Profile of Lago

I think the prevalance of Grand Offensive has a lot less to do with OKW than it has to to with the IS-2.

The IS-2 has 375 armour, which means only other heavies and the Panther are effective against it.

In a meta where the IS-2 has a habit of being the first built vehicle larger than a T-70, the Tiger is going to be favoured: for a relatively small premium over the Panther you get potent manpower bleed too. Nobody's going to go Panther against the IS-2 if they've got a Tiger.

The problem isn't OKW's nondoc roster, it's that the 1v1 heavy tank rush meta hasn't been successfully killed off yet and the best counter to a heavy right now is another heavy. Until it is, you're going to keep seeing Grand Offensive.

Yet OKW have been using the same commander again and again, going from special ops to G.O. that thus stats as faction are unreliable. They might indicate that the faction is about balanced or simply that the specifics commanders contribute to the faction doing ok. It is possible that they will not do that great without the specific commanders.

As I already have pointed out their win rate without G.O. was as low as 42%.

And what happened if you didn't go Panic Panther in the last meta?

You'd get whacked in the face with a techless heavy.

It's the same problem we've had for a year: stalling for heavies works, so the 1v1 degenerates into heavy tank standoffs.

I'm starting to think the only solution is to make heavy stalling completely unviable. The very existence of that strategy kills off so many others.

Grens as squad wise have 5% more dps and Rifle squad wise has 15% more hp. So really statistically they don't have any advantage.

The damage squads do changes with range.

No they don't. It's 50/50 at long with equal conditions. This is a really stupid design. What would compel a developer think it's a good for individual gears to be imbalanced and have vague sense of overall balance of a machine. Stupid design choices like this is what causes individual tweaking of units to throw the balance completely.

It's not 50/50. Grenadiers usually win at long range versus Riflemen.

The call-in is pointless since tech rework anyway.

It was at CP5.

At CP3, it comes in substantially earlier than the T3 structure and delays payment on the T3 building, freeing up more manpower for more units earlier on.

The enduring balancing problem with heavy tanks is CPs accumulate at a different rate relative to tech in team games than they do in 1v1.

Heavy tanks were moved to CP 9 because CP 13 was too late in team games: they'd just die to the horde of veteran anti-armour accumulated by that point.

But CP 9 is proving too early for 1v1: it's viable to build a heavy as your first tank, and the threat of that is killing off the medium tier.

So why don't we solve this problem by putting them behind additional tech instead of CPs?

Instead of CPs, make heavies require an additional tech to call in, similar to the AEC. This sidetech is fairly cheap in terms of manpower, but costs a significant amount of fuel.

In teamgames, this fuel cost isn't as big of a deal because fuel income is faster. Ideally it shouldn't be too different to the 9 CP rush time.

In 1v1, it gives heavy tanks a higher teching cost than medium tanks. This means a player who stays at medium tier will have more fuel to work with, offsetting the advantage of rushing the heavy.