lol at people saying ost and soviets bad designed faction...they are fine its the usf and wkf severely op and get everything,while okw severly up(mainly lack of both At and AI).
You started great, but went downhill by the coma.
Its all about WFA and UKF power creep.
There is nothing wrong with vanila factions design, its great, its all about power creep.
Yes, but back then it was the same as 222, right now it is more to mediums but I still think it is lower than p4 have.
But still speed makes a big difference in tank fight, not to say he have bigger vision and so he have first shot and that means he also get last shot sooner
All stock meds have target size of 22, except for sherman, which is 23.
P4 is shit for the fuel cost and the OKW one even worse. Why no T34/85 in the numbers? And for the fuel cost the T34/76 is still just as good an all around tank as a P4 and at 80 fuel its a bargain.
Because 34/85 is doctrinal and its not there, being ready for every single game.
STOP bringing OKW P4 cost as an excuse for anything people, both of us know full well why OKW armor is more expensive then Ost armor.
Yes, T34 is in a good spot now, it took THREE YEARS of CONSTANT BUFFS to get it there.
Ost StuG went the same way and is in good spot as well.
P4 always was strong and reliable tank with great scaling, only time it fails is when you try to use it as a tank hunter, for which you have StuG and P4s AI isn't lacking anywhere.
Well, seeing some of your posts recently, I'd say you aspire to top me and you're on a good direction to do that.
But...
For simplicity, I'll use the mid range penetration(as this is the range where most shoot outs happen unless one jumped on others rear), which is:
T34: 100
Cromwell: 120
Sherman: 120
P4: 110
Now, on to armor:
T34: 150
Cromwell: 160
Sherman: 160
P4: 180
Reload:
T34: 6,1
Cromwell: 5,9
Sherman: 5,9
P4: 5,6
I don't think I even need to do math for T34, because its obvious its at disadvantage here, unless it attacks first and gets on rear armor, but for the sake of discussion, I'll include it:
P4 vs T34
T34 have 55% to pen and needs on average 9 shots to kill P4.
P4 have 73% chance to pen and on average needs 5 shots to kill T34.
Difference is rather obvious who is the regular winner here and by what margin.
Now:
P4 vs Cromwell
Cromwell have 66% to pen and needs on average 6 shots, average TTK being 29,5 seconds.
P4 have almost 69% to pen and needs on average 6 shots as well, except it fires slightly faster, needing only 28 secs to kill cromwell.
While its not really crushing, P4 have advantage here.
Same numbers apply for sherman.
Accuracy of the guns is the same, BUT sherman got slightly bigger target size so its slightly easier to hit, tipping RNG scales in the P4 favor another bit more.
Conclusion:
Ost P4 have the advantage over every single allied stock, as I've said(which to you is delusional).
vs T34 there is no contest, winner is clear.
vs cromwell and sherman, the RNG is involved, but the odds still favor P4(slightly more vs sherman if we include accuracy and target size), just as I've said.
Ostheer Panzer IV can't 1v1 a t34-76 reliably, it can't 1v1 a cromwell reliably, it can't 1v1 a sherman reliably, it can't 1v1 a t34-85 reliably. Meanwhile, the t34-76 struggles hard vs the OKW Panzer IV, but can hold its own very well against the Ostheer Panzer IV. These are the only 2 medium armor pieces the t34-76 faces. So most medium armor.
Get off acid dude.
P4 got advantage against every single stock med, because chances for allied meds to penetrate it is LOWER then the chance it gets to pen allied meds.
At vet2 it stomps over allied meds and is equal to 34/85.
You go mechanized, Luchs, MedHQ, medic, then other factions can have medium tank out before you have your T4 up.
OKW is currently the only one who has these things. Allies are also the only ones that can have handheld AT on their mainline infantry, while axis cannot.
You might want to consider actually using the luchs after its made, you know, to push opponent off the map and force him into his own light/hard AT. That is the whole point of luchs rush, the only time you can ignore it and go for meds is if your opponent also ignored it after making it.
Because instead of rushing light armor and saving ammo for LMGs\Zooks\Bar USF had to unlock nades to counter MG?
Oh wow, such perfect reason, but ok wair enouth. The only way for OKW to stay alive vs USF was picking doctrine with MG34.
Yes.
You got it right.
You have won yet another bucket of edible glue.
Because it had absolutely nothing to do with USF early game opening being as stale, old and unvaried as aaa and ostherlitz war to superiority of the only singular army they play.
So again, why MG34 is locked behind tier and mortar not?
Because relic wanted USF to have additional T0 option, because you know, SOME people have complained about rifle spam being the only thing USF do and now these exactly same people go batshit insane now that USF got something else to build at the start. As for MG, they didn't wanted it to arrive before 1CP, because that is how they balanced it, after 2 years of spamming shreck volks you might have completely forgotten that there are 3 additional units for OKW in T0.
You see forest, but are unable to see trees.
How many times relic needs to repeat that its intended for people like you to finally get it?
We know already that 2 years of repeating it is not enough.