Profile of Grumpy

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Mistakenly voted yes, but don't think the walking Stuka needs change. Panzerwerfer & Calliope are both broken, and the new large AOE on the stuka dive bomb is too big. Panzerwerfer rockets fire so fast that MG can't pack up and get out of building, resulting in insta-wipe every time. The barrage on a calliope seems to last forever. Good luck trying to cap a vp if there are two of them watching it.

The question is serious, every time I watch on divers channels a USF/OKW balanced match-up USF player always end up to select one of the two new commander and 50/50 manage to win the game..... The game goes to late game and you are fucked up.

I agree with Canadian in that it isn't p2w. However, it is frustrating to play USF. So many of the units are really fragile but yield great results if micro'd well. While I can sometimes micro them well enough, I can't micro my 320 hp (or 2 shrek hits) quad halftrack well AND not get wiped someplace else at the same time, with the net result being that I get rekt. It kind of feels like the only way I win is to build 4 rifles, attack their fuel or cutoff (better take it, even if just for a minute), then keep attacking. As soon as I start to play defensively, I'm just starting to lose, particularly if a game against OST goes long enough that they can get a panzerwerfer out.

The cost nerf to RE's has made it harder to try alternate builds. I get bored with starting every game by building 4 rifles, yet trying other builds this last week just caused me to lose a lot of games and tumble about 600 spots in the rankings (not that I really care that much).

Late game is really difficult. Pershings are the only good damage sponge that the USF has. The 57mm AT gun is pretty good with vet, but panzerwerfers and walking stukas wipe them way too easily and the vet 0 version is worthless late game. Having a RA penalty makes sense for machine gun crews, but is pudding against AT gun crews. It's also way too easy for tanks to hit and kill AT guns. AT guns are supposed to be the counter to tanks, but they aren't (at least the USF one, the 6pdr and PAK 40 are really good even at vet 0 and PAK 40 with TWP is probably the best) I ran a test where I A-moved a KT against a captain, RE with bazooka, and two 57mm AT guns (all vet 0). The KT wiped it all.

I have played the doctrine multiple times, and I usually don't have munitions stored up my rear that I can pull out and bomb the enemy into submission. The elefant comes LATE, and being expensive, slow, and lacking AI, it leaves the player requiring a strong infantry or much support from the teamate, which is where team play comes into effect. I'm with you balancing 2 vs 2 and above, but is this really the way? Is this Ostheer doctrine an issue? I think otherwise.

I play it sometimes in team games. It's always in my loadout but is better on Steppes or Red Ball than maps like the bottom of City 17. Putting a spotting scope on a 222 is better than putting it on the Ele. I don't remember ever getting to drop more than 2 stukas, even in a long 4v4. Now, take out the riegel and add a fuel to muni conversion and this would really rock (or be really, really broken).

I completely agree with the people who say the stuka shouldn't completely destroy ML-20's. It means that players will rarely build ML-20's. Relic really screwed up the ML-20. The one at launch was pretty good with six shells and a decent AOE. The new one with 10 is meh. Relic buffed it because they thought nobody was building it because it was bad, when it wasn't built because it is countered too easily.

Yup, Hitler definitely was the typical 4v4 axis noob who kept playing that 3v3 when japan wanted to surrender and went AFK after USF used off-map strike on their base and Italians being Italians never tech'd, played with osttruppen level infantry regardless of what opponent used and just started team killing when they've seen its too late, just one went on, being a noob try hard

Hitler's downfall took on full steam after the 1943 Relic balance patch that let Soviet engineers build tank traps and made Soviet AT guns almost free. Hitler didn't read the patch notes and tried to A-move his Tigers and Panthers onto the VP at Kursk. Then relic released the paid custom DLC commander "Zhukov Tactics" that let Soviets mass T34's AND commit rampant pop-cap abuse.