Profile of Esxile

Didn't someone say in the past WFA factions were missing 2 "new Commanders" each? Maybe the patch will also deliver them.

Same as many, I hope more about balance than new stuff which is bad, Relic is far better at delivering new shit than balancing it.

Well, you can do that now if you sneak up from behind LOS blockers.

You can't mark ground of arty into the fog of war except with IR pathfinder. And a single smoke nade is enough to create your own LOS blocker. I have finish many trucks with this strat.

Nah it will be 90/10 again soon, just the side is flipped.

Since 99% of Axis players are playing Ostheer or OKW because those factions and their units are so cool, it's not gonna happen.

As much as I would love to see FRPs removed, Major would have to become Major Buff (see the pun? DO YOU SEE IT GOD DAMMIT!?) and I don't really have any idea of how could that be changed for OKW.

Nothing encourages and rewards blobbing while greatly mitigating bad decision and ensuring field presence like hard Forward Retreat Points. On field you should always soft retreat or bail back to your base. I don't see soviets running to FHQ despite it having twice the medics, aura and reinforcing ability.

I think I have already expose an idea of what could replace the FRP for the major, like an ability to call a unit to him (with a cooldown - something similar to "on me"). So instead of retreating to the Major, you retreat to your base and from your base, you're able to speed up a unit to him.
So you need to keep the major next to the frontline.

There is a last argument, but I fear to be considerate as USF fanboi with it. Anyway, since it's only for discussion...
I think USF could be the only faction with the FRP ability. Why? simply because it is the only faction that need to come back to its base to equip zooks and BARs.
If USF lose its FRP, BARs and Zooks should become accessible as individual update. You buy it from the base, but you can upgrade it anywhere on the field for free.

Why don't you take any parameters in account?


Ostheer can reinforce really soon anywhere in the field (friendly territory only) with sdfk 251 enough resistant to small arms, the unit also act as a really good support unit. in parallel they have medic capabilities with vet1.

Sov can reinforce anywhere with M5 Half-track (friendly territory) + merge but they can't heal on the field.

OKW can deploy a fix truck in the field soon but cannot move it. The truck can reinforce and heal units same of the territory has been decap by the enemy. Most of its units gain a passive heal with veterancy. The truck is immune to small arms fire and have quite a good pool of HP.

USF can heal and reinforce anywhere in the field with the ambulance and use the major as Forwarded retreat point (friendly territory only). The ambulance is slow and easily destroyable by anybody and the major comes really late, it's the latest FRP in the game. Last, ambulance is the only healing supply for USF and both ambulance + Major cost a ton of manpower only for that)


...............Reinforce........Heal............FRP
Ostheer............X............X(vet1)..........-
Soviet.............X.............................-(only with a commander)
OKW................X............X(+vet)..........X (but fix position)
USF................X............X................X (but late during the game and cost manpower)

Not considering the FW commander for Sov, Sov is the least faction able to reinforce during the game. Merge is interesting but it is not really a reinforce in term of buying unit on the field.
Ostheer is next but have the faster reinforce unit, mobile and enough strong to stay in the front line same if some light tank comes the way, vet1 provides healing capabilities to his mainforce. USF is 3rd, can reinforce and heal really quickly with the ambulance, but the unit have heavy drawbacks, slow and killable by anything. Last the OKW, they have everything, only drawback, the truck can't be move.

My opinion, as mainly USF player is its only a matter to know when and how to soft retreat your units. Soviet is the most complicated because you need to have some conscript to do it and create a kind of supply line. But for all other faction, USF, OKW and Ostheer, its primarily and only a question of soft retreat skills.