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BeaverTerror

Universal Carrier is OP

My gunner and I had a total rampage game in a Bren Carrier recently. It's small, reasonably quick, and quite hard to be sniped out of at a distance. The enemy was streaming around in the usual disorganized manner. We drove around and cut them down with ease, relocating quickly after each engagement. We even towed an anti tank gun behind us to set up at sneaky locations.

This went on for quite a while, but we eventually got greedy, stayed put for too long, and were run up on from behind by someone sneaky. We tried to retrieve the vehicle but it had been blown up by then.

Any similar experiences? The MG42 on the German half-track is pretty useless in comparison. Too exposed.

Posted Apr 13, 2019, 3:47 PM UTC

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321forlife•

Doesn’t sound OP to me - sounds like you played smart in it and took advantage of a disorganized team. As soon as you quit playing smart, ya got killed. Not OP imo. And organized squad can handle the Bren.

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BritishHamster•

I find the thing is with the carrier and the half track is, like you found out, that you need to keep mobile, fire and move and so on. You stay put to long and your putting a target on you. As someone who plays AT a lot I must say that stationary half tracks are probably the most kills I’ve got.

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CnlSandersdeKFC•

The Half-track can wreck an allied team if they're smart and sit back 150-200m and just fire rounds into Allied hardpoints.

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NoahDoahWehrmacht•

Yeah. People just abandon it somewhere. But having two more belt-fed MG42s is pretty damn nice.

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tredbobekWehrmacht•

It's not the Bren Carrier that is OP, it's the enemy team that was "streaming around in the usual disorganized manner". It's easy to snipe out the gunner (it's only protected from the front, in a small angle)

In PS most of the players play like it's Battlefield, rush in and die. It's easy to get them with a bit of organized raiding.

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derage88•

What you're really saying is the enemy didn't have anyone capable enough to shoot out the gunner or bother to throw a rocket your way. If I had nobody shooting at me while on top of the half-track it'd be the same.

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DDumpTruckK•

Wait, you killed a bunch of disorganized players with an MG? That definitely sounds like OP to me. *Sarcasm*

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Shov3ly•

being able to kill disorganized enemies with a machinegun from an armored vehicle doesn't seem OP... you could probably do the same with just a machinegun and an infantryman, right?

You make sound with a brencarrier, and you can get shot out of it, easily killed with any AT weapon as well.

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unq0qularoqinionUS Airborne•

You used it correctly. Mobile firing points. It's quick, maneuverable, and has firepower. I usually use them as cover fire for my squad, as we advance towards an objective.

With the half track, you can't really put off the same stunt. You have to stay in the background, and use it as suppressive fire, NOT as an anti-personnel vehicle. Try using it as a troop transport truck, get on a flank of the enemy, park it slightly in the wood lines, in a ditch, or between buildings, NEVER IN THE OPEN, and as your team pushes forward, suppress where your team is headed. Once the team get most of the way there, pull away and reposition. Works very very well, only catch is, you have to have a working squad with a proper SL. If not, then :P

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Necramonium•

This just means you were not around experienced enemies, i get shot out of the carrier or blown up easily.

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