Profile of Turtle

Forward HQ ability for the new Soviet commander.

Turns a building into a Forward Headquarters. The building gets medics around it (I forget how many) that heal infantry, makes the building so it can't be entered by enemy troops, reinforce point, and has a gigantic stats bonus for friendly infantry around it literally doubling the damage and armor of friendly infantry and weapon teams in range.

Apparently there's also a huge bug where to make additional HQs it costs nothing. That has to be a bug.

You can counter Nullist pretty much by throwing everything he says back in his face as every snide remark he says pretty much applies to himself as well.

T-34s, I think, will be fine in their current position so long as the Soviet AT frontline stabilizes. Tone down the German tank's anti-infantry buffs so that the new weaker infantry AT grenades aren't so easily driven away by just tanks, and aren't so costly to deploy.

Also the responsiveness of AT guns needs working as well. Fix these issues and the T-34 can stay where it is.

Best just to ignore those posts. Even Nullist here cleaned up his act, I guess he can too.

There is an issue of the Soviet tier split.

Going with the T-34 as your primary tank will inevitably force you to use them in direct confrontation with German tanks. This is because the current meta rewards a lot of tank building.

What's more there will be the inevitable confrontation with German heavies, or the medium-heavy Panther, all of which have had infantry AT reduced in effectiveness against. The T-34 doesn't scale, and doesn't guarantee control.

AT Guns just don't cut it either. There's just too much right now that deals with AT guns, one of which is to just drive past them, especially so with the input lag issues.

I'm fine with the T-34 being purposed as a flanker, but it that doesn't erase the need for something that can operate on the front line, especially since german tanks do have much higher infantry killing power.

This can lead to a downward spiral of having to build more and more T-34s to hold the front, even if they weren't intended. Or risk losing time and resources going for the 4th building.

A t-34 flanking is no guarantee of a kill, even catching a P4 out via flank means little, especially if smoke launchers is available. Reverse the situation and a P4 catching a T-34 from the front or flank usually means a dead T-34.

Even the vaunted Ram is at best, a trade tank for tank, or at worst, a temporarily broken gun and a dead T-34. Again, it can lead to a downward spiral.

Check to make sure it wasn't on a road. Roads give a movement speed bonus.

Yep, no one gets it free.

Again, I'll wait a week to a month to see if Relic stays true to their word on balancing the game for everyone. If so, I buy to support, otherwise.

Having a balance patch as part of this update will go a long way to showing their commitment to that.