Profile of JohnnyB

The fuel cost of both these officers squad should be decreased a bit. Lieutenant and captain alike.

I don't think that will be a good idea. OKW needs a little reworking. And by this I don't mean "nurf this and nurf that" without any other changes. I think "the balance team" must go deeper than that. Re-think the entire OKW economy and tiers. I played OKW inside out but beats me how it should be reworked. The problem with it: it's close to unbeatable when we think at USF and it's to hard to beat even by soviets. So I don't think it needs any kind of buff right now. I hate raketenwerfers too, they are pretty bad, but OKW has the means to recover in middle game and late game with or without them.
Though I like OKW I am not an exclusive OKW player, and from the other side OKW doesn't look so disadvantaged.

OKW - broken
USF- broken
Ostheer - broken
Soviets - obliged to cheese tactics and stupid faction architecture

=> game is broken
=> doesn't worth playing

Scaling to late game. Abilities. Veterancy.

Ye, you scall them to late game. Same problem as for USF rifles against OKW: retreat them from every engagement (AKA loosing every engagement) or stay and loose them instead. Then after late game when you "scalled them" it won't realy matter because they will be incinerated by KV-8, one shotted by ISU, etc etc... and, if you avoided combat in order to preserve them you will probably sit on 20-30% of the map. Advantage: your opponent, of course.

Why would people bother with a game that offers shitty balance, shit tons of bugs and bad optimization? It might be a unique game but after 1.5 years most of the players are fed up and decided not to spend their precious time on this game.

Only thing Relic can rely is vCOH, they have nothing to show up.

You are 100% right.
This game is shit. The actual status of balance never was so bad. They completely destroyed USF and Ostheer factions. USF above all, but nevertheless ostheer too.

USF - paper infantry, useless artilery, paper armor. You have nothing, NOTHING to work with, except some off-maps maybe. You can't even try to boost your resources through caches, because at the rate you lose infantry you can't allow yourself to build such things. And even if you do, what you will build? Shermanns? Effective against infantry, what are you gonna do against tanks? M36? Effective against tanks, what are you gonna do against shrecks?

Ostheer - they destroyed the Ostheer backbone, its grenadiers. Grenadiers now are pure shit. They are now having trouble defeating russian combat engeneers. Ostheer didn't shine through its infantry in the past, but now, it's even worst, broken beyond reason. Apart from AGs which are doctrinal or PZgrens which are anyway build from T2, you have no infantry to work with. PzIV to expensive, Tiger stupidly nerfed.

Balance? Maybe between Ostheer and USF - 2 paper factions fighting each other, but when it comes to fight against OKW or soviets, it's over.

Yes, most of my game time is with Axis but I hate to have no challange. I swiched sides for USF few days ago and it's a "no go". Related to Ostheer, I figured it out immediately after patch that it was nurfed shitless.

Never untill now the game was so broken. And it's not only about 3v3 or 4v4. I'm seriously thinking to quit. If I'm loosing my time playing a game, I expect at least this game to be interesting, challanging and balanced. Otherwise I will go play Rome II or some shooter. Having in view the current state of balance, Rome II feels more and more attractive.