Profile of Wygrif

Oh god yes. I'm hearing impaired and so things like tge Stuka dive bomb, the Katyusha, and the walking Stuka are a total nightmare. It's only possible for me to dodge them by pure luck.

Also: Why does everyone seem to think green cover should provide immunity to suppression?

Tradition, mostly. Also micro-intensive but munitions-free means for handling the new MG seem to me to be a good thing. Really, present MG performance is fine but USF needs a t0 mortar with flare and smoke or the old Jeep back.

Still, I gotta admit that I'm not a fan of the changes. A static suppression based game isn't a fun to play or watch as a mobile infantry based game.

Thanks for the input guys. Also for the record I'm pretty sure that nondoc units< doc units of the same price.

Seeing as how everyone can't get a King Tiger- and Halftracks aren't really a good carrot- maybe a global upgrade that unlocks once everything is researched. It would be a lot like the Panzer Elite Sprint.

Soviets-Conscripts get 1 DP per squad, cheaper, or something.

USF- all infantry gets passive sprint.

Ostheer- Pionior repair rate increases drastically.

Spitballing here for the mod I'm making sometime in Winter.

If this is for a mod, I'd say that the endgame should be the army's specialty. Probably artillery for the USF (a priest or a 105, maybe). Numbers for the Sovs so rapid conscription or maybe a pop cap boost. for Ost, a blitz ability? Rapid decap plus a bonus fighting units in disconnected territory? Or maybe buy able veterancy?

• Fences: Dudes should know that in a battle, you don't need an order to jump over a fence.
  micro issue
  
  
• Green cover: Providing unfair bonuses and stupid. It doesn't require much skills, so that's not encouraging dogdickal gameplay, just rush behind a green cover or inside stone buildings; win.
  unable to deal with core coh2 mechanics = l2p issues
  
  
• Allies massive numerical advantage: Axis late game advantage is long gone. Fix their faggot inf and early game hell. Quick.
  
  l2p issue, massive numerical advantage means 3 t34/76 vs 2 Panthers? Panthers should win
  
  
• MK2 Nade: Not enough time to react, wide AOE, sick damage. Granted cheap InstaWipe
  micro issue, learn to dodge
  
  
• USF T2: As OST, you should spend your whole MP on countering early vet 2 Arnolds, so no enough resources to prepare AT for light vehicle faggotry and abuse
  
  A problem limited to one commander ability
  
  
• OKW AT invincibility: I do like to use shermans and T3476s when playing against OKW. But almost every unit this faction has is an AT in one form or another.
  
  l2p issue, you can take out any vehicle with several shermans or t34/76
  
  
• P47: It covers the whole map, specially 1vs1 maps
  
  get AA
  
  
• Fake Vterancy: Cheese.
  don't even know what you mean, but elite troops training costs a hell and anybody who does it is rather stupid
  
  
• Flamethrowers: Their range should be reduced.
  so they become useless? No, crit mechanics were tweaked with the new patch, they should be less of an issue now
  
  
• T3485s/Easy8s Base Gang-Bang: Really, should be limited to one on the field.
  No, they need to be unlocked with tech, so axis player has time to field an appropriate amount of AT or counters in time
  
  
  
• HM38: Should be available at 8CPs, revert the minimal nerfs. It's much better than the LeFH, should'nt be available so soon.
  so we have again late game RNG wipes on vetted units? No, 80 dmg sounds much better.
  
  
• PTRS dudes and Shocks: Should be available at 3 CPs.
  agree
  
  
• USF Magic Glues, Blitz and smoke: Silly cheating features.
  Out of jail cards should cost and appropriate amount of resources, while magic glue is to cheap, blitz & smoke is cost wise fine. Blitz should be offensive ability however
  
  

+1

I'd agree that OKW isn't really a well designed faction. In the early game the main problem is the kubelwagon. When it is buffed and doing its job (being a fast, agile, suppression platform that doesn't suffer attrition) then it is OP. When it is nerfed and it is not doing its job then OKW doesn't have reliable suppression and can't hang with cons/rifles. The nature of the unit prevents there from being a happy medium.

In the later game, their reliance on super armor is equally dumb. In longer game modes where they have easy access to their late game armor they utterly dominate. In shorter modes they struggle to survive the gap caused by their lack of accessible mediums.

I think that relic really painted themselves into a corner with this faction. As for fixes--maybe turning the kubel into a version of the old motorcycle which can cap but not suppress, give them the mg 34 in t1 and replace the KT with PIV ausf J but allow it to be built after any two trucks are set up. (And add KT to elite armor so there's a reason to pick that doc.) I'm not sure that that would work, but it might.