The playstyle of Lightning War is a complete antithesis to the way Osttruppen work.
Its not a complete antithesis to way the ability works though. Its a g43 commander, which means your squads are more aggressive and probably taking heavier losses
I usually build lots of pgrens when I have g43s, so more snaring squads to screen the Tiger is always helpful |
An actual comparison to Sturms vs Tommies would be Ass Grens vs Rifles. Given that CQC squads are meant to win engagements at the expense of bleeding more, we can see the problem with rifles here. Rifles do too much close range dps to Ass Grens as they close in, and hence the CQC squad (Ass Grens) can't win in any situation unless one player totally outplays the other or uses muni to overcome this disadvantage.
Then its a good thing they have sprint? Most CQC squads don't have that
Right now there's no range at which a Volks squad can come out ahead vs Riflemen, forcing OKW to rely on good mg34 play, Luchs, or Falls abuse to keep him competitive in the mid game.
Then its a good thing they get their MG no matter what tech they choose... There's a reason they have more units to play with in their HQ |
I've lost count about how many idiots on this forum claim that allies have to pay for their upgrade teching while axis get it for free when it has always been the case that allied tech + upgrade tech is roughly equal to axis teching costs. Allies have the luxury of choice on whether they think they can skip one of these upgrades while Axis don't.
Most people bring it up when directly comparing squads in which case it absolutely matters. Far fewer people suggest that it makes teching take longer, and it's hardly worth making a thread about
It's about direct squad to squad comparisons, like volks vs Riflemen. Not the time it takes to tech up
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They are extremely good with the constant fire ability.
Ehh, but you only get a 4 man crew. I always salvage or destroy, I'd rather have either of the axis MGs |
Ideas like this are what I would rather have then more tech restructuring for Ostheer. Stop rearranging and reducing Ost tech costs, and instead just give them bonuses like this to make their tech more worth it. Really good idea, I think it should require t4 building
Everyone's t4 should include something for infantry. OKWs essentially does since they get a whole new squad, Brits have all sorts of options in hammer/anvil, US gets great support unit in Major, Soviets now unlock 7 man upgrade |
Unless the Tiger’s nerf isn’t as severe as we think or a new crutch is found, the faction will be in a very tough spot.
I mean its just CPs and cooldown on death change right. What part of that strikes you as severe, or are you speaking in anticipation of harsher nerfs?
The buff that moved them up earlier at the same time as buffing their main guns was far heavier
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Better AT than a unit with terrible AT and better AI than a dedicated AT vehicle?
What a glowing review.
Lol
This is the problem imo. Relic claims to have a role for the Stuart, unfortunately that role leaves it in a strange gray area where it's just kinda okay |
Instead of a nerf to salvage, what about reducing tw hp? It will take less time to everyone to deny tw. Right?
Might be a good idea, but I don't really see why OKW needs to salvage team weapons in the first place
I feel like that should be restricted to scavenge doctrine, keep the ability to salvage wrecks stock as is
The removing of team weapons just seems cheesy to me. Like it's already an insult enough that a Maxim isn't worth stealing |
Why don't you just play those factions and find out how much it costs? |
From what I've seen testing myself it doesn't look like Airlanding officer gets elite Brens like Commandos (oversight or intentional I don't know). If that's the case then I don't see any point in getting Brens on him anyway- then he just has the same problem that Sappers with Brens have where you are dumping munis to slightly improve yourself at a range where the squad is super inefficient.
Since you only get to build 1 I feel like you'd wanna keep it CQC anyway, elite brens or not |