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General Mud - Very large and open map. Lots of long range fighting can favor Axis.


Your thoughts?

nah its not (mainly) cuz of longrange fights. Brits are amazing on longrange maps too

It's mainly because of the inflated resource income on General Mud. This map has sooo many standard points, even if you hold only 50% of the map you almost have as much resource income as if you controlled the entire map on another map. Axis benefit more from large fuel income compared to allies as they have more expensive but also more durable/better tanks. You can easily have a panther out by the time your enemy has a medium tank.. or a P4 by the time the enemy has a T70, because the teching time is roughly the same for both sides. This just super benefits axis

KT definitely suffers a lot if its forced to fire on the move from what I noticed. As for scatter, the only reason I could think for its strangeness is its scatter max is 5.7 with angle scatter being 5 and somehow that causes issues.

It has less offset than the regular Tiger - though the regular Tiger has less scatter - and the projectiles originate from the same-ish area.

Do you have access to the KT maingun stats from 2014-16? When KT was overpowered as hell cuz it oneshot wiped a lot of times.

Maybe we should test the scatter values from that time but with "horrible" AoE damage so you cant get cheesy wipes. So the KT hits inf reliably but a hit on a clumped squad only does 50-60% damage or something like that.

As the most expensive and one of the slowest tanks in CoH2, the KT just has to be able to threaten infantry squads and push them back reliably. Right now a KT has to be scared by infantry and not the other way around.


The KT's poor AI performance is a major issue for OKW in teamgames. The faction has by far the worst weapons against inf spammers/blobbers. Only the Tiger I can compete with toplevel tryhard blobbers atm but that could change with the upcoming changes. And what if you didnt select Tiger doctrine?

What would be the point of vickers air drop, that is available from T0?

In many games you dont necessarily need a super early vickers. Multiple sections with UC and sapper support are enough to wait until 2 cps so then u can drop it directly to the frontline. very useful on large maps with long retreat paths

Are you referring to me? Rank 22 2v2 randumb and 0.67 win ratio is considered mediocre these days? We can't all be 3v3 heroes.

I wasnt calling specific names, but makes sense that you think you were one of the targets.

And funny how "the balance team is biased" is coming from a person who has 99% axis playrate and posts nothing but "waaah axis are UP, allies are OP" since ages. I dont think ranks alone decide about whether a player is good or not, Ive never used "Im rank 1 in that mode so my opinion matters more" type of arguments. Nonetheless, the type of statements a player makes can definitely make them (appear) mediocre.

When someone says that Ostheer has trash infantry and trash lategame nowadays, that just gives me the impression that this person has absolutely no understanding about his own faction and its tools. (buffed tiger, best anti blob weapons in the game, scoped elefant = bad lategame, makes sense.)

And I'm sure the people who still complain about OST infantry are players who never try to adapt and always use the exact same strat (gren spam?) since an eternity. Saying the faction has trash 4-man squads when you have access to 4-minute elite infantry that has amazing base stats, absolutely amazing veterancy and weapon upgrades against pretty much any target (schrecks vs fast vehicles and on maps with a lot shotblockers, G43 on longrange maps) makes 0 sense to me.

If your strategy barely gives you more than 60% winrate or even less, then you are the issue, not game balance. Speaking of 2v2+ ofc, but 5men grens and assault grens didnt seem weak at all in 1v1 so what are people crying about?

And since this applies to almost everyone in this thread: How is it possible to play hundreds if not thousands of Ostheer games and still be so damn mediocre with the faction or at the game?