I will be talking about the battle of Moscow, but this applies to all campaigns.
Engineers on both sides can only build German AA and AT guns. This is unrealistic and can be easily fixed. The German AA gun can be matched by the Russian 37mm 61-k M1939 automatic air defense gun. This has a higher caliber, but only has one or two guns in an emplacement instead of four. If it is too big, the 25mm automatic air defense gun m1940 72-k is also a good candidate.
The at gun is even easier. The 45mm AT gun M1937 53-k would be a pretty even match.
All of these guns were in use at the time, and the 61-k and 53-k were produced in massive numbers. The 72-k was produced in slightly lesser numbers.
AT guns are already nation specific in every campaign. Except Berlin where Russians get “captured Pak40”.
But overall yeah, it about time to finally replace those placeholders for AA gun and MG nests with proper models. We have been asking for that since CBT…
I hope you are right about it being a placeholder, kind of annoying to have a game that’s so historically accurate then have engineers build weapons not from their own country, they can be balanced without being the same exact thing. Also both sides use panzerfaust on Berlin, but I’m not sure what Russian weapon could match. Maybe an American bazooka because they are both allied.
panzerfaust were like water so it is acceptable rosya gets to use them in berlin
i would not say it super unbalanced if not there - but then what is point of bomber for russia?
I’m not disagreeing, I fully support this, but I’m just wondering how they are going to Balance American AA, as the Americans basically shunned Autocannons and relied mostly on the Browning M2 for the role. They will probably get at least a double mount if not a quad mount, which would make it literally a better MG nest. Also, it can pen the Puma, so its an AT gun too.
I’m not asking for them to be the same, just a bit worried about how a buildable Quad Mount M2 will affect balance. The lone M2 on the top of already eats Pumas, and can just delete waves of infantry as is. Put four of those with the operator behind cover and now you just have a one trick solution to almost all problems. It will AT against Pumas better than the buildable AT guns, and it is quite literally a better MG nest as now you have 4 HMGs which are difficult to destroy instead of one LMG which can be destroyed with relative ease. Even if you make it one M2 Browning, it will have all these qualities. again, I’m not against the idea of nation specific AA guns, just worried about balance issues.
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