Profile of Hannibal

Yes, but this ain't gonna happen

Impact density should be higher in the parts of the area that is closer to the shooter in both cases, shouldn't it?

Vipper stated that first the horizontal scatter is calculated, and based of this value the y coordinate is derived by trigonometry. I don't know his source though. It would also mean that the area is a trapeze instead of a circle intersection.

This is also how I implemented it in my calcs. The differences are relatively small and also hard to test, because you need to check if shots land in a trapeze pattern or the circular pattern. And given the small differences, this is quite hard.

However I tend to believe this, given how simple the math in calculations in this game tends to be

My main argument in my last post was that med tanks get useless in lategame because they just can't get into frontal fights with heavies and TDs while flanking/diving in gets denied by AT-blob, which does needs way less micro than defending with mines and PAKs. You don't need 5 or 6 squads for that. Given the potency of AT handheld atm, you just need two squads with triple super zook or double shrek and you will force off or destroy every medium that tries to close in.

While I agree, I think this is more an issue with the general design of the game and not with handheld AT weapons. The unit density in large modes is so high that comparatively light units can get bursted down quickly. On most maps players can manage everything they need to do on the same screen, which also leads to more blobbing - there is just less space to put the same amount of units in.

As already said multiple times on the forums, balancing team games is very difficult and balancing weapons according to their team game power level is highly problematic. In 1v1 (and 2v2, at least according to my experience), the balance is quite fine. I would not change it because of team games. Get rocket artillery instead. And if you don't have access to that, ask your team mates to buy one. I mean, that's what team games are about: coordinating and supplementing each other. Otherwise it would just be a couple of 1v1s that happen on the same map.

As I said in the beginning the real problems mainly starts with 2vs2 and get worse after that. As far as I know, OKW gets the mun from the caches that Ostheer mate builds... so there is no difference then. Just double shrek on five man squad in a pretty good doctrine.

I mainly play 2v2 and 3v3 as well and rarely encounter Schreck blob problems. This might be quite rank dependend (not that I was high rank though)
As I said, Panzerfüsiliere are a bit of a different thing. I don't think that they are misplaced though since both Axis factions pay a lot of opportunity costs. As USF/USK you can dump AT on your pioneer squads to make them more usable. Also their popcap is quite cheap and they are cheap to build which allows you to have two of them running around in the late game anyway since you need them for repairs which makes them not bleed as much. Pfussiliere and PGrens are both comparatively expensive and you cannot spam them without sacrificing infantry field presence. They are the mainline infantry and usually used to contest points against Allied infantry in the mid to late game. But using them with Schrecks takes away most of their AI capability. Pfussies scale badly without their G43s against infantry, while the combat power of PGrens gets literally halved. Getting bazooka/PIATs on the respective engineer unit however does not cost you much. Also both of them do not have snares.

So to sum it up: I agree that Axis get 'cheap' PSchrecks when just looking at the stats, but I think it is fair because of higher costs in the AI departement, population and having less flexibility. At least compared with bazookas. As I already said, PIATs could use a bit of a rework.

The problem only gets worse when you have Super Bazooka and Shrek on elite infantry with high received accuracy. it would be far better, when squishy four man Rear Echelons / Grenadiers with next to no AI capability left after upgrade would have them (-> BlueKnight already proposed that).

About the discount: Then make a 70mun double bren upgrade for IS, or a 110mun triple Super Bazooka upgrade for Rangers. You know what? That would be hilarious, i really don't want that. Because it makes absolutely no sense, that it is cheaper when you buy it at once instead of one after another. But having to pay 100mun for 2x single piat or 2x single bazooka, the same as you have to pay at PGs or panzerfusiliers for double Shrek is hilarious in the same way.

There is more to getting weapon upgrades then just plain performance of the weapons. OST has to put them on an expensive squad that afterwards looses most of their shock potential and is fragile due to being 4 men. There is a real trade off for that. USF can put them on Echolons which is a straight upgrade in almost every situation or get them on a 5 men squad with snare. Now Panzerfüsiliers are also 5 men, but to be honest I never had any trouble with them because the upgrade allows for a clear weakness as well. And on top of that, the faction and availability to muni should also be taken into account.