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| Re: Yeah (long post warning) by Cubey 08/14/2007, 1:28pm PDT | ||||
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| Blitz Tigers can get veterancy, the Tiger Ace from Terror cannot.
I have no idea why he wouldn't get veterancy for Blitz Tigers, they're great but the vet pushes them over the edge. It's like not getting armour skirts on M8s, without them they have the lowest HP in the game, the skirts double it to put them somewhere in the middle. At the moment the big unbeatable strategy is "Piospam" which is just spamming pioneers and eventually getting level 3 vet and flamers on them and storms for anti-tank duty. No one likes it cos it sucks and it's almost impossible to beat for most players (I have to say I did try it once, but I was totally unsatisfied and felt dirty, so I surrendered and took the loss). Most of the top-enders don't use it, apart from in "I'll Piospam, you try and beat it" matches. Official word from Relic is they're "Looking at it" so it'll probably get fixed with the expansion or a quick hotfix to change pioneer upkeep costs. The metagame is very infantry heavy at the moment because of the exact reason you pointed out, the allied AT gun obliterates every piece of armour apart from Tigers. The general idea is that they balance them to fight Tigers and the big bad tanks coming up in Opposing Fronts, but why the hell would they balance for things that aren't existing yet? Early patches were pretty much StuG and Puma spam, win for the Axis when the Tiger comes out, but they've buffed the allied AT gun to brokeness, it's had it's damage increased, the armour piercing shells damage increased (is 100% penetration not enough?!) and the firing cone widened to match the Axis PAK, which seals the deal for the slower Axis armour which just can't escape. It's not so bad on Open maps, like the left side of Angoville, where the units can take the wide route where AT guns aren't pointed Axis armour isn't so bad, but it really works best as a defensive force, apart from Tigers. Around the level 6-9 level (which is 95% of people) I've not seen it personally and a Puma is still a good counter to rifles, but StuGs are worthless against anything but Shermans or Crocs :( But anyway, no, most high end stuff isn't piospam, it's either Terror Vs Airborne or Blitz Vs Armour, though with the beta for the expansion running now it's all up in the air over what's going to be the main stuff going on |
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