Profile of drChengele

I think merge is not the same as crewing a weapon. In that regard I think Katitof is right in that armour is the only value that transfers with the entity when MERGING.

When crewing a team weapon, crewmembers retain their original weapons, armour and possibly some other passive stats (they sure as hell keep their reinforcement cost).

an ability to spawn at any place behind enemy lines and being able to instant kill multiple squads within second because of nades and a sniping skills like a sniper on ecstasy...

Today I learned "Any place" means "ambient buildings only, non-garrisoned ones at that".

Good luck spawning them on Steppes or Minsk.

"instant kill multiple squads within seconds because of nades" - they also oneshot ISUs with their G43s and can tear bunkers apart with their bare hands.

They should've kept the old price IMO. Definitely feels worth it.

Several fixes come to mind for the ISU. Either would help.

- Double the reload time. Then you can keep all the other stats intact, including godly armour and forward vision. It would go well with its juggernaught theme.

- Alternatively, make forward vision reduce its movement speed to 0, making it sort of a lockdown mode.

- Alternatively, only make it able to shoot after it's been stationary for a few seconds. Like when the Kubelwagen suppression shot gets auto-activated. This way if it has to rotate to reacquire fast-moving targets it takes a few more seconds to get a shot off, so fast moving targets at medium to close range would force it to reacquire. It would still devastate at long range where the cone is wide.

You're basically 100% wrong in this whole post.

Well, not all of us can be as infallible as the great Katitof.

Did you misinterpret my post as complaining against the inability to counter FHQ? It was a lament to how it promotes the worst kind of rock paper scizzor gameplay.

OKW has a single ultra-hard counter to the forward HQ (Stuka), this hard counter comes in several minutes AFTER the FHQ, and if you haven't won by then or denied enough fuel to prevent this counter from appearing you lose the game. This is utter bullshit. I WANT Stuka to not 1-shot the FHQ. I WANT to have other counters. I WANT this commander to be more than a one-trick pony.

The aforementioned single ultra-hard counter requires extremely specific teching (you're right, I'll just postpone setting my first truck down until I see T34/85s or ISUs, then I can be sure he didn't go Urban Warfare), to counter an extremely specific strategy, which basically impoverishes the meta when this commander is used.

To illustrate : if your enemy is spamming MG42s you can go for mortars, snipers, shocks, m3s, conscript spam as SU; or for fast grenade tech as US, or rush light armour, etc.
Similarly, Ostheer counters to FHQ include mortars, flamer Pios, Spearhead doctrine, flame halftrack etc.

OKW counters to FHQ? Lolstuka.


I suppose you can exploit the SWS crush if you manage to chase off the infantry first.

This is not a problem just for OKW, it's a problem for the Soviet Union as well.

Please, please, PLEASE do not use Stuka oneshotting as an argument that FHQ is fine. I would much rather Stuka NOT oneshotting the FHQ because then this discussion can stand on its own two legs. I would much prefer OKW getting more possibilities to counter it (lol at ISGs).

FHQ either wins the game in the first several minutes, or it succumbs to a Stuka strike and the doctrine is left worthless in the late game. This all-or-nothing approach is not fun, in my opinion.

First of all, it locks the OKW player into a specific tier, negating the possibility of a medic truck until way into the mid game. Second of all, it dictates the first fuel expenditure of the OKW player.

The investment for a Stuka is much larger at 100 fuel which comes at the same time the Soviet guy accumulates 150 fuel, assuming equal map control (protip: FHQ is usually set up near chokepoints and fuel cutoffs, but let's be generous and assume equal map control). This STILL leaves the Soviet player with a 90 fuel window of opportunity, AFTER building his first tier building, and BEFORE the Stuka arrives. Show Spoiler