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Jump back to quoted post1 Oct 2013, 19:53 PMtengen

Balance would be very difficult, especially around NKVD and Partisans, where their effectiveness directly hinges on the opponent's mechanics. Newbies will absolutely get devastated because they lack map awareness and APM to multi-task; pros won't get affected at all and make these specialty units useless.

If they only release "core" doctrines - Festung, Grossdeutschland, LSSAH, Schwere Panzer - Guard Rifle, Shock Army, Conscription Army, Deep Operations - and then slowly reintroduce new doctrine/commanders one by one, I think they can get a good balance going. Because they'll balance around the standard, not guess which unit is OP and which unit is UP.

The problem with Relic now, besides not beta testing new commanders, is that they haven't allowed the current metagame to stabilize before introducing new elements. What they should really be doing is to wait two months, release a bunch of commanders, then wait two more months while fixing bugs for another release. It's only been 3 months since release with highly unstable balance. They should have fixed all the problems with the default set of units before adding new stuff. People can't bitch about no new content if they don't know it exists. The Sept. 10 patch did make CoH2 closely balanced with oddities here and there, they should have left it alone more than 14 days (Sept 24 Case Blue) to allow players to discover new strats.