Profile of Tiger Baron

Sure lets give Ostheer a FRP but then remove their unique perks as well to balance it out.

And btw lets not stop there and lets just just remove all assymetric elements while we are at it. I am sure it will be much fun to play mirror matches.

That's a very biased and ignorant way of looking at it.

So why did the spam faction with 6 men in most of their squads get a FRP while the faction with 4 men in most of their squads and a field presence problem not get it exactly?

That's entirely the opposite of how it should be in the first place.

Making it a long dick p4 is stupid. Like... Why? Why remove a unique unit and make it a slightly different version of a stock unit? Why then re-add it as a non command version in another doctrine? Couldn't you also just get an ostwind, Brummbär or stug E then?

Buff it's AI. It's can then come earlyish as it's not going to slug it out with allied mediums and needs supported as it should given it provides a damage reduction.

A unique unit?

It's literally a Panzer IV with a shittier gun lol.

At least the StuG III E has a howitzer like shot trajectory like the Brummbär so it's different than the regular StuG III.

This just has a smaller pp than the regular Panzer IV and that's about it.

Balancing from the top down, and "Catering" to higher skilled players is the best way to develop a game.

Nope, best way to balance a game is mirror units and maps without rng.

But err..oook

Both of these statements are somewhat correct.

If we take the most competitive RTS games right now, those being Starcraft 2 and Age of Empires 2 (DE) you can view both there.

While StarCraft is asymmetrically designed it has basically 0 RNG and of course it's balanced according to the top "pros".

However that makes it largely difficult for more casual people to enjoy the game I would say and most are reduced to treating it like it's European football/soccer where you stare at a screen yelling for your favorite guy not to lose and screaming like a retard when he makes a mistake.

In Age of Empires 2 (And I am specifically talking about the Definitive Edition here because most of the community has migrated over to it due to it's better graphics, improvements and continued support) the civilizations are somewhat mirrored with some minor differences with unique techs, buildings and units which in my opinion works best.

Again of course the game is balanced according to the top players, however there is also room for the casual people and I would say this is why the game is proving to be so popular to both camps. Plus I also believe it has somewhat of an RNG presence simply because not all shots hit their targets like in StarCraft and units are not exactly robots that instantly take orders and turn on a dime and so forth but I would also say that makes the game feel more "alive" and "natural" rather than the almost perfect movement and response of units in SC. And like in that game units don't shoot on the move either.

I personally think that CoH should do the same, as in have somewhat symmetrical design for it's Armies with little quarks for each while keeping the balance asymmetrical and balanced from the top down.

Because right now it feels like it's heavily geared towards competitive play and the casual people which are a bigger part of the community feel left out.

I also believe that the player numbers and statistics speak for themselves:

https://steamdb.info/app/813780/

https://steamdb.info/app/231430/

Vet 5 Tiger Ace does actually somewhat make sense and would be interesting to see.

Problem is of course all of the people that are gonna be like "BuT vET 5 iS OkW unIqUe tRaiT!111!".

I sadly bring bad news guys.
Still problems on 64 bit patch...
Big F for the mappatch. So no chance to get it this year anymore...

Don't hate/ kill the delivery boy pls

I mean no offense to anyone working on this but you just can't expect a skeleton crew to do it all and not to mention do it in a timely manner as well.