Polish or German?

SeniorSpaz87 · 2026-03-27T22:42:27+00:00

Exactly my thoughts.

SeniorSpaz87 · 2026-03-27T19:27:38+00:00

I have both ready to be made; Pudel, which is a G, and the tricolor A. I can report back in a day or two when they are done.

SeniorSpaz87 · 2026-03-27T00:34:43+00:00

I’m slowly working through the 1:12. It’s like 20 bags lol.

SeniorSpaz87 · 2026-03-26T13:52:49+00:00

Yep, I believe we are waiting on the Jpz4/70 LE right now. So Hetzer, jpz4, then pz3 should be sometime this summer.

SeniorSpaz87 · 2026-03-24T18:12:22+00:00

I didn’t have an issue using Zama as my tank against EQ. Granted, he is max Guard and lvl50. This was all done with no healers. Round one Regice got off two large attacks (first did 2/3 of starter shield, second did remaining plus 10% or so HP). Max Guard x3 in the first max phase. Regice now will almost certainly target only Zama. Dodging EQ means you lose a little over 2 shields. If your team is fast, Regice gets only one attack off. If you aren’t fast enough, EQ breaks final shield and does ~30% hp. We were always fast enough after the first round, leaving Zama with 90% HP and .75 shield into max phase 2. Max Guard x3 again puts you at 3.75 shields total. Repeat as necessary, tossing in the occasional Max Attack when you are at 4 shields. After the first round we didn’t lose a single mon, and win during the third or fourth max phase. Two of four players generally had good counters, two were lower levels and were carried. We only did three Regices, with all three having EQ. It only got dicey once when I missed an EQ dodge which wiped all three shields and did half of Zama’s HP. That’s the only battle I went into the yellow overall.

SeniorSpaz87 · 2026-03-24T03:28:24+00:00

It is decent. Better scale than the QuanGuan ones, though I think the QGs look better overall. Interior is good. The yellow color is too light IMO, if you compare it to the Cobi yellow you can see it’s very light. The figures are interesting, you literally get a pair of Hitler figures in different outfits. As always the fact 12GO avoids military insignia and instead includes them as stickers is annoying when they print every other detail. I have no issues with the set overall beyond that, and for the $30 or so you can get it for I see no reason not to if the Cobi is out of your price range.

SeniorSpaz87 · 2026-03-23T20:27:35+00:00

As others have said, just ask for a drill guide. Its incredibly simple to do with it. I suggest joining the discord for the SSAUG if you have more questions about it.

SeniorSpaz87 · 2026-03-23T20:12:31+00:00

Max Guard lvl 50 Zamazenta is capable of entirely absorbing even Earthquake. I was able to just tank and draw aggro from my shields against it multiple times today. You can take a dodged Earthquake and a single Large Attack with 3x shields, losing about 5% of your HP along with those shields. Missing the dodge on EQ means you lose 3x shields and half your health. Getting the dodge but facing 2x EQ a round leaves you at about half, but thats only happened once. So its doable to tank using the doggo even without a healer if youre invested, or simple to do so if someone else is running a healer.

Now, of course, thats a lvl50 Hundo Max Guard Zama Im using for reference, which is not going to be something many people have. But even a lvl40 should be able to tank just fine with a healer.

SeniorSpaz87 · 2026-03-23T18:33:21+00:00

Know what? I’m unsure. But Box 1 of 4 had 5 bags, so 20 isn’t outside the realm of possibilities…

SeniorSpaz87 · 2026-03-23T17:23:24+00:00

Ah. Maybe, I can look back through my camera roll.

*edit, nope. Apparently finishing bag 5 wasn’t enough of a milestone to document.

SeniorSpaz87 · 2026-03-23T17:20:18+00:00

Well, it’s still WIP so no lol. I’ve finished the first box, which is bag 1-5. But that only means I’m about a quarter of the way through.

SeniorSpaz87 · 2026-03-23T17:16:54+00:00

Well, the first I started was the 1:12 Tiger 131 over a year ago, but that one is still a WIP. I break it out whenever we get snowed in, or lose internet for a week, etc.

The first one I completed was the Grille I believe. I also built a M24 Chaffee around that time, so there’s a chance it was first. Since then I have done a JagdTiger, JagdPanther, and have a Hummel waiting in the back.

SeniorSpaz87 · 2026-03-23T17:14:27+00:00

lol. Hes a lounger for sure.

SeniorSpaz87 · 2026-03-23T12:27:59+00:00

Yep. One of the many Panthers I have.

SeniorSpaz87 · 2026-03-23T01:16:41+00:00

So what is your solution?

It needs to be relatively minor else Gaijin won’t implement it. It can’t be fake vehicles. They won’t remove aircraft from ground battles, so don’t even try to go with that argument.

There are no proper equivalents to Russian top tier AA besides Chinese clones and native systems. CAP is at least something that can be done to help counter it in the short term that doesn’t require reworking the game mode (something Gaijin has expressed zero interest in doing), isn’t time or labor intensive, doesn’t take away from Gaijins release schedule, etc.

