Profile of Kharn

Thanks for the replies.

So how would I then go about engaging penal squads? Which range would be the best for this? I am aware that they're a 300 mp squad which means they're most likely inherently better, but should I even consider engaging them 1:1?

No, do not engage them 1:1 unless you have cover and they do not. Volks are great for their cost, they get better with ugprades and vet nice. But out of the gate Volks are better than Conscripts in terms of mainline infantry. But weaker than Penals, Rifles, Infantry Sections AS THEY SHOULD BE. As they are cheaper to field than any of the those mentioned.

Don't listen to anyone who says otherwise, they're a cheap unit to field so they have cheap performance. They get better later on, Penals don't do well late game because they are just too easy to kill with better options.

Personally I struggle as OKW vs the Penal Scout Car spam, a good player makes it a nightmare. But blob up, focus the car down, lay a mine and hope for the best. Spread yourself thin and you'll be losing all those 1:1 engagements. Good micro on sturms can go far, but Penals can burst them down scarily fast if you are not careful.


I'm primarily an allied player, and I made the swap to OKW because the search queue bias and I wanted a change. But boy, it's a challenge for me to adjust to them.

The feeling I get from most of these is;

A) They're all very good which is great. BUT they'll definatly need to be closely watched as they look almost too good.

B) It looks like a lot of really powerful allied options and other than the OKW's ability to get Panzerfusiliers early, I don't see it being that balanced. Even the Command Tiger needs to hit like.. vet 4 or 5? How easy will that be or hard? The ability seems similiar to the soviet Inspire from the KV-8/KV-2 but its at vet1?

C) The Tiger Ace changes are very nice, but the cost is still way too high. If you're floating 800 manpower and 250 fuel you're in a unique situation, or you're already winning the game and you've been floating that and have either a lot of unused pop which is unlikely, or you just lost some tanks so you auto-replaced with w/ this huge float (which doesn't happen often considering OKW can't cache, and you can build bunkers yourself).


Binging as axis lately due to the search times, I'll admit. I'm like 75% allied/25% axis. It's a struggle, and just thinking about Thompson Tommies gives me a bit of a stroke. I'm just hoping people blob them up so you can nade them just like how everyone seems to treat cavalry riflemen, assault engineers, and royal engineers.

The main thing you need to accomplish in this nerf is to make the rak useful without players building 4-5 of them, stealthing them across the map, and just instantly killing any medium they want. Then just retreating.

I think whatever happens the MAIN Thing that has to happen is it cannot move while stealthed anymore period and must be in some form of cover to be stealthed.

Give it a 5th man to make it more durable, they die pretty fast. But its not fun to play OKW needing a 3-4 rak-pak and its not fun to fight it either.

I'd say the main arguement is that Mark Target can be anywhere. But Mark target from a Command panther both requires you to BUILD the panther, and also be close enough to use it right?

I've never really seen it make a huge difference given not many allied doctrines even have heavy tanks. But it's far from OP.

Making it the molotov clone it should have been from the start would do wonders for balance I think

You mean you don't miss it when the Volk nade was a grenade AND a molotov? killing a squad almost w/ the initial explosion then burning them to death?


Yeah, agreed. It should almost mirror the molotov, though it does cost more. So it would need a price decrease if it had a long wind up and mirror damage.