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Forward tellers could work for ostheer.

Cheesy or not, thanks to that ability, they have their own place among usf units. They are pretty much in the ballanced state: not part of the meta but powerful enough to create effective builds. Of course, they can be redesigned to some other purpose, but question is whether it is worth to fix what is not broken.

Huh, I could've sworn I saw figures like "125%" or something in the patch notes. Surely, accuracy can't be more than 100%? I think I'm still missing something about these bonuses.

Of course accurancy can be over 100%. The final hit is calculated depending on a random number from 0 to 1. If the number is smaller than the accurancy, the bullet hits. So if the final accurancy is over 100%, the bullets will simply always hit.

You can ask now, why do I wan't my infantry to have over 100% accurancy? That is because most models have a stat called recived accurancy that lowers the accurancy of the shooter. If the final accurancy of the weapon is 80% and RA modifier of the target is 80% then the chance to hit is 64%. If the accurancy of the weapon is 100%, it will be 80%. But if it is 125%, then the result will be that you always hit. RA is also modified by retreat status and building cover. There are many more things that affect it as well. There is a chunky fire on the move debuff. The bigger your initial accurancy is, the smaller the effect of that debuff is going to be. And this is only an example.

To be fair though, 125% is probably not the initial accurancy of the weapon, but a multiplicative bonus to that accurancy that you get in cover. Pretty much only snipers actually get accurancy over 100%.

OKW has significantly better defensive performance though, as it both suppress way better and can call down insta-smoke when put under fire. the high DPS of the m5 isn't very helpfull if it still allows units to fire at it unharrassed. without at least proper suppression, chances are you will never see vet 2 and thus it is still not worth the risk.

Yeah, the smoke is what makes the huge difference. The problem is that, by design, soviet vehicles have no smoke on them, so it must be something else. Either HP buff or old-t70 style small repair on the go.

It is true it is outshined by the T70 entirely, but the redeeming factor of the M5 is it is the best AA in the game. Since AA ability is *cough* poorly *cough* designed by RoF alone, the M5 which has insane RoF with the meatgrinder upgrade is the best. Even if we nerfed the t70, WHICH WE'RE NOT FOR SOME FUCKING REASON BECAUSE 85 SIGHT RANGE AT VET 3 IS BALANCED it would still be outshined because the t70 is more durable and can engage light armor if need be, where the m5 meatgrinder cannot.

AA is not dictated by RoF alone. Each AA weapon also has different chance of shooting down the plane with one bullet. If what you are saying was true, the pintle MGs would be better at AA than ostwind and yet they are not.

As for the topic, there is an easy way to make M5 viable. Give it 20 hp more. Then nerf its penetration and dps. That way it is not going to be dead the moment it sees an AT gun, but it will also struggle against shrecks, fausts and other LVs like 222 or luchs. Right now it is very hard to judge ballance wise as it is pretty much OP against infantry and 222, but it also can't stand a single pak on the field.