Profile of JohnnyB

Sherman rush is the best tactc against OKW.
Don't belivie me? Ask Cruzz.

Not everybody agrees with you and Cruzz .

2 Shermans with AP shells can also kill a Panther if not supported with Volks.

Is this your opinion only or Cruzz's opinion too?

BAR Rifles can do a pudding against Obers.

Really? How about double BARS? Is that doing something to Obers?

Another golden thought from Jaigen.
You get Sherman to counter blob and 1-2mins after there is a Panther.

Then don't get shermann and use everything else. Double BAR, flames (on CE or on riflemen), scott, and so on. I'm not saying you defeat OKW blob with that, but you can resist to it a period of time and maybe win the game. I tried shermanns and I don't like them => I don't work with shermanns. Variants of shermann as buldozer or E8 appear to be more valuable in my opinion than the regular one. The only reason for which T4 should exist, is Jakson in my opinion and maybe scott (if you have enough resources).

In fact, OKW blob wouldn't even be OP if OKW wouldn't float such an amount of mp. Thing is, no matter how many obers or volks or whatever infantry models you kill, OKW will refit its squads and build new units quite easily. Here is the true problem. If you kill enough OKW infantry this should affect them badly. But this is a problem of faction design because OKW player has nothing else to spend his manpower on (cause of the fuel shortage) so he pumps obers and volks.

And if soviet can counter this pretty effectively with maxims, snipers, flamers, katys and - let's not forget - mortars especially 120 ones, those reaching and successfuly destroying even field deployed trucks, USF has no serious ballistic weapons. We can't count pack howitzer, mortar ht and scott among them because:

- OKW blob push - that can erase any gun/team crew including the pack howitzer. A couple of maxims with some mortar behind have a better chance to stop that than anemic USF HMGs that can get decrewed almost instantly.
- scott it's actually ineffective if OKW player is helped by an Ostheer player. Paks can reach scotts from far distance and you can't get to them if supported by OKW infantry. So you struggle to beat manpower units (pak and infantry) with a unit that cost manpower and fuel, and fail.
- mortar HT is pure shit and everybody knows it. In addition, it's doctrinal.

The only one remaining it's the PRIEST which is also doctrinal which is so slow and inacurate.

Just a heads up, there is no such thing as a Panzer IV Ausf I. The old Panzer IV was likely meant to be a Model G dispute having several characteristics of the Model J due to being ported from CoH1's Model J. The new one is most likely a late Model G. If it were an early Model G it would retain the shorter barrel and older muzzlebreak of the replaced model, whereas a Model H would have schurzen as soon as it entered the battlefield, not at Vet 2.

Well I know something about panzers me too. I dont' know for sure if a model i existed, but clearly it's not a "G" late or no late model, nor an "H" because of the reasons you point it out. The gun cache (top) it's same as ausf j model, but the turret seems to be a little different. So it's not a J model either. So, if it's not an i (??) model, I don't know what it is... Maybe Pz IV ausf. RELIC. A new Panzer IV type.

If a tank now runs into a PAK40 at vet2 or 3, and the stun ability is activated after the first shot, it will land a total of 4 shots = 640 damage = dead medium tank without any chance to counter. Well played relic you ducking retards

You are wrong. It's only working properly now, that is what it actually does.

There sould be some rules:

- Commander abilities that are not allowed to appear in the same doctrine
and
- Each ability should value a number of points. The most valuable abilities or powerfull abilities should value more points and the weakest or those that are almost useless, less points. You will have then a limited number of points to build a custom commander, and if you exhausted them, you cannot purchase other abilities in order to obtain the standard number (5).

For instance "mechanized grenadier group" should value 1 point while Tiger Ace call-in should value 4 points and the maximum number of points you can use is 7.... "rapid conscritpion" should value 1 point, while recon overflight should value 2... and so on.

Of course this system needs some time to be implemented corectly but it should work. Also, it would be a proof of individual builder's brains (or lack of) and experience.