Profile of oootto92

Nothing to do with being a pro. You can’t say an ability is good/bad/mediocre if you haven’t used it.

I have used this ability. My anecdotal evidence has nothing to do with whether or not this ability is useful or not. Some ability getting ignored on a regular basis by the top players on the other hand is something that we can draw conclusions from. I can say with a confidence that seeing this used in a deliberate manner amongst the top players who stream or are casted is a rarity.

I stated that in its current state this ability rewards losing models. I think that we could achieve the same outcome of receiving one ore two ostruppen for the price of munitions if this ability was changed to reward good plays in form of rewarding killing enemy models.

The design of the new 1v1 maps feels really open and fresh. Good job!

The OKW has serious trouble dealing with the soviet M3. Going 2 engineers into penal and M3 is the meta against OKW. The M3 in capable hands provides a value almost too great for its price against OKW. Only viable option is to seriously outplay your opponent with infantry as getting raketten this early just means you will be run over by the penals.
The 221 could be made a useful tool against this. The issue is that in its current state the timings on 221 are way too late for being useful. Lets look at some timings for builds including the M3 and 221:

SOV:
2engineers, penal, M3 2:00
2engineers, penal, M3, Penal 3:10

sturm, 2volks, sWS, 221 2:40
Sturm, 3volks, sWS, 221 3:40

Unupgraded 221 barely wins the M3 on a good day. M3 with a penal inside wipes the floor with unupgraded 221. Both of these require investment into teching, with the added cost of required tech the cost for these light vehicles is 290Mp 30F for 221 and 350MP 25F for M3. While the soviet rifle company is being used to produce penals, the sWS in itself does not provide anything for the OKW player and is dead MP until it can be established. Also in order to get rush the 221 out in 2:40 one most float roughly 100MP in 1v1s before having enough fuel.

The upgraded version of 221 can beat the M3 with SVT penals in it leaving the 221 at half health. Only problem is, that it can take up until 5:30 to get this upgrade, which costs 100Mp and 15 fuel done. Not to mention that again in order to unlock this upgrade you are forced to burn 200MP and 25F on the T1 losing your tempo even further. So now in order to get this upgraded 221 you have invested already a whopping 590MP and 70F. That's 2 volks and few models on top that you could have been fielding for a while. For reference accumulated costs for getting luchs are 535MP and 120Fuel.

The 221 could be an effective M3 counter, without making it OP with the following changes:
-Remove the sWS construction requirement
-300MP 30fuel cost
-Deploys upgraded

With this the 221 could hit the battlefield roughly around the 2:45 mark. Completely fine for a doctrinal vehicle with a cost of 300MP and 30F that has mg34 as its main weapon. The M3 would still get almost a good minute of time to run around before bumping into 221 at worst. The new high MP cost would make sure that getting more than one of these would quickly make sure that getting something would be more worthwhile investment. After 3 minute mark every allied faction would be able to field effective countermeasures against 221: LT has the zook, penals have the PTRS and UKF can get AT or engineers. Unupgraded M20 also wins 221 without mentioning the AEC.

This would be an easy and non broken way to provide OKW with an efficient doctrinal counter to Clowncar and UC on higher levels. Please give it some thought.

I am confused, you want it to outrange at guns and td,s?

AT guns with the barrage ability.

General ability changes:

1.G43s:
Upgrading your grenadiers with g43s should change the Rifle grenade to model 24 grenade to better fulfill their role as mobile close-mid range unit.

2.Command P4
Command p4 should be 5CP like the valentine and only require T2 teched like stug E. It currently requires the construction of either heavy panzer korps or support armor corps rendering it as a poor choice compared to the likes of ostwind and regular p4.

3.Light artillery barrage
In its current form this ability fires 4 volleys of leig fire into the area. As a result of long delay between these volleys the enemy can react to it after it late and still survive. Not reacting to a 100 muni doctrinal artillery ability before it starts should result in a guaranteed squad wipe. Halve the delay between the volleys.

Commander specific changes:

4.Lightning war:
OUT: Relief infantry.
IN: Grenadier field defences (0CP)
"Grenadiers are trained to lay down sandbags and schu mines."
- Fair and balanced.