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What I am confused about is that USF are often called the weakest faction by a large margin with OKW often being considered either to strong or just slightly above par...

Besides a few fanboys, next to nobody is calling them weak, because they aren't.
Difference though is their gameplay. If a game goes into later stages, they tax you with a lot of additional micro (in comparison to other factions), which makes them annoying to play.
If you can't handle the micro pressure, you gonna lose by default. If you can, you gonna feel like you lost, even if you win.

And OKW has been kinda (over-)nerfed patch by patch, but they still scale very nicely in team games with backup - thin line to balance here

just my 2 cents.

It's not only that you dont select the intendet units, you also have selected the previous unit. I havent seen it on stream tho.

It's likely just user sided. I had this issue, and it certainly is annoying.
In my case it was just some crappy driver.

You might wanna check your chipset, gpu, and mouse drivers.

...the upgrade $$$ had already been triaged to include a liquid cooling kit for the CPU...

Keep in mind, those basic liquid coolers in the 50-100 range are often louder and less efficient than decent air coolers.

Instead of going for i5 overclocking, have you considered i7 / Xeon? The HT will pay off in the long run (and right now already with certain titles), as well as lowering your overall heat signature. You also mentioned a later GPU upgrade, so at least your CPU won't bottleneck then.

just my 2 cents.

Speaking of snipers, are the british emplacement vulnerable to snipershoot (run after fire!)? I know that OKW flak-place is sadly very weak to russian snipers.

Nope, they can't be decrewed by snipers.

It actually makes a difference only when fighting guaranteed penetration units like PaK43, ele or JT.
In that case, HP is better.

You remove the whole point of these options, while still having a highly increased TTK with basic AT weaponary - how is this a good approach again?

...True that, but that only further proves my point, multiple fast firing lighter AT units are better against them then single big slow firing ones with huge penetration.

Sadly, it does not.
Even if you gain more fast firing lighter AT for flanking, the TTK is highly (!) increased. You don't have any logical option to actually counter it. High armor units are usually prone to high pen or rear flanking. Health due plain ROF. This unit ignores both.

Relic simply went for asymmetry here.
If they went with the "old way", we'd have 1040 hp 350-375 armor churchills.

I'm completely missing an argument here
"Asymmetry". Maybe we should bring back the old ISU & Ele, you know... for asymmetry.
The "old way" could also mean a more reasonable 1040 hp & 300 armor, and gain 1280hp with veterancy - as an example. And / or you adjust cost, or give it certain specials to fulfill it's role (oh wait, it already has those).

Late war churchills outclass KV-1 by a long shot in both, armament and armor, frontal armor specifically, MK VII had more then Tiger on the front.

Missing an argument, again
With 280 front armor ingame, it pretty much has the Tigers armor already. It should outclass the KV series, no doubt about it, but doubling it's HP pool is beyond reasonable... and let's not even talk about the specials.


If you read Relics patchnotes you will often see this: "to bring it in line"
No ask yourself why.


just my 2 cents.