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Bo1 on Semoskiy

What a finale!

You jelly that they get to play in this week's Quali and you don't?
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It is a combination for calculating the average overall damage reduction

Thanks for the explanation! I don't suppose you've done any digging and found out anything about changes to the effectiveness of mortars and snipers on buildings?

Regarding OP's point 1 (and 3, also, sorta): I prefer vCOH-style popcap also, where your popcap was tied to your map control. It made popcap into a resource that had to be managed more carefully, since you could get cut off and not be able to reinforce or call on new units. (I imagine people who haven't played COH1 think that sounds awful, but it's great! I swear!).
So, yeah, +1.

Regarding spamming, I think it's a matter of getting a good unit balance more than popcap. I also like the characterization of it as an "invasive, rotting disease" so true.
I think some of the recent changes (houses are weaker, MG42 actually suppresses things) will help to move the metagame away from Conscript spam v. Grenadier spam.
In some of the recent patches, MG42s struggled badly as a blob-control tool. Thus, you couldn't reliably stop a giant horde of infantry and thus it didn't make much sense to make support weapons that would just get rushed by said horde. As a result, Ostheer players just made a bunch of infantry.
(Pace, prior to that everyone just made LMG grens because they became immortal at vet 2. That was also spam and was also bad.)

I guess we'll see how the metagame shakes out in response to the balance changes, but I'm hopeful that at least some of the early game spam will no longer be the no-brainer option.

You can improve your chances by trying to stop the unit right before shoot this way you will not get penalty but this requires a bit of practice and counting (that's what I do one Mississippi, two Mississippi etc )

Good tips.

... sadly Ostwind (main Ost anti infantry shock unit) hasn't been affected by this change at all.

From the patch notes:

Moving Penalty
Moving vehicles now receive a 2x scatter penalty in addition to the 0.5 accuracy penalty

Ie it applies to all vehicles. Not sure where this idea that it doesn't apply to Ostwinds came from.
If, in fact, it doesn't apply to Ostwinds that's almost 100% a bug and not a design decision.