While the germans do have better tanks overall (playing the m8 scott drives me closer to madness every minute) The jumbo is insanely overpowered with no 100% effective way to take it out. Sturmpistole (and the piat) is extremely unreliable and you have to get farely close. Bombs are a possibility but ive only ever once seen a really good pilot knock out a jumbo after the jumbo already got 30+ kills. While the other german panzers may sound appealing the main issue is that they need to get to the side for a good shot (machine gun port can be tricky), If it is an experienced tanker, they will most likely hear the enemy engine and be on alert. I propose the M1A1 Bazooka (sometimes found in the American testing range) and the panzershrek to be added as a mid to late game squad with such weapons. Where they at d-day? idk. Was the Jumbo? No so does it really matter? Honestly id love for this game to go into more alternate history, Like a mainland invasion of japan or a 1946 “Never Surrender” campaign About more last ditch tanks like the Maus and panther 2 with the nightvision set holding off on a huge map with on one side Centurions and american prototypes like the T95 or T34 and on the other side a mix of Is-3s and T44s like you said.
Id like to see alternate history stuff but seeing how people bitched and moaned about the Panther F in Berlin i doubt we will see any of that in the future
If you’re not carrying you’re relying on someone else to do it for you, and with 90% of players being fairly terrible, good luck with that ;p.
We really don’t need the Panzershreck and it’s 300mm of penetration, and lack of an arc, with 150-200m effective firing range in Normandy. The Panzershreck would basically mean allies have no tanks whatsoever.
Give the Germans the Panzerfaust 60. Still 200mm of penetration, but then they have to aim. (compare to the 100mm of penetration of the PIAT, and the M1A1 or M9 bazookas with M6A3 HEAT)
Also, for vehicle balance, devs have confirmed the Panther is coming to Normandy, for better or worse, which will definitely bring things to a more even footing at top tier, though… yeah.
Also, if we were to have a 1946 Alt history in Europe, it would be a T26 and T32 on the US side for top tanks as far as production models go, as the T32 was the planned replacement of the Jumbo. The T95 was dropped well before the end of the war. For Germany, it wouldn’t be Panther 2 and Maus, but rather E50 and E100. But i wouldn’t bet on it being a thing, as I’m not sure the playerbase would be okay with it. I think we’d be more likely to see WW1, Korea, etc. than alt history.
Give germans panzerschreks.
So what you’re saying is you don’t want any allied tanks to survive contact with enemy forces for more than a few seconds, then?
I mean I can’t honestly keep track of the argument
jumbo is a unstoppable titan
German players are low IQ, low skill and nothing will help them
Axis is confirmed to be getting a Panther in Normandy in a near upcoming patch according to Keofox. That’s more than enough to counter a Jumbo.
Meanwhile, what you’re asking for; Panzershrecks, have greater range than a bazooka, and 3x the armor penetration of a bazooka or a PIAT, at 300mm, meaning from any angle a panzershreck will penetrate any tank that we might see, at ranges up to 200 meters. In other words, high level axis anti-tank squads would become insta-delete for allied tanks if they can see them, in practicality.
Panzerfaust 60’s, with their shorter range and 200mm penetration, is far more sensible in the game environment, and still enough to go through any allied tank save a poor shot on an angled Jumbo. But at least with the arc you actually have to aim the thing and can’t snipe with it.
Could do a Vietnam era spinoff called “Drafted” but seeing as the vietnamese used many guerilla tactics and enlisted devs want to make the teams “even” (as in they try to give both teams the same squad with similar weapons in the same campaign level) i doubt the idea will ever see the light of day.
Ngl my dude every time me and my friend play Normandy and get killed by a bomb, artillery, camper, or rocket that landed 40 meters away we remember that we aren’t allowed to have fun (aside from a tactic we call KugelTaxi where you find a kugelwagon and have someone constantly fire a flamethrower from the passenger side and ram into people). Honestly i just play Moscow and Berlin while i wait for tunisia to begin development or for them to make normandy less cancer inducing.
Yeah and what i think is the most annoying thing that i just expiernced was that we were at the last point and the allies had 0 respawns left and the 1 min counter started.
But then the allied respawns when to 50 and up again then again and it ended up that we lost even tho they barely were at the point