Profile of MarcoRossolini

^^^ absolutely right.

There's some core balance issues in the game which have been since release and are stupendous in their imbalance.

Such as - who thought it'd be a good idea to have Soviets only able to use 2 of their buildings?

Why are all Anti-tank weapons on one side markedly inferior to the opposition?

Why does one side get extremely good infantry AT weaponry and the other does not?

never seen this, but i have often seen explosions (and not just mine ones) going off without a sound...)

PPShs are okay, Cons are not... They are the worst basic infantry arguably in all respects. They're good at vetting thanks to their squad size, but the veterancy does bugger all...

I regularly try new builds, basing them on historic tactics/ units etc.

Usually they are rolled over by OKW death blobs or Axis Armour...

Not much more to add there...

With a few Priests (3+), they will bless it to death... but yeah I don't know about the Ml20.

Btw does anyone know how much damage the Priest does compared to the SOV/OsT arty? I find it more effective since you can stack them because of decrewing to by pass pop cap.

A good hit by the ML-20 will knock off maybe half of the health of a panther, I like artying repairing German tanks as they don't take kindly to having repair crews and pioneers etc blown up by the falling shells.

I like to use the ML-20 in conjunction with a katyusha. (I play 4v4s mostly these days, the rest of the game is too depressing) Katy for short range blob control and the ML-20 for artying Sim cities, expected routes where the enemy will advance and tanks (because the Katyusha can't do a thing versus tanks...) ML-20 isn't particularly good at shooting at moving targets, but it prevents them bunkering down on targets.

I haven't seen the leFH for an age (nor have I used it). It used to be a year ago that I'd be getting very concerned if there was an leFH on the map, the amount of shells it threw out and the non-existant cooldown made it very dangerous to my units. These days if I see falling arty shells, I just shrug, it doesn't do enough for me to worry about. Even the Panzerwerfer doesn't seem like it does much damage these days (speaking from the receiving end here...)