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Repair trucks are there so if your sturms are busy or dead you are not without. The entire OKW was designed around managing if you lose your important units (or tech trucks). Losing your shit is supposed to hurt and the faction most rewarded for keeping their shit alive is hurt the most for losing them. If you don't put your sturms on the front odds of losing them are drastically reduced, as is their impact. If you want to leverage their initial impact you risk losing them. It's as risk/reward as any design can be. Well not quite since you CAN get repair dudes on your truck to metigate the loss slightly. But it's up to the player to decide if the risk is worth the reward.

Risk/reward.

Yes - original design. But after all allied buffs. Now it is mostly high risk/little reward. While with UKF, for example, it has become little risk/high reward.

You are really using mental gymnastics here.

This is sth I'd use to describe players who don't see the obvious - it is really manpower heavy to repair/sweep/mine with a 300mp unit that has 30mp reinforcement cost. That is real mental gymnastics not to see that and start talking about the (perceived) superiority of axis armour.

The okw p4 inirior to allied meds? Just a bit more armour? It has 70 more armour. 80 more then the t34. A bit... come dude. You must be trolling. It has a lot more staying power with better damage however slightly that is.

Which does not even need to transfer into additional AT shot. Let alone the fact that hand held at stuff can be equipped on almost anything and just dish damage continuously.

What is hard about getting a second pio squad to help repair? Nothing. Dont repair on the front line thats all you need not to do.
Same with sturms okw saves lots of mp via self heal and can easely reimburce a second sturms squad.

This an example of extreme mental gymnastics.

The mistake is having the kt stock. It will always become the main focus, its gun is really powerfull at and ai. You cant ignore it as allies, if you do it will cost you the game.

For the price of 1 KT You can but 2 medium tanks/tanks TD, and still have some resources for infantry. The cost efficiency of KT is so bad that either a player has already won the game and just builds it for fun, or You should be happy seeing it as it will mean they will lose the game soon.

That you think it gun is so weak it meningless says it all.

I never wrote it is meaningless. IMO it is much worse to have one tiger than two other tanks (TD+premium medium, for example)

Again all allied td's have been buffed almost soley to deal with the kt. It cant bounce all day long anymore, its not prtected by the shreckblib anymore, it wont save you recources to rebuy it instanty if you even lose it. It wont singelhandidly bleed you opponent dry because it can be damaged frequently now. It has to repair now.

How is that piece of text related to expensive sturms or state of OKW? Allied TDs are basically very potent and shut most axis medium armour completely. It is a bit unfair to say the least.

Dude the t70 usualy doesnt make it to the late game mostly. Its at is overrated greatly. The luch and aa track come so early thats why you cant have them be at and ai. Okw has the t0 raketten to deal with early vehicles.

But I specifically used this example to prove that one allied tank is enough and to deal with it OKW will need a puma and to deal with infantry it will need Luchs. I only wrot it to show that axis may need more tanks than allies - you suggested that allies have usually more tanks. And t-70 is one of the most imbalanced units in game (probably next to UKF Valentine).

And higher armour, faster tanks dont reduce damage taken esp facing tanks and atguns with lower pen and rof gotcha. That also doesnt free up pio,s or sturm to lay mines and sweep for mines gotcha.

This fragment - I don't understand, especially gotcha part. Just play the axis mate for a while at least and try to get to similar level with them.

You pay so much for sturms cuz they can heal, do cqb, get shrecks or sweep, lay mines, salvage, repair, put away the sweeper. That some of that is not used or less ussefull later on is irrelevant. Okw can go repair pio hq to free sturm from repairing.

Another example of mental gymnastics. It still is much worse than having 3 CEs. Mate - just face the reality. It is really harder to repair Ur tanks/vehicles as OKW. OKW is in terrible spot right now imo. Much more difficult to play than all allied factions. Instead of repeating myths You could try to pinpoint where the problems are. But to do that You would have to play them...

Imagine thinking your repair squad is a shock troop and pretending you don't have repair automatons waiting at base.

Imagine that repair automations lay mines, can be upgraded with flamer/bazooka/piat, can sweep, cap and snare other vehicles.

Only the kt is slow as far as i remember maybe the st too. The panther and p4 however are fast esp with blitz.

But p4 isn't much better than allied mediums. It is just different. It is more expensive and has a bit more armour an slightly better gun. It does not have the crew, does not have stock smoke, etc. Blitz is a muni paid ability. The differences are too small, especially if you look at the price and the fact it will deal with larger infantry squads which can almost all be upgraded with bazookas, piats etc. Looking at the complete picture p4 might be even considered inferior to allied mediums. Same for panther which is often a worse choice than a comet, for exaple. Basically those vehicles are too similar to say that axis have better tanks.

The tiger imo is pretty fast as well. Speed isent the issue. Its that the kt with 300ish armour is stock is. Because its stock meaning always avalable the allied td's need to be able to fight it reliably.
Since they are t3 units they overpreform vs t3 and t4 axis armour because of that.

P4 and p5 have equal or better rof then a t34. They will kill models just fine. The okw p4 has an immidiate edge over all 3 stock allied mediums. Its 230ish armour and allied 160 max armour make sure of that.

Again, like above. Those vehicles are largely similar to the allied rooster combining 3 factions and lots of doctrinal tanks. KT has too little firepower to make sense in most games. It will just tank damage and have to be retreated for repairs. Most often it will cost the player too much to make it a sensible choice.

The only difference is that they generally have inferior range and get those extra shots when charging and then will spend a lot of time repairing and it forces axis to invest a lot of manpower into repair units which allies get much more cheaply.

Again okw usualy has to repair a single vehicles cuz the tend to bounce shots more then allied vehicles can ever hope too.

No. It is often the other way around. T70 works for both armoured targets and infantry. As OKW you need 2 vehicles to do the same. And it is really difficult to keep them operational when all allied (2 factions) infantry can grab a list or Bazooka. Soviets have a lot of ptrs units. So those vehicles get damaged even more than allied vehicles of similar type and you cannot say that they will need less repair.

Allies tend to need to repair multyple tanks more often.

Not true. And remember that engineers also sweep and lay mines. Axis will have more difficult time doing it.

You keep saying more expensive repair units is unbalanced. Its not the case. Sturms are the strongest engineer, not the most flexible but the strongest.

The problem is that they may be on the strong side only early game. Later their reinforcement cost and price make them a burden, not an asset.

Aha. Just remember guys that allied vehicles have stock smoke (USF,UKF) while axis get it (mainly) through doctrines. Blitzkrieg/Combat blitz require munitions to be used while capping is a free ability. I don't think it is as bad as it is painted here. T-43s get another ability - the infamous ram. Just asymmetrical balance with allies (as usual) getting more abilities and still complaining that it is too little.