Profile of Con!

I think the easiest way to balance the commander is tie the fuel and mp reduction to territory controlled in some way. The problem with it now is you only need to hold a few points and a vp or two, and vet t3 units can cap. The early vehicles then give you map control once they hit.

And lets not forget that you don't even have to get the commander but you have it as one of your options and can just get one of the other ones and your opponent is stuck with things they don't need.

This commander doesn't even need to be used with fast t-70's but can be used mid and late game, this commander has so many options it be used for, and all you need to do is make sure you don't build too much inf, which long term won' be that hard for people to figure out.

Add in the kv-2 at the end and all your German inf based AT starts becoming obsolete, but you can't build armor as much as the soviet can to supplement the loss of usefulness of your mp based at.

It allows you to have crappy map control early (or not since 3 cons and an engi can put a lot of pressure on Germans for 6 minutes). To then get units to take back map control, and the only thing you have to do well is not lose units and not overbuild them.

Although true in the case of many RTS games, it doesn't have to be the case. Take chess, for example. Or vCoH, for that matter. Games can continue to remain fresh and interesting as long as they have sufficient depth (by which I mean, a great number of strategic choices where no single unit/build order/tactic is objectively superior to any other in a vacuum). It is a sign that a game lacks depth when additional units are required to keep it fresh- that game is substituting depth for sheer mass.

Chess is pretty stale it is all book now, no one is reinventing the wheel in chess. and while I never played vCoh from what I understand of it, currently the strats where pretty much figured out.

When I say stale I don't mean it isn't interesting or fun I mean that strategic thought is reduced to execution. Sure the game will evolve long term left to just the way it is as certain strats become more popular, counter strats will emerge and that will happen weather relic adds any dlc or not assuming something isn't completely broken in the game.

While I don't think relic has completely done it right and needs to be a bit more transparent in some ways about how much commander dlc they are going to release and ways to purchase it in a more easier way like a commander pass.

It allows them to keep a faction with a basic core but add function on top of that in a way that changes the way faction works but by also locking you out of other possible choices. In this way each commander and unit commanders give can be independently balanced outside of the basic core. at the same time with new commanders being released as long as they are balanced properly, something the last two German commanders where not with the last dlc, it doesn't make the game pay to win but simply gives you more options.

The amount of strategic depth this game is going to have in a year is going to be crazy deep if they do it right, as a person who likes to not simply play the same old stuff over and over again I like this. now if they do it wrong we have what happened last patch. I hope that doesn't happen again.

Shock troops cost 40 mp per man and are 6 man squads so if you go down to one man you have a 200 mp cost compared to 135 for pgrens. So yes shocks do have a much higher mp reinforcement cost.

Wasn't even in the beta and it worked for me

so your saying they(frontline) record it and then add in the overlays after?

yep