Profile of rumartinez89

Assault engineers used to have no cooldown and depending on the map would overrun everything. I think the biggest issue was it made OST MG useless so they had to slow it down and gave the same nerf to everyone else.

Oh SNAP. This totally reminded me of OG demo charges that were cloaked. You had to constantly sweep and pay attention to parts of capping circles that your squads would go to if you queued up capping on the mini-map because it was a guaranteed wipe. Also, less OP but more stupid annoying was original soviet mines that didn't have a model kill limit - so if your squad clumped in the wrong way 1 mine could kill your whole squad.

I think the mines were worse than the demo charges, remember they didn't want to nerf it to much at first so you had to maintain vision to discharge it which is why people started mining on it/next to it. However, mining retreat paths with 2/3 mines would usually net you 2/3 wipes without any chance to evade or avoid. It was always worse for OST since people would retreat after losing 1 model due to the PTSD.

Mind blanked couldn't remember Axis team make up so I made Penal then sniper. I usually use snipers as anti mg in a building. Didn't work out that way so I tried to find safe places to attack without worrying about Kubel. From the start both teams went blob mode so was extra careful with sniper so I didn't much with it and it ended up dying on retreat to Sturmpios. Also lost my car chasing down a Kubel, got the kill but 221 followed up and killed me.
Not looking good so I play extra safe and blob up my penals and get shocks in case I need extra durability. As a team we are getting our asses kicked with some bright spots here and there. Axis bet both Flak and Luchs which do a great job of locking us down and we don't really have an answer. I finally break and turned all 3 Penals into PTRS blob. Felt dirty but I was able to kill Flaktrak in one volley. I also chase off luchs but unable to get the last shot off and kill it.
We are still on the back foot but a couple of things go our way which turns the game in our direction. First off, looking at the replay they all look to be heavy stalling if not KT then for Sturm or something else.
As I look to decap the south I notice Schwerzer aint firing at my squad so I rush it with PTRS blob destroy it and run the hell out of there. Ally gets out a KV8 which should have been killed since it ran over a mine but he was able to get a katy barrage that killed off their raks and later satcheled them to destroy it. Brit got AVRE which slowly got wipes and I was able to once again push south and this time destroy Battlegroupe, however lost 2 Penals during retreat. At this point I got 2 T3485s and finally get the luchs and at this point we are in control.
One KT finally showed it face but AT walls and PTRS Penals slow it down so it doesnt do to much. Panther also shows up and becomes a tug of war in the center. Shit hits the fan for the Axis when KT tries to push but engine crit causes its push to stall. After massive damage it runs away but I chase it down, get the kill and run away with tanks intact. AVRE gets 2 Obers in one shot and Panther is forced away.
From here on out we just keep the pressure up, ally and I combine to destroy another Schwerer and Sturmtiger arrives to late to make a difference.

GG

That time they (accidentally?) buffed/broke Tank Hunter Consctipts and turned them into Dank Hunters which broke team weapons automatically and had decent to good AI on top of it.

I thought Tank hunters were released that way, I thought PTRS had got buffed a patch or 2 before to improve their overall AI performance for Guards. Then Tank Hunters came out and multiple high acc PTRS Conscript squads rolling around destroying MG's frontally. Shit was crazy, the MG would literally get destroyed before a model would drop.

no, the IS-2 had no stuns (but the tiger on release had around a 15% chance to stun a tank with a hit, according to what I had read)


also couldn't you use every ability on the base sector back then? And asides from the plethora of OKW dunk abilities that exist, wasn't the salvage one literally capable of one shotting USF's entire base?

From the first page of the changelog back in 2013
IS-2:
- Armor from 400 front/200 rear to 375 front/225 rear
- Pop from 14 to 16
- Health from 1280 to 960
- Price from 560mp/210fuel to 680mp/300fuel
- Reload time from 8.25s to 9s
- Scatter from 10m to 7.5m
- Acceleration increased from 1.5 to 2
- Rotation rate increased from 25 to 30
- 1 in 6 chance of 5 second crew shocked critical on target deflections
- Penetration increased from 110 to 140
- 25% of the shell’s damage is applied on non-penetrating rounds against enemy armor.

ISU-152:
- Price from 520mp/215 fuel to 680mp/290 fuel
- Pop from 13 to 17.
- Armor from 120 front/60 rear to 200 front/100 rear
- Health from 1280 to 960
- AOE from 5m to 6m
- Damage from 160 to 240
- Scatter from 10m to 13.2m
- Reload from 6.125s to 10s
- Penetration from 170 to 150
- Target Size from 24 to 26
- Acceleration from 1.5 to 2
- Max Speed from 4 to 3.8
- 33% of the shell’s damage is applied on non-penetrating rounds against enemy armor.
- Added a 1 in 3 chance of crew shocked critical on deflections
- Reduced main gun tracking speed from 25 to 12
- G-530 Concrete Piercing Round ability penetration increased to 1000

Is2 literally always did damage, so you had to shoot and retreat until Vet2 when the gun got decent pen and I believe at Vet3 it was almost as fast as a T34 or faster.

The salvage artillery needed above a certain amount right? Cant remember because I was a Falls spammer back then, the Airplane loiter even gave a free Falls, shit was broken. I think you could reinforce during the loiter, not sure if it was free or not.