Profile of hannibalbarcajr

Yeah, I initially started being quite strict about rank requirements but in the end being worse than top 1000 and getting enough players who were fun to watch was hard and so I let people with fewer games but higher ranks in. As for H ranks, they obviously haven't practised in a while so I'm not bothered mostly.

That's cool. Was just asking. Would like to participate next time because I thought I was DQ'd by rank and didn't want to be a smurf

I don't know what all should happen but the faction needs to change in such a way that it doesn't have cheap, plentiful mainline infantry units like Volks. The volks were sub-optimal very young and old men. They should be cheap to equip on up front man power cost and require munitions upgrade to get automatic weapons before they can go head to head with any vanilla allied infantry. The reinforcement cost would be higher than conscripts but lower than Gren/IS/Rifles. You might say well they will just get swept away, but in keeping with historical resemblance that they were still well motivated to fight, had some great weaponry (albeit with shortage of all manner of supplies/parts) and had a great corp of capable officers they will get zeal type abilities that can be activated for free with long cool downs as well as have a more powerful obersoldaten with a sturm offizier present in the squad to help inspire the Volks. Read some accounts of the vicious fighting in France prior to and during the Battle of the Bulge. As in the case of Caen, Hitler youth were mingled with SS regiments who had battle hardened veteran officers from the Eastern Front with them who fought tooth and nail for every inch of ground against Sherbrooke Fusiliers and Nova Scotia Highlanders.

https://legionmagazine.com/en/2010/11/murder-in-normandy-army-part-91/

http://www.canadaatwar.ca/content-21/wwii-the-battle-of-caen/

OKW needs to be in short supply of man power and fuel (not munitions as those were more easily made with material from what was available within German borders...oil not so much and because for balance purpose OKW will need reasonable munitions to keep pace) but have great zeal like abilities and a very small corp of elite officers/infantry squads to help bolster their infantry forces. Their armor overall is in a pretty good place. I think we should get rid of vet 5 as it makes units harder to balance and extra vet hardly seems thematic except maybe keep for Volks to represent they had so much room to learn as they were woefully trained/inexperienced.

And Speadhead is, as told be Cruzz, trash because in addition to what it states (increases sight in a forward cone and traverse speed at the cost of preventing the turret from turning around past 90 degrees in front of it), it increases scatter.

Used to be true but was recently fixed...patch notes linked by BC in King Tiger thread.

How much flexibility is there to get games in? Is it rigid start time like OCF? I have a job that I can't afford to be away from until 5:30 pm (UTC -6) on weeknights.

Someone has to carry the PIAT, and I would rather have a cheap and durable sapper carry them.

As it is it's already a significant trade off losing 2 weapons in order to have a decent infantry ATW.

I will give them Piats if I have munitions to spare and went Royal Engineers (if I went commandos then I save for Air Supremacy ) but I would say anecdotal evidence of streams and casts of 1v1 and 2v2 I have watched and the ones I have played; people are equipping PIATs about 10-20% of the time at most. They just are not popular which I understand because to get full use you have to attack ground.