Profile of Flyingsmonster

Ostheer is simply underwhelming to play right now. They start slow, T1 is pretty mediocre, and it's very tough to counter brits and USF. Much like Soviets, they feel outdated in many ways, and having to build your base up takes precious time that you need to secure vital parts of the map early.

Grenadiers need some kind of small buff in either received accuracy or lethality. I don't think it's necessary to increase the squad size, but they need some kind of offensive or defensive buff to make them a little better able to counter riflemen and Infantry sections, increase their price slightly to ~250-260 and buff them.

Move Grenadiers to T0, MG42 to T1 again. I think grens belong in T0 more than the HMG42. It's very difficult for Ostheer already because, like Soviets, you have to build your base before you do anything else in the game. This leads to a very large head start for USF and Brit players, who often seize key buildings on cutoffs and fuel before you even get there with a pio squad. The gren squad will allow you to leave your base with pioneers immediately and seize key locations on the map for grenadiers to hold until you get T1 and an MG42 out.

MG42 - feels like its in a good place, though you're basically forced into making one no matter what you do, it's essential in any build. Would be much better if the USF mortar was adjusted so they don't get wiped so easily.

Sd.kfz 251/7 - I am forced to rely on Spearhead and Festung Support so often because of brit emplacements, solely for the MHT. Not much to say about this, it feels alright, I don't know what I would change about it other than making it a little more accurate.

The Sd.kfz 252 - really great right now, I rely on it so much that it's become almost an essential unit as Ostheer, especially with the flame package to smoke allied units out of buildings. Without it it would be nearly impossible to win on building-heavy maps since the GWr 34 does jack shit to the buildings themselves. Also useful for countering partisan spam. I do feel like it could have a little better protection against small arms fire, but it's not completely necessary.

Sd.kfz 222 - It's alright, I like the buffs it got a few months ago, but it is still very under-whelming vs. infantry, and it can't really square off against other light vehicles aside from the M3 and the M20. I'd like to see its lethality vs. infantry increased with a slight fuel increase to ~20.

Panzer Grenadiers - they are alright I guess, but they still feel kinda squishy compared to other close-range units. I use them pretty often, usually just a single squad with shreks though.

Assault Grenadiers, they need a buff badly. They seriously under-perform for their price. I think the MP40 in general needs to be a little more lethal, for both pioneers and assault grenadiers. Considering they could be a very useful tool for early game ostheer allowing them to compete with USF and brits much better, I don't think it's much to ask. Pioneers could get a price increase as well to ~220-240 depending on how much the MP40 is buffed.

Ostwind. Not much needs to be said here, it is fucking awful. It can't kill infantry, it can't take on light vehicles solo. It's a good AA unit obviously, but it needs to be something that can push off infantry like the Centaur can. I'd like to see it in a position where it can actually force the enemy back instead of just sitting there, firing away and doing nothing at all. That said, if you do manage to vet it up to vet 3, it becomes quite good, the problem is getting it vetted up in the first place is nearly impossible.

Panzer IV - It's not performing that bad honestly, but a slight price or fuel reduction should happen to bring it in line with the allied mediums like the Cromwell, the Sherman, E8 and the new T-34/76.

Stug IV - it's in a great place right now, probably one of the only units that I'm actually satisfied with in terms of Ostheer. Good penetration, and a good counter to allied mediums.

Brummbar is performing better at least, though I still can't find any real situations in which building one makes sense. In team games maybe, but otherwise it's useless even with the buffs.

Panther is pretty mediocre right now as well. I mean there's just not really any good uses for it, there's no reason to even go T4 right now unless you are in a team game and need a Panzerwerfer to combat blobbing and mortars / stationary stuff. Speaking of the Panzerwerfer, I think it's performing alright, it's in a good place right now.

Tiger I - this thing just sucks as well. Sometimes it can be decent, but the vast majority of the time it is just a glorified, slower panzer IV. It's too slow, its armor is too weak, and it just can't dish out the amount of damage it should be dealing. I suggest buffing its frontal armor at the very least.

Any other units I didn't mention I think are in a good place.

I really like using Penals, but that is just a silly idea.

I would rather penals get a price reduction to ~255, or get a buff to their long-range accuracy. Either way, Penals are just so underwhelming right now, even with the flamethrower.

I mean honestly, they've always been incredibly underwhelming. Do you guys remember when they cost 360 MP and were even worse than they are now? Yeah, I do, and worse yet I used to actually use them back then as well.

Don't get me wrong, it's nice to see an old map, one of my favorites from vCoH return, but it is not suited for CoH2 in any way. I'd also like to say they did a good job re-creating the map.

First off, the size. This is by far one of the largest maps in the entire game seen thus far. I never thought I'd say a map feels too large, but this one certainly does.

The fuel points being right next to each other, as well as both ammo is very poor map design. It means that whichever team controls one fuel / ammo almost certainly controls both considering how easy it is to wire off the fuel and camp the ammo with mgs. The resource points definitely need to be re-balanced / re-worked if this map is to function as a proper automatch map.

I find that this map also heavily favors axis due to the buildings in key strategic areas, as well as the ability to abuse sturmpios on the middle and right sides of the map early on. The fast-capping kubel makes this even more powerful as you can simply rush your sturms to the ammo / fuel and secure it before the allies even arrive while your fast-capping kubel mops up all the regular resource points on the way.

I've played about 5 matches on this map so far and every time it's just a chore, not enjoyment. It reminds me of the time a few months ago when Sittard Summer was in the automatch pool. I vetoed it for now, but I would still like to actually play this map in automatch if it was balanced better than it is currently.

tl;dr - this map needs to be re-balanced or removed from automatch.

In my experiences, Mortar clears buildings alright, it's the LeiG and the Pack Howie that struggle to do any damage to garrisoned units.

You can literally have 3-4 LeiGs firing at one building and it takes a few minutes before the troops have to evacuate.

Yah, how many times have you managed to get them to vet5? Hell or vet3 even?

Well of course, it's hard to get any OKW unit to vet 5 aside from volks.

But yeah I do kinda agree that at vet 0 it's AI performance is pretty laughable, considering it's a purely AI tank. The T-70, while much more expensive, kills infantry at a much higher rate in comparison.