Profile of van Voort

+1.

A better player should NEVER have to lose to a much worse player even for 1 game. You don't get to play against that same player 100 games over and over again.

That's not even true in games that have no RNG whatsoever, so if that's your objective, you are doomed to dissapointment

All anyone can do in CoH (and life ) is stack the odds in their favour as much as possible. Becoming truly successful is not just taking advantage of the good times but ones ability to stay focussed during the bad; to overcome the negatives so to say

Exactly.

Eisenhower wasn't spending his time perfecting his BO or microing his snipers.

He was trying to keep a bunch of egotistical prima donnas like Montgomery and Patton from each other's throats and maybe after that he would have time to wonder about what the enemy were doing.


That's more akin to playing 3v3 and up with total strangers than 1v1 or 2v2 with a steady teammate, which is one reason why I do the former.

I would sooner learn to surf the chaos than eliminate it

1 is a target.
2 are 2 targets.
3 are a problem
More than 3 is a reason to go try somewhere else

Basically you can divide SS Units into maybe 4 catagories:

1) What, for want of a better term, you can call "Regular" SS units.

Leibstandarte and the ilk

These are generally well equipped, well trained and well manned and stay that way throughout the war

While not necessary Nazi fanatics - whatever that is suppossed to mean - they were certainly competant and experienced. This does not make them nice people:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oradour-sur-Glane


2) Foreign Volunteers

The Regular Armed forces claimed a monopoly on conscripting Germans, and generally would not recruit foreigners. However because infighting was pretty much a Nazi specialty Himmler saw that he could build up his forces and therefore influence by tapping the resources of the conquered nations.

Preference was for "Aryan" nations, but this ended up pretty broad by the end.

In this you would include the Dutch, Flemings, Waloons, Danes, French, Norwegians, Swedes and Finns.

Very few of these people are enthusiastic Nazis and have their own agendas (the Waloons form their own unit because the Flemings have and they don't want to be left behind). They are generally however enthusiatic anti-communists and facist, as well as anti-semitic.

Initially distrusted they fight well

3) Anti-partisan units of dubious effectiveness.

Some of these are late war German conscripts when the rules got relaxed, others are Balkan and East European volunteers of various types. Basically only good for anti-partisan efforts. Some of them were very enthusiastic about their work and overlap with:


4) Utter scum

When you want to disgust even other members of the SS you call in a bunch of violent criminals led by a convicted child rapist

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/36th_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS