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That will further buff the TDs since Axis armor needs that speed to fight off the Allied TDs. This idea is the exact opposite of the "good" because in any form of RTS speed and range are the kings (C&C Generals Zero Hour Search & Destroy rocket Humwees for instance). I mean what is the the point of more armor and HP if i will never be able to shoot back ?

I think HP nerfs would be better than speed nerfs myself.

So many people mentioning the Tiger ace and forgetting it gets MG suppression with Spearhead activated. That alone makes it the most frustrating HT to fight against imo, but then I haven't actually had to fight it ever since the CP reversion.

Maybe is is right maybe M36 needs few nerf to give the Shermans 76mm, Easy8, Dozer upgradef time to shine.

Good thing people who argue against M36 nerfs don't open threads with that in mind then lol

Other than those options, I don't want to see buffs to the main gun, because it really shouldn't be competing with the jackson or sherman 75 IMO. The .50 upgrade should be cheapened to be in line with the upgrade on other Shermans too.

What's the Mg upgrade cost for Ez8 right now? Is it 75 munitions or something? If it's higher than other shermans then I'd say by all means bring it down.

If you are getting the idea that the E8 MG upgrade costs more than the MG upgrade on regular Shermans from my thread, I must say that I was mistaken and made the comparison to the 76mm Sherman by accident. Both the M4A3 and the E8 .50 upgrade are IIRC 70 munitions. That is still more than Axis MG upgrades, and is more than the cost of the 76mm Sherman's MG upgrade, for some reason, but the price is consistent with the regular Sherman.

As for Rifle Co, with all the talk of adding units or vehicles, I wouldn't really be opposed to adding the Mechanized Combat Group from Mechanized Company in its entirety; both the WC51 and the M3 Halftrack. I would certainly prefer that to M1C Garand upgrade or SMG infantry or etc.

The fact that the ubiquitous M3 Halftrack is only present in one doctrine for USF is really about as strange as the fact that the main MG used by the faction is the .50 cal HMG...

A single round of testing is not an accurate yardstick for comparing tanks, and your thread is not going to go far if you're going to constantly deflect to "the tests!".

Historically, 76mm shermans were actually left behind in England for the invasion of France. The 75mm was doing a good enough job against tanks, but it's turret had substantially better HE performance. It wasn't until the newer models of german tanks started showing up that US armor realized that "oh, we're going to need better AT guns on our shermans!".

You see the same dynamic in the game. Vanilla sherman is good enough vs a fresh OST p4, but struggles with upgraded armor p4s. E8 also preforms significantly better than the vanilla sherman against panthers and tigers, but won't solo them.

Rifle company isn't in the meta because heavy cavalry does everything it does and more. If you want to see more doctrine variety in USF then heavy cav shouldn't be some omni-doctrine offering the best in infantry via the rangers, smoke, sandbags, and mines, and also the best in armor via pershing and super zook rangers.

While I agree Heavy Cav is omnipotent, it isn't far removed from your average tiger commander for Ostheer, for example. It just has doctrinal elite infantry instead of nondoc.

E8 is signifigantly better at getting a single lucky hit in on a heavier tank than a P4, sure. Is it worth 30 extra fuel and the drop in AI firepower to be marginally less helpless versus a Panther? On the historical 76mm front; the 76MM Sherman has not only (MUCH) better rate of fire but also better AI profile for the individual shells. It's no P4 or M4A3, but it's a long shot better than the M4A3E8, while also having the APCR shell with better penetration and reload time than the M4A3E8, and all of this is without a power creep series of buffs towards it. (The unit is so untouched it retains the borderline absurdly overpowered ROF from its Soviet days, which couples nicely with vet and radio net)

Not to mention the E8 is in arguably the worst USF commander, with most of its abilities being medicore or just useless.

The worst USF commander is Infantry. Rifle Company is actually pretty good now imo, though I agree it is overshadowed by Heavy Cav, in great deal due to the heavy tank buffs.

You did a test once. And EZ8 still won. P4 pens EZ8 around 50-60% of the time 5 penetrating shots are needed, while EZ8 pens 70-91% and 4 penetrating shots are needed. EZ8 has 0.75 moving accuracy as well. I believe P4 has a slightly higher RoF. These are significant advantages that make EZ8 a hardcounter.

If this is your definition of hard counter, you may as well say the P4 is a hard counter to the M4A3 or T-34/76.

Victory against a P4 is as much RNG as it would be for the P4 to beat the E8. It is hardly decisive and hardly a "hard counter". This would be more along the lines of Panther vs M4A3, or Panther versus M4A3E8 for that matter.




I'll do a whole 'nother series of tests if this is not convincing to you people. If I can figure out how to record on this machine, even produce video.