Profile of Grumpy

Is there some way to make a video play in your signature? I tried to put one in but all that shows up is the link.

Most guys in 4vs4 are camping with mgs, mortars, etc. And this map is very good for this playstyle, because its very hard to flank. Thats the reason its played often. For me its a static boring gameplay. Has more in common more with ww1 frontlines than ww2 combat.

General Mud is a good map but too hard for many players. Because of the wide open map.

Well, you can always play Vielsalm instead of Red Ball. Most of us don't veto Red Ball because it is not at all unbalanced.

Vielsalm seems like it should be a better map than it is, but always turns into a weird 2v2, with an odd spot in the middle. Lorch is weird because of the fact that few people can count past three, so they don't know what to do with the extra VP's. Lanzerath is still much worse from the bottom instead of the top. La Gleize is worse from the top than the bottom because of the difficulty in approaching the center VP, and the terrain is worse for units like the SU85 and ISU, that don't like sloping terrain.

Port of Hamburg needs the canals shrunk and moved away from the center VP. It's the only surprise on the list, probably because the other maps are more deserving of vetoes.

Mud isn't too hard. It's too big so it favors tanks like Panthers over everything else. All the mud makes long range infantry important, so most of us veto it as allied and want it as axis.

In short, Rosbone's graphic makes sense because of the balance of the maps, not because people want to camp with MG's and mortars.

The couple new maps like White Ball are really good, but my guess is that the few people that make maps have to put in hundreds of hours to make a map play like that.

Gawain thanks for explaining to vipper why a simple dps comparison doesn't show the whole picture.

Another way to look at your suggestion might be to make penals come out with 5 men, and then mobilise reserves gives them +2 men, making total of 7 for late game.

IMO no other tweaks would be needed then and it seems an elegant solution. Helps incentivise going for MR when it helps both penals and cons, plus with 5 man penals and ptrs changes they'll still be reasonable deterrent Vs light vehicles in early game.

I like the suggestion of having them come out with 5 men for something like 270 mp. Some of the RA bonus might need to be transferred to vet 0. They start too slow and bleed too much in larger game modes.

They shouldn't get 7 models with MR. MR should lower the reinforce cost and add the sixth man.

Also, they should get some type of sight bonus and camo with the PTRS. That would also help with MP bleed and would turn an otherwise lackluster unit into something more useful. It would also help offset the ISU nerf.

So because its used with effect it is bad somehow? People please stop with the mds. All factors from the spam period have been nerfed hard. Now it will become usable for muni cost per use. It doesnt deserve the same mp price as the mg42.

So do we nerf the mg42/43 instead? They lock down an area even better for the same or less mp and less muni.

It takes 3 maxims to lock down one of the outside lanes on Red Ball. It takes 2 MG42's or MG34's to do the same, but those will work much better than the three maxims. Also, if you go with three maxims, expect that a walking stuka will wipe two of them in the first shot. It seems like they should be either a lot cheaper or should do their job somewhat competently.

2 on everything, 3 PTRS, 3 Zook on rangers. I didn't think it was worth testing 2 Elite Zook on Paras.

Not sure how you see them doing similarly when they had the most reliable and best performance overall. Maybe you refer for cost and that would be correct. But zooks on RET ha a high variance on dmg, as they often failed to pen and they barely survived all the incoming damage.

Not sure if i perfectly aligned them in front of the PV so they get hit by all MGs with 100% uptime.

I was normalizing on cost. There was 150 muni's of zooks on the rangers, versus 120 in shreks, 100 in piats or zooks on RE's. The 150 barely outperformed the 120, and was about 50% better than the standard zooks on RE's.

The balance team should consider giving PTRS penals the same type of camo and AT nades that tank hunter Cons get. They're just going to get shredded otherwise.