Profile of Basilone

You see Rakaten blob, I see a bunch of easy wipes.

Just hit em with a 2-part combo, like fire barrage + shock rush, or molotov + tank flank; T3485s and HE-loaded Shermans will easily deal with them while they are retreating.

IMO people who rely on their retreat function as a means to obtain mobile AT lose them more, which basically equates to wasted MP.

Tank flank can work, they just retreat from anything else though.

Most people don't rely heavily on Raketenwerfers since OKW has so many other options for AT, but every game I played vs someone that was using several they were all grouped together.

With all other AT guns you see people spreading them out so that they are less likely to get simultaneously decrewed by artillery or flanking squads, and people keep their infantry nearby to defend them. Now its extremely popular to seem people leading the way with multiple raketenwerfers because if anything unexpected happens there is a get out of jail free card that saves the day usually. Blobbing your AT guns together is poor play, and with the other factions you can easily punish people doing this. Give them a retreat button and that goes out the window. Nothing good comes from this feature, it just makes being lazy less risky.

1. The nature of the factions already makes them quite blobby, but having your armys focal point fairly close to the middle of the map worsens the problem.

2. The excess of infantry units around the truck/Major creates a big clusterfuck in engagements. Units behave badly when they are grouped so close. OKW units get stuck near the truck. Sometimes you accidentally retreat the major instead of your units, and sometimes you are trying to leave to your HQ (in case of arty for example) but its difficult to find your Major in the blob to disable his retreat path.

3. Unfair towards vanilla factions that must run back to base.

4. In some games this leads to ceaseless blob v blob combat. In CoH1 and vanilla CoH2 sometimes there are games with only a few coordinated large engagements, and then other games with constant combat but with only a few units at a time as your squads are constantly going in and out of your HQ to reinforce. In WFA you have constant combat, but with your entire army rather than just a few units at a time. This is pretty lame for a couple reasons. First because it is fairly difficult to micro that many units at one time for an extended period of time (up to an hour). The agonizing part is you aren't even doing much meaningful micro (such as arranging flanks and executing) its just non stop focus fire, throwing and dodging grenades, and retreating. The second problem is it makes forcing certain units to retreat far less rewarding. Only shrek squad forced off? No problem he will be back in a second. Same thing goes for MGs and the silly racketenwerfers. It makes it harder to capitalize on retreated units, and gives a strong point on the map that is insanely difficult to win over in an even matchup.

5. The mass killing of units that are stuck at that retreat point is silly, and not very satisfying. The USF artillery tank or the Luchs getting mass kills at the retreat point is not interesting gameplay.

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Keep the Medical truck and Medical truck reinforcing, just scrap the retreat points. As an alternative maybe give the USF truck a little more mobility and some extra health, and let the OKW purchase a increased reinforce speed from their medical truck.

Dear Mr. Admin Person,

I have found the best way to deal with demos is to expose them with mine sweepers and to fire a rifle grenade or throw a grenade down onto the ground to detonate them safely.

Just because you can expose them does not justify how devastating they are when you don't see them.