People ahould acknowledge current faction pros and cons to see why the game is what it is now
I actually dislike the “Asymetrical Balance” club more than the Historical Accuracy club, cuz at least one of them has real fact to back up a WWII game…
The faction works like this if you play all side:
US:
Very Versatile tank(except TDs), capable for infantry support and dealing with anything that is not a big cat(you still can skin them though), then there is Jumbo and M8 Scott(people trash on this little guy but little they know how to actually use it)
Best CAS, .50s has lot more ammo than the rest of the nation, and overall very versatile planes loadout, specially planes like P38 with M8s and P47Ds, they can pretty much do everything but capping points
SMG? All you really need is either ironically the Sten or Lanchester and you can pretty much skip the rest maybe except the 50rnd Tommy, decent to great bolties(Lee Enfield No 4 to be specific), best Shotgun(they are very lovely after buff), great semiautos(even M1 Carbine is great at BR2), decent to great MGs(BAR/Jhonsons, M1919A6, Vicker is actually the best MMG of the game for me), M2 carbine is very good at almost everything, the only downside is the rear sight, handheld AT lacking after mid game
Downside: missing late game handheld AT launcher, late game tanks, and proper AR and automatic rifle(T20 exist though, pretty much AVT40 but gold order currently)
Germany:
Best LATE game tanks, a.k.a the big cats, anything else are mostly irrelevant, do you ever heard people talk highly about Pz IVs? Exactly… only exception is the Pz III N, specially the Stalingrad one, this one is an infantry shredder if you play it right, the Puma can be fun if you know how to hit and run, I hate the turret traversal speed though
Pretty great Fighters and Interceptors(duh I hate the side sliding Fw190 D12), currently hold the best medium bomber with 6 250kg(Ju 188), their planes are great at their dedicated role for the most time, and suck at not their intended role for the most time(Ironically BF110 suck at its intended role due dogshite mixed ammo belt)
Dogshite to decent SMG(MP3008/MP28 - Kilary/MAB 38A 40rnd), meh shotgun(triple barrel but with one disfunctional barrel), dogshite to great bolties(K98 Kriegsmodel - Manchiler/Prewar Kar98), dogshite to good semiautos(Armaguerra- FG 42 II, contrary to what other think, FG42 is ironically the least accurate late game semiauto), bad to good MGs(Breda-MG34 Patronen, no, MG15 is bad because the unique feature it has) and there is MkB42/StG44 sniper, the best small arm you can unlock for the germans, cuz they actually hit where you are aiming at, and the nation with Best Mid-Late game handheld AT weapon
Soviets: oh boi
Overall great tank, you can trash as much as you can on those light tanks with 47mm, they still better than other nation light tanks, specially the BT7 A with 76mm and T50, everything with 76mm or bigger can one shot their opponent because they actually have functional HE filler, the only downside of their tanks? No top MG, and some of them has long reload due just how the soviet tanks works, my only question is why they keep asking for a bugger gun and not a better gun with versatile role?
Planes are great by default, even the biplane works better than its counterpart, the P40E and IL2 1941 are quite a beast of their own, the only downside is the short ammo and bombers with small bombs, and the only nation with functional AT autocannons cuz they actually shoot HVAP instead of mixed belt
Small arms, overall is the best of the game, is the best advantage you can get in an infantry focused game, like hands down, prooven by dataminer and ingame, is easier point out the bad guns they have than the good ones, the only bad unlockable gun they have are Nagant Revolver, the Mosin M1907, and the Madsen, just that, don’t you dare tell me the RD44, that gun shouldn’t exist in this game to begin with and got buffed twice before merge, they are not crippled on handheld AT like the US and Japs does because they have the privilege to use captured German Panzerfaust, they also have the priviledge to use body armor which grant 10% damage reduction
Downside: small bombs for most bombers/CAS, and meme tanks like IS2, yes you can die on that hill, keep asking for bigger gun…
Japan: Oh boi
Tanks… well just use that TD, Ho-I and the one you get in events… the rest are waste of time or too underpowered for their BR, their tank sucks man
Planes, surprisingly agile planes, though dogshite 7.7mm MGs, kinda low on ammo count
Small arms, I love their bolt action rifles, they are probably the most cost efficient rifle you can get in this game, they got no shotgun, pretty good MGs except Type 11, decent to great SMGs, overtier Semiautos and boi I hate 5rnd semiautos, no AR or Automatic rifles, suboptimal handheld AT weapon for mid game onward, though have the best early AT…
Downside: being the most half baked faction and constantly being Devs punching bag, lack of gear suited for even BR3 onward, and only fight US
Look, Asymetrical balance doesn’t work in this game, because there is no rock-paper-scissor in a game that focus on INFANTRY, as much as you hate the tank and plane spam, INFANTRY are the one win the game by capping points, also how you Asymetrically balance Fedorov Automat? That gun shoot like BR, handles like SMG and has MG/Assaulter Ammo pool… and the stat is overbuffed, the gun legit has less real recoil than Kilary, a SMG shooting bullets half the size of that so called “AR”
