Profile of achpawel

The consequetive turnies all had the same version of the game? Between tournyies last few years there where a few patches. All with a small sample size and small number of players.

The tourneys are not a small sample. It is the best we've got.

Did kimbo not play strong with every faction he picked? Was he not arrogant in his play style sometimes?

Irrelevant. He is really good with all factions, has nothing to do with OKW vs UKF situation.

Where did i say sturm are good because kimbo proves it?

It wasn't U, that was CODGUY, You started lecturing about how to use sturms. I don't mind but I don't really need a lecture on that. Sturms are 300mp and 30 per model. Just expensive and generally don;t really trade well against other mainline inf. They can be deadly only in some specific circumstances. 80% of time they will be easily beaten by cheaper mainline infantry.

I said sturm are not up as you claim. That is all. You keep moaning about how much sturms underpreform. I just simply do not agree. And am tired of the axis up/have it worse forever always sentiment.

Fair enough. The only thing is that I don't moan but rather react to certain imo silly claims. Right now most players seem to agree that OKW is probably the worst faction to play with. It is hard to read that they are actually not. Especially when it is written by players who don't really play them. I simply believe that such extremely biased opinions should be at least responded to. There are a lot of people reading such forums and instead getting better at the game they may falsely start believing that they lost because allies ar up, not because they simply should learn how to beat certain strats or, more often, just get better at microing their units and choosing favorable engagements.

Nice attempt to turn the facts around. I got some stats wrong or mis interpet them. It happens. I am a big boy i admit when i am wrong. You just look at single units and not the role or the timing or the faction in general or the opposing factions. Example: directly comparing ce's to sturms ignoring that sturms do a lot more then ce's, wich are unjustly cheaper according to you.

It is not about wrong comparisons per se, but about comparisons that cherry pick. Your example of CE is actually a good one. CEs are only 170 manpower and have stock flame upgrade plus can be merged into. Very often this 170 manpower is enough to stop much more expensive units from advancing. Also they have a very cheap reinforcement cost. In many game situations it gives you a lot of benefits (e.g. repurchasing engineer unit, sweeping, flaming, repairing, sidecapping, replacing when lost, laying mines, losing models to mines). From this perspective thaey often may be a much better unit in your army composition than expensive sturms. IMO it migh transfer to like 80% of in game scenarios when it is actually better to have a cheaper unit than a more expensive variant doing basically the same things 80-90% of time.

I own and have played every faction. Like i said before i got other responsibilities as well. And my time to play is limited. But i love the crap out of this game. I am probably somewhere high digits on the leaderboard, wont be hard getting all faction on the same level if i had the time.

We are the same boat here

And playing all factions doesnt automaticly make you a great candidate to be a balance modder. Being to close to the forest and not being able to see the trees apliess to some.

True. But I really analyse tourneys, watch them and I used to create game rules (board game rules) and I do see certain things. At the moment OKW is simply more difficult to play with. All I'm trying to do is to pinpoint where their weaknesses are. And the design of the only engineer unit is imo one of the reasons why they are less forgiving to play with.

Where did i say axis op nerf axis? Are we making it up as we go now? I am in for toning down td's they are a tad to good and esp ost mediums suffer because off it. I am in favor to buff obers instead off volks. Both of wich a said multyple times.

I didn't write specifically that it is U personally writing sth wrong. It is just that negating, for example, the fact that players prefer to play allies when they want to win in a tourney is wrong. It is a fact that is pretty obvious to most players and viewers of the last couple of tourneys. Some very good players were eliminated because their opponent could chose the faction first (based on higher Master League rating). Such players chose the allies. If both players won their allied matches the player who chose allies first played more matches with them and won thanks to it.

Agreed with this, leave them as a Vet 1 ability until the Major arrives at which point they become an automatic global unlock. This preserves their uniqueness in the early game and through the light vehicle phase, but guarantees you will have snares available during the late stages of the game when you're fighting medium and heavy tanks.

Yep

Reply to the both above posts.

1. It is not one tourney but a few consecutive tourneys.
2. Just funny how U yourselves use a game where one player was mocking another (You don't even realise this) because he is a much better player. You use it to demonstrate the power of sturm?. And then U claim I used one game to show sth. Hard to comment, really.
3. I don't ignore stats. It is actually the other way around. You not only ignore them but also can't understand them imo - mostly because of overcentrating on one stat rather than on how all of them are connected and how actually complicated it is to interpret them.
4. All the above is simply connected to the fact that U try to balance the game not even playing opposing factions.

Just finally reach similar level you have with Ur favourite allied factions/s with the axis faction U try to nerf or claim is OP! You will quickly change the perspective. Seriously do this homework first and then teach others how to use, for example, sturms. You don't need to be that high on the ladder board with opposing factions, just have similar level to Your favourite factions. Probably then You will look at the opposing factions differently (and advance with Ur favourite faction as knowing the enemy is the key btw

Please stop with the axis up.
You dont need to be a much better player to use sturms effectively. Just dont walk up to them out in the open from max range. Esp not when cons/section/rifles are behind any sort of cover.
Just because sturms cost more dont mean they should be better nearly every time/always at everything.

You dont walk conscripts into pgrens from max range out in the open. That will end badly for cons every time.

But they ARE up. The last tourney is a great proof for it. If you look at all games it is clearly visible that players choosing allies had a higher chance of winning. I believe one of the better players (at least one) was eliminated because his opponent chose allies first (was allowed to chose first) and then had two games with them while only one with the axis.

I know how to use sturms, trust me on that. What You wrote here are the basics. Imo You should play some more okw and see for yourself. Sturms are good but I'm not sure they are good enough for 300mp and 4 men.

Post scriptum: after one of the above games Kmbo got a warning from the referees to play to his full potential and not delay the game on purpose.

No holstered schrecks plz! Play the Ardennes campaign with rangers and you will quickly see it can be quite buggy at times.

If it is likely to bug than no of course. But if not then high risk/reward could be cool (lots of munis tied to a 4 men squad if both upgrades were researched).