Profile of MarkvA

These are awesome changes. Thank you to Relic and everyone involved in the patch!

I agree with OP - while I think this ability is fine in 1v1's and 2v2's (albeit a bit strong), the ability becomes ridiculous if used by an experienced team, especially with the CAS commander who can basically call in this ability every 120 seconds (which is why I assume SturmPanther is okay with this ability, because of the advantage it gives experienced teams).

Lets say we're dealing with an experienced team who are able to defend a munitions point for the air drop. The CAS commander player can call in the ammo drop every two minutes and gets either 150 munitions or 50 fuel. This means they can drop one dive bomb every two minutes. If they save up ammo for the entire game and the experienced players can hold off the enemy due to the manpower deficiency of the Ost player, the Ost player can just fully focus on using their recon + dive bomb. A good CAS player (with caches) can have 1000 munitions saved up by the time the dive bombs arrive.

Yes, you can dodge the ability. But when there's three players in the game and they have to dodge it so very often, it becomes extremely tiresome. Not to mention that there's more than likely a unit you may forget to move. Or heck, you may not get enough forewarning if combined with the special operations artillery flares.

Not to mention that the Stuka Dive bomb can become undodgeable: wait for the enemy to retreat a veterancy 3 squad, get recon on the base, and drop it right before the units arrive. Impossible to dodge. It feels good (I've done it myself), but God is it stupid.

What I'd like to see:
1) Increase the cost to 250 munitions to be in line with other offmaps (it has higher wipe potential than most of them, yet is extremely cheap relatively speaking).
2) Do not let players drop it in the base sector (and with that, also remove the ability to drop other offmaps such as Soviet incendiary strikes on bases).
3) Either add warning flares, or reduce the AOE somewhat. If this does happen, the cost can probably stay the same.

Ironically I uploaded a replay which clearly shows how cheesy this ability is when used well in conjunction with a team a few days ago:

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Looks like Relic added the missing British victory strikes to the store. Air Supremacy, here I come.

Absolutely. Replace the flak emplacements with bunkers as stated above, and make the Panzer HQ upgrade cost 120 munitions (but allow for players to manually target enemies with it), similar to Miragefla's mod. The free AA is rather silly.

I agree with the stuff you allready said (about the mistakes).

Your first attack south was ok. There was no chance because m42 and okw inf vs you.

A) Min. 5 you have 95 fuel and 500 manpower. Get Ambulance and Captain earlier.

B) In 2vs2, 3vs3, 4vs4 after 3-4 Rifles get a) your Ambulance b) bring it to the front! Not in your base

C)Min 6-7. You have built your Captain but his first enemie Contatc is min 11!

D) Min 8.19 You built a pakhowi. You could build a stuart for that. You have at this time only our Captain vs tanks. Also when you get a Stuart you force enemie to go for antitank.

E) Min 14 you try to attack the south again. Thats way too late. They had all the time only 1 mg there.

F) You used your Major in the base. That makes no real sense. Bring him and your ambulance more to the front. ( For less retread-way)

G) Why Pershing? Its a only longrange map. Without many buildings/ viewblockers. Definitively go Calliope on this map!

H) If you go Pershing on a map, get 2 ET with bazookas. You need them on vet 3 for faster repair.

I) You lost too much manpower at all 134/274 kill/death

J) As allies I / we ban this map allways. Its an axis map. You can be happy, that enemies did not went for snipers

K) Just 1 thing to your Brit friends. Build Firefly with Tulips!!!!!!!!!! Or Piats on INF.

Atm the target /mission for USA is to kill enemie Inf and medium tanks. About the superheavy Tanks from Axis your Britsmate have to care and control.

I hope I could help you

Thank you very much for the detailed feedback, it's much appreciated! To respond to your points:

I'll definitely work on A, B, C, E. Unfortunately enough I've had more than a few wipes because of forward retreat points due to players dropping a Panzerwerfer or a Stuka dive bomb on it on retreat, which is unavoidable. I prefer not taking the risk, but in the early game (pre-dive bomb) I think I should do this. This is also the reason I kept the Major in the base.

I always find D a bit of an issue due to the overload of Panzerschrecks on the Volks completely shutting down light vehicles. I can usually keep my Stuart alive until the Pershing or Jacksons come in, but they don't really pay for themselves. This'll be solved when the balance patch is out.

I agree with you that the Pershing wasn't the right choice here - I definitely should've went Calliope. That also would've helped with I as well.

And I'll ask my friends to get more Firefly Tulips - although I believe I've mentioned it in the past.

Thanks again! I'll try to worry a little bit less about super heavy tanks and let my allies deal with them (and support them if need be).

Caliopes in every single game.

Eh, the Wehrmacht player bought about three or four Panzerwerfers, and they were turtling pretty hard with Pak 43's, bunkers and a Jagdtiger. A Calliope is pretty excusable in that case.