Profile of Lady Xenarra

It was a great run and you've all more than earned your rest. As others have already said, till the next time hopefully

I call this "The Curse of Counter Battery", guess we'll have another week at least of the winter patch ^^

If I recall, the Lefh costs 400MP and 40-60 fuel correct? Comes in at 8 CP? So if it's against USF one of them is FORCED, not encouraged but forced to go a doctrine to deal with it? I feel like that's the biggest issue with USF/Brits in that since they don't have complete tools, having to go commanders to deal with casual things locks them out of options.

Furthermore If you used little fuel to force out a big purchase such as the priest, mission accomplished time to get tanks out faster then your opponent. Or as you say spend 250 USF munitions to counter it (Guess USF doesn't need bars or AT rounds). I'd like to see a 4v4 player actually buy some anti air to see if it could snipe the majors planes and others before revealing the Lefh.

I don't think this is a Lefh problem, I just think it's more of a damning decision to deprive Two allied factions of tools to deal with simple things.

LEFH is 50 fuel iirc.

The calculation is not 180-250 muni for LEFH or more BARs than San Diego has bars. It's kill the LEFH or get the frontline turned into the moon under bombardment and light arty teams flattened. I trust there's no need for me to elaborate how losing all that manpower makes any saved muni pointless? Or somehow, apparently HQ sector targeted but I can only see that happening with vet III LEFH or just bad team commander picks. (Major is somewhere between 100-120 muni).

Bear in mind there is a long build time for LEFH (unless OST and using that bulletin), so engineers are not repairing vehicles or laying deathtraps on the flanks. Particularly long for OKW as they can't get a 2nd SP realistically. This is fine and part of the design and cost too imho.

It's an 8CP unit which typically is unlocked after medium tanks in my experience, esp if rushed. Hell, I've had games where I've been staring at a Crom and there's only one AT gun between two players nvm an LEFH. (Shouldn't have assumed teammate had an AT gun). Typically by the time the gun is built, I've reached 9 CP often because of how long it takes to build. SPG is out on the field with one click. The med tank vs heavy arty timing issue is not a problem imho esp in such a cache heavy mode. A very big issue with a fuel calculation is the fact that the gun can't move, so you always know where it is, rather than risk huge resources on an easily dodged arty call in/tank dive.

Major gets +1 recon plane at vet I so it's extremely extremely unlikely you'll shoot down both in time unless the Axis frontline is giving 1944 Berlin a run for its money with AA defences.

And oh yes, BGroup HQ will get targeted by SPGs but you don't hear me complaining that a fwd retreat point (with injured squads) is being barraged by a clever opponent. I've done it to many OKW players over the years. Very satisfying I'll admit.

By that logic ML-20/Lefh are the problem because there only exists doctrine counters, or gross income sinks to counter them. Rocket artillery should counter them in a perfect world by say having a barrage with a long fire time but hits far range on the map. Then, the ML-20/LEfh should be reduced in cost just to be a constant harass unit one could build.

Well right now, everyone has to get doctrine counters to deal with fixed artillery guns, just how it is. 4v4 has them far too well defended to do anything non-doc except suicide dives as an AT/TD wall will swiss cheese you. B-4 in live and current patch preview still can one-shot your LEFHs as well. Ie: destroy the gun, not just crew knock out, with 3 shots instead of the usual 1 mega-RNG roll. ML-20 is commonly mocked, even by me, but believe me it'll turn into your worst nightmare if no one has brought a counter to it.

Only your doc counters don't really work vs SPGs or you're required to use some extreme tactics like attrition dives on Hill 400, praying that there's not 10 mines between you (Puma/Pz iv/Panther and your target . Last time I did this I got quizzed on where my armor was, after about 6 dead pumas and maybe 3-5 dead SPGs + ambo. That guy didn't lay mines.

Say you had grens. 240mp squad that ain't shit compared to 280mp squads. No imagine they had an ability called "meth chocolate" that made em into obers for a while.
You then have all the advantages of cheap grens, but the ferocity of obers when you need it.

I thought For the Fatherland basically did that? Models not dropping = More firepower

Just remove 4v4 maps. You queue for 4v4. Insta matchup, random function called. If your team gets an even number, you win, odd, you lose. If both get even numbers, roll again (same for odd).
Problem solved. No more waiting in queue to find the match, no more arty fests, no more stress.

Just queue for 3v3 RT if you hate 4v4 RT that much. 4v4 RT is utterly cancerous. 4v4 fuel points are madness inducing at times but we'll just have to stick with them. Relic veto mechanical changes iirc.

These are interesting points of discussion. They highlight that, in general, Axis will win because they are better able to keep, save, and spend resources, whereas Allies cannot. Axis can do this because in team games their units are MUCH more effective at what they do.

It's a good thing Allies get extremely cost effective tank destroyers then. And objectively better infantry for early-to-mid game (unless cons and even then there's SVT cons). And SPGs for dealing with campers or HQ trucks parked one inch outside the base sector on some maps.