Profile of Grumpy

You older guys should start a clan or group and call yourselves (ODB)Old Dirty Bastards or (ODS)Old Dirty Smurfs

GOBS - Grumpy Old Bear Smurfs, would be a subset of The Angry Bears

The simple fact is FHQ commander is just as cheesy as CAS support commander, both needs to be looked simultaneously.

One of my hopes for the next patch is to see FHQ nerfed into oblivion. It should never be allowed to be set up in enemy territory, and maybe not even neutral. CAS gives too much muni per fuel, and dive bomb shouldn't have laser precision nor should it destroy field artillery.

Why do the discussions of allied units always end with so many insults?

It's because so many of the allied units are garbage, with many having been nerfed into oblivion after "discussions." It's made US and Soviet pretty boring most of the time. Now you start a "discussion" because you think one of the three semi-decent USF units is OP because someone used it well against you.

In the meantime, Axis players get vehicles that (in most cases) start out better, and then are given complete fantasy abilities (Pak43's shooting though forests, buildings, IR halftracks that can see through forests, buildings, etc) because somehow just being better units isn't enough.

These buildings collapse way too easily, plus Steppes is a huge map.

A single Ost mortar knocks down any of those buildings in 2-3 minutes. Plus all of the misses are going to hit near troops that are trying to heal. Bundle grenades take down any of those buildings immediately at the cost of 45 muni's. I can post a replay if needed.

Daspoulos and friends may get away with it only because they're top 10 players going against randoms. However, I'd bet he's never used FHQ on Steppes because location he shows for the FHQ isn't where the people that use FHQ put it, and makes no sense because it cedes both fuels to the axis. The comments about easily taking the cutoff are far-fetched. The "easy" move to the fuel cutoff is halfway across the map, directly in front of the axis base, and through two choke points.

The normal TAB start is to go three to island, then hit mid, so in the map that Daspoulos drew up, the three axis would have both fuels and hit fhq troops from side while the fourth hits fhq with mortar or ISG.

An ambulance works much better than FHQ on Steppes. Now if some genius wants to start a thread claiming that ambulances are OP then by all means go ahead.

Hi there, it's going to be a short one:

First problem
Do you guys think that sturmpios are taking to long to reinforce? I mean I am not bothered by their cost, or reinforcement costs, the prices are entitled, but the reinforcement time is to godam long, your beards are growing over your keyboards until you will have the squad replenished. Don't you think their reinforcement time need some speeding? Just a bit....

Second problem
I don't understand why in the T2 building's case (for me the medic building) the player needs to buy the upgrade for a FRP (forward retreat point), then, when the FRP upgrade is done, to come again and establish the FRP at T2 by issuing a command. I mean why are you buying that upgrade if not for establishing a FRP? So the FRP must be selected automatically when FRP upgrade is done. Only if you need to cancel it, you should do it manualy.

Opinions?

Sturmpios reinforce slow, but so do most other elite infantry like Shocks. Forcing the T2 to pay for the upgrade was Relic's way of balancing with USF since for the same utility, USF had to buy both ambulance and Major. The USF gets the advantage that the units are mobile but they're also fragile and eat up pop cap.

Since I started playing 1v1's, I don't like the resource penalty because it seems like volks are only a match for cons and lose to rifles one on one, so resources are always a problem at the start of the game. I've played games with nearly equal map control where someone went Guard Motor and was pulling in 2x T34/85's at almost the same rate that I was making JP4's. Now that you mention changes, I'd like to be able to build caches.