Profile of Frencho

Sacrébleu when did Angry Joe Vargas get so fat! He needs to start reviewing a bunch of wii-fit games.

He also should start following Totalbiscuit's example on proper disclosure of sponsored content on Youtube. Such as verbally/visually disclosing that Sega paid him at the beginning of the video and at the end of it, you shouldn't only mention it on the description that 90% of viewers ignore. He is still amongst the best reviewers in gaming though!

Honestly Relic/Sega can't do proper DLC.
Players don't like having gameplay in competitive multiplayer games locked behind a paywall, it's fine for SP content tough. Moreover the terrible warspoils system does not remedy that at all, I can't remember the last time I got a non-duplicate commander! Maybe one every 300 hours?

And yet Relic is stupidly missing a great business opportunity to sell cosmetic DLC.
Historical skins and decals.
Where are the Free French Forces decals & skins?!
Where are the Free Polish Forces ones?!
Where are the finnish ones?
Where are the rest of Historical decals for WW2 Companies/Brigades/Divisions that don't sport nazi heraldry for the current factions?
Players would buy that in droves, yet it's up to modders like Georider to do it.
Here, I'll give him a shoutout because his skinpacks are excellent!

1. Free France Armor Divisions Skinpack

2. OKH Armor Divisions Skinpack , Waffen in the East

3. OKW Armor Divisions Skinpack, Waffen in the west

4. Soviet Armor Divisons Skinpack, Forward for Berlin

It's better to use his skinpacks with decals removers to avoid overlapping decals.
I recommend Eliwood's.

And here I am sitting with 5 Ostruppen commanders and about 4 faster Jagditger dispatch bulletins (That has to be an inside joke).

Buying a commander just to have it dropped for free a couple of games later is a slap to the face, but hey it could be sweetened by:

Giving us something to do with the massive fuckton of duplicate bulletins, skins, commander we currently have.
Exchange them, trade them or craft 3 items into 1 one and so on; I'm slowly but surely reaching the 1000 cap with over 700 items...

That would please most of us.

Actually, looking at the roadmap, I think there's a good chance it's going to be the ESL tournament.



They did leaderboards, new faction, balanced-focused support , and an in-game content hub, and out of all the rest, I think the tourny would be the "biggest announcement" maybe besides optimization which a lot of people are asking for.

Yet I'm still waiting on the optimization, which is a CORE on that road map... Or is it part of the plan that performance gets worse and worse with every patch since Western Front Armies was released? Maybe they are doubling it down with the British Forces, twice as bad performance with every patch, cheerio lads!

Apparently most of you did not get the memo, you never, ever pre-order video games. Stop complaining it's your own damn fault for being so gullible.

I dunno, I find the appraisal of commanders not really complete without referencing a quality op history from both sides and the full circumstances. Commanders have bad days and good days. They should also be compared to expectations: their peers to a certain extent, and what the dynamics of the battlefield were of the times. More important than this is what the enemy was doing.

I happened to stumble upon this article regarding the exceptional performance of The US Army 88th Infantry Division earlier today.

http://lavoiedelepee.blogspot.fr/2015/03/le-mystere-de-la-88e-division.html

It's a short blog post by one of my teachers at university, Colonel Michel Goya. However it is written in French, most of you will need a translator.

Basically a short appraisal of Trevor Dupuy's book Understanding War: History and Theory of Combat. Specifically the chapter devoted to measuring the efficiency of 24 divisions from 3 different nationalities (German, American, British) during the Italy Campaign (1943-1945). So this seems to partly meet your criteria. From there he elaborates on the importance of good leadership and how it is a major factor in an unit's excellence.

Never heard of this senior field officer either, US General John Emmit Sloan. He must be quite underrated if we take into consideration he lead the highest rated Allies division of WW2 according to Trevor Dupuy.

I still find it very relevant to the ongoing discussion, so thought it's worth sharing.

P.S. I haven't read any of the quoted books, I'm not that into WW2 history to devote any serious time to it. My studies keep me busy with the more recent literature and also the classics.