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Jump back to quoted post21 Apr 2015, 13:31 PMcomm_ash

Resource conversion abilities would be fine if they had actual counterplay. Fuel caches can be killed, luft supply can be pressured/stolen, lend lease can be shot down, soviet industry halves manpower, OKW conversion isn't 100% efficient, and relies on the OKW player actually holding enough points to make it a meaningful increase. The problem with CAS is that not only is the fuel -> muni conversion instant, it also has 100% efficiency and comes in a doctrine stacked with plane callins that cannot be shot down until after the plane shoots its payload.

CAS blobs do have a weakness in terms of vehicles, but I believe that there needs to be a bigger drawback for using fuel to muni. Ost doesn't really NEED armor because it has muni AT in the form of pgrens and a very nice ATG in the form of the pak 40.

This being said, I very much like fuel -> muni in ostruppen doc because there is no real muni sink in the doctrine itself (besides railway which is very lategame, expensive, and more of an area-denial tool). This means that even using fuel -> muni to boost your midgame makes you weak to artillery as a blob counter and opposing infantry. Both of these are fully and partially negated by CAS doctrine.

Jump back to quoted post19 Apr 2015, 20:23 PMOhme

This. Exactly.