Profile of Grumpy

Ill partially answer this,OKW is not my favorite but playing against them and watching I've come to these conclusions.

Thanks! One follow-up question - when you go Breakthrough, do you ever get a sturmoficer (sp?)? I never seem to have enough munitions to use his abilities so I'm not sure how useful he normally is.

I've only played a few games as OKW and have some questions for the people who play a lot of 1v1's. The smaller maps and no OST teammates mean not a lot of munitions and seem to force some hard choices.

1) 3 volks or 4? Does it depend on the map? Do you upgrade them all right away or wait until armor out?
2) Do you buy the ISG? I've been buying one but it seems to kill less than an OST motar but costs twice as much. If you don't, how do you counter Soviet mortars, who seem to bleed OKW like crazy (my micro isn't good enough to keep all my units moving all of the time).
3) If you get a ISG, do you spot for it with an IR halftrack or a unit like Jaeger Light or Panzerfusiliers?
4) If you're pretty sure that they're going Shock Rifle, do you get Jagdpanzer first or Panther?
5) If they've decided to be as annoying as garden pudding and get one or two snipers, how do you counter those? I've tried Jaeger Light but they still seem to bleed manpower badly.
6) What commanders do you usually have loaded?
7) Is there a map guide somewhere? I've googled for one but haven't been able to find one.

Even with ost buffs, they are still the weakest faction in game. Scout car still needs to be raised up to 30-35 fuel and get an armor and damage upgrade for the 2 cm. Hell the damage boost and armor upgrade can have a fuel cost of 15-20 to make it fair that way you aren't over paying for the shitty mg scout car. Or it could have the 2cm by default. Nobody uses them without the turret, why is it there? Just to add more muni upgrades?

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So without further adieu I propose.

• All battlephases now cost 120mp
  
• Battlephase 1 fuel cost reduced by 10
  
• Battlephase 2 fuel cost increased by 20
  
• Battlephase 3 cost reduced by 20
  
  

Overall t2 for ost comes quicker, t3 comes later, and t4 comes quicker. Also manpower isn't sucked dry in early-mid game as badly but still are paying the most overall.

The cost of T3 and T4 for both Ost and Soviets should be reduced. Either that, or building T3 gets a command PIV or T34 similar to the Panther command tank (good main gun, mark target). T4 should get something as well. This would would make those tiers viable and add some needed variety.

In regards to the units themselves, Su85's movement characteristics is garden nice person pudding, the way it struggles to decide which way to turn is extremely annoying and it seems to get worse when you try to micro it a lot. The SU76 needs a much longer barrage distance as it's mobility is about as bad as the SU85, it is really fragile, and needs to be near the front to do anything, all of which is a bad combination.

On the German side, PanzerWerfer seems to underperform. I haven't tried it a lot so it might just be that I'm trying to use it incorrecly. Panther, Brumbar, PIV, T34, T70, Katy all seem okay. The tanks on that list would probably get used a lot more if the call-ins weren't as good or better and come without tech costs.

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Otherwise I am pretty much just guessing

Pacific time zone, and play all four factions since the last patch. (in 4v4's at least, don't like Ost much in 2v2)

and you would get rolled because you have no field presence and nothing to defend your artillery with.

I usually play 4v4 and was describing the end of game units (and maybe exaggerating a little bit). The ml-20's cost is okay for what it does, as is the pop cap. I get them occasionally, normally build just one, but it still racks up 40-60 kills. It sometimes kills badly wounded tanks when I can fire into the retreat path. The damage is somewhere around 240 so you're not going to kill anything that is near full health. It's also great for punishing aggressive truck placements.