Profile of BabaRoga

Let me put it in 1v1 understandable terms.

If you are playing vs Enemy who is using a lot of MG42's, you try to flank, infiltrate his line of defense. Break through one MG42, and you turn sideways taking one after the other because you can attack from all directions now...

Same principle, instead of Con rush, you have panther rush

Remember how you were arguing, that MG42 takes to long to unpack and re-position. Exactly the same thing

The fact that your SU-85s have to be in position before an engagement, and cannot rush over to help your ally, adds tactics and micro. That is a good thing, not a bad thing.

I am pretty sure you are quite good 1v1 player, so I would love to hear your suggestion.

How exactly does it add to micro and tactics if you are not able to reposition your force to engage enemy effectively.
Watching your teamate getting wiped of the map by 2 players, while other 2 enemy players are waiting in readiness for you to leave your 'position of engagement' so they can attack you and flank you on the move with bunch of Panthers/P4's and PG spam?

If you move you are dead, if you don't move you will be dead as soon as your teamate is done and dusted. If you are player that is on far side of the map and there is no one facing you, you are to far away to do anything and only thing you can achieve is again, be caught on the move out of effective fighting formation with units you have.

If you go and cap empty part of the map, you don't achieve anything. You don't decrease enemy pop cap, nor you significantly decrease their resources. At this point, If you are German you don't really care about VP, fuel or ammo. You are going for a kill, wiping one players after other, because you broke the flank and can easily swarm enemies from all sides, flank, infiltrate, etc.

The only tactic and micro there is if I play as German team, pick which player we gonna swarm and who will ambush and flanking any help that may or may not come........

Now, let me hear how is that good for micro and tactics please?
Or you just said that, without ever taking a moment to try to picture what 4v4 might look like.

playing 1v1 and 4v4 is completely different, trust me I play both.

Because 4 man squads constantly retreating to nades/snipers/else and reinforcing is less a manpower drain than replacing a conscript model??

I don't buy the micro argument. Both sides will suck if you cant control your forces, however you are confusing the strength of soviet specialist units (snipers, blah blah) as a weakness. They dont require "more" micro... but they do become very powerful with good micro. Countering a supported and well micro'd sov sniper or two on langreskaya is a feat in itself.

I think what sluzbenik is trying to say is:

If you have 2 players with above average micro, Soviet is equal to Ostheer (still need a hell of a lot more micro and attention playing as Soviet)

If you have 2 players that have average micro, Soviet player is doomed.

and it gets progressively worse for Soviet balance as the skill of players goes down..

we are talking about an "light engine damage" and not about an completely broken engine...Im not sure how many different engine damages do we have ?! So the best solution imo, is reducing the speed to 50%.

And doing engine damage to tanks is quite easy I guess. Orahhh+AT nade+retreat

Damaging Piv or Panther engine isn't that easy, you are bound to lose quite a bit of manpower, and tanks are usually supported.

Point is, I often don't care if I have vet 1 Piv or Panther (especially if I am using Panzer tactician)

I try to inflict as much MP loss as I can and smoke retreat (of course my support units, will stay to cover my Panther exit).

Or I just rush in, do as much damage as possible, blitz my way out. Repair and do the same.


I would never be so bold, if I didn't know that I will get out of trouble most likely, while dealing quite a bit of damage...
50% of normal speed, I think thats quite fair to vet unit and gives a chance for a kill to Soviet.

Damaged engine + blitz = unfair

Panzer tactician + blitz = LOL or Lots of cry (depending are you using it or on receiving end)

I'm not certain, but I think its much better to select only one game mode.

Otherwise, I think if you select, for example, all of them, you are basically queuing only for 4v4.

Otherwise the system would constantly be dumping players from 4v4 into smaller game modes.

Know what I mean?

Yeah, can't get 1v1 while selecting all. 2v2 occasionally

When I search for 1v1, I only select 1v1.

It just takes to damn long and 95% of the time I get someone who is a lot worse player than me. (I assume due to my timezone, not many 1v1 players on)

So basically, I decide if I am gonna be playing shit games, might as at least cut down on wait time