Profile of Tristan44

Thanks ATR I always enjoy your casts! Will look forward to seeing it

Noise is cohexpert with Brummbar

Also agreed the IL2 single pass basically just suppresses. Ive seen it go directly into a group of squads multiple times and do only health damage, no model deaths. The normal strafe seems fine, still squad wipes but doesn't kill everyone on the field.

The German anti tank strafe feels really bad to me, both the single and the multiple pass versions. After all it is an "ANTI TANK" strafe it should do major damage to any tanks caught in its crosshairs. I think once I managed to kill 2 su85s that were at 10% health already and sitting very close to each other. But most of the time it barely does anything.

bah nevermind doesnt work.

Does anyone even read the responses people give on exactly how to deal with soviet snipers? Or do you just skip those so that you can continue whining aimlessly in hopes of getting something nerfed like how it worked for shocks and guards?

Soviet sniper has less "DMG output" than the axis sniper based simply on the rate of fire difference. What more do you want? Do you really want it to take two shots to kill a green/pgren? Because at that point they are useless ... But I guess maybe then you guys would be happy.

Soviet snipers come in pairs which makes then more survive able on paper. BUT the German sniper has higher armor and recloaks much faster. Not to mention when he snipes cons they tend to get mini surpressed which does not happen to grens. So is the soviet sniper really more surviveable? Against a poorly played German sniper yes. But other other than that it's actually closer than you might think. I have not once had a script squad walk up to my sniper while being sniped and successfully kill it. However I can't say the same for grens. Sov sniper lies down to shoot (other model usually humps the one lying down). Gren squad walks up loses one guy, maybe two. Riflenade snipers and they die (since they are prone they usually cant move in time to avoid the riflenade)

Also Idk who pointed it out but for sovs to go snipers they lose mortars, maxims, and zis whereas Germans do not. That alone should warrant for a Soviet sniper buff

TLR version: snipers are fine the way they are. Learn how to counter instead of crying for a nerf.

While I do agree some suggestions on here are poor, I understand peoples frustrations when playing against Sovjet snipers. There is no real hard counter to the soviet snipers, everything is relying on chance and poor soviet play. If your dumb enough to get your soviet sniper rifle naded, you totally deserved to lose it. Not only did you not hear the soviet sniper scream something about a grenade, but you also missed the gren model readying for the nade AND the sound.

How do you balance it? I have no idea. THe survivability of the German sniper is terrible, but makes up for it with fast cloaking and faster fire rate. As I said before that soviet fanboys obviously ignored was that there are many bugs with the German sniper (vet 1 ability, weird AI when told to attack, attack-move complete fail). The soviet sniper can hide in a scout car and get to vet 2 with ease, he has great survivability, and an even better vet 1. WHat makes the soviet sniper so frustrating is once he scores a shot on a gren, pgren squad, that squad is now down to 75% of its combat effectiveness. Get 2 snipers into the mix, german down to 50% in seconds. Ouch! Who needs maxims and mortars when you can just send snipers in? And you can always get a 120mm mortar that's doctrinal and its included with several commanders.