Profile of sluzbenik

I just wish they could balance this goddamn game.

Seriously, Soviets are way too good early, or rather, German squads get gibbed too easily. If you take few losses with Soviets and play super well, usually you are looking at a float of 600-800 MP midgame, just retarded.

Having played a lot more 2v2s lately where I can get Panthers out, yeah, I now admit they're kinda ridiculous. Vet 2 is obscene, but very rare (unless they use Elite troops). SU85s can keep them at bay, but you really need to double team them with some guards unless you have an IS-2 or ISU.

In which case in the game I just played, I counter with Tiger Ace, or a Tiger to support a Panther and act as a damage sink.

I've said it before, but it bears repeating - you can't beat the M10 and Hellcats, and vet Airborne from vCOH to counter late Axis armor. Soviets need a mobile tank destroyer that you can micro and has the speed to chase damaged Panthers. I would like the game a lot more with M10s and no SU85s.

If you lose the first MG, you lose the game? Is that true?

In my experience, even at the top level of play it happens, usually on retreat because of the length of time it takes to pack it up. So a player may see the flank opt to retreat instead of re-positioning and still lose the MG to a flame crit or whatever.

Once a Sov player has your MG on the maps with cut-offs it will come back with 6 guys and park there with 3-4 SMG cons around it Yeah, that's GG. You might be able to get out with a mortar, but you will be outteched.

Now compare to that getting your cutoff camped on North Langres as Soviets - I have come back with multiple snipers from that kind of cutoff camp because I am causing him such manpower bleed that I can eventually still catch up and have enough AT out to deal with the PzIV or whatever. The T34s will probably outnumber your PziV 3-1 if you do manage to come back from that situation as Ostheer. Or Katy + SU85, multiple SU76s, SU85 + T34/85, same impossible situation.

I think a solution could be to lower MP reinforce costs on Ostheer squads...Pgrens 45MP a dude, when they get wiped as easily as a gren squad from mortars, snipers, etc., is just too much. But generally the MP bleed as Ostheer is so severe that comebacks are very difficult.

Ya, they weren't too hot I guess. It was a new team so for 10 games or so you have to do noob stomps, decided to try and make it interesting. I dunno, might work? 3v3 and 4v4 games are just spam fasts anyway, and two pios will beat a maxim if they get the flank, so why not? Then you just run away from the flamer cars if they are smart enough to make some and get your fast ACs...

No, you can never have too many pios. Especially in 3v3

Good times, reminded me of some vCOH games.

Yeah you can get wipes with Ostheer micro, but Soviet abilities and units don't require that kind of micro, so that is by definition imbalanced. I think it needs to be toned down but I don't mind that kind of asymmetrical balance. Except for the flamer car, the Soviets no longer have a unit that can chase down retreating units like that and kill them.

People mostly play Germans, because most people play 3v3 and 4v4s and the design of all those maps heavily favors the MG42 with its wide arcs of fire. If the maps were larger, and had fewer choke points, I suspect it would look different. And people just really like the Axis armor. What would you rather drive around in, an IS-2, or the Tiger, with its shape recognizable by even non-WWII buffs as a German tank?