Profile of Qbix

Can you provide a replay? Otherwise I will just blame RNG.

Wanted to join in and agree with Hans. I watched this replay and the one he posted and played against Aimstrong: http://www.coh2.org/replay/39117/hans-vs-aimstrong

The difference is clear. In this match, Hans lost far too many squads. The opening with 2 or 3 REs and then some Rifles is very strong against Ostheer since their Grens are not very good against the USF infantry units and normally never reach the numbers to keep up with the territory trading. USF presence is incredibly strong in both early games and in the one on Semoskiy Winter Hans kept his units around and alive to snowball the automatic early game advantage into late game.

Here, however, the advantage was lost in the mid game. Tiger tank and ofc the Grens with 1919s which Hans occasionally dropped and which saved Aimstrong a lot of munitions made the late game impossible to win. In addition, Aimstrongs use of the sniper was more efficient in this game (although I still can't comprehend the micro disaster that let to the loss for the first sniper here... just retreat him lol) than in the other, where the sniper imo didn't really do much at all.

It is fairly save to say that, given two players with high skill, USF is stronger than Ostheer in the early game in 1v1. The question is simply whether or not the USF player can transition into late game with the advantage intact. Compare the two replays and you will see the difference.

Also keep in mind that floating 400+ fuel is not the standard strategy for Axis... Normally you will see Axis vehicles and tanks much earlier than in those Aimstrong games where he waited for the Tiger.

You'd be suprised. It's more important than you'd think. At least for a lot of people.

Dafuq...

In big games that drag on OKW almost always buys one with their usual MP float

Vast majority of team games I play, about 1% of those someone decides to use it. about 50% of those times though they don't use it properly.

Most people build one in any match above 1vs1.

I think you all are heavily suffering from confirmation bias. Unless Relic gives us a comprehensive statistic that tells us how often it is really being used, you should keep your assumptions to yourselves since they only serve as subjective means to make your opinions worth more without any foundation whatsoever.

Go ahead and give it a munitions cost for the scan - you now have a unit without any inherent use, which you could as well delete from the game. The unit is highly situational. It's not an "I win" button. Ofc, if you are just cosplaying as UKF when playing Soviets or USF you deserve to get punished for it.

I just play with my legendary commander...

If those abilities and units would have anything to do with what Rommel was known for, it could be nice. And I fear your won't be able to place your Flak 88 since you won't have any engineers.