Profile of ShadowLinkX37

Played brits in the new patch but only 1 game so far so take everything with a grain of salt. 3v3 game.

I think the ALO feels pretty good now. Situational based on map, but decent. Vets decently.

Centaur mobility is too high IMO. I didn't think the centaur or ostwind needed buffs since they were both already very good in the previous patch. I'd say they're balanced against each other currently, I think they're both too strong in terms of damage output and mobility. Didn't even get to try EWS centaur because I went anvil and sextons, but vet 2 centaur is as fast if not faster than a p4. It's pretty crazy.

Hotkey changes on brits is terrible.

Medkit nerf was needed but I didn't think the research time needed to be 25 seconds. Honestly wasn't too bad though. You can really feel the 45 muni cost though. So working as intended.

I hated the pyrotechnics hotkey changes as well.

I liked engineers in T0, just again, not where they are on hotkeys. They're not good to build early for combat but they're at least accessible for back capping a bit earlier.

Bolster = unchanged, so what do I rush? Bolster. Shocker. Still too good IMO.

Firefly: I use them every game and to good effect prepatch and post patch. I didn't think they required buffs. That being said, apparently a lot of other people did and who am I to say no to buffs to my favorite unit. It didn't need it IMO, but i'll love slapping 640 tanks to 0 in 12 seconds all the same with the buffs. Odd change with tank commander icon as opposed to tulips but either way didn't really matter for the firefly.

JLI are still uncounterable with brits without commandos.

Commandos are still OP because of their camo. Only weak to IR StG44s.

Yes I am also wondering about the hotkeys. Brits since release on grid was sections on Q, vickers on W and then UC. And now we just slap engineers on the farthest left slot moving every other unit over a key for no reason.... why not just have them replace the medic slot...

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Thing is, the second enemy\you dont have offmap + recon combo, which is cancer on its own right, arty spam in team games become real.

And you shouldnt really even start on "but player will have less units", it really doesn't matter at all.

Single Soviets can easily have 2 ML-20, B4s. Single Ost\OKW can have 2 LeFH. While still have enouth of an army to provide team with inf and some armor.

This +1.

Heavy howitzers are easily countered by doctrines, most noteably the be-all doctrines, but if no one picks a doctrine with an offmap heavy howi spam becomes extremely difficult to defeat, and it only gets worse as the game lengthens. This is the core reason why a lot of us were against the popcap reductions on the LeFH and the ML-20 a few patches ago. The problem wasn't the howitzers, but their counters being everywhere.

Yes UKF luck mortar but there is no relevance between that and having a HMG with 52 range.

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Can't return fire with what? An mg42? Mortar will still work. The whole point of MGs is to prevent the target from returning fire. So you flank it with something else or shell it with arty

I would like to see that maneuver in practice cause Idk how that would even work. There's a lot of time where the Vickers isn't firing if you're moving it AND using the ability

If it was a passive trait no longer tied to garrisons yeah it would be OP as hell. As a timed ability with a forced reload? Don't see how


Yeah I think those units are fine? And there are many examples of things those units spot for outranging their target, just not MGs, which aren't meant to fight eachother anyway

The problem with "just buy a mortar" is the opposing brit player doesn't have to do that. So he gets another section or something else because the MG can both dislodge other MGs AND doesn't have to spend manpower elsewhere. Similar problem with the zis barrage. Yeah it's an AT gun but it can also just get rid of MG teams because it's a "field gun". Even though soviets have a perfectly fine mortar. At a cost? Sure, but if it makes your opponent retreat and you get territory for it it's all worth it.

Really am trying not to sound elitist right here but you should try paths (probably I&R paths) against OST players. When they go MG42 opener which basically is 90% of all games it just invalidates the MG because your troops can see it basically all the time. And it's "balanced" you could say because paths otherwise are pretty meh alone in combat and airborne ones are just in need of help and the doctrines are meh etc. It is really is frustrating to have the backbone of your OST comp just not function because of a single unit.

Lastly I never liked the "Well MG damage doesn't matter because MGs shouldn't fight MGs for long periods of time" arguement. Yeah in a perfect world everyone has mortars in their comp and has flanking infantry and smoke etc, but it's no secret that in teamgames when you're holding a garrison and your opponent is holding the other, damage is what matters, and the vickers is no slouch in that.