Profile of Rocket

The B4 is one unit in a commander that leads you nowhere, comparing it to several broken abilities in a commander is dumb. B4 had counter play, recon and bomb, go find it with support, park units behind buildings. Still a silly unit with precision strike but now useless anyway.

CAS you cannot hide you cannot shoot down in time and cannot prevent, B4 was frustrating but was nowhere near the influence on a game this has. CAS doesn't tie up your MP into buying a gun, which can and was easily reconnoitred and destroyed. The B4 isn't built anymore so it's a dead comparison even with 3 of the scatter bulletins it doesn't hit anything, 9/10 players do seem to use CAS however.

If we're going to play the "Funny how player complained about" game why isn't it funny that axis players whined about the old IL2 strafe and this is fibe.

They use it because they can be completely losing the early to mid game being out played and out microed then the magical CAS bullshit starts and slowly drains your map control and negates all the unit preservation that you have done/been rewarded through good micro by a few clicks.

b4 is 10 times different and ALWAYS was very counter able. Not CAS just axis crutch/abuse tool.

I really regret reading through the entire thread, might have to see a doctor for how many IQ points I have lost.

How can any sane person, with any shred of credibility in this game, say that CAS is not bat shit OP. Is this like some kind of combined effort of trolling by some people in here? How can giving instant conversion to a faction that is extremely muni heavy dependent and can effectively jump start your mainline infantry to late game status with mg42 upgrade, rifle nade spam, ETC. And for anyone that thinks strafes take skill is deluded. Leading your strafes and putting it in the right direction just means you aren't brain dead and passed the fifth grade. The interaction it creates with you and your opponent is not something that should exist in this game, let alone any game. They are trying to micro their real created units while you are just creating bullshit out of the air that is spammable and not nearly as punishable as what they have.

Muni conversion should not be instant and should work like some of the other conversion abilities we have in the game, and the fucking cool downs are way too short. This doctrine in its current form is ridiculous in all game modes, more so in 2v2+, no matter the counters or strategies against it. People who think that because a counter exists to a certain strategy, playstyle, or doctrine that it somehow justifies its OPness are insane IMO.

Most people who defend CAS in this thread are the same ones who abuse it, that's the truth if you want it from me.

#end rant.

Well said thank you

More expensive things do more damage?

make it more expensive i'd rather have to just buy 1 instead of buying 3 to do the axis equivalent.

42 needs a slight mp increase other than that it is fine I have no problem flanking and micro. I do have a problem that allies are forced to do this but not axis, it just gives axis even more free reign to blob because allies can't. Obviously 1 squad doesen't beat 3 squads. The fact all allied mgs are inferior and/or come too late is just bullshit you would have to be blind to not see that. So once again one side is punished why the other is given free reign. The idea I thought was to make all mgs as effective as the 42 and 34 to universally stop blobbing but this did not happen. As usual the axis reply is L2p which is not the case.

Fact that even rifle grenades can even counter their own stolen mgs. Then people say well no grenades while suppressed once again imo due to the in general shity allied mgs with small arcs axis still have the advantage there. Smoke grenades only I could maybe see. Put maxim back to what it once was.

Anyways, lets retake it before he comes again,

it is that hard for you to move units when a stuka siren can be heard? or red flares for the ATstrafe? lol

Its really hard when okw sends flare then OST send strafe run instant pins my sherman or priest crews that are repairing then he calls stuka dive bomb to destroy my tanks/priest and crew if I don't retreat them, all infantry or crews on screen and close enough are pined and have to retreat or die with the stuka dive bomb. If some survive then he can rush in volks p4 or panther to clean up or possibly steal them if I cant get other infantry to protect them quick enough or they might just get pinned by the time they get near them again.

Kinda hard to drive your vehicles away when your crew is pinned and can't recrew your vehicle. That is broken other than recon all of them should share cool downs with each other, and AI strafe needs smaller AOE does not matter if you start running away even when you very first see flare they still get pinned. Ammo conversion removed most everyone agrees.

Wtf classifies blobbing you mean a combined arms big push is blobbing? I think not especially if VPs are close and your focused on attacking one point because you have to. Usually when playing a CAS skilless I usually dodge stuka dive, at strafe probably up to 10 times in some cases but if even for one second I miss one stuka dive bomb or AT strafe cause i'm microing tanks or infantry on other side of the map and you cant hear the stuka if your not near where its dropping, boom maybe I lose game changing vehicles, or my major ambulance and half my infantry.

That is what makes it broken as I have to do 10 times as much micro ( which it seems to me allies have to do anyways ) moving my shit around all game then somehow at the same time have to watch that my tanks are not flanked by shreks and other tanks, or rifle nades aren't wiping my infantry, etc. The game is suppose to be about preservation of infantry and especially armor this doctrine basicly rewards the skilless causing you to lose vet infantry and tanks that you maintained from superior micro. Also stops you from making about any big push and can do it for the rest of the game about 25-30 mins in. No one can look everywhere on the map at once and It dosen't matter if stuka bomb misses 4 out of 5 times or what have you if it hit once it can be game ruining.