Profile of ElSlayer

A forward Schwer is always a gamble due to how many artillery options allies have,

Also, every shot counts towards the schwer as well as the double leigs.

They don't have a magical push button forcefield or a auto rep button or an increase in health doctorin.

Still forces counter artillery and camping and is boring?

dOPEnEWhAIRCUT is also correct on MP bleed; the faster and more often you retreat a blob the more MP you are expending. The more often you retreat the less time your squads are out fighting; the ONLY time they are doing both at once is the absolute worst situation of your FRP position being attacked. Even on custom matches with 2x income mods, MP drain goes really fast and you can be left with no manpower for bringing up vehicles because you are overinvesting into preserving your squads. That's a predictable and justified drawback of relying on FRPs....it is also much more punishing on larger maps because the alternative of retreating back to base gives up even more time, and exposes your FRP position to attack without squads there to protect it. For OKW, the situation is ten times worse if no FRP exists....but of course I can only assume players that want it remove expect OKW trucks to always be in base.

Retreating often and fighting with healed and fully reinforced troops makes you bleed more MP? Really?
It is completely other way around! You can keep the same ground while bleeding less, or take more ground while investing the same!

FRP position attacked => you fight with full force (keep reinforcing), while incoming damage become less and less as enemy model count thins out. The more enemy stays in fight with your reinforcing troops the more this trade favors you.

What does "overinvesting into preserving your squads" term even means? How often you don't reinfoce/heal to full when you are near reinforcement/healing source? And if you have enough infantry to keep opponent at bay then don't build more squads, right?

What you wanted to say is probably "how effectively you trade your investments with enemy". If that is so, then FRP only helps it as you don't have to choose between retreating 4-man Cons to reinforce, or keep them at the frontline. It costs you less time to reinforce, heal and come back.

The only drawback of FRP is investment into obtaining itself.
I'm sorry if I sound like an asshole, but reading how "healing and reinforcing often is bad" is just laughable.

EDIT: This all is BALANCE talk. OP wanted to talk about gameplay aspects of FRPs. Let's assume you and your opponent are of the same skill level and you won't be pushed to your base sector and get your FRP destroyed somewhere halfway to your base.

Remove frp pls.

Thanks.

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But give make sure all factions have non-doc smoke and recon options. Otherwise it would be pain to fight HMGs and other suppression stuff.

Why not just make reinforcement cost 33% higher for frp. Why just remove it from the game all together. Why keep trying to make all factions the same.

Because retreating is key mechanic in CoH.
Having FRP interferes with that. For example, it heavily reduces effect of suppression units.

You don't have to invest in scouting too as you can just press T and come back in 1 minute if you've found yourself in unpleasant situation.

I used to think about that too, but to be honest, 3v3 is still the most fun-safe team game mode in this game imo.

What i hate in CoH2 is that it allows arranged teams to play against random teams. I can't even tell how frustrating a bad/dropper/afk teammate can be in 2v2.

But it is sooooo satisfying when you have managed to cooperate with random teammates (spontaneously or through chat) and fight harsh battle agaist arranged team until you eventually win!

Probably worth all those losses against AT because those games usually don't last for too long.