Profile of gokkel

Nice to read something that gives hope that we probably won't have to wait another half year for the next balance patch. Looking forward to the data.

Honestly, OKW has no problem dealing with USF blobs (Kubel handles them well, doctrinal MG-34s). Don't forget, USF player needs muni and fuel to upgrade either LMG or Bazookas thus delaying teching and muni for abilities/nades. The problem with OKW blobs was they were too efficient as Shrek countered medium armor and Obers raped all infantry (no fuel teching + free LMG).

I think we all need to wait and see how the patch really is. I really don't think Ober nerf will hamper OKW as a army. I will pick Falls over Obers as a personal choice.

Kübelwagen does fine in the early game, but the blobs become scary in the later stages of the game when Veterancy, upgrades and Paratroopers come into play. At that point the Kübelwagen is obsolete.

But yeah as I say, I will wait for the patch first and I am not too worried anyway, I did not rely heavily on Obersoldaten in the first place. Although I may spend more time with Ostheer again to try their changes.

Don't be to hasty. Reading the patch notes with more attention, I think that there is a chance for you and others to feel the forums again with "OKW still OP" tears in one week mark.

That will happen for sure, but what has been done and what Relic intended to do can be two different things.

considering that germ sniper has faster fire rate than sov one It can be too much of buff. With it germs coud win the game just with T1 not allowing to tech further

Since allied squads have usually bigger squad sizes (yeah ok, not USF MG and AT gun) I disagree.

Are you for real Relic? I am not going to go on about every single change, some are pretty good, some maybe not so much, but some general things need to be said.

We have aimed to create a more evenly measured match where Axis and Allies have equal advantages from start to finish
Reduce the temporal effect that we were seeing in data, where allies have an early advantage at a higher VP count

How is this patch doing anything about this? There is no change to early OKW, USF, Soviet game (apart from 120mm Mortar maybe if you count that early). Ostheer is the only faction gaining very small adjustments to the early game.

improve the already existing blob counters, in non-lethal ways
promote and encourage ‘combined arms’

You nerfed OKW blobs, but not USF blobs. On the other hand you nerfed some of USF and Soviet blob counters (because they don't only counter blobs but oneshot also single squads), but you did not promote combined arms in a noticeable way for anyone. You slightly buffed the leIG (well, will see), and you slightly buffed MG42s, but that is it? Well, maybe it will be slightly easier to deal with USF blobs if your squads get less often oneshotted by Scotts and Ostheer might MAYBE be allowed to build T3 tanks, so we will see. But I feel there is still a long way to go to "encourage combined arms".

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Then of course there is the long list of things that are still not getting fixed, like the Ostheer T4. All in all I am disappointed by the amount of changes in this patch after such a long waiting time, even though my hope was not that high in the first place.