After looking at the guide, I think that the soviet faction really suits my play style , as I hate retreating ,cannot preserve units that well and love mixing medium tanks with normal infantry. This is probably a big coincidence but plz don't get rid of the no retreat feature later on when you figure out how to. When the mod is released I hope you don't nerf the soviets too much if everyone thinks they are OP.Thats what happened too the British Faction.
KV-2 was a garbage. Very often to brake down, very hard to repair. Was designed to attack concrete fortifications in Finnland in 1940 with its turret-mounted howitzer M-10T. All KV-2 were lost during 6 month of 1941.I wound suggest:replace heavy tankbuster (now ISU-152) with SU-100.replace heavy self-propelled howitzer/artillery tank (now KV-2) with ISU-152.
ML-20 FirebaseThis heavy 120 mm gun-howitzer can lay down a thunderstorm of steel. It is not very accurate, but fires a lot of shells in a single salvo. This makes it perfect for area bombardment.
SummaryThe ML-20 was one of the most successful Soviet artillery pieces of World War II. Its characteristics positioned it between classical short-range howitzers and special long-range guns. Compared to the former, the ML-20 has better range (e.g. the German 15 cm sFH 18 had range of 13.3 km), which often allowed it to shell positions of enemy artillery while remaining immune to enemy fire. Its advantage over the latter was in weight and cost, and therefore in mobility and production rate. For example, the German 15 cm K 18 with range of 24.8 km weighed 12.5 tons and only 101 pieces were built; of the excellent 17 cm K 18 (23.4 t, 29.6 km) 338 pieces were manufactured; lighter 10.5 cm sK 18 (5.6 t, 19.1 km) was more common (2,135 pieces) but its 15 kg shell was much less powerful than a 44 kg shell of ML-20. German attempts to produce an analogue to the ML-20 were unsuccessful. The 15 cm sFH 40 was never produced due to construction defects; the 15 сm sFH 42 had insufficient range and only 46 pieces were built. In 1943 and 1944 Wehrmacht announced requirements for a 15 cm howitzer with a range of 18 km, but none reached production.Of other guns with more or less similar characteristics, there were French 155 mm guns model 1917 and 1918 with longer range, but some 3.5 tons heavier. The Czechoslovakian howitzer K4 (used by Germans as 15 cm sFH 37(t)) was about 2 tons lighter, but with range more than 2 km shorter and only 178 pieces were built. The British BL 5.5 inch (140 mm) gun also had shorter range.Main shortcomings of the ML-20 were its weight and limited mobility. As the experience of the ML-15 project suggests, the gun could be made somewhat lighter and more suitable for high-speed transportation. Use of a muzzle brake can be seen as minor flaw: while softening a recoil and thus allowing to use lighter carrige, muzzle brake has a disadvantage of redirecting some of the gases that escape the barrel toward the ground, where they raise dust, revealing the gun position. But when the ML-20 was developed muzzle brake was already a common element in artillery pieces of that class.
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