Profile of Basilone

When you learn to play the game without spamming the most broken units, let us know. In the meantime, n1 cares.

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You are hilarious.

"T34s only function is to Ram"

L2P.

2 T34s absolutely pwn a single PIV.

Post a replay of your play and show us how you fail with T34s.

Two T34s (without ram) with a bit of luck will narrowly beat an unsupported PIV. And two of them are currently 75 more fuel than 1 SU85, which is a far more efficient tank killer. T34 are good in overwhelming numbers, which isn't viable when one is just slightly cheaper than a Pz4.

I feel like this needs to go into every thread on here.

The instant you say "our" or "your" when referring to factions, you have lost every shred of credibility when it comes to balance discussions. Play both to get an equal feeling for how they play out, or be quiet.

Oh really? I know for a fact Hissy has more games played as Russians than Germans.

^ Basilone, in your opinion what needs to be done with Sovs to balance them fully but not nerf them?

There are a lot of different ways to nerf the OP stuff so I'll just list how to strengthen some of the weaker areas.

-Increase small arms damage output from all units proportionally. Soviets are the more offensive based faction, but with weapons so weak the offensive punch is really lacking. If you flank a MG you really depend on lucky crits to take it down quickly. A vcoh weapon crew getting flanked needed to react immediately or it would go down, not the case here. To make the main combat infantry effective (conscripts), you are forced to take a PPSH doctrine. Even with the PPSH they are still considerably weaker than BAR'd rifles, and they are relying on the OP defensive ability (HTD) to win engagements rather than the actual damage output. This same thing applies for Shocks- they put out very little damage compared to Rangers with Thompsons but they win engagements because of their godlike resilience to small arms fire. This would also give Germans an easier time taking down the near invulnerable 6 man support units.

-Reduce fuel on T34 back to 75, and add a munition cost of 50-75muni for Ram. If the Panzer 4 is going to totally outclass the T34/76, then the T34 should have a numerical advantage. That one advantage was lost with reducing the fuel differentiation to 20.

-Katyusha should fire all rockets at the same time.

-Reduce muni cost for the IL2 strafe to around 150.

-Make Penals more effective by reducing cost to around 280-300.

-Reduce T70 rate of fire by about half, but decrease fuel cost to 25-30 so it functions more like a M8 rather than lightly armored terminator.

-Some of the doctrines are just not viable because of the amount of resources they require. I don't remember the name but one of them includes T34/85 and IS2, how the hell is someone going to have enough fuel to manage that? NKVD doctrine offers no units but has 4 different expensive munition abilities. If a doctrine is going to lack early game strength but provide strong late game stuff, they should reduce the cost of that stuff within that one doctrine so that it is actually obtainable. In no realistic scenario will someone afford to use recon runs, rapid conscription, airburst prop artillery, and IL2 strafe all in the same game unless it comes at a discounted price.

Right now Soviets are insanely OP if you try to exploit T70, clown cars, HTD, and Maxims but if you don't play abusively they are pretty weak.