Comments - Intraventian

Jeroenimo has answered this question over and over and over again.

No.

Will there be a release for the new rebel models as well?

The B-wing was always my favorite fighter of the bunch. Nice to see it getting some love here with its great armament and survivability.

Given the frantic nature of a combat environment, I would think that an Abrams would very seldomly achieve hitting the T-90A in the same spot for the perfect penetration.

Furthermore, regardless of which tank is fighting which tank, a hit from an enemy tank will decidedly damage your tank severely. Just being hit with a single APFSDS round would likely leave a tank crew dazed, possibly with casualties if it penetrated, and probably wanting to get the hell out of the tank before it takes another hit. The stress the tank would have endured would drastically reduce its ability to stop a second shot.

The way I see it, I would say that the Abrams and T-90A are equalized just because the weapons they carry are so lethal that armor and ERA have a negligible effect on the survivability of the tank and more on the potential of keeping the crew alive to return to their families.

True indeed, but that means little when the shots are ineffective compared to what their tanks can do to yours. It is entirely possible to win a tank engagement with the Russians, but the odds are stacked against you once your positions are discovered. The issue still remains that the T-90A's survivability feels unjustly low.

This may have been said before, but the new Russian voice from Company of Heroes 2 is very, very out of place. Isn't this a modern setting? Why is the commander referring to military practice from the 1940s? I understand that the units still use their old Soviet dialogue from the vanilla game (The T-90A still identifies itself as a T-80, for example), but why take such a massive step backward by adding the "GLORIOUS SOVIET UNION" rhetoric from seven decades ago? It's almost insulting.

Furthermore, the Russian armor is squishy. Very squishy. I almost feel like I am not commanding tanks. I have to use guerrilla tactics and very heavy AA screening to keep them from evaporating when the enemy wanders into my AO. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Regardless, I cannot challenge the Abrams to an outright slugging match and that bothers me. If you're going to present the T-90A as an inferior tank to the Abrams, at least make it even cheaper than it is now, because the lower cost does not offset the lower quality.

However, I recommend simply buffing the health a little so it takes at least three hits to kill from the front instead of two. The T-90A is still a tough tank in its own right, just like the older T-80U which was widely regarded as being equal to the M1 Abrams (not the more modern variants, mind you) in their heyday. It would help make Russian armor just a little more fun to play.