With NZ MG squad, Axis Tunisia is like using bolt actions to fight zombies with machine guns

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Not too long ago, the Tunisia campaign was rolled out. There seems to be a population issue and players heavily favoring the Allied side for whatever reason, leading to a lack of Axis players. Now, someone at Darkflow thought it’s a great idea to introduce an event where the top reward is easy to get, and this reward is a premium squad for the Allied side in Tunisia. Who thought, right now a lot of players are enjoying their new premium squad and they are everywhere.

I got a daily task to play three matches as Axis Tunisia, and while I have not improved my squads a lot, this metagame is totally different now.

Tunisia is filled with bolt action rifles anyway, now there are opponents with machine guns who come by default with 35% vitality buff and three medkits. SHOOT THEM IN THE HEAD like in Dawn of the Dead seems to be the only option to reliably dispatch the opponents, if you only down them or wound them, they will rise from near death. SHOOT THEM IN THE HEAD while they bunny hop around, and it seems everyone and their mother is rotating those squads as often as they can.

Now, I do get it that as a premium, there’s only four squad members so it’s possible to grind into much more powerful squads. But the grind is real. The soldiers are more resistant to damage than what most casual players would have in their disposal, and now everyone has them. As comparison, I started in July and have played with premium account enough to Lvl 60 on the previous battlepass, but troops with such perks are totally unavailable still even on my main campaign, let alone Tunisia, no matter how many orders I spend.

So as a result the perked up kitted out machine gunners are really an abomination at least amongst the group of population I identify with, and I should be comparatively well off, after all I was able to purchase a ton of basic soldiers for all campaigns with bronze orders so I don’t suffer the empty squad syndrome.

It’s easy for me to avoid these matches by not playing in Tunisia Axis, so I will survive this horror, but from a balance perspective it’s an interesting move to implement this squad as free reward. Maybe it’s to lure us to purchase more premium squads because apparently they have really useful perks?

Once more to finish the point. SHOOT THEM IN THE HEAD.

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it’s not even a premium squad :rofl: so no XP bonus for the user

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Logged in quickly to finish my “3 battles” task and was happy to get a conquest map so it’s over with swiftly

Never seen so many goatees with machine guns around. You can’t actually see one here but they did see me. I didn’t see a single player with a machine gun on my team.

Attention should mostly be to the score bar.

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I did try also myself with the machine gun squad, it’s really quite sad how imbalanced the game gets. I realized two additional things: Tunisia is very good for machine guns because everywhere there’s a wall to lay the gun on with good firing area - and that the Charlton MG far outclasses the Vickers-Berthier which you tend to be stuck with for quite a while, in both accuracy and more importantly being able to see what happens around you.

I managed two rotations of the NZ squad and it was easy to rack up 20 kills or more with each spawn while I was also trying to push for the objective. Funnily enough I didn’t pick up the best machine gunner award, apparently the guy in #3 place didn’t lose his squad at all. The match was finished quickly with over 900 tickets left.

The struggle is real.

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