Profile of Esxile

Ferdi is a total non issue, JT is a meme with severe drawbacks, and even the ISU is ok nowadays...
There are much worse things in this game. Such as the British faction....

Brit faction is cancer or gives cancer, you can't get out with it.

that makes no sense, Its not a replay, I'm talking about, its consistently losing against OKW, I cant deal with the faction as Soviets

which means we need more replays to see where you fail. Racketens are probably the upper level side of the iceberg.

I'm not even sure smoke would do the trick. The problem isn't on the OKW side, but the Maxim spam efficiency in general.

What would do making the maxim a bit better (maybe keep its stat but enlarge the cone of fire), but costing something like 300+mp. So Soviet cannot really afford to build more than 1 early game.
I would also increase the unsetup time so whem the HMG is flanked it takes more time to react.

In another topic i had a discussion with Mr. Smith, the bugsmasher from WBP team (gj on that!), about late-game strength of factions.

Here is a shortened quote from him:


To be honest, i disagree both with that this is the intended design and more importantly that it should be!

So i want your opinions: Do you want that all factions should converge to the same late-game strength?

If your answer is no, then you should agree on having powerful early game factions winning 90% of their games early on as Late game factions won 90% of games reaching this stage.
Now how much games represent having 90% chance to win your game over the 10% of games you'll be able to survive till the late game is a mystery to me. But what I'm sure is we can have perfect balanced factions with that, with a perfect symmetry in power spikes (early vs late) but this is not going to be balanced in a game wise perspective.

If your opinion is to give every faction a fair chance to reach late game stage, then you should ensure every faction has the same fair chance to win the late game. If so, we can have some factions doing better on the early stage of the game and some others doing better on the middle stage of the game and all of them having a power convergence on the late game.

I obviously want more balance between factions on the late game. Units like Havre/KT/Comets/SPanther/STiger/Elefant are aberrations in this game in the way they are implemented. Only the Elefant isn't offending today due to Ostheer being so weak at all the stages of the game. I'm also not including the ISU/IS2/Tiger as they are balanced in my opinion and this is why we almost never see them in teamgames.

Balance is a mix of symmetry and strength and weakness on units and factions level.
Today we are seeing that the counterpart of those units aren't enough strong. What they are: Popcap, mp and fuel. They aren't enough because you can have a well balanced army and picking those unit as the cherry on top of the cake. Those units aren't balanced at all and the power they bring should have biggest downsides.

As an idea on how we could bring more balance in those units is looking at the Tiger Ace. Not going to the economy creeping level of the TA, those units should have a biggest impact on your economy, not only in popcap and the upkeep naturally going with, but a special upkeep fees in mp/fuel to maintain those units on the field, with a possibility to withdraw them and get back some of your mp/fuel investment.

Is it viable to use Rifles as basically fodder with no muni invested, then go LT+CAP while using all the light vehicles plus .50 cal and mortar?

Stuart, M20, M15, and M16 with HMG and AT guns is a pretty scary force as long as Rifles protect them, and once a CaliOPe or Priest is deployed Pak/MG walls/Flak HQ crumble. The reason I've been trying this over 4 rifle with double LMG is that strategy can easily be bled of MP, can't have proxy units hold key VPs, and once the Stuart is lost you lose flank ability.

I was ranked 157 using 4 rifle, lost it and went to 250, and now am back to 150ish using super aggressive combined arms.

What is this weak against at higher play levels other than 444 or just 222?

Weaknesses:
On some maps vs Oshteer G43 spam. Probably as well vs Ostruppen spam where you're not going to take the edge vs the swarm.
Late game vs any kind of upgraded infantry.
If you opponent went 2xmortars to counter your support weapons.

In a vacuum, any time you'll face someone equal/better than you, you'll probably lose cuz using support weapons doesn't mean not using BARs, you need to use them both.

On the other hand, this strat works vs an aggressive OKW truck emplacement with the reco commander and its pathfinders. The amo you save is easily used for early arty calls. But I wouldn't build too much LVs, you need to rush your first sherman to put an end to the game as fast as possible.