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KT sucks, very slow fire rate

Its reload is 6.25s, which is remarkably high for how much damage it does (240).

For comparison, the Jackson (160dmg) has 6.55s, the Panther (160dmg) has 6.65s, the Firefly (200dmg) has 8s. I believe the KT has the highest DPM of all tanks.

very slow turret speed

Turret speed is slow, but now it gets Spearhead at a reduced requirement for veterancy 1. Vet 1 is really easy to get now.
Spearhead (amongst other things) gives +60% turret rotation.

Vet 2 (also at a very reduced requirement now) gives an additional +40% turret rotation.

and poor AOE comparede to IS2 and pershing

Not true at all.

Tiger II
Damage 240
Scatter angle 5
AOE radius 4
AOE distance 0/1.25/4
AOE damage 0.75/0.25/0.15
(damage is 180/60/36)

Pershing
Damage 160
Scatter angle 6
AOE radius 4
AOE distance 0.25/1.25/3.25
AOE damage 0.75/0.375/0.175
(damage is 120/60/28)

IS-2
Damage 160
Scatter angle 5.75
AOE radius 5
AOE distance 0.25/1/3
AOE damage 1/0.35/0.175
(damage is 160/56/28)


So as you can see, the KT arguably has the better AOE radius with a larger mid AOE than the IS-2 and better scatter, as well as slightly higher damage. Compared to the Pershing it has a much larger mid AOE as well as slightly better near range AOE and slightly higher damage.

Or as Lago presented in a graph:

(red is Tiger II, blue is Pershing)

The HMG 34 has some of the best suppression in the game, only just below the HMG 42 (iirc only 0.3s slower which is ~10% worse). Only the M2HB and DsHK can suppress faster, but they are arguably worse versus medium and heavy cover because of the short bursts.

It happens to all MGs even to the AT support weapons. Teleport thing happens sometimes but not all the time.

No it does not. Retreating HMG 42, HMG 34 and Vickers crews never drop the weapon on retreat (unless the last model dies obviously). If the model carrying the gun dies, the gun just teleports to another model and the squad never stops running.

The M2HB, Maxim and DsHK on the other hand all have deathloops. If while retreating the model carrying the gun dies, the gun drops to the ground and another has to come pick it up, making it much easier to wipe these HMGs on retreat than the other three. As long as you're lucky enough to snipe the gunner model.

The puma was never the issue, it was the call in CP4.

Personally I do agree with this, and even though I think the Puma at T2 (with a build time and maybe with a 4-5 CP hybrid system) would likely not be overpowered, I do think it has a very high risk of making MobiDef hardcore meta again simply because the Puma is so much more reliable at countering Allied light vehicles than Ostheer's other options. And I'm not sure if we'd want that to return. People got sick of MobiDef being picked 9/10 games.

This is the guy that whined so hard he got balance team to change the Mortar HT WP shells.

I don't know about any threads made by this guy, but I can assure you the USF Mortar HT WP ability nerf was an independent decision, because it was overperforming like crazy in high level team games.