Profile of ferwiner

I understand that this opinion may be unpopular but I belive that what we need to ballance LMGs is to make them realistic. What I mean is that LMG should be as awkward to use as PTRS. In order to shoot soldier should stay in cover or lay on the ground, then set up the bipod (faster than tripod but still you have to find position for it), aim and then shoot one, maybe even quite long and accurate burst. And no matter the range, if enemy is standing still in front of LMG, it should be able to kill him quickly, but if the enemy is moving it should have major problems on close and mid range as it will not be able to shoot.

So, what needs to be done is:
1. Making set up and aim time for LMGs much longer (similar to PTRS)
2. Making the cone of fire before resetup much smaller.
3. Possibly giving LMGs it's short range dps back as it will still not be able to use it effectively and it is quite stupid how weak it is against enemies standing in front of them laughing.

This way lmg blob will have no point as it will be easily killed by short range units. The usage of LMGs will still be effective but only with good positioning and spread formation (to acheive cross fire). And last but not the least LMG will act like real LMG, and it is really important for people who like minimum of realism and for those who base their decisions not only on coh knowledge but also warfare knowledge.

Generally I agree with pretty all of those points. So yeah, you've got the point. The problem is that those problems haven't been touched by Relic for so long it just got boring to read the same over and over again in the forums...

Beaten for 25-30 minutes and YET they can mass panthers with reduced fuel income... riight....

If OKW or OST can mass panthers then they werent EVER beaten in the course of the game, in fact it sounds like what would happen if YOU were being beaten for 25-30 minutes.

Even at a even game it takes 20 minutes for the first panther.... do the panthers in your games duplicate or make babies during the next 5 minutes or something?

+1

I can visualize the game OP is talking about only in such way:
1. Axis build chaches early, allies have no.
2. Allies have more infantry, axis can field only minimal amount due to chache investment.
3. Axis are outnoumbered so they lose VPs but they still manage to keep most of their half of territory due to superior micro or better team play.
4. Wehr players tech to t4 so they are left with only infantry in first 20 minutes.
5. Axis have no tanks so allies come with a brilliant idea "lets build more and more AI" I can't even imagine that amount of maxims, shocks, snipers and BAR rifles.
6. Axis don't attack with the first panther but wait until every player gets at least 2 of them. 7. When axis have ~50vps they attack one vp with them and one other with infantry stopping the drain.
8. While attacking axis build additional pios to repair but allies are so unprepared that they can go deep into their territory, allies get massive losses, then panthers return home with the blitz for repairs but there are new ones that can keep ground with infantry.
9. After repairs axis attack last vp with all the tanks, allies call gg and come to the forums.

@OP pls, watch your replay again and look if it wasn't like that. If only half of my points are true, you were hardly outplayed.

Yeah, the only problem is caused by stupid usf vs wehr matchup, both factions need changes but usf needs much more. As for the ace it is powerfull of course but the doctrine itself is quite weak and I belive that the argument that it lets loosers comeback is stupid, if usf player cannot drain osther 500 vps before 15cp he wasn't winning at all, nobody can argue with that. Also the penalty is so huge that you don't have to and sometimes you really shouldn't kill the ace as as long it is on the field the enemy is draining manpower so much that he will be left with the ace only and no capping power and that means a lot when you need to comeback. All you have to do is that ostheer is sacrifizing a lot of mid game with that doctrine so if the match is even or allies are slightly winning it in fact means that things are going axis way and axis are the true winner the whole game.

Ptrs is not as bad as you guys say, it's just another victim of heavy tank meta. AT rifle can harm and kill all light and medium vehicles (not counting panther as medium) that germans can field. Even p4 has paper armour without vet and you can help guards with buildings, mines, at nades, button and eventually mark target. They also do quite significant damage to okw trucks even after setting up. The problem with guards is that the squad is multi role and as such is very flexible but not super effective in any given role, still they can be used very effectively, they just need specific playstyle that utilisises all of the abilities and weapons they have not removing their PTRS, if you want pure AI squad you can always go with shocks.