Germany has far better tanks in berlin but there is no adequate way for infantry to deal with them as they can just stay outside the bounds of the map and remain unkillable unless CAS manages to take them out. That’s why I think the Soviets need some sort of lend lease at weapon like a bazooka because it has a longer effective range than the panzerfaust and in order to balance things the panzerfausts for berlin allies would be replaced with said lend lease at weapons in order to make things more balanced.
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I would much rather use a panzerfaust over even the M9 Bazooka.
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I was going to say…isnt the panzerfaust better anyway. Russians already get this.
And with a bit of practice lobbing great distance isnt hard.
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The Soviets got around 3000 Bazookas (don’t know what type) and about 5000 rockets through lend lease. They tested them out to see if they could make their own, and decided they did not like them, so they scrapped the idea. They could get the RPG 43 (if they have it I’m sorry, I don’t play soviets). It was a thrown grenade that had a shaped charge and was stabilized by a small parachute.
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T-34-85 is already capable but the problem is the low power zoom optics that makes fighting Panthers at long range much difficult. Also Soviets having lots of captured panzerfausts that they just use them as lend lease Bazookas most likely M1s which are much worse.
I think Panzerfaust is much better than the Ofenrohr too its just Normandy doesn’t have Panzerfaust 100. Maybe USSR will need better AT guns whether its 57mm ZiS-2 or 76mm ZiS-3 or maybe the 52K used like the Flak 88.
It would be cool to have lend lease M1 Bazookas and PIATs
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M1, but it’s rubbish in enlisted
Its caliber = 30mm, and it penetrates 60mm (60mm is actual caliber of M1) for some reason… How devs could f**k it up?
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It’s all just intentional. Same goes for terrible sights for majority of merican weapons. They just doesn’t like merica.
But it’s understandable.
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The Panzerfausts are actually far better, they just take more skill to use. So as far as handheld AT weapons, they are fine.
- The reason they are better is that they are a “lob” shot, allowing you to not only arc the shot over sandbags so you aren’t sitting in the open, but also at distance hit from a higher angle, which majority of tanks armor is weaker from that angle. Comparing the armor penetration on some of the heavier tanks, at 80-100m with Panzerfaust vs m9 bazooka, (math wise) you are far more likely to kill that tank with the panzerfaust. Especially due to potential angling.
NOTE: When playing as Axis on Normandy Campaign DDay map, I’ve taken out Jumbos down on the beach from an AT nest up on the hill, single hits from 110-150m with the panzerfaust is killing them, even from the front. (Just something to consider for context.)
I do agree this is irritating, but its also an issue on all maps. My hope is that the Devs are just using the current AT field guns as a placeholder on the AT squad special structure. Larger field guns are definitely needed to help deal with greyzone tanks.
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Lets get both options of bazooka and panzerfaust
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