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Did you farm warspoils at all?

#1: playercard pls

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I think the Calli is mostly OK. Perhaps a few minor tweaks but it is expensive and you sacrifice armour presence going for them.

This is the unit I personally feel needs rebalancing the most:

- Almost impossible to kill unlike other mobile arty like Stukas or katushas cause...well..its a TANK.

Its expensive, you would expect it to be more durable than everything else (it is a tank afterall....).Is there a reason you have not brought up the fact that Katy & Pzwerfer have 160 HP while Stuka has 320 as well? What about the armour differences between Katy, Pzwerfer & Stuka?

- Therefore heavily promotes defensive camping playstyle where u just bleed out your opponents manpower by constant barraging.

Turning USF into a camping playstyle just hurts the faction. It is designed to be a mobile and aggressive faction. Also You can dodge the Calli anyway.

- Very low popcap for this unit makes it quite spammable.

While the pop cap in relation to cost isn't the same as similar units, its pop cap is. Not sure how this makes it any more spammable than other rocket arty considering its price.

- Does massive damage per rocket.

Does the same damage as the Katy & Pzwerfer. Only the stuka has more damage per rocket but it fires far fewer.

- Shoot a massive amount of rockets.

Although it does fire quite a lot of rockets, they are in waves so its really only the first wave that is truly effective.

- Kills units/squads on retreat like flies. Defensive bonuses when on retreat seem almost completely negated. It's really not uncommon for me to lose 2 squads instantly to a barrage when I'm just a fraction of a second too late with my retreat, very much unlike other arty barrages in the game.

Retreat based defense bonuses offer no protection against any explosive damage as far as I'm aware, as it gives reduced accuracy vs the unit / squad which explosives don't care about.

A bit of a disclaimer here is that my experience mostly comes from a lot of 2v2's. Not really sure how this unit works out in 1v1, but in 2v2 I think it's as close to broken as they get personally.

What ranking is this experience from?

2v2 for A_E

There was a Video of a sherman tank which survived 20+ rounds of panzer 4s at literally 1hp @ trending quite some time ago. There was a shoot bounced/missed count. Is sherman amour now OP?

Just sayin'

Was that pre death crit fix or post?

Freak RNG means...nothing. RNG is a capricious bitch and therefore seemingly ludicrous instances of survival (or death) do indeed happen against all statistical probability, thats life. However, what matters is the statistical average, and Tiger has 300 front armour compared to 290 on the Pershing and 375 on the IS-2.

Since your too lazy to do it your self https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73DE4PhXUaI

So, can you confirm that you agree with me that the armour doesn't need changing or are you disagreeing with me and saying it needs buffs? If the armour needs buff please provide some actual evidence to back this up (saying a faction makes you cry is not a valid reason fyi).

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I could see the penalties being reduced a bit and both Tiger/Tiger Ace could use a touch of front armor, but I wouldn't change anything else. Its still a vet 3 Tiger that costs MP only. The thing wasn't designed to be a unit used the moment you have resources, its supposed to be something you play at the right time to break a stalemate or crawl back into a losing game and end it, not another generic heavy tank.

Tiger armour is fine or if anything needs changing then dropped slightly (but definitely not buffed).