Profile of Culainn

Relic has long since removed any distinction between the factions, best to just skip the foreplay and just make 5 mirror copies where the only difference is artwork.

Even the maps have suffered, playing on a winter version of a map used to mean something, in that you could freeze and had to plan around it and blizzards. Now the only difference is visual, very boring.

OKW is totally dead in both 2v2 and 3v3.

Their infantry sucks, their tanks are too expensive, no AT, MG sucks, Kubel nerfed, infantry gun nerfed. Maybe you can choose Defensive commander for Pak43, but thats it.

Allied AT guns and MGs simply shut OKW down

The only thing they got is the early Flak Track, it can set up fast, but its damage was reduced, so its a wash. Most of the time I find myself wishing I had the damage back, I can position it fine.

All I can say is, don't play OKW right now. Every game I lose as Ost is because of a OKW partner that cannot pull his weight.

Simply not playing Wehr this patch. I moved over to US for double BAR love, 4 wins in a row so easy when all you are facing are volksnewbs and grens.

I've experimented a lot with bulletins, they do have a minor effect on the game and some are better than others. They will not win you games though.

Ones I regularly use depending on my commanders:

Accuracy bulletins for infantry are very good:
+3% Accuracy Grens
+3% Accuracy PGs
+5% Accuracy Mortar
+3% Accuracy MG42

Range bulletins for Artillery
+5% Range for Werfer

Reload for Tanks and AT
+5% Reload for P4
+4% Reload for Pak40

The +10% reload for MG42 deserves a special mention, it effects set up time, building repositioning, and how fast incendiary rounds start. If you use your MG42s in a mobile, offensive capacity, accompanying your infantry then take it.

Lately I've been using the Tiger Ace +10% vision bulletin, I just love it. But of course you are locking yourself in to a particular commander.

The +3% Movement, +2% Accuracy bulletin for Stormtroopers will stack with the +3% Accuracy for PGs, for +5% Accuracy and +3% Movement on Storms, I use these two with the Tiger Ace bulletin quite often recently with Elite Troops.

The +5% Reload for P4/T34 is the best bulletin in the game, IMHO. I would take it instead of the Tiger Ace vision for more flexibility in choosing commanders. When I play soviet it has a hallowed place in any loadout.

The 5% Mortar accuracy bulletin is incredible, the 5% reduction is on the scatter radius, which means the total area in which a shell lands is reduced as a quadratic function of the radius, which is a lot. This is also why the Werfer range bulletin is so good, as the hit radius is reduced in size for the same range shot.

I do not like extra Armour or Penetration, reduced cost, or reduced build. Extra XP can be good, but I have no problem vetting my units, so I only take that for the King Tiger when playing OKW.

Happy Hunting

Its certainly an issue. Losing 400MP squads to a single shell is annoying as hell. No wonder people rather stick with cheaper infantries.

I think in case of some smaller sized infantries it would be wise to revert AOE change to roll against accuracy for each model.

Or calculate dynamical AOE with squad size included. Like this:
( Current AOE size / 5 ) * target squad size

The main advantage of my suggestion is that received accuracy/target size is mostly a modest modifier. Where before a squad might be wiped, now several formerly full health members might be left with naught but a sliver, allowing a short-lived opportunity to retreat.

Joseph