1000+ games as Soviets
0 as OKW / Ost
That would all be very interesting if you'd ever played a game as OKW, actually had to face it and knew what you were talking about. But you haven't, so you have no perspective.
Your best quote:
"to be honest I like the value that's being provided by the kat against OKW"
DO YOU? REALLY? WOW! Yes, of course you like it. I'd like it if suddenly my kubels and US M20s were given tank armour and sniper rounds. I'd come hunt you down with them. But that's called chumpish glee. You're not supposed to like it when you realise something's too powerful. You're supposed to think "oh, this is too easy, it's not interesting"
Before I get to anything here, nice troll sig
First off, I haven't played OKW games because I don't own WFA. I don't have a choice of whether or not to play against them either. So does this mean I have to pay to be able to voice my opinion? That said, it would be nice to know why it's even remotely important that the validity of what I wrote rests on my history as the faction. It seems like a stupid logic to say I have to have experienced getting bombed by katyusha as OKW (because I have been bombed as Ost). It's all the same regardless of the faction. You paid for a bunch of crap and now it's gone after the bombs dropped. Second, your one to talk about the validity of experience, you hardly have any either. You've got less than 100 games played as OKW and far less experience in the game overall as I do. Not only that, your not even playing in the target game mode hardly. You don't play above 2v2 where you will really get your teeth kicked in by arty. In 1v1 your not likely to see much artillery use and in 2v2 you will see some, but not much(unless your opponent is hellbent on getting arty.). Your not even finished provisioning your rank in 1v1, so I hope your keeping your opinion restricted to your 2v2 domain where you spend all your time. Actually are you even contributing your opinion to this thread? it's quite large and I haven't noticed, the only thing I notice is your personal attack on me.
I don't need to be on the receiving end to know what I'm talking about. I see the effects of what I do in the game. I study the stats the game operates on. I am nearing 10 years of experience as CoH being my main game. If you have a different opinion from me, that's fine, say that and be done with it. No one needs you trying to pick apart how they like to play the game to try and invalidate their opinion or usefulness in contributing to a discussion. Seeing what JHeartless has said, I'm surprised the mods here have allowed you to troll on so long without banning you. You should use him as an example, if I'm not mistaken he said he disagrees with me and left it that.
Lastly, your finishing statement can ironically be contradicted through your own tactic of looking at playercard stats and I'll help you fill in the gaps. When I started playing the CoH2 alpha I was excited to have a new enemy in the Soviets and figure out new strategies to beat what Relic would surely make an even more OP Allied faction than what was present in CoH1. As you can see reflected in my stats, I didn't find that. I found easy wins game after game and it was boring. So I then decided to see if I was just top 10 worthy for some strange reason or was it hard as hell to win with the other faction. As you can see from my stats, I'm not top 10, I found it very difficult to win with the Soviets. Ginnungagap was actually one of my first Ost foes and after he effortlessly beat me I became obsessed with finding and reviewing Soviet strategies and the stats within this game. That is what prompted my 1000+ games you have noted on here. You can see from my stats I have much better Ost stats than Soviet. OKW has stronger weapons than Ost, so if your logic held, I would already have bought WFA. I can afford it. I work full time and I get paid more than 2x the minimum wage where I am. I'm not rich by any means, but I could come up with $20 for even easier wins, since your so convinced that's what I'm after. I'm actually waiting for Relic to come off their "new army imbalance to make sales" position before I buy. Unless I run in to an amazing steam sale, of course. I mentioned in my post that my current strategy in large team games, before this last patch, involved using a katyusha to keep OKW players under pressure. Maybe you need to enlighten us with your amazing Soviet strategy to stand up to OKW's superior soldiers. Outside of vehicular attacks, there is no Soviet infantry that can go head to head with OKW infantry. The closest chance anyone has is finding a way to get shocks in close. Everything else just results in a retreat/wipe with a pile of dead soviets behind cover. The Soviet blob is no match for the OKW blob. Good soviet infantry micro and smart cover use is also no match for the OKW blob. If I were to seclude myself into 1v1 games, I might not run into such a hopeless situation as I frequently hear people claim soviets are strongest in 1v1. I have more fun in a team environment though and obviously you do too and ultimately I am here for fun. So don't go trying to paint me to be someone who's jumping on the katyusha train to get easy wins, I've been going t4 with kat for a good while before the patch hit. T3 is not a problem for a well supplied OKW player, sometimes even poorly supplied OKW players handle t3 easy. So to end this:
Let's keep it constructive