Profile of Alexzandvar

I will admit that it is harder to get to t4. However, all tech got scaled back. T4 is more expensive because it is a special tier that gives access to nondoctrinal heavy armor. The pwerfer and arguably brummbar may be underperforming, but if the panther/ brummbar came too early, they would also break balance.

You can always tech up later in the game if you are floating fuel from not losing tanks. Allied factions don't have that choice.

The OKW Panther can hit the field quite early and it isn't OP. And considering the worse stats of the Ostheer Panther I don't really see how T4 getting a major cost reduction would really hurt much with how meh the units in the tier other than the Panther are.

I mean the Panther is a specialist tank, it's countered by AT guns and tank destroyers still have a reasonable chance to pen it's armor. I really don't feel like it hitting the field not super late in the game would impact much.

People keep saying it's a luxury, but it just feels like a chore to me.

It is more or less my main critique; when I first read the changes my reaction was "WTF what's the point of EAD and playing as OKW if the meta is really just same as Ostheer?"

End of the day even with the small stat chances in armour, what you get is not so much an OKW version of Panzer4, but rather both Axis factions revolve around the same Panzer4 unit. Hence my suggestion that the characteristics of OKW's Panzer4, while remaining a medium tank, ought to come with a few differences, namely in abilities, like say having integral Emergency Repairs or Panzer Commander (though granted, seeing as how those doctrinal abilities themselves are rather limited, those are hardly the best ones to choose).

The OKW PIV has significantly different veterancy than the Ostheer PIV.

Panzer IV Ausf J. Medium Tank
Unlocks the 'Combat Blitz' ability
+60% turret rotation speed, -25% scatter
-30% reload, +20% rotation speed, +10% ac/de-celeration
+12.5% range, -25% scatter
+53.85% accuracy when moving, +45.8% sight range

Panzer IV Medium Tank
Unlocks the 'Blitzkrieg' ability
+30% armor, +40% weapon rotation speed
-30% reload, +20% rotation speed, +20% ac/de-celeration

As you can see the OKW vet gives more turret rotation and reduces scatter by a very significant margin making it very effective against enemy infantry; which is what the Ausf J is supposed to be effective against. It's not something you want to rely on for AT because it's going to have problems versus multiple 85's and especially heavies like IS2's but it gives OKW something to even out the mid game.

For a while now OKW has been somewhat anemic and UP compared to Ostheer due to lack of a non-doc suppression platform that can stick around and lock down area's (The Flak Track and Kubel becoming extinct when AT guns and medium armor hit the field) outside of using their Schwer aggressively as well as the fact they had nothing between the P2 and the Panther and the P2 is dropped in popularity significantly since EVERYONE uses Guards now which directly counter OKW light armor.

Fuss spam is so common because it's much more efficient than getting Obers while Fallsch are to fragile and JLI don't pack enough punch. Personally I would like it if Obers came with 2 StG44's standard and when they got the IR StG44 upgrade it replaced the remaining two rifles. Make the LMG34 upgrade replace 1 of the StG44's.

Volks also should have a anti-infantry upgrade. Why you ask? Because right now Volks literally only exist because they can tote around shrek's. If you could upgrade your Volks for a cheaper price of say; 60-70 munitions, with 3 StG44's after converting your second HQ (regardless of what that HQ is) then it would give a reason to make Volks after minute 10. That or just make Volks come with 2 StG 44's standard at the start of the game but just make them worse than normal ones and increase the price of Volks to like 260 MP.

It's annoying that the faction that's supposed to be all about using extreme amounts of automatic weaponry have more rifle units than literally any other faction in the game.

Is it really that difficult to spell Osttruppen?

Sorry, I tend to spell things how I say then. Awustruppen

A trench with a cost and more durable, not usable by the enemy... Hmm, isn't it a "bunker"?

Can't garrison bunkers with mortars

The first idea is nice, but the "humf" that the doctrine has is the fuel to muni conversion. I don't know how it would be with that rate of MP income, but certainly it would be a lot of guys running around, cashes everywhere.

That's the idea, less tanks more support weapon play to support your Oustruppen. The whole "theme" should be Hungarians or w/e Oustruppen are supported by the occasional German tank and lead by German officers.

I don't think that they should cost more than 200 MP - the whole point of them is being dirt cheap and easily replaceble. I actually think they are fine, even with the received acc.

Costing slightly more but being more effective would make them easier for players to sue them instead of having to micro elventy billion squads.

Not one step back soldier!

It's a very nice way to buff cons and other "cheap" soviet infantry without making them OP at the start of the game. Although penals still need some help but all the people asking them to be rifleman are out of their mind.

Last thing we need if the power of the clown car + riflemen + snipers.