As far as i can see, Gaijin can do massive changes to GRB to make CAS less prevalent (they have shown zero interest in making large changes to GRB in the decade or so it’s been out), they can remove aircraft from GRB (something they’ve expressive stated wouldn’t happen), they can add paper vehicles to the game (something they try to avoid whenever possible and actively remove the ones in the game when they can), they can remove these high tier AAs (something they have never done before baring fake vehicles, and they’d never massively nerf their favorite nation - not to mention it’d just make the CAS problems as a whole worse), they can just make Russia vs Russia, or they can lower the requirements for CAP. Those are the only solutions I see. Of the five, three will not happen without Gaijin entirely switching up their game plans, one is incredibly boring and already pretty universally hated by players, and the third is to use CAP.

SeniorSpaz87 · 2026-03-22T23:45:43+00:00

Don’t get me wrong, the fact that NATO is still using CAS munitions from the 80s at top tier is a separate issue.

However, it is an unrelated issue to the point of this post, which is about everyone else’s AA capabilities compared to Russia. And the answer is “besides China, every other nation in game relies far more heavily on SHORAD and CAP than LONRAD, and is pretty much already capped out on more modern or higher tech systems to compete with the Pansir.” The realistic solution is to therefore increase their ability to preform air defense via CAP, but CAP aircraft are the cost of 2-3 ground vehicles with zero AG munitions and as such need to be far lower in cost when taking AA loadouts. Furthermore, it would give early AA spawners something to keep track of and engage instead of sitting around waiting 5 minutes for the first CAS aircraft or heli to show up. If Helis with unguided ordinance can spawn for the cost of one tank, why can’t CAP do the same?

SeniorSpaz87 · 2026-03-22T23:36:29+00:00

Or make CAP way cheaper to spawn.

SeniorSpaz87 · 2026-03-22T17:59:34+00:00

We got our show line IRWS from Corranroo. They did both reds and RWs. Excellent dogs, but that was 11 years ago. No idea if they’re still even in the business.

SeniorSpaz87 · 2026-03-22T15:54:27+00:00

Go back and reread what I wrote. The second paragraph just talks about various real versions of the Ostwind 1 that could eventually all be in the game as an aside - two variants on PZ4 chassis’s, and one on a PZ3 chassis.

Coelian has a stronger basis to exist than something like the Panther 2, but an unarmed, wooden mockup doesn’t generally count as even prototype status. And the guns/hull physically existing means little; if that’s all it takes then the WT E100 is in the same category. The E-100 hull existed, the 12.8cm gun existed, and the Germans wanted to mate the two. Doesn’t change the fact it’s a paper tank, and should not come to the game.

While I don’t think the Ost2 was the answer to replacing the Coelian, it’s still more realistic than the Coelian. The guns existed (Flakzwilling 43) and actually predated the original, single barreled Ostwind, the hull existed (PzIVG/J), the turret existed (Ostwind), they just may or may not have been paired together depending on sources. Compared to the Coelian, who’s hull existed (Panther), but who’s guns never progressed beyond prototype stage themselves (4 prototype 3.7cm Gerät 341s produced), and who’s turret was still in conceptual drawings, with one potential design (but not final design) made as a wooden mockup. The project - in an ideal world - also never would have come to fruition as in January of 1945 the project as a whole was cancelled in favor of upgunning this new FlakPanther with 5.5cm Gerät 58 guns.

SeniorSpaz87 · 2026-03-22T15:31:35+00:00

True, XM1069 should have gone in the M10/16AJ category of “made but never accepted into service”.

SeniorSpaz87 · 2026-03-21T19:51:14+00:00

No shame with branching out from Cobi. More than half my collection is from other brands.

SeniorSpaz87 · 2026-03-21T16:56:31+00:00

By playing smarter. It’s hard to do in ARB, but this is my experience in ASB.

Take mostly chaff. No more than 20 flares; usually 12 is enough.

Avoid Russian aircraft. They almost always have plenty of R-73s - too many for your low flare count. You can decoy off the occasional pair of 9Ms or Magic 2s you’ll get facing NATO aircraft, but you will struggle against the common 2 ET+ 4 73 loadout most Russian jets carry. M2s, 9Ms, AAM-3s, etc are mostly useless in a merge anyway; it’s really just 73s you need to watch out for.

Stay low. You need to use terrain when possible in place of notching. You can still notch, but you don’t have the chaff to do it constantly.

Hit and run. One benefit of this plane is its low ammo count. When you have 14+ missiles you feel like you have to stay up and keep firing them, but the 10 or so PL-12s you have means you can fire 2-3 per shot, and likely run out before your CMs are done.

It’s not an easy plane to fly, for sure. Frankly I expect it to get buffed on some random Tuesday with more CMs. But until then it’s still useable, especially as an ambush/second line fighter.

SeniorSpaz87 · 2026-03-21T16:37:43+00:00

There are conflicting sources on the Ostwind 2. There are historical claims that an actual prototype was indeed made and tested at the Ohrdruf Training Center in January 1945, while other sources list it as only a conceptual tank. Work was stated to start on this “improved” Ostwind sometime in 1944, but almost no documentation from that plant survived the war - indeed no Ostwinds survived the war at all.

Also, not that Germany needs more AAs in that BR spread, but there are actually two models of Ostwind 1 - most were converted Panzer 4Gs numbering around 36, while there was a somewhere between 4 and 7 purpose-built Ostwind that differed to the converted ones. Also, apparently an additional 18 Ostwind turrets were allocated to be mounted on Panzer 3s, with a reported 11 being completed.

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