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I agree with Dullahan, Axis factions in CoH2 shouldn't be about spending time and resources to getting side upgrades, that's what Allies have been doing from the start and should be their own niche. This helps with the whole asymmetrical thing.

Personally I never thought the resource transfer and income penalty- and the way the HQ truck spawns- were a problem in the first place. It honestly makes them much more similar to Ostheer. If anything they made them a bit more of a challenge ad have a unique appeal to them, while also serving as characteristics to the faction in the form of not being as powerful as they'd otherwise be...to which they are now.

Alexzander dude, ostheer use sidegrades... OKW is the only faction where everything is spoonfed and its fucking retarded and is a primary reason why the #MANPOWERFLOATISREAL

I believe what he meant was unit upgrades that cost munitions, not researching unlocks that cost manpower and fuel.
Lack of needing to research that stuff meant the resources go towards units....but that only works if OKW didn't have the same income rate, which naturally explained their resource penalty.

When I saw it I was like "ooh a bit bright but I hope this means everyone has their own colour"...then quickly realized that this was just another bug.

Random thought here:

What if Volks replaced Obersoldaten at T4, and instead of Obers going T0 they are replaced by Panzerfusiliers? T0: Panzerfusiliers, T4 Volks, Obers doctrinal call-in in Breakthrough?

Volks would still be in core roster and have relevant AT role but come later in the game; Panzerfusiliers are anti-infantry with AT critical, their G43 upgrade makes them better against infantry so they would scale well into late-game as long as you treat them like Grenadiers; and Obers with their high MP cost seem more appropriate as an alternate elite infantry call-in anyways and have always seemed a poor late-game infantry choice. Spec Ops commander's Infrared ability could instead spawn an Ober squad with the IR MP44s.
Still a large 6-man squad at T0 though.

don't worry, Relic will nerf them after everyone buys the commander.

You're forgetting something arguably more important than fuel, which is manpower.

Ostheer would have to do nothing but expend manpower towards carrying the OKW player, and that carrying only occurs by OKW not needing to worry about fuel- s/he still needs to worry about manpower, especially coordinating the time spent on teching, building HQ truck and then calling in KT.

I don't know why you say best case scenario has both of them floating manpower- if anything they will be sucked dry even faster. Ostheer has to spend it on carrying the ally and not getting his own units to do field work, leaving OKW to do all the field work, which compromises the KT rush.

I don't think most Ostheer players want to win every game by effectively carrying the team by way of being a gasoline stork. They'd have to choose a specific commander and follow a very specific set of actions, actions that demand they do nothing with their manpower except giving fuel. Last I tried, Luftwaffe Supply Drop has a rather quick cooldown, but the crates themselves drop rather slowly over time...time at which the enemy might try to push you out and claim the resources for themselves.

Floating manpower means the enemy does nothing about a persistent lack of 200 manpower worth of unit presence, plus lack of OKW unit presence since he is rushing straight for HQ trucks. That's a lot of initial ground given up just to rush for KT. Any sensible opponent would get the hint that a lot of supply drops, especially over a small number/ specific sector means they will concentrate on that sector and unlike Axis, the Allied side has opportunity to get more units out to fight off Jerry and steal fuel for themselves.

If you're going to win with this strategy I'd think you would regardless of whether you go KT or just Panzer4 rush.