Profile of Katitof

You keep repeating arguments that are centered around 1v1. Sorry buddy. Most of us are talking about 2v2 and up. But I think mostly 2v2. ESL means nothing for this thread. It's been stated it's not a real balance issue for 1v1....

Then you should focus on that 2v2, because "and up" is a free game and things DEFINITELY won't be nerfed/buffed because some random noobs can't play

i know. But... I feel like T34-76 cant come earlier, nor be cheaper. It may need a total rework instead of juat exchange to nondoctrinal to give it any sense than "just a conscript among the guards". Because right now soviets are the only factions that have units that have units with jobs overlapping, both infantry and armor. Actually, i think that they should take another look to the faction again.

Soviets are also the only faction that is prohibited from having reliable mainline infantry and reliable medium tank. Relic insists that cons aren't meant to scale, but there is no alternative as spamming elite inf is not efficient and will bleed you, penals aren't viable at all, 34/76 everyone knows.

Sobviets are the only faction packed with "this is the same unit, its more expensive, but it actually works now" type of units(not all of them being call-ins improvements over stock units-looking at you M-42, being the shittiest AT weapon in game and arriving LATER then friggin ZiS-3).

Relic insists that soviets are supposed to outnumber opponents, but doesn't provide balance or bleed resistant economy to support that goal, maxims, ZiS guns, T3 lights and katy-this is pretty much all you can use without feeling inferior despite paying just as much resources-it doesn't matter that T34 costs less fuel, when you're still limited by tremendous menpower bleed and high mp cost of units that actually can apply some attrition..

Because its against the unit design? the same reason why OKW didnt had resource caches i think?!

Just like 100% resources are against OKW design, weapon upgrades(which are doctrinal) are against conscript design, 6 men infantry(osttruppen) is against Ost design and so on and so forth, sniper sprint is against whole game design, yet Ost have 2 different doctrinal ones affecting him and so on.

Brits are designed to have penalty to their stats on the move and bonus while in cover.
No one said there can't be ability to allow tommies to be useful outside of cover.

Let me also remind you that NOT being allowed to leave vehicle in pershing and calliope case is against USF unit design too.

You're grasping at straws hard again.

Still, OKW doesnt has anything appart of pz4 to fill that medium role, but if T34-85 becomes undoctrinal why would you choose to get other tanks that are exactly the same but just with worse stats, cheaper, but as far as i saw people preffers to go for the expensive and effective than numerous and cheap ones, specialy when it refers to armor

Why people go for puma instead of rushing panther?
Why people go Stuart instead of waiting for sherman?
Why people go P4/Panther instead of stalling for KT?
Why people use osttruppen instead of building more grens?
Why people go conscript ppsh/PTRS instead of guards/shocks?
Why people go StuG-E instead of Ostwind?
Why people go SU-76 instead of SU-85?

Timing, cost, cost effectiveness. All of it can impact the unit and its validity.
Unit doesn't have to be improvement over what you have there as stock units, but it needs to be cost efficient enough.

People avoid 34/76 because its NOT cost efficient.
Yes, its cheapest med in game, but it doesn't make it cost efficient, just like M-42 is not cost efficient in relation to ZiS-3.

Relic made a tank, so its effective and efficient exclusively in numbers and in early enough game stage.
Then they increased its menpower cost and pop cap, so getting it in numbers is not efficient.

The tank is bad for the cost, even if the cost is relatively low in comparison to other tanks of its tier.
Its not even being bad vs other tanks. Its about being bad for the cost it have itself. You can reliably win vs T34/76 using puma.