Profile of ThoseDeafMutes

The unit is terribly designed, in the same stupid category as B4 of "high risk high reward wipe everything" nonsense. Should never have been put in the game in the first place. But with that said, it's not necessarily OP currently. I haven't seen it enough to decide whether it is or not since the last patch. At least it's doctrinal now :/

The ML20 is too good right now. But it's walking a fine line between OP and useless. If it wasn't able to cheese OKW bases to death like it can now it will be sent back into the "never build again" pile. Relic needs to think long and hard about howitzers and their place in the game.

Mark target changed to pen is something I also agree with.

I should also add the JPIV Camo also needs tweaking as we've discussed in the past. It only camoes until first shot or detection, then it cannot re-camo until it is out of combat.

Only played 2v2 and 3v3 so far on the new patch but my USF teammates have been in struggle city. I'm going to tell them to play Sov alongside me so we can win a game tonight.

Also noticing that it feels like 80% of Axis players are Ostheer these days. Yikes.

I suppose the absolute simplest explanation is that everything is attempting to be in keeping with the intended design of this game within the confines of an entertaining arcade RTS environment.


Once again I would apologize on review of my original post in this thread. Though certainly you can sympathize with my frustrations as it seems that almost every other thread and post in the Shoutbox seems to me as nothing more than whinging about Axis faction(s)/units as if it was some damned crusade.

My central complaint here is not that axis is OP (it varies from patch to patch and game mode to game mode), it's more like that all of the design decisions they took trend towards Axis getting to play with all of the cool toys in the toybox. Ostheer in particular is unambiguously the most well rounded and well designed faction in the game with no obvious factional weaknesses. Great core inf, great support units, great tanks. Late game artillery/indirect is not as good as Soviet (at least, in current patches) but still respectable. Their core army works well even without access to doctrines.

When I say the design decisions leading towards this, I'm referring to things like the OH getting stock Panthers and late-war model Panzer IVs, but then giving the Soviets the regular T34. Or how there's all this late war kit on both sides, but then the Russian infantry is designed as though they're still under-trained and disposable cannon fodder for the most part. Or how they chose to theme the Western Front expansion around the Battle of the Bulge, preventing old favorites like the Pershing from making a reappearance. It's like, Ostheer is Die Wehrmacht's Greatest Hits Album while USF is just one EP from the middle of the career of that army that doesn't represent how their sound changed over time. And Sov is a the Youtube Mix based off this one song you listened to one time that has a bunch of related stuff but in no particular order. I hope this strange analogy makes sense

These decisions aren't some conspiracy, it's a series of coincidences, but I find it mildly irritating. USF would have been the most ideal place to put your crazy air supremacy doctrines, but instead they, too, went to Ostheer. And they get doctrines with cheap, disposable infantry, and fast, mobile striking units like the Puma. At this point it feels like they're stealing all of the other factions themes and ideas too!