Do you realize that doesn´t make any sense, at all?
Brits now have more AT options... so... that´s an indirect nerf? lmao.
It's because in order to have the same amount of AT they had before they have to buy more units, which equates to more money you have to spend to achieve the same effect. It's basically a cost increase on British AT in general. They don't have "more options" unless you're Royal Engineers, they have DIFFERENT options... and fewer PIATs/repair sappers.
And if I know one thing it's that with only six sappers to go around there is no way I'm spending money on the detection kit now even less than before, and now I don't even bother with repair sappers anymore. So much for diverse upgrades - if the upgrades don't get used because there's no room for them in your company no point in them existing. I'm not paying PP so I can have a sapper with a mine sweeper.
I bet making 88s and MP44s even more monstrous is going to help with that whole "American players quit at three times the rate of other players" thing everybody seemed to be so worried about not so long ago...
This is a key point. Why after all that discussion on Americans not having any player retention did Americans get no buffs whatsoever? Why did the thing you guys said would be added to the 57 instead get put on a whole new unit (admittedly a 57mm by another name) and added to British? This patch makes very little sense on the whole, in my opinion, as it lacks appropriate direction.
Also, what the Hell was the point of moving the 25 pounder to Royal Artillery? Any RA player who sticks with it is rapidly going to replace those pieces of crap with Priests anyway, so thanks for effectively deleting the unit from the game, that's good of you... You could have at least left it as a lower-end artillery option for all British players...
This is very true as well - the 25 lber is only moderately useful, and is absolutely worthless compared to the Priest. Now without the ability for players who don't have access to the omnipotent priest to instead be able to access at least some form of artillery, the 25 lber effectively no longer exists as a unit. Same thing I mentioned above with the sappers - now that there's even fewer sappers (again, this is the second direct nerf to sappers as a general unit on top of two nerfs to the PIAT) there's no real reason to buy advanced repair on them, or the mine detector. There's just no point to wasting valuable sappers on such trivial upgrades in the same way there's no reason to settle for a 25 lber when there's a priest readily available at eight times the effectiveness.
For that matter, I can't really see the point in moving the 17 and mortar pit to Royal Engineers either... What precisely was the rationale behind cutting RA and Commandos players off from these units?
I dunno what should've been done with the 17, but I see no reason the mortar pit should really be moved to a doctrine specific role. The bofors is still for everybody, so is the vickers, why the mortar pit? Furthermore the commandos doctrine basically just lost its reason for being now that every brit has ready access to mortar and HMG teams (one of which is flat out better, being the cloakable HMG team [it doesn't cloak yet, but it will, apparently]).
It's rather fortuneate for me that I'm a non-emplacement British player myself, so these nerfs don't effect me very much (and indeed, I'm very much looking foward to trying out the new support weapons), but I'm quite firmly the exception, the freak of nature in fact... I can't think of a single other British player who doesn't use emplacements and these changes... Well, frankly they're pretty harsh... Surely emplacements weren't bad enough to justify what's been done in this Revision...
I had to sell every tank in my company except one to pay for the new AT guns and mortar combination. Looks like I'm off to WW1.
