Profile of BigBeefy22

I noticed Grand Offensive mentions blitz. Any chance we can actually remove blitz and smoke from the game completely?

You know OST is almost completely underpowered when USF players are complaining about an insignificant 20 munis. LOLOLOL The major gives decent non-doc recon as well as non-doc arty and veteran fake arty none of these abilities are given to Ost so give it a break if a certain Ost doc has slightly cheaper recon.

To be fair, the Major Recon and Barrage are almost never used. The Major Recon is 50 munitions, and it's an extremely fast fly by. If you blink you miss it. If you need to lay a barrage, you basically have to be looking at where you think you might have to drop it, and you have to drop it as soon as the plane fly past that point or else you miss it. It's a very narrow field of view, and again, very quick so it provides very limited information. The OST doctrine fly by for example moves slower, so you have a lot more time to see what's going on and decide what to do. Not saying it's useless, as it's non-doctrine, but I guess that's why it's not that great for the price as it's non-doctrine. Which is fair. But I wouldn't consider it decent. The loiter for example is a lot more useful as it will give you a ton more time to gather information, lay barrages, and give motors and artillery sight.

The Major barrage on the other hand is pretty poor as well as the range is abysmal. You basically have to risk your major on the front line, and you lose your retreat point for a good chunk of time. (I know I know, OST has no forward retreat point, but I suppose it's asymmetrically balanced by the quick suppressing/pinning MG's and more powerful mortars.)

Realistically both of these abilities are used rarely in specific circumstances or out of desperation. Most of the time they're not even worth the trouble and munitions. Regardless, these abilities are not really a replacement for decent recon or don't really have anything to do what I'm talking about.

All I'm saying is the loiter is the exact same ability on both commanders, and I don't see any asymmetrical balance reason why one should be cheaper or more expensive than the other. I almost exclusively play USF and OST as they are my favorites. I find I can basically use the OST loiter all match which I love, but after playing OST for a while, I feel blind when I switch to USF. And then if I'm using the Calliope commander (which is not a great commander right now) I feel like I'm spending extra munitions for no reason, and on top of that, I general have less munitions as USF. So it's like as OST I can have a constant loiter, and as USF I can use it once in a while. That's what brought this whole subject to my attention.

It's really not that big a deal. I was just asking a question and wonder if there was a reason for it. I guess there is no reason for it.

Due to all the chaos in 4v4, I've toned down USF Rifles and build a lot more MG's. I find because of the blobbing and insane damage going on all over the place, Rifles just end up being a manpower sink with limited effectiveness. Whereas MG's are always good even in late game for suppressing and slowing down infantry movement. The MG's pack up and move pretty quick so I use them offensively. Rifles on the other hand just melt to any engagement later in the game. Just my personal experience.

The ability is perfectly fine. You have to put it in perspective in the faction as a whole, and all the factions and how they interact with each other.

Panzerfausts have a higher chance to snare, are easier to hit and quicker to get off. AT nades have less chance to snare, are more difficult to hit, take longer to get off, or sometimes don't go off at all (Times out? Bug?).

Panzerschrecks are much more effective as a handheld AT weapon.

The Wehr AT gun is much more effective than the USF AT gun. Although the OKW rak is not that great, it is cheap and available at T0, while the USF AT is behind T1 which is barely accessed by most players.

USF tanks have little safety nets for their tanks with critical repair being the only actual ability that may be able to save their tanks in emergency situations. Although it may aid in an emergency, it takes a considerable amount of map awareness, micro, and luck to achieve successfully without losing the crew, having the tank destroyed or worst, have the tank stolen. The only exception being the M10 gets speed on vet.

Axis tanks are much more forgiving compared to USF tanks. They have higher armour and health. They get the blitz ability, and the smoke ability with a few doctrines. Both of which are simple click to save buttons.

Overall, the Axis tanks are much more survivable than the USF tanks, and have much more effective AT options over the course of an entire match. Putting it in that light, the repair critical seems much more tolerable or in fact required to balance tank survivability.

They can keep their 222 the way it is, if they can make the greyhound cost the same. I want to us the greyhound and the recon commander, but right now it's useless. If they do that, then at least I can have a cheap, quick vehicle too. If they don't want to change the cost of the greyhound, then the 222 should cost 20 or 25 fuel. At 15 fuel, it makes it too easy to build one and throw away. Very little risk. In comparison to the M20, which will lose 1v1 vs a 222. Although the M20 can lay mines, and pop out the squad for bazookas, it's also a whopping 340MP.