Profile of van Voort

It's not good enough to be in T3, but too good to be bumped down to say T2 because that would mean it was availible at the start


The only people I see building it are the AI

The admission that there were other modes than 1 v 1 and those concerns might be valid just tickled me. It sort of sums up a lot of this forum, which is a tiny group of people having a massive amount of influence on a game played by many thousands of others.

It appears you are only allowed to have a valid opinion if:

1) You are ranked in the Top Arbitarily Small Number

2) You play both factions

3) You only play 1v1


Having paid money for the product is not sufficient

Short version:

All modes are important, but what balance means varies by mode


My objective would be:

Balanced for 1v1, tending to favour Soviets as more players get involved.


Reasoning (sorry for wall of text, but I think it's important. If necessary I will start a thread for that discussion)


All versions are important because we all paid money for this, but what balance means varies on what mode you play and what you seek.


For what I would call for want of a better word "Competitive" players balance means equal chances for both sides given equal skill


For "Casual" players, however balance means roughly equal wait times for each faction.


Usually Competitive play 1v1 and 2v2 and casual play team games, or perhaps more accurately Competitive play only really happens 1v1 and 2v2 wherehas Casuals play all modes.


Further, more people express a preference for Germans, and that is probably more true of the Casual players.

While it varies by time zone (and Soviets seem to be more popular when the US and Europe are sleeping), I don't think there is any serious objection to the idea that the Soviets are not the glamourous faction.

Even in the days of 1CP shocks and Soviet Industry I don't recall every seeing search results come back 90/10 or 80/20 in their favour.

Therefore Soviets need to be slightly favoured to get more people to play them, but it would be best if that only happens for team games.

Yes, no doubt the Soviet Union gave troops who it wanted to punish brand new weapons to play with.

Because no one gave The Dirty Dozen weapons at all.


Which is the pop cultural reference point people should be using

As one of the other TOW missions in Southern Fronts is the Lutfwaffe guy from Kharkov Divide I will post him too, as I expect that if we get the Commissar we will get him somewhere.

4 man team, so I expect the same stats as Artillery Officer


Recon: On demand on your location

Frag Bombs: 100 MUN

Stuka 37mm: 150 MUN


On reflection though that is very close to the Make War not Love Air Superiority Commander so we may not get this guy