Germany is unbalanced, and suffers compared to other nations.
Why? Hardly any Light Vehicles for Scouting and flanking.
German Teams are blind by design while other nations have a rich selection of Light Vehicles that can turn any Ground RB match into a strategic and dynamic fight with Arcade level intelligence/spotting.
How are German Teams supposed to play and win in this shape?
Germany mid tier just shows why grb got markers on anything and everywhere. Players are just THAT unaware sometimes. And even with markers they tend to struggle.
The only problem is the gap between the 3.7 Sd.Kfz.234/2 puma and the 6.7 leKPz M41. For all other ranks, Germany gets a wide variety of vehicles with scouting.
But please understand that the Sd.Kfz.234/2 is extremely uptierable and stays viable way until 7.0.
This gap is actually kind of similar compared to other nations in this game. Ex.g. Japan with M-24 > M41A1. USA/Italy with M-24 > M18. Sweden with M24 > Pbv510 (with Strv 74 also having scouting), and Israel with AML90 > Namer 30…
A solution would be, like with USSR tanks, to give 1 or 2 SPG vehicles scouting abilities.
More vehicles with scouting at ranks III and above would be greatly appreciated for almost all nations.
Ok, so Germany gets limited light vehicles. Great, but you have fantastic Casemate tank destroyers and some great heavy tanks to go with it. The puma also is good all the way up to top tier (I’ve tried it). The waffentrager is also pretty much a light tank, so the gap isn’t even that bad
The problem lies within the players themselves. People do not want to use these vehicles anymore cause of the fear of having their scout drone nuked out of the sky.
germany suffers from V rank to VI rank unless you’ve got panzerhaubitze, rakatenautomat, begleitpanzer or gepard, if you dont have premium vehicle or premium time getting through these tiers is quite difficult cuz the rp gains are low but in low tier and top tier germany is actually quite good, its the middle part which is difficult or at least thats what i felt
Therefore, not viable to use for battlepass tasks and challenges requiring a light tank.
I remember when I got started with GRB as a german main and finding BP tasks a major headache to accomplish. Since then, I’ve diversified significantly but the issue does persist I feel.
… Frankly, I feel it’s sort of a consequence of italy becoming its own nation similar to how in air with germany you used to have access to reggianos and all that before italy was introduced. This meant that german teams had very capable turnfighters to assist the Fws and Bfs. Now they’re on their own. In SB, Italy is thankfully almost always on the german side to act as their equivalent to Britain against the U.S, but in ARB? No such dice.
As always, this is certainly a problem, but just as soviets have the long-reloading 122, the us having low pen guns and the brits having trash and the swedish having 1 meatball launcher in WWII brs, theres a good side to every nation, and germany is especially good with the heavy armored options. U cant have everything in this game (Welll unless ur top-tier russia)