Profile of ferwiner

Ostheer bunkers are useful only in 2 situations:
1. When you need medics
2. When you are popcapped and want to use spare manpower to secure VPs a little bit more.

In both cases, adding population to bunkers is out of the question.

The stream list is bugged since yesterday, I guess we need to wait for stuff to fix this.

Statistics are reality? of course. Just why does no one use IS-2? On paper, this is the best tank, in practice the worst. Most of all I'm amused by the pseudo buff in the last patch, which did not improve performance at all. And the pseudo nerf King Tiger - he wiped the squad, and continues to wipe

I think the scatter changes may couse more and more people to try and use IS-2 in the future. KT already has a fame of a good tank so it is used much more. It is more accessible as well. It is also important to note that KTs high damage per shot contributes a lot to its AoE profile meaning it still has easier time wiping squads.

paper and reality are different things:
- IS-2 on paper the best tank in the game, in fact the worst
- 82-mm on paper is better than 120-mm, in fact worse.
all that makes 82-mm is to scratch units, if he killed more than 15 people for the whole game - you are a lucky man, the Wehrmacht mortar does not make less than 30 kills per game (this mortar - op, it wipes out a full squad of 5/6 people), 120-mm make about 20 kills and yesterday he helped me by hitting on Pz-4, destroyed his main gun.

We are talking about computer games, the stats that elchino is talking about is all that rule that game so actually "the paper" is the reality. But it does not have to equal with user experience for multiple reasons such as:
1. Bias - its often seen that players tend to see same unit as bad when they build it and good when opponent is using it.
2. Graphical effects - it is easy to see in the case of 120mm mortar. It has such a huge and realistic graphical and sound effect that people tend to think its better than it actually is.
3. Using bad measures of effectivness - in the case of mortar, kill count is not exactly the right measure becouse its mainly a damage dealer, not a model killer. Its very easy to steal kills from the mortar and the kill count is very dependant on how well your opponent manages healing. The AoE and scatter character of the weapon also means that it is always going to perform much better (in terms of model kills) against allies, just becouse of bigger squad size.

Even if that metric was a good one, why exactly do you think that a mortar that deals 33% more damage (15-20) is worth 42% higher cost (240-340)?

I think that's been in the game for a good while. I can only recall it happening once to myself, but it was for sure pre-Live. Von setup his MG right outside the front door of a house on stream, allowing it to get stolen. A few other chat members chimed in that the bug has been there since release.

In my understanding it is not a bug, it is just the fact that idle mgs set up at the sight of enemy to fire at him. If you unload your squad in the "panic" way, that is by pressing unload button in the buidling menu, the unit ends up in the idle state and it will start to fire at the enemy (or set up to do so) at this very moment, before you are able to select it, even with best micro. I don't know why people consider this a bug, especially as there is an "alternative" way of exiting buildings that is actually the preferred one.

Buidling changes don't change this "bug" becouse still the squad is leaving either idle or with a move command and still there is no chance to give an order to idle mg before it starts to set up on sight of enemy.