Yes, generally we don't see a historical accuracy direction here. As we see campaign will give us a lot of freedom in choosing what we will do, probably similar in Arden Assault very small information how it truelly ended. Yet, at least there should be units for that time period. Technicly the campaign should work as a historical buffor and multiplayer is everything for everyone.
Yet, even from multiplayer aspect, the game would be a much better to play with both sides has similar level of units. As much as playing KT or Strumtiger brings a lot of fun but overall it's much better if we don't add those extra heavies and focus on equipment that both sides had in 1942-43.
What do you mean both sides having similar level of units?
The Black Prince is a Churchill, a very meaty tank, but with a 17 pounder gun so basically on steroids lol.
So unless the Tiger is as effective I don't really see a direct counter to it.
But like I said I'm all for a little bit of fantasy if the Black Prince remains, King Tiger, Sherman Jumbo, hell even the Pershing even if the tanks that saw combat can be counted on your fingers since they entered service at the very late stage of 1945.
Same with the Comet, I'm with with even if it's in the same boat as the Pershing, but then again that will all bring back the complaints from CoH2.
Africa is sort of similar, the Tiger there will be the best tank probably in terms of stats as the Allies had no real counter to it there except for the few 17 pounder mounted on the 25 pounder carriages.
That's why I think either stick to history and disregard any complaints about balance which might anger
certain people, or go on full fantasy.
Because being in between will anger people on both sides.
Wehraboos coming out of the woodwork to cry about prototype units is probably the most delicious irony I've seen in a while
And what are you, Allied fanboy?
Aren't you a hypocrite for only constantly shitting on the Axis because GeRmaN MaN bAd cuZ NaZI.
The only German vehicles that I can think of which saw limited service during the war are the Ostwind and Panzerwerfer from the previous games. I personally also wouldn't have made the King Tiger a default unit for the OKW in CoH2 but that's how they went with it.
While on the Allied side you got both the Pershing and the Comet which are both their heaviest tanks and direct counters at least to the Panther which again as I already said, both only saw limited service at the very end of the war.
So I'd imagine a lot more crying from your side if those units weren't included either.
The best thing that I can probably suggest to you is to drop your edgy teenager bias and actually realize that either both sides should have units of comparable strengths or neither should so things are balanced and people are happy because games are meant to be fun first and foremost, hence why Relic decided to include these ultra rare late war tanks to counter the German heavies.
Because believe me, even if this game was realistic, you'll rage quit from losing one tank after another from a Tiger one shotting them halfway across the map way before it broke down or ran out of fuel and ammo, and if you want to see it for yourself you're more than welcome to try out Gates of Hell then.