Profile of BeltFedWombat

4v4, 3v3 or even 2v2 will never be completely balanced.
There are too many people on this forum crying for nerf or buff who are basing their judgement on team games experience only.

Blah blah blah. You know the 1 v 1 crowd are in a minority, don't you. I play 1 v 1 too, nut the disdain shown for people who enjoy bigger games (i.e. most of us) is hilarious.

"Personally I don't think there should be anything in this game that should insta-gib a full health unit - not even artillery or special abilities."

I'm sorry but a railway artillery shell hits a pioneer squad. You think that shouldn't result in pioneer jelly over six grid references? Because I do.

Strafes and V1s in vCoH punished blobbers... brutally. CoH2 should have the same stuff going on.

Mines that fairly often 1 shot full health squads, Ram ability + AT nades in its current state, flamers blowing up so often, big tanks getting destroyed engine, etc. * have no place in the competitive arena * , and most of the people saying "nerp but that is why coh is special" are the people that spend more time watching the game than actually playing it.

The competitive crowd are the 3% who want the other 97% to bend to their will. Cruel but true.

As someone who likes to watch top players, may I suggest you stop worrying about RNG (I watch a fair bit and don't see it dramatically impacting on who is consistently the best player) and start playing on some different maps instead.

The shoutcast scene is being killed by top players obsessed with the same three maps.

Sorry to digress but need to vent.

In a nutshell:

1. NSDAP formed from right wing paramilitary groups in 1920s/30s

2. Original paramilitary wing was the SA

3. SS formed as alternative power base within party (and indeed were used to wipe out Rohm's SA)

4. By 1930s SS being formed into proper SSVT (military) wing, deployed primarily as camp guards (for example SS Div 'Totenkopf' was initially made up almost completely of concentration camp guards)

5. Waffen SS established and performed well, if not recklessly, in low countries and Poland 1939-1941

6. During WW2 massive expansion of Waffen SS as regime military units deployed in parallel to Wehrmacht, a most unusual arrangement. The big 'Germanic' divisions (Wiking, LSSSAH, Totenkopf, Das Reich etc) were the legendary 'elite' well-resourced and battle-seasoned. Quality of officers always varied from professional ex-regulars to party apparatchiks)

7. Massive expansion also meant dilution of quality. By 1944 majority of SS were foreign volunteers, a back-door way of inflating German troop numbers. About 10% of the SS could be considered 'elite' and these were always the 'Germanic' divisions

8. Hope this helps. The SS have fanbois on internet like Katana fanbois. SS was nasty political military force. Contained many brave, resourceful but ultimately mislead and often evil individuals. Let's not forget that.

It's a lot of content and game modes for the price IMO.