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/moved to the gameplay section since as OP states, this is more of a rant than focussed balance discussion atm.



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OST has not really a unit to very reliably deal with heavy armor except of course the Elefant. That's why Comets and Churchills are/were super popular as well. KV1 has 270 armor, Panther has 220 far and 240 mid penetration, PaK40 190/200. So Panther is the only unit that can somewhat reliably deal with the KV1's frontal armor, while the PaK is also a good choice because of its range. The KV1 is slow as fuck and you will get a lot of shots off while the KV1 enters and leaves the cone at snail speed. Especially when you can stun him. Another plus for the PaK is the KV1-SU85 combo. While your Panther will get shot and penned by the SU85 when attacking the KV1, the PaK stays basically untouchable.

My favourite though is the OKW P4 vs KV1 matchup. None of these tanks have a real chance to kill each other and the fight goes on forever.

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Third test was pretty close though, and also in the second they got very decent damage in. Also on your 180° turning test, I think the crew did not get much damage in (only watched it once though).

So I did some testing as well and have to say ullumullu is not entirely wrong. If the Maxim catches a short burst while traversing through the cone and the models manage to hit the rear armor a couple of times, it can get a little dicey for the Kübel. I did 8 tests myself with the Kübel usually catching a small burst of the Maxim, then parking outside the cone at short to mid range and shooting. Kübel lost in one case where I drove past the crew to allow for rear armor hits, in two others he still won despite that but it was close. Also when parked at very short range, it could get a bit tough. When handled somewhat properly however and mostly front armor is shown, Kübel did a decent job. I can't say too much about range dependency, but I think the shorter the range the better for the crew, at least that would also be supported by the DPS calculator site.

In all cases however I'd say it is impossible to lose your Kübel to a Maxim crew since you can always reverse out and even if the crew won they suffered a lot. I agree on the case that Kübel is not a go-to counter for pushing up face to face and expect to win, so if there are very laney sections like Poltawa or Angermünde, Kübel might indeed not fare very well at least in these specific scenario.

But claiming that the Maxim could fend off both a flanking Kübel plus a frontal Volks squad is exaggerated, unless the OKW player is an idiot and charges with the Volks squad until it is suppressed before supporting with the Kübel. This combination will force a retreat unless you REALLY want to gamble with your Maxim.

my intention was: OKW lack any good anti MG mechanic for early game. its super easy to push back okw when you play smart with your mgs and see what comes from flanks. okw is in trouble than. that why you have no nice time on lane maps when u have only okw in your team. you have no smoke, no sniper, no mortar, no mg, no carrier, and your kubel is not able to win a fight vs a flanked mg crew

For 3v3 and 4v4 on the narrow maps I could see this, but then if you are not super unlucky you will have team mates to help you out and can always drop your lane to reinforce somewhere else for a double push, which will give you map control somewhere else. Additionally, large modes tend to have less cut offs so even if the OKW lane goes shitty the faction will make it easily to their indirect and flame nades. If you make it past the early game then the Maxim built will become utterly useless.
In 1v1 and all except for maybe 2 maps in 2v2, flanking is always possible.

Also the Maxim suppression is so low that it can't do anything against units in green cover. Once the SOV faction loses a position, it is gone for good since Volks all have sandbags.

did the kubel won? show us a vid/ proof

You can also always upload your video showing that, since you made the initial claim.

Well then this game pass will probably add a net increase of a handful of players to the CoH2 community by the time the Steam 64 bit version releases...

That's kind of a wasted opportunity unfortunately, because I assume that the 64 bit update and cross play will not be advertised

This thread will probably go nowhere.
Half of what you pointed out are actual faction design points to keep flavor for Soviets, just like other factions have their specialties. You do not try to explain why you think they were OP, you just state that they are without backing it up.

A lot of other points revolve around Soviet munitions float: yes, Soviets can float munitions early on. That does not mean they have more overall.
They spend usually about 4x50 on on Conscripts in the mid late game, Ostheer usually spends 3x60 on grens and OKW 3-4x60 on Volks. It's not far off, just the timing is different. This by itself could be an issue, but also here you never try to reason why that was the case.