Few vehicles symbolize the Soviet victory as powerfully as the Katyusha rocket launcher, a weapon that became a legendary fixture of the Eastern Front. Adding the BM-13 as a playable vehicle in Enlisted would provide a unique experience and iconic value to the game.
The closest counterpart to Katyusha would be the German Panzerwerfer 42 (which is currently BR4 but many players are calling for it to be downtiered to BR3 or even BR2).
Here is a comparison table between the two vehicles:
Tank Katyusha is funny - 1 game in Stalingrad I sat in a tall building with an ATR and sniped his ammo - instant blow up from hitting 1 rocket.
Then he respawned a little later… happened 3 or 4 times total - dunno if he ever figured out what was happening!!
But at least the T-60 version is usable with 3 degrees available depression, so it can shoot horizontally.
The truck mounted version cannot do so - it has minimum elevation of 8 degrees - that’s PLUS 8 degrees - in WT it has a totally false adjustable suspension that never existed, and gets a minimum range of 250m with that.
Without the warthunderhammer suspension I don’t know what the minimum range would be - several hundred meters at a guess
And it can only shoot 10 degrees either side of straight ahead.
It would be barely usable. The current Soviet rocket tank is already one of the weakest ground vehicles. And Katyusha would be straight up worse.
There’s no place for this vehicle in the game. Anyone using it would only sabotage his own team.
Ground vehicle that is completely useless against other vehicles and mediocre against infantry is equivalent to planes with no CAS capability.
So if you want truck with rocket, they should at least add Andryusha (BM-31) instead of Katyusha. As it would at least be somewhat useful against other vehicle. (Still a pretty underwhelming gimmick vehicle, but at least not so completely bad)
Katyusha is hte generic term for all the Soviet rockets. The BM-13 was the first vehicle mounted launcher, but the 82 and 310mm vehicle mounted rockets are also correctly referred to as Katyusha
If indirect artillery was a new radio squad option, to fire a salvo of rockets, with a high cool down. They could use the aiming system of Big Action but make sure rocket artillery could be taken out and not be an option
it would be too useless, it would only be applicable on a few maps, and then because of the damn low mobility it would be difficult to get at least some kind of firing position on it.
In addition, you can already use it in the game, you just need a squad of radio operators with the skill of calling an MLRS strike.
It’s too bad that ALL factions didn’t have something similar…seems like a great way to deal with grey-zoning tanks. It’s weird how artillery stikes can’t reach the grey zone when it is delivered by howitzers with km’s of range. This would give the game a fun option with a new squad.Grey-zoning should have an out if the planes are in use and ineffective.
