I think heavies should be slowed down in terms of when they arrive in the game, rather than physically.
KT is actually very balanced because you have to tech and it comes either very late or as a consequence of extreme map dominance. You cannot "hold out" for a KT.
This is not true for Soviet/OST heavy tanks with whole doctrines designed around avoiding teching beyond T2 (Mechanized Assault and Shock Rifle being prime examples).
I think the long term solution to this issue is to tie all call-ins to tech, thereby extending the midgame and forcing players to actually transition from medium tanks to late-game super heavies rather than skipping the mediums altogether.
demos are easy wipes, combine that with the fact that they are basically impossible to dislodge at times with grenades / attack ground
snipers are well, as you should see in the replay, just flat out broken. i'm ok with the concept but seriously? with sprint it legitametly looks like they have a speedhack on
then there's the "soviet tech" rofl. soviets don't need to tech, just spam cons and use callins, that's literally all i've done and i'm like rank 20 with soviets in combining with mines / demos all over so when you attempt to take map control back you lose squads / models all the time
Yeah, I agree with a lot there. I think the fact that Soviets don't usually need to tech is silly and makes the game very 1-dimensional.
Snipers are very situational - vs. an infantry only strat where you invest all your manpower, munitions and fuel into a few high value grens/pgrens, snipers obviously work well. If you had gone a different strat, snipers probably wouldn't pay off.
IIRC the KV2 is one of the rarest tanks of the war, only 300 were ever made. So it's inclusion makes about as much sense as any of the other rarer tanks like the Sturmpanzer or Ostwind.
Indeed its inclusion makes much less sense because KV1 and KV2 were early war Soviet tanks that were mainly destroyed/abandoned in the first year of the war, whereas the German rare weapons like Ostwind, Elephant, Sturmtiger etc. fit very well with the "ZOMG ZUPERWAFFEN" narrative Relic loves so much.