My point is it should be standard. You could have an upgrade on one of the base buildings.
Only OKW gets such special treatment. Everyone else has to get it via doctrine.
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My point is it should be standard. You could have an upgrade on one of the base buildings.
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Only OKW gets such special treatment. Everyone else has to get it via doctrine.
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Only OKW gets such special treatment. Everyone else has to get it via doctrine.
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I love you mate - let's tie US armor piercing rounds for AT behind a commander. There is literally a hundred more abilities avaliable for allies wihout commanders while even ost smoke on vehicles needs a commander. You can't have a dedicated unit for repair with slower repair speed than a vehicle crew - it's just a nonsense, period. In my opinion, such bunker would be the best solution but there could be other: Make crews repair speed half of that of engineers and rear echelons. Just make pios and Soviet engies repair at least as fast as the crews on us tanks. Make ost base building upgrade with repair pios, etc.
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I dont have a problem with Ost repair speed, because i try not to expose my armour too much. Paks is whats going to kill allied armour for you, panther is perfect for adding a bit of speed so you can get that final shot to kill a crippled tank, but you have to do the brunt of the damage with paks.
Panther with its armour, speed, panzer smoke and blitz to escape once you land the killing blow, is a very very good unit.
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Not really. Repair speeds of ost and su are slower than all other factions. It's a problem especially for ost because su has commander abilities such as self-repair, conscript repair and repair station. Ost slower repair speed makes it impossible to play their tanks effectively as they need very often two pioneer squads tied to a tank to make it battle ready in a time similar to other factions. It is a huge contrast, especially with US, where crew just hops out of a vehicle and repairs it more quckly than a dedicated pio. Remember that each pio is 200 manpower. Retreating them from a battlefield or building more of them means you have less infantry on the field as ost, which further complicates the gameplay for ost and makes it imbalanced.
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Damn, its almost as factions have different tools and different strengths and weaknesses of overall faction and individual units, eh?
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USF is designed for great mobility, fast repairs and not so durable tanks.
Ost doesn't have any more problems with repairs then soviets.
2 repair units for ALL factions(except USF because of their faction trademark that should not be used as an excuse, because its a faction trademark, not any kind of "all faction standard" you seem to make it out to be) is pretty standard thing in late game and no faction, ost including, struggles thanks to that.
Pick the doctrine and stop complaining if its that important for you.
That is why doctrines exist in the first place for the 10th time.
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Not any more - they are much more durable now than in the past and the fast repair speeds tipped the balance too much.
I simply don't agree. I already wrote that soviets have commader abilities such as: repair station, repair conscripts and self repair on tanks for munitions. Still I think that the repair speed of their engis should probably be improved but this discussion is about ost. And, by the way, I like the game and I'm not complaining - I'm trying to refer to the topic question of this thread why ost needs more love.
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Only if they commit to a specific doctrine.
See the pattern yet?
And ost has commander abilities such as 5th man for pios(increases repair speed) and repair bunkers.
Also, other factions had their repair speeds lowered.
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It seems very logical to slightly help ost with repairs. Its not going to be a gamechanger but a useful detail that may tip the balance in the right way.
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It seems very logical to slightly help ost with repairs. Its not going to be a gamechanger but a useful detail that may tip the balance in the right way.
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Using that logic
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My 2 cents about a 5-men-stock upgrade for wehr:
1. As long as Brits have bolster stock upgrade and Soviets can get 7 men conscripts there is no reason why OSt SHOULD NOT get his own stock upgrade to improve the unit size.
2. Give OST the 5-men/1G43 stock upgrade but make it later available than the upgrade from German Infantry.
3. 5-men stock upgrade available after setting up Support / Heavy Panzer corps.
"German Infantry" will still be attractive because you can get the upgrade earlier and Ost has to fight the majority of the game with 4 men units. But when the arty slugfest starts the faction finally can field 5 men squads who dont die like flies. It would improve the late game of a faction that is designed to dominate the late game.
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