Profile of Butcher

Totally agreed! I actually thought about making a thread about that too. From a 2vs2 perspective Germans are not playable any longer. The player search rate has gone up to a solid 75% Allies. Pretty good indicator for what is going on right now.

Germans used to have a late game advantage which kept them in the game but Brits totally negate that now. Everything about the British faction is exaggerated.

From bad design like an anti-everything Sniper to cancer-emplacements to mysterious tank superiority, which they honestly should not have. Snowflake bonuses to the 6pounder that performs much better than the US 57mm, super Churchills and crazy vet bonuses. The Brits have everything.

OKW has been nerfed from the game. What is the use of a faction that is designed around a resource penalty to give you less units on the field, if those units are barely on par with British units, even outperformed for cost in quite some cases? Volks are a joke since the other infantry squads were buffed.

Ostheer has not been hit as hard. Yet it is incredible frustrating to see your 2 Pak gun trap being laughed at by a Churchill that just lobs grenades at them. Meanwhile 6 pounder walls are working fine vs everything the Germans can throw at them. Add to that the Super-sniper (which negates the 222 and is no risk in 2vs2s) and the game is simply no fun at all as Germans.

The combination Brit + USA or Soviets is better than any combination the Germans have.

Then we could get rid of ridiculous things like34/76 having worse armor/hp than PIV ausf G despite being better armored with its famous 60° front armor slope.

Just a sidenote: The hull armor of the Panzer IV G/H/J was 80mm thick and German crews were instructed to angle their armor, making it pretty much as effective as the T-34s armor.

Also the T-34/76 lacked in other categories that are much more important (cupola, gun, radios, commander and gunner being the same person, no turret base, vision slits etc.). So a Panzer IV outperforming a T-34 is perfectly fine.

What I find ridiculous is the randomness of stats and abilities like weapon damage, range or blitzkrieg. This is of course owed to balance, but Panthers getting out-ranged by other anti tank units still looks silly. The same as the Jackson doing more damage than an IS-2. I wished this was somehow influenced by realism. The same goes for Nascar Panzers.

I use 222s to counter Bren Carriers, M20s or Clown Cars. I like using them together with spotting scopes. Vet2 scout cars + scopes are insane. So it has some uses.

The real problem imo is the lack of late game utility of the Scout Car (without doctrinal scopes). But that´s more a problem of all light vehicles.

And why are you ranting so much? I see that you are German, but Coh was always about that pseudo-authenticity, you should have already figured it out. Festung Armor and Jäger Armor may be incorrect but for non-native speakers (or at least for me) they doesn't sound cringeworthy, but kinda cool.

That wasn´t supposed to be a rant. I should have put more smileys into my comment.

I know all this is pseudo-authentic, but it´s still annoying. If you can do it right with little effort then do it right.

It is lazy... much like how the British or Commonwealth are just referred to as English in a lot of German translations.

Don´t think it would sell well here. The main market for games is the Western hemisphere.

World war 2 was the event that changed Europe once and for all. It affects our thinking even today. The whole concept of a united Europe is the consequence of the insane things most European countries had to go through back then. My grandparents would tell me stories of what happened in the war. Everyone in the "target market" has a connection to it.

Korea on the other hand is some war far away. That does not make it any less important for the people affected by it, but you can´t blame people if they aren´t interested in it as much.