Profile of The Dave

Good game vs a decent player. My first time trying out penal battalions. Wasn't really a good idea.

I love it when people preemptively calls out GG thinking they've won.

Pay him no attention

Oh I can only imagine the shock and horror as Sage's beloved SU85 and Soviets were totally turned against him. He's been blabbering across the boards "Ost are so easy mode, so OP!!!!! Look at me!!!" posting games as axis against players either not playing or well below him. Eat crow.

TO WHAT PRAY-TELL IS YOUR SOLUTION TO THE SNIPER/SU85/KATYUSHKA/BLIZZARDSSSSSSSS?

Didn't even have to use guards.

Purlicitor

I honestly stopped reading once you qualified the Ostwind as a tank.

No shame,

I quit winter pripyat & summer pripyat just like I would never join a Scheldt game or Vire River back in the day.

Problem is, I had that option back in the day.

This is why this game doesn't work at high levels at the moment.

To be fair, it's a good replay, but it highlights the disparities between the factions. Maybe that's why it's good.

There are entire buildings that are more or less useless for the Germans (T4) along with entire units (the sniper/stug). The panther would have ended the game with 0 kills were it not for Syms overly aggressive push which resulted probably out of boredom. The Katyushka really turned the game, along with the SU85s (durrrrr). The snipers I bet frustrated hans more than anything. What is he supposed to do? Use harsh language and scare them off the field? Those three units I just previously mentioned currently have no match on the battlefield. They allow the Soviets to make great sweeping comebacks like this where they can essentially turtle themselves to victory. This is compounded on snow maps where range and blizzards come into effect (which is why I say blizzards effect the two factions differently and hence are not balanced - you have to remember, all of Hans essential units and infantry were affected by blizzards. Syms, not so much). I don't know how many blizzards were in this game, but it's probably at least 10. That's quite absurd.

Lastly, there is no finishing units for the Germans because T4 isn't viable and their call in armor is either too expensive for it's return or just outright sucks. Nothing of Hans doctrine offered anything in return. NOTHING. He used sector arty twice and that did nothing but hold a point for whatever seconds at 200 munitions. Sym? The exact opposite. Call in tanks, marked target, 120mm mortar, guards - all were essential to his play. The nonlinear gametrack for Germans ends the moment a clown car hits the field with snipers or flamers and guards as the follow up. That's it.

Were it not for the drama at the end, I would have thought I was watching a typical high level match.

sry about the dbl post - I misclicked "reply" instead of "edit"

-Panzerwerfer has lower cooldown and fires all it's missiles in one go > more damage and higher AoE
-German howitzer is VASTLY superior to Sovjet one. Sovjet fires only 8/9 shells while the german fires a lot more and has only ~30 sec cooldown. That is a lot more damage total
-German mortar might be balanced against soviet one but feels stronger, let's say they are balanced

What? No."feels" a bit stronger? Are you really trying to have a credible argument based on your feelings? AoE really matters little in the realities of the game. The nebel isn't even being used. The katyushka is essentially a stronger unit atm because of where it lies in the Meta. There's no place for Ostheer T4 anywhere accept in a failed strat or a troll game where you've won anyways. All buildings for Soviets work and are useful in some way to some strat. There is nothing useful at the moment about German T4. Not even in team games tbh.

And stop spelling it "Sovjet".