If somebody play fh, he already knows one thing; there is no fair combat between tanks on any map.
In one map stuarts have to fight vs panzer 3s, in another map panzer 3s have to fight vs shermans, theatres can change but that simple rule never change, grap your sherman and charge to panthers.... The necessity is,
if you want to beat your opponent, you have to flank him. This is possible in fh1 but not in fh2 because of two reasons.
1. The red icon which appears on the screen after you get shot. In several maps a sherman driver has to flank panthers with a big and cumbersome tank while axis tanks, tank destroyers and at guns are everywhere. Let's say after spent several minutes sherman driver finally managed to flank and shoot panther's rear armor. So panther has 8 seconds to react. In one second panther driver realizes there is a red icon on the bottom of his screen and it means there is a tank behind him, all he needs an other second for a 180 degree turn with a mouse hack and booom...
sherman is destroyed in 2 seconds. Panther driver bails and repairs his tank.
Result: Sherman driver flanked his opponent but got destroyed in two seconds for nothing, cool
Seriously why there is a magical icon on the screen, did it come with bf2
My suggestion : Please remove that icon.
2. Reload times of main cannons Reload times of some vehicle's main cannons: ( Please correct me if i'm wrong )
Stuart : 6 seconds
Crusader (40mm) : 6 seconds
Panzer 3 : 6.5 seconds
Daimler : 7 seconds
Panzer 4 : 8 seconds
Let's use alam halfa as an example because we can find all of those vehicles at alam halfa. At the start of the map 3 stuart tanks have to fight vs 12 axis tanks
But how? The strange thing is panzer 3s destroy allied light tanks even if they shoot their frontal armor with 2 shots and panzer 4 f2s destroy them with a single shot and allied light tanks have no chance to penetrate their frontal armor and it requires 3 side shots to destroy axis medium tanks. Ok maybe allied guns are weak and axis tanks have thick frontal armor but why those light tanks' guns have unrealistically long reload time?
Seriously stuart suck balls against tanks and it has weak he shells but it takes 6 seconds to reload it's main gun, on the other hand panzer 4 f2 kills even grants with just a single shot it also has devastating he shells and it takes just 2 more seconds to reload it's main gun, even it has nearly 2X bigger calibre gun. I think that's totally unfair and you should decrease the reload times based on calibre sizes.
My suggestion: Please set reload times for
Us 37mm guns ( m3, m5,m8,grant ) : 4 seconds
Daimler : 4,5 seconds to match with 2 pounder at guns
All 75mm guns : 9 seconds
Crusader: Discussable, because it has low profile, lots of ap, and if i'm not mistaken a bugged armor.
Matilda and valentine : No, thanks.
37mm guns vs panzer 4s rear armor Panzer 4's rear armor is just 20mm thick and currently can be penetrated by even rifle grenades but unfortunately it survives from 37mm shots even at very close ranges.
Shooting panzer4 from 5 metres away...
Panzer 4 returns fire with mouse hack
My suggestion: Please increase damage of 37mm guns vs panzer 4's and stug 4's rear armor at close range ( like 50 metres ) and make it killable with one shot.
Stuart and greyhound vs panther There are 2 panthers at operation lüttich ( %50 of axis armor at this map ) and also there are 2 allied vehicles which are carrying 37mm guns, the problem is those vehicles are not capable to do any damage even if the panther driver is idling. Imagine player who controls the panther goes to toilette and here comes stuart and greyhound shooting, shooting, shooting and wtf!
they can't even damage the tank while player is peeing.
My suggestion: Please make panther A's side and rear, panther G's only rear armor vulnerable to 37mm guns ( like %10 damage per shot like fh1 )
Puma's panzergranate 40 Currently puma has special ap, it's not just unrealistic but i believe it also destroys gameplay at ope. lüttich. Because such a close range sniping sherman's side armor is very easy and even worse it can fight frontally with m10 tank detroyer. In the end it wasn't a tank destroyer but a scout car which was carrying it's main gun just for self defence.
My suggestion: Please remove panzergranate 40 from puma's payload.
