Great notes. Where's the other half? You must have hidden it for April Fool's, right Lelic?
Also: "USA, USA, USA!" |
I want a leak and I want it now. |
Hi Ami,
This is a very moving story and reminded me of a story I recently learned about my own grandfather. He died a few years ago and we only learned this after his death.
When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 my grandfather was 13 years old living with his family in Ukraine. As you may know, the German forces captured and seized many Russians, Ukrainians and other people living in the occupied territories and sent them back to Germany as slave labourers.
It turns out that my grandfather was one of the slave labourers shipped to Germany in this way. When the Soviet army liberated the part of Germany where he was kept he was extremely lucky to meet an officer who told him he should not go back to the USSR straight away under any circumstances - at that time, Stalin considered anyone who had been taken prisoner a traitor and most of these people were sent straight to the Gulag and never seen again.
The solution they found was to enlist my grandfather into the Red Army but as he was too young they actually had to forge him papers that that made him a year older than he actually was. In this way he was able to make it back home as a liberating, triumphant soldier and not a traitor.
To me, there are 2 shocking parts of the story which show the horrors of what the Soviet Union really was:
1. My grandfather never told anyone about this except his wife such was his fear of the consequences. It was only after his death (in 2007!) that my grandmother told me this story. Can you imagine how fearful someone would have to be to not even want to talk about it 15 years after the collapse of the country in which it happened?
2. According to my grandmother, my grandfather did not tell her much about his time in Germany. The only comment he made was to say that he was "fed very well". Imagine that, a slave labourer fed better in Germany than a free man in Soviet Ukraine?
My other family story about the war is my great-grandfather from the other side of the family: he was the commander of a 45mm anti-tank gun which was known among the soldiers as "Смерть врагу, пиздец расчету" (which translates loosely as "Death to the enemy and worse to the crew") such was the casualty rate and vulnerability of the people who operated this weapon. He fought in the Finnish campaign and went MIA fighting against the Wehrmacht in 1942. |
Trolltastic.
The troll in me honors the troll in you for when our trollness combines, we are present to the reality that trolling is not just for Christmas, it's a way of life. |
You demonstrate with every post just how ignorant you are about the way this game works.
The whole point about assault guards that Australian Magic was making was that by having 3 short-range weapons and 3 SVTs they are a squad that is useless at all ranges: they have poor long-range DPS, they have poor mid-range DPS and they have poor short-range DPS.
In your post you try to insinuate that shocks and assault guards are somehow equivalent because they use the same weapon, completely ignoring the fact that shocks have armour and a specialist role: close range combat.
It is incredible to me that you continue to spout this nonsense in different forum threads repeatedly making factual errors (only an hour ago you claimed that the Command Panther coordinated ability does not increase damage taken, to say nothing of you comparing KV1 to a Tiger) and think that anyone takes you seriously. |
Great write-up, one thing I would adjust is: Panzerfaust does not have 100% penetration, it frequently bounces off KV 8 and IS2. |
Both Shocks and Assault Guards use the PPsH.
Except shocks have 6 of them and armour. Apart from that they are exactly the same… |
It's fine in 1s and 2s. Especially in 1s where you rarely get more than one heavy tank as OKW and/or almost never get that heavy tank to vet levels where it actually starts to affect infantry.
If you consider that this unit is extremely fuel expensive, I think it performs about right.
If people feel it is unbalanced in bigger team games, nerf its aura and buff its regular performance with vet. |
Custom commanders are a terrible idea that will be very popular. |
One thing that definitely needs a nerf is Defensive Stance. A unit should have to be in cover for 2-3 seconds before it can use it. |