I'm not saying that massing for an assault is bad. I have just had too many rounds recently were my Oshteer teammates stood back and did nothing whenever an offensive was launched. It would quickly turn into a rout as all the soviets shifted to meet me, yet my teammates would sit in their bunkers because they thought they would be invincible there... A painful byproduct of 4v4 I suppose.
Hi, I'm a camper.
A lot of times this just has to do with poor teamwork. So many times when I'm playing (particularly as Ostheer), you have the armchair generals who begin by pinging the map at the fuel points to say "we need fuel." Countless times on Steppes this happens, and I go to secure the bottom island, where there is a VP, a fuel point, and 3 strat points immediately surrounding.
Typically, yeah, I buckle that down with defensive measures-- combined arms and all of that, and almost
inevitably I end up facing heavy enemy counter-attacks for a while. I tailor my defense to making sure that at whatever cost we keep that fuel point, that VP, and the surrounding strat points, because they represent a disproportionate amount of our income for teching.
Of course, as my teammates get pushed back elsewhere, I'm called a noob, an idiot, a faggot, a retard, etc. because I'm not pointlessly pushing when nobody has formulated more of an attack plan than frantically clicking the middle of the map screaming "NOOBS!" I'd be happy to help were it not for the fact that I alone, the noob camper, am the only one defending our
only resource income and victory point while everyone is pushed back so that we're not hopelessly triple capped with barely a trickle of fuel coming in.
I get sick and tired of being blamed for being "asleep" with hulled-down Vet 3 panthers on the southern island (Gee, wonder how they got to Vet 3, I guess it was by doing nothing), when the rest of my teammates are making idiotic teching choices.
Oh, the enemy went heavy T4 and ZiS guns? Well my teammates feel the best counter to that are PIVs, StuGs, and Tigers. That's such a massive failure on the strategic level that my two Panthers, no matter how amazing they are, can't make up for those type of strategic errors.
But, alas, I am a camper.
I am a noob, a retard, an idiot, and a faggot.
And the more someone verbally harasses me rather than asking for help or planing a flank needing my troops, the less and less likely it is that I'm going to help someone acting like an asshole. Because were someone to maybe ask nicely, or help me mine the island fully so my troops could leave (since Ostheer players have a hard-on for fuel caches and not Munis), I'd gladly help elsewhere. But 90% of the time, honestly, it's just assholes looking for someone to blame because they made bad decisions.
I'm not saying you're one of these people, just giving a different perspective.