Stale metagame breaks easily. In this sense, German players have to rely on soviet (in)ability to micro their units to gauge their own ability. If the Soviet's micro is faulty, a German player is not required to put forth a micro intensive effort. The ball is effectively always in the Soviet's court, so to speak, as far as micro impetus is concerned. Hence, German players are only ever pushed to put forth high level micro skills when up against high level Soviet players, whereas Soviet players always must put forth such an effort in every match.
So in a simple manner of speaking, and especially where tournaments are concerned, Soviet players are much more able to maintain a high level of practice in their gameplay strategies than German players. The Germans must rely on their opponent's level of competitiveness to even begin to gauge their own gameplay for practice. And this is not taking into account any perceived issues with ELO ranking and automatch matchmaking, either.
That actually makes a lot of sense to me, thx.
I never had the sense of such a strong interdependence of the level of play in the two factions in COH1.
In COH1 if you played well,what your opponent did sort of only matter for the size of the victory.
I understand now that the german play experience depends a lot more on the opposition than I had realised.
Insightful post!
@Nullist: quit asking for the play Card. I posted several times that I'm a casual player and that I'm ranked in the deep thousands. That's the basic info needed to evaluate my background.