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Okw does not need caches. Period.
OKW needs something else to spend manpower on besides units, but not caches.
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It would be much easier to just reduce the manpower income, but increase the initial amount of manpower. It would fit the faction very well.
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Since we are tossing ideas around and cutoff protection was the cited reason, how about a 100 manpower "observation post" that has roughly the same endurance as a cache, disables capping the point while alive just like a cache does, and gives line of sight? Maybe if you want to really go wild on the design side make it garrison 1 squad or provide advanced vehicle detection (minimap only, just like Soviet commander ability) in a 70ish radius.
Prsonally I prefer if OKW did it in a unique way.
Adding to my Kubel idea (toggle to lock down), they can also toggle to cloak, so as to ensure survival. Locking down may also be dependent on the cloak toggle: ie uncloaked means it cannot be decaptured, whereas cloaked means it decaptures slower. Any smart enemy would notice and attempt to scout for the cloaked Kubel, so OKW player still needs to enact some defense and not lock down stuff with their cheapest vehicle and assume a GG.
The result is that Kubels remain a strategically viable unit throughout a match- want to ensure that VP sector is sector but cannot afford men? Keep a Kubel there to hold them off.
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Except getting a Vet-bonus isn't a guarantee, nor does it produce munitions or fuel.
Besides, Vet-5 can be categorized as "Faction Flavor" same as how USF still have that obscene tank exploit where they can just hop out of vehicles to reduce popcap, build more tanks, and then send a horde of tanks at 150/100 popcap.
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Not having caches is also faction flavor. The faction is supposed to represent a battle-hardened German army in a state of low resources. They made it more playable by removing the crippling resource penalties and nerfing some of the large veterancy bonuses, but pretty much all of OKW units still scale better at vet 5 than allied/ostheer units at vet 3. There has to be some resource penalty still in place to compensate, and I think lack of economy boosting caches is a fair trade off.
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After much consideration, I've come to the conclusion that the OKW is in need of the ability to construct resource caches for fuel/munitions. For the purpose of securing cutoffs and territory as well as resource production.
Being the only faction out of five factions that cannot produce them, the other four being of course The Ostheer, USF, UKF, and Soviets, leaves the faction at a tactical and strategic disadvantage that can prove crippling to overall gameplay of that faction.
I am open to discussion on this matter however, and would appreciate reasonable debate over whether or not the OKW should be able to construct caches.
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I will simply lol at anyone expecting such a change to a 2 year old general use infantry.
Equally possible are pershing for USF, IS-3 for soviets or ober nerf for OKW.
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More than getting resources, scavenge is good for denying support weapons.
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