Profile of Grumpy

That's a very specific number, but okay.

It was more than a little tongue-in-cheek.

I was pretty critical of the first community balance team, but it seemed like they ignored anyone who disagreed with them, and didn't care if they completely screwed over 3v3 or 4v4. I don't know how many people on the balance team have changed, or if they are just listening better and executing better. In any case, the work that they've put into the last couple patches is obvious and I didn't think they deserved the criticism that they received.

I don't really have a strong opinion on the Brits. I've tried them a few times and thought they played better than they did before, but still not so great that I'd pick them over USF or Soviet.

Somehow, people seem to forget that the "massive" RA buff is only 1/2 of the RA nerf that they received in the previous patch. Their moving accuracy got "buffed" to where it is the same as other mainline infantry, but I've yet to see the massive steamroller Tommy Blob of doom that everyone is so worried about.

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Most of us agreed that 300 or 310, 8 pop, veterancy, and fixing the barrage AOE profile would be sufficient to make it okay. The unit was badly OP for most of its history so anything more than that would hit a lot of resistance. The AOE is larger than a normal mortar, so speeding up the barrage could return it to it's former wiping glory.

First of all I just wanna say -as an absolute teamgame main- that I think that the teamgame balance is imho in a very good spot, but I wanna try to collect my most annoying remaining "issues" off the cuff. Feel free to comment on it however you want, even if you think some of it is bullshit.

And ofc Im aware that this is only a wishlist in the end and most of it will most likely never get implemented, either because Im wrong and its not an issue or because there wont be another balance update ever.

The game is much better balanced than it's been before. It wouldn't be terrible if there wasn't another balance patch, but it would be okay if there was and these suggestions made it in. I do hope they have another commander patch, with something like Strategic Reserves but Osttruppen instead of Assault Grens and a JP4 instead of the P4.

I'd add:

Lowering the pop cap of the 120mm mortar to 8, and decreasing the cost to 300.
Make bolster take up one weapon slot for Tommies.

I agree on the need for changing the Stuka zu fuss. I've had games with as few as 10 kills with one, and some with over 90. Making it a little less hit or miss and giving it more reliable damage and suppression would be good. It's too good against Soviets and not good enough against USF.

The land mattress moves too slow and has the target size (20) of a medium tank. It is anything but hard to kill. It ends up being almost worthless in 4v4 games as you can wipe it easily. I tried it in a couple of games last month but haven't seen anyone else use it in a long time.

If there's 1 thing I've learned in the forums after years of lurking. Everyone's deadset on their opinions. Sometimes on some weird notion, but more often than not, the impending doom of being proven wrong.

Which is more or less why we have a hall of fame in the server for spicy opinions

Frankly, it's why I prefer not to be active in it. You can more easily convince someone in a fast conversation in a discord server than a thread where everyone broods over the best reply to an argument that never ends until the thread gets locked because the argument ended in either someone pulling out the playercard argument or some other logical fallacy that bleeds over to the next thread to have the cycle repeat.

Thanks for doing this! I'm not sure it will settle any arguments but the data will be helpful to many of us as players.

Yeah a Kubel, Spio and Volks squad supporting it as it goes at range 0 vs 2 tommy squads and barely escaping with its life while managing 1 model kill is losing due to fighting unsupported. If it had a King Tiger support it definitely would have won LUL


Oh yeah forgot, Axis OP.

This is a gross distortion, bordering on being an outright lie.

The Kubel was given a simple move command. It drove past the first squad at 4:02. The owner realized it was in trouble about 20 seconds later, right before losing it. It was lost about 10 seconds before the scout car went to range 0 against the Tommies.

The Spio had also been given a simple move command, and wasn't really "supporting" the assault, unless you consider the two surviving models firing at long range to be "support."

The Volks support shows up at 4:47, just a few seconds before the scout car leaves.

The scout car only killed one model in about 20 seconds of firing at a Tommy squad in green cover, and nearly died because two Tommy squads were firing back. Is this really a big deal? Do you think a M3 would've done better against Volks?