons.

6 men crew + crew merge system makes any - including maxim - team weapon for Soviet extremly difficult to wipe out or at least make it leave the battlefield. Any other faction mg have to reatreat to the base after 1~2 model down, but Sov can just merge cons to the team weapon. So they don't provide window of opportunity to the opposing team,

I understand what you are saying. They deviated from the normal cost en reinforce formula in the past though. 6 men for soviet team weapons need to stay its a core design feuture.

The number of models are not the only factor to decide a sqauds costs imo. Again maxim takes to long to supress has a small arc and can be deathlooped. It recieves more damage this way then an other mg wich can supress on time. Reducing the 160 hp bonus to almost 0. Hence imo 240 mp is the correct price for the maxim.

4 men captured maxims are ok vs soviets cuz soviets lack long range inf with ai upgrades mostly, and dont have much nades if it all to lob at it (frontaly) okw but esp ost has little trouble dealing with maxims once nades and ai upgrades are unlocked.

Merge is very usefull indeed. You do need another unit to give the maxim or any soviet team weapon or squad such survivability though. Thats a minimum of 500mp that you need to give the maxim that level of staying power.

This (and another post about RE too) is because they had to nerf the unit due to excessive use of unit spam.

There once was RE spam & maxim spam. So they had to nerf it down.

maxim itself does have the worst stat. But in return u get 6-man crews & commander specific dushica.

That isent the point atm. Its preformance is decent enough. We have arrived mostly at is it fair that it costs more then the mg34 and the same as the mg 42? both of wich are much much better.
The 6 man crew is nothing special it doesnt help the maxim in the slighest, the bad stuff such as deathloop, small arc, lower to lowest supression makes sure of that.

Back in the day maxim spam got to where it got because cons penals and gaurds even where not good enough.

I think we can all agree that removing maxim spam from the game was an overall improvement.

Yeah i agree there. Just if they also lowered the price when they nerfed/redisigned it. A slight fire cone increase to compensate all other nerfs/redesign isent cutting it.