Profile of Esxile

Here's my solution to the flak cannon and HQ.

-100-120 munitions for flak cannon no population
-Panzer HQ cost halved but can only call in Obers and maybe jagdpIV
-Upgrade required for the other tanks which brings back the cost to standard levels in total.
-Gun can choose targets.

Finally

-AA no longer based on RNG

Free squads?
You mean the 8 (Lieutenant) + 8 (Captain) + 5 (Major) + 4 (Ambulance) popcap squads the USF gets?

I only talked about popcap cost.

inb4: yes; USF popcap abuse is actually fixable

Make the King Tiger only available when all trucks are UP and OKW players should stop building them on the middle of the map.

Thanks for not reading a single word I have written. I have referred to all of those options, with the exception of the Puma (which I might add is in a single, obscure Ostheer doctrine). Is that what "snip" means nowadays? "I haven't read the post I am quoting here, but let me reply to it nonetheless."

P.S.: May I add that "Everyone who doesn't have my opinion sucks, here is the replay forum so you can get good, NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBBBBBBBBBBB!!111!" isn't a very convincing argument either? That I do at least somewhat know what I am talking about would have been obvious to you if you had actually read anything I wrote (I know, reading is hard; all those letters...), so perhaps that is the underlying issue here.

For fucks sake, with Mr. Smith it is at least possible to bring arguments, because he reads them. With you it is like talking to a machine that selects answers from a limited pool of pre-written sentences.


P.P.S.: @ Mr. Smith Is it intended that PIATs are still a bit... lackluster? Sure, they are cheap as hell, and a perfect tool for your Royal Engineers, but IMO they still seem quite underwhelming compared to other AT options. Might be something that could be improved on once British tanks are brought in line.

Well if you suck, at least with a replay we can tell you so. We all know there is a flaw in the design by not having given stock light tank to Ostheer, but it doesn't mean we must flaw it even more with a lightly armored car spam meta beating light tanks every games.

Not quite right. Some light tanks just need a bit more time to wipe inf now.

The AEC received massive buffs, and it can out-cheese the Stuart's stun shot by its new thread-breaking shot. The T70 is a lot more durable now. The Stuart has better penetration, and can vet faster.

Not to mention the fact that the new PIAT is a super Bazooka-Shreck hybird.


Allied Light Tanks will be still powerful, and people will be building them as often as they used to. The 222, on the other hand, has literally no purpose anymore, as by the time it arrives the allied "Scout/Clown Cars" have done the their damage.

Dunno, if they really lost their shock value vs infantry, many people will simply decide to not use them anymore. Let's be honest many players were building those units because of their high wipe potential with close to 0 micro giving them the edge on the match. Look at the Luch for example, they did removed its shock value some time ago. The unit is still performing well but is a lot less used because it requires brain and micro to get the best of it.

Playing Ostheer everytime I face a Light Tank, the question I ask myself is not how much damage it will do to my army before i finally kill it but how many of my squads will be wipes by them in 1 or 2 shots. Today When I manage to dodge those wipes (but not the damage), I'm in better condition to win the game and it is all what I want today.

Imo, Penals and Guards nerfs are also a nerf for the T70 strategy, those units have less impact when hitting the battlefield and will require more micro to deal the same amount of damage they deal today. Sov players will need to go T1 and T2 to get a viable army composition.
T2 maxim spam isn't great vs Ostheer and T2+T3 alone doesn't work neither on a balanced match. So yes, I can imagine the 222 will have a greater room to dominate the battlefield when it is available and probably force the Sov player to build a T70 to counter it which is different from today where Sov players are buidling T70 anyway.

Vs USF, the mortar nerf is basically all what we need today. Maybe the match-up will be still unbalanced but today we don't yet, let's see how the game evolve with the mortar nerf and Stuart nerf and M15 nerf.

Vs Brit, the AEC nerf is a good point, there is a need for more adjustment with the faction ofcourse but out of scope, so let's wait for the next patch.

Hail to the patchmakers

Increasing damage after brace is a bad idea. It will be impossible to keep them alive, brace counter artillery strikes and usually you don't get that many units around an artillery strike, so how would you be able to have engineers in time to repair the emplacement.
You already need 2 engineer squads to repair faster than what a stug deal to you, increase its damage will be an overkill.

Like I suggested before and like Mr.Smith is suggesting here, just disable or strongly reduce the repair while braced and problem solved. Engineers have to be there before brace to repair, You cannot anymore just wait for brace and repair.

Or another idea, make repair disabling brace. Once a unit is starting repairing an emplacement under brace, brace ends.

An other one, make brace and both mortar and bofors barrage on the same CD.