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Jump back to quoted post15 Oct 2013, 18:16 PMwongtp

im quite annoyed by the fact that the late game superiority of german tanks are more or less caused by the lack of infantry AT in the soviet army. because dealing with infantry is not one of the strong points of german armour.

most of the german late game tanks are AT but have enough armour/hp to spearhead assaults. however, most of the soviet AT are actually armoured, be it IS-2, t34s or SU85, the exact things that german armour actually counter. the only non armoured effective AT that soviets have is the ZiS but they are just as effective as US AT guns without AT rounds.

this leaves a huge vulnerability in soviet's ability to deal with armour. there is no mobile hard counters to german armour. AT guns don't count as they are limited in mobility and require constant resetting up, easily bypassed.

which leads to the usual, AT nades/button to disable german armour and then send in your own tanks to deal with his anti-tank tanks, which honestly, is quite a high risk no reward move.

where is that unit that can effectively cover against armour rushes? In coh1, US had AP rounds for frontal assaults and bazookas/recoiless for any tanks that gets behind the AT gun wall. they were effective against unsupported tanks who constantly showed their rear armour to them. this i feel, is the main cause of german armour superiority. not too much with german armour being OP, but more so with soviet with inadequately equipped, a bad design.

Jump back to quoted post14 Oct 2013, 11:49 AMNullist

From the brief Dev comment I vaguely remember reading from months back (in the interim of which there has been no announced change to AA), M5 Quad had a slightly better chance per burst. Biut it wasnt much.

I remember thinking it was ok, considering how armored an Ostwind is in comparison.

I also remember thinking that frankly both Quad and Ostwind AA was subpar, and that pintle mounted AA was so low as to be pretty much ignored.

Something like 12% for Quad and 10% for Ostwind, and 1% per pintle MG.

AA is calculated differently iirc, in that it only requires one "hit" to kill the plane.

Overall, I think AA should be improved, but since I dont play 2v2+, where aircraft are more prominent, I dont know how bad it gets there, though I can speculate its much more needed considering how many of the Commanders are more erife for exploitation in those modes.

Sorry, thats all I got.