Profile of JohnnyB

OKW teching needs to be slowed down. they can literately have t3 in 5 minutes in if you don't do well for the first couple of engagements.

the US tech is only a little more expensive then OKW but tends to happen much slower, partly because they're always mp starved.

Sooo.... the solution would be...what? To make OKW trucks more expensive? You know this is a dangerous path. It can quickly transform OKW into an UP faction. If we delay Puma or get read of schreck spam or both, something must be done related to raketenwerfer.

OKW has been designed around those downsides, ammo + fuel starvation. In fact, Relic made its gameplay around that and so give it strong unique mechanisms and commanders abilities to compensate it. The problem is today, there are no ammo and fuel starvation anymore if OKW only spam volks + shreck + They get their PUMA or Luch at the same time as any other faction getting their first tanks. They are even getting their first vehicle before anybody else if they want.

So I don't know what do you referring to when you say OKW has no AT capability. The Puma hit the field 1 minute later first USF light vehicle. OKW has actually the first hard AT capability of all faction with the PUMA. However I understand many people don't want to use it since shreck blobb is so easy to manage in comparison.
OKW is absolutely not a fuel starvation faction, they can access their T4 units faster than anybody else if they want to skip building med fuel cost units. So many time I see the SPH popping up while I'm still on my T1 - still waiting to be able to call for the major. And when the SPH is popped up. Nothing before the sherman can reliably enter in his perimeter and not be killed in a matter of seconds.

Yesterday I had a really interesting game. i wanted to not rush Sherman and go T3 with a stuart to work my micro in aggressive situation and try to win before having to go T4. How stupid I was, my opponent had just to build his SPH in the right spot covering his cut off, his munition point, one VP point and 90% of his fuel point capping area. I couldn't push anything till having a sherman.
But him... oh yes, he could push and cap and retreat safely behind his SPH... What an interesting gameplay. Thanks Relic - what a great idea this SPH and they probably love it since they increase its range a month ago...
So at the end, I build a Sherman and had to face his panther... So next time, I'll skip the investment on med tanks, go directly for a sherman and break him before he can have his Panther.
riflespam into Sherman, you like it or not, OKW gameplay force you into.

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I don't want OKW back to 66% ammo starvation, because it would make the OKW gameplay probably worst than it is today. A munition price for any of his super unit is 100% more interesting in term of gameplay. Let's the player decide where he wants to invest his resources, knowing he cannot have everything instead of starving and forcing him to do every time the same thing.

You speak about a T3 (Puma building) oppening. Let's not cut the choice of a T2 start (JagdPz building). That's why I'm talking about amo reduction together with a raketen buff. A munition price for those super-units still won't solve your problem, because OKW player will simply not invest in that expensive amo upgrade. Why should I pay for a lmg 34 for Obers or even an FG42 upgrade for fallschirms when all I need to do is invest amo in my volks blob and all my problems are solved? Especially if I chose a doctrine with infiltration grenades. In this particular case, it's certain that all I need is a volks blob and some sturmpio.

yeah, it doesn't need smoke so bad, so it can come at vet 1 I guess.

Well, all in all, let's remember that OKW started with a handicap of 66% fuel and 66% amo. Some of its units received nerfs and Relic, feeling bad about it, increased amo income to 100%. Then, because OKW was to strong, they decreased again the amo income to 80%.

Maybe, just maybe, if they will return the 66% amo income, alot of issues will be solved.

I mean some of you are complaining about obers, some about fallschirms, others about walking stuka and so on, but everybody complains about volkspam with schrecks.

But of course you know that without some AT solution early game OKW would be toasted (and this would not require alot of micro or a complicate strategy from allied player neither, Esxile, we saw this allready in the past).

So I'll say, make volkspam much harder to be achieved and definetly not in early game, BUT in the meanwhile DO SOMETHING about that stupid RAKETENWERFER.

It's obvious guys: it's harder to micro a raketen than a blob. Raketen is not that durable, but rather fragile so it can be killed alot faster. The only thing it needs to become a balanced unit and be a viable solution that would replace that volkspam mess, it's to become efficient again, EVEN FOR A PRICE INCREASE. Make it 290 mp, whatever, but give that thing a quicker aiming time and damage. Or, remove the building garrisoning ability but increase it's range and aiming time.

What would be the result? OKW player will try to combo one schreck volk squad with a raketenverfer and make them work tohether, which is more complicated than pumping volks, give them schrecks and blobing them.

Not really, they are in general too high.

Yes, you're right, but for my "battlestation" it's different. Game runs ok with settings a little more higher than Geforce Experience recommends.