Profile of Butcher

Early game: OKW advantage with Sturmpioniere and Kübelwagen abuse. This applies for the first two minutes. Then it shifts into Soviet superiority due to godly Penals or Maxim + mortar spam. Against US it turns into rifles + mortars. Then you are outclassed. Versus Brits I would say the early game is still balanced.

Ostheer can forget competing. It´s all about Sniper abuse into 222s asap and finish the game there. Lose a Sniper or too many 222s and you are done. One mistake will cost you dearly.

Mid game: You are horribly outclassed as Axis (both OKW and Ostheer). Early vehicles such as the Stuart, T-70 and AEC dominate. The Cromwell outperforms any Panzer IV by performance and price. Ostwind is crap and the infantry game turns against you since double Brens, double Bars or double DPs on vet Guards become present.

Lategame: You are stuck with a Panther that doesn´t perform. Especially the Ostheer Panther is a joke on tracks. You get outperformed by any TD or even Cromwells for cost. The Comet adds insult to injury being essentially a more mobile Tiger tank. German heavies can´t deflect shots. If a Brit is involved you lost the game here essentially. Ostheer is fucked. For OKW it has turned into KT every game + Raketenwerfer spam.

To keep it short: As Axis you lose the infantry-, artillery- and tankgame. The only hope is to finish the game early on with cheese strats such as fast Sniper into 222s or Raketenwerfer + Luchs.

I´m buffing my own thread. Yes, I´m that kind of person.

Just got steamrolled by dual Penal spam into Guards on Ettelbrück Station. No chance to beat this as double OKW. There was no way the Penals could be pushed out of the buildings and we were pretty much stuck in our base.

The other day we were beaten on Hamlet by a guy building 4 Maxims and a US player spamming mortars. Despite three LeIGs we lost the artillery game.

It´s simply not possible to win versus a competent Allied team. One mistake and you are finished.

Is there any serious announcement that a balance patch is on the way - other than that half assed statement that they hope to some day maybe bring one out? If not, I see little hope for this game to stay relevant.

I would like to be able to use the 75% of non-meta commanders without losing any evenly matched game for a change.

The Ostheer Panther is too weak. There have been mutliple threads about this already. Unless it gets a decent buff to its accuracy AND dps, Ostheer is going to struggle throughout the lategame.

A downgrade in dps from a Panzer IV omni purpose tank is simply not acceptable for an end of tech AT tank. The StuG fills the role of a tank hunter and sacrifices a turret thus its dps is okay.

The Panzer IV is fighting everything and does a better job than the Panther. The high penetration on the Pather is effectively not needed in most situations and no compensation for the slow rate of fire. Thus it is outperformed by the Panzer IV in AI and AP capabilities.

All the bullshit and trolling in this thread aside, I think the biggest "mistakes" were

1) having an Ostheer player
2) with no mortar halftrack in the loadout.
3) Nor did you have an Elefant or Jagdtiger.
4) You went for the Luchs (because Brtis have no snare I guess). Yet this meant you didn´t have early LeIGs. That´s no L2P issue but simply a guessing game.

No way you can compete with double Brits with this in the lategame or even earlier once the first emplacements are up. Though I don´t blame you for wanting to break the boring meta.

And indeed Brits are cancerous. Their lategame is way too strong in my opinion. The Firefly + Cromwell spam is annoying though the worst thing imo is the Firefly + Croc combo. This is almost uncounterable.