Profile of The Silver Sage

Actually, one of the most powerful thing that volksgrenadiers get are their passive healing at vet 3. The ability to keep a squad on the field without 3 of them being a cool breeze away from dying and NOT having to retreat to base is an incredible boon.

The 40% sight range and two 30% accuracy boosts aren't too shabby either. Being able to shoot at maximum weapon range and have a good chance to hit is a quality shared by very few, if any, units in the game.

What people don't realise about this is that having regen in the field on your core infantry saves you a ridiculous amount of manpower as well. All those men who as they move forward take fire from and defeat enemies, eventually get to the point where, as you say a cool breeze would knock them down and then you must retreat and reinforce. Now reinforcing allied squads usually is from only 1 or 2 guys left so that's say 20x4 (cons) or 28x3-4 (Rifles).

I think this is also a part of the explanation for why OKW float crazy manpower. Volks don't bleed like other squads as they vet up, with the combo of reduced incoming acc and regen they are far too durable on the field.

Tech pricing is another thing but I won't go into that.

May I ask what players are using in the early game in terms of infantry and tiers? I find as Soviets T1 (scout car) is very good against OKW before they get shrecks and allows you to bully them until that point. However I use conscripts into t2 as I find if you use 1 squad to find out where mgs etc. are and then flank with others it works well. Also mortars can really screw over okw forward hq. T2 is better than T1 also in the sense that it's effectiveness in mid-late game doesn't drop as sharply as T1.

For USF I find getting grenades with 3x rifles a must, for the smokes more than anything. Also flamers for both factions ignore the godly acc received bonuses of vet axis infantry. Rifles with 1 bar and 1 flamer are surprisingly dangerous in terms of AI. If you do this you have to go captain though.

I've been playing a lot of team games the last few days and it's come to my attention that a lot of players who use the Allied factions play as if they are using Axis factions. Let me explain what I mean by this.

The Allied advantage lies in overwhelming the enemy early on with lots of infantry backed by support weapons and light vehicles (at least in team games). Too often I see players letting that window slip by with a maximum population of 18-30 as they wait for later units to become available. That's not how the factions work, you need enough units to flank that mg42 or that kubel. 2 units of front-line infantry is not enough to hold map control as Allies. Calling in a late game unit won't save you when you've already lost 70% of the map by mid game.

If you do this right you can get a fuel advantage which means don't wait for that IS-2 or expensive late game unit. Use your fuel surplus early to even further pressurise the Axis player by calling in mediums or else you are just wasting the work you put in. Mediums best window of opportunity is when you have taken early game map control, gotten a fuel advantage and called in that early medium armour. This allows your t-34 or Sherman to bully Axis infantry before they stockpile shrecks and before that panther shows up. Even better that pressure may force the Axis players to go for T3 (Ost) or call in a puma etc. (OKW) thus slowing the heavies even more. By the time the CP gets up to 10+ you'll be floating fuel if anything so spending it earlier on won't hurt. I've been watching replays where players are floating 400 to 500 fuel before call-ins and then they wonder why they can't hold any ground as mid and late game approaches.

Now in saying this you can still be out played at the start by decent Axis players but at least it will improve your win rate and maybe even enjoyment of the Allied factions if you use them as they were intended. I am also not saying the game is 100% balanced but I really do feel that some of the Allied frustration comes down to them trying to emulate how Axis players use their own faction. (Axis play to their strengths in getting late game armour, Allied strengths do not lie here).

TLDR: Allied players would have a much more enjoyable time in-game if they weren't trying to play their faction as if it was Axis. Holding out for late game call-ins and then wondering why they've already lost the game when they don't even take advantage of the early to mid game just leads to frustration.

..... Aaaand we have a challange!!
I propose Kithara and Katitof play 1v1 and Imperial Dane cast the game. It would be fun. Such battles should be organized from time to time like a medieval jousting tournament.

Money where the mouth is, I like it! It should be a rule from now on, if you want to make claims be prepared to back it up and prove it in-game.

Well he is, as his name suggests, Danish. Not everyone who speaks English does it the American way.

I can't say I have ever had a problem in understanding his English even when he speaks quickly.