Profile of drChengele

I fear this might happen. I hope I'm wrong.

Well it hinges on Relic listening to what fans write and acting on it, so I'd say not bloody likely.

Gamers will always complain about everything. But if a lot of people are complaining about the same thing, maybe, just maybe, they have a point?

I will allow that "wait 'til the patch comes out" is a valid point. But if you are using that point to counter all criticism about months of inactivity and lukewarm attitude towards the franchise fans, then it better be a super-great, descended from heaven, balls-flattening, goddamn awesome patch.

What if the patch does not address all the problems? What if it addresses only half of them and introduces countless new ones? Will all the people who were telling us to wait for the patch collectively eat crow? I don't think so. After a brief disappointment the go-to attitude will be "wait for the NEXT patch, this one will be good, I promise."

And we will take this until another comparable RTS appears on the market and takes away the market share and Relic starts thinking "wow, players sure are fickle, there was literally nothing we could have done to prevent this".

Sorry if this sounds negative. Nobody wants this franchise to succeed more than I do.

Wanna bet?

I'd be willing to take up that bet. They likely aren't going to mess with commanders already sold. Unless they allow you to craft them into abilities or something as that one poster speculated.

The twist is I want them to change the existing commander system so badly so we can finally see some new ones. Choice between Shock Armoured Frontline or Counterattack gets stale after a while. So even if I lose the bet I will be happy.

What indirect fire? Pack Howitzer?, Mortar Halftrack?, Greyhound?(both doctrinal) also what makes you think you'll always have indirect setup and ready to fire once he retreats?

Precisely. This "Indirect fire" thing is being parroted around by the standing members of the Axis Anti Nerf Committee, when they really mean to say is howitzers. The 120mm mortar also does wonders.
But this only applies to Soviets and 1/6th of US commanders. By the time I have significant indirect fire (howitzers or powerful offmaps), I will also have tanks, call-ins, AT guns. I don't need help at this phase. I want to know what to do about the Schwerer in minute 8 of the game.

And even so, let's say people use howitzers, AT guns, offmaps etc - so now we have used ammo, manpower, teching, fuel, all to remove a structure from the battlefield. What about opportunity costs? While you are investing resources and time, I assume the OKW enemy is kind enough to have units of comparable manpower cost simply idle around and do nothing? When I build a T4 as Soviet, it does not present an inconvenience on the map and OKW doesn't have to allocate resources just to remove it or lose access to a portion of the map.

I will remind you that Sov tier buildings are more expensive, offer about the same in terms of unlocked units, but none of the advantages. Trying to pass a forward HQ, a fortification and a repair center as a weakness instead of an immense strength of the faction is asinine. Nothing prevents you from putting all your buildings at the base just as every other faction has to, and still have a more useful, cheaper base, with inbuilt repair and medic functions. Literally anything you do beyond that is a bonus, an OPTION, a glorious possibility that you have that no other faction has. If you choose to use this option, you enter the realm of risk/reward mechanic. Except the risk is relatively small, and the rewards immense. Worst case scenario - the building goes down. So? you lost roughly a Puma's worth of resources to occupy a significant portion of opponent's firepower for a prolonged period of time.

Now, I personally like the different flavours of each faction, and it's nice to have OKW differ in this aspect. But you can't really complain about forward positions being exposed to artillery. Yes, we know they are. It's because you choose to put them there even though you could have put them in the base and still be no worse than all other factions.

I expect the british army to be a part of USF in coh 2. Some british commander abilities and that's it.

Why do i think this? Notice it only says "british commander pack" it the game files, along with OKW, Soviet, Wehrmacht and USF commander packs.

There is no 3rd axis faction mentioned.

If the 4 existing factions each get a single commander pack, and then there is a 5th undefined thing also gets a single commander pack, then what is the 5th thing?

Do you think, maybe it could be some sort of a new system of intricate subfragmentation of the US forces, where there are several separate nationalities, a new subfaction system if you will, each of them changing just a little bit of the base faction, so Soviets can also get a separate subfaction, maybe French can be the subset of the Soviets, limiting commander choiOF COURSE IT'S A NEW BLOODY FACTION FFS