Profile of broodwarjc

No, just no. Teching cost is something you spend one time in the game, it won't help/disadvantage you throughout the game. In addition, OKW cannot boost its fuel income by building caches. If it converts amo to fuel, that will oblige it to chose a particular developement path, that cannot be changed, and the shortages will be simple doubled: less fuel penalty, but amo penalty in addition.



I disagree, volks and raketen do not protect you from a large scale armored assault. They will produce some damage, kill one -two tanks, but the result will be in Allied favor. In addition, they lack the mobility and efficiency of a concentrated vehicle force. Volks have one schreck, not two. Raketen has an embarassing range. Sorry, but no.



Not sure about that. I saw games lost by OKW with KT alive at the end of the game. If not killed - which is hard but not impossible - it cand effinetly be staled, due to its range and because it's sow.



Scavanging does not provide the amount of resources needed. Non-fuel base AT it's easy to be counterplayed by balistic weapons and even by tanks! Forward base it's a very high risk investment.



1. Forward buildings emplacement wich greatly expose them to AT and balistic fire. A forward T2 means many times a death sentence. A forward T4 is benefic and risky in the same time due to reasons stated above. On the other hand, if you want to be efficient, you are OBLIGED to put AT LEAST T4 forward.
2. Lack of enough AT middle game. In comparison, pzgrens + pak40 are more efficient than volks + raketen. And Ostheer doesn't have a fuel penalty! You can't be flexible, you need a puma beside those just to keep the pace.
3. Please count the number of tanks OKW build in a game. If someone tells me that 1 KT plus raketen plus volks can keep pace with a couple of zis guns, 4-5 T34s and an IS2 (just for example) I would tell him to think again.
4. Mines. Does anyone use mines with OKW? Maybe, but you have to reduce other upgrades for infantry and don't use off-map arty. Any mine planted will hold you back related to other investemnts that you need to do.
5. Lack of a serious medium tank. Puma is ok, no doubt, but it's not a tank, it's a tank replacement. It's thin and requires alot of micro.

From my experience, the player who relies on infantry, team weapons and ONE monster-tank will lose in most of cases before one player wich relies on infantry + alot of medium tanks. I even remember a 1v1 game that I had as a soviet, wich is extremely suggestive. As for AT,my opponent built one Elefant and several Pgrens. He lost everything in front of an aggressive attack composed from 4 T34s.

This.^
Also the Munitions increase was due to taking too long to get panzershreks and early M3 being even more devastating than it currently is to early game OKW. Maxim and sniper spam is still a big problem for OKW.

Against Ostheer I can see the T34 buff being a good thing, but against OKW it just wrecks them. Maxims/Snipers into T34 are still incredibly effective. I am not sure if the reload buff would be good for balance...

Racketenwerefer weak? Oh you poor delusional fools.

Go look at the penetration stats. And then all the damage bonuses and pen bonuses it gets with vet.

All you need to do is keep it safe with Volks or PanzerFus. Just like any AT gun. There's no AT gun in the game than can deal with a circling tank. And the short range is fixed at vet 2 anyway (which it hits extra fast because it is so cheap)

It used to be okay with that, but the recent Vet nerf really hurt its ability to Vet into usefulness. Also as I stated before I really see this as supposed to be OKWs answer to early vehicles, but it performs poorly as that. Good micro-ed early M3s aren't counter-able until at least 2 Shreks (180 munitions) which can really be annoying and game breaking for OKW.

Although if a change ever comes I hope it isn't until the Kubel is toned down, because right now it is an OP annoying strategy to face.

You know if they added the Pershing and it sucked, I bet everyone wanting it would turn around and whine about how such a worthless unit is in the game...

The OKW Raketenwerfer seems to be the most kill-able unit in the game. Any kind of mortar, grenade, stray tank shot, stray bullet, or rock either kills 2 models or wipes it. So lets look at the pros and cons of this unit:

Pros:
Tier 0 AT gun
Good damage
Good Penetration
Can garrison in buildings
Can retreat

Cons:
Very Low Health
Poor range
Poor arc of fire
Poor accuracy
Set-up time

My idea is not necessarily to buff its health (at least until Kubel is toned down), but to give it one ability to broaden its usefulness. Although the Raketen can be made early it usually only gets one shot off on anything before the target leaves its arc of fire. Early allied vehicles can easily micro around it and wipe the squad from behind. Therefore what if they gave it a Munitions ability to fire a engine-damaging rocket? This would give incentive to make it for OKW as an early vehicle disabling device. The other option would be to give it an anti-infantry grenade Munitions ability that would allow it to at least disrupt early infantry play giving players a reason to make one.

The fact of the matter is, no one really builds this unit, it at least before gained Vet quickly, but they nerfed that, so what about giving it more functionality? What does the community think?