Profile of Lucas Troy

That's awesome! I had no idea. I'll have to start using it more.

Yes i agree with you this is the plan of relict. BUT Wy the Okw has sooo many advatages ?? Infrared scanners Hardcore Pioneers who beat your shooters. The pinning Kübelwagen.. When the germans change their fuel income at one truck they get more then the us... More over what is with the stuka ? The US have no rocket artillery. And the only positive I see in the US is the mediccar. You can play it but it is realy hard in early game against Okw becaus the Pios will crush your shooters ...

Kübelwagen is pretty weak and easy to kill with rifelman who aren't grouped into the same blob. The infrared upgrade is an expensive one on a unit that doesn't really need it to kill infantry, so it's more of a "sidegrade." Muni to fuel is likely better now with the extra muni, but I can't really say, as I don't use it since it wastes muni at a high rate needed for shrecks. The pioneers are counterable by riflemen at range, and are also very expensive, hence why most OKW people focus on Volks instead, at least from the guides I've read and the games I've played. The US doesn't have rocket artillery, but unlike OKW, they get a normal mult-role medium tank. The factions are asymmetrical.

Staying at range will take care of the pios, just don't let them close in.

As for having advantages, it's a trade off for 2/3 fuel income. Admittedly, the faction isn't that low on resources after the muni change.

It's sad that it's useless now, even if it did need a nerf.

Does having a faction that is supposed to forward place some their base buildings make it impossible to have artillery that is balanced? It just seems to me that as long as OKW is around, artillery will either suck against everything or shut down one of their intended strategies.

You have to consider what is between you and the enemy unit at all times in this game. It's no different than how with infantry combat you have to think about cover between you and the opponent.

You know that being on the low ground means your shots are more likely to not hit your opponent. Therefore it becomes a part of your tactics: controlling the high ground means you are better protected, while attacking from low ground will be much harder.


You have to stop looking at the game with an a-move mentality. The best part of this game is that where your unit is standing is actually fucking relevant to how it performs. If you position an artillery piece next to a house, it might hit the house instead of where you wanted it to. If you try to throw a grenade, it may get caught up in buildings or hedges in its path. You have to think about these things all the time in this game.


Also, tanks generally don't have much ability to adjust their aim in terms of verticality. A few degrees of pivot at most. Not to mention that units on high ground are literally more difficult to hit with any sort of ranged weapon and that has been true for thousands of years or warfare whether you're using bows, guns or tanks.

Agreed that it's good that how current system rewards use of terrain, but disagree that what you're describing is really how it's working. Right now it's less that players with better elevation get in advantage, and more that tank behavior has profound troubles even on nearly flat terrain with just tiny hills. In this sense it's less like cover mattering for infantry and more like the pathing problems that vehicles have suffered from. Like pathing problems,it certainly DOES promote more micro, just not in a good way.

Also, I know that certain aspects of OKW base defense are unfair, like how they outright deny so many air abilities, but with the current system they will often do nothing but fire into the dirt against ground units no matter how they are placed. So at the moment they are broken against air strikes (in an OP way) and broken against ground units (in an UP way). Building the Flak emplacements would become more viable if their behavior got reworked, nothing too extreme, just make it so that it requires a bit more elevation for them to fire helplessly into the dirt.

I say keep it the way it works now, but make it less extreme, so you actually need a discernible terrain advantage to benefit from it.

Well, the SU-76 with double its current stats might actually be just about right : p