Profile of LoopDloop

And as long as it has the radar ability being able to spam for both fighting and recon reasons it is a bad idea. That is why I suggested limiting radar to one.

In addition my point was not that it should not receive some sort of buff but that comparing to AEC only in DPS is misleading.

Finally If one want infantry kills one can simply use it to crush it one of the best crushes in the game.

How does one spam valentines without getting totally steamrolled? Like I said, they're not the best combat tank and come at 6cp, so aside from crushing, which is a death sentence for the valentine because almost every axis infantry squad has panzerfausts or actual AT, it won't be able to kill stuff at the time when it hits the field. It's also only 30 fuel more plus tech to just spam Cromwells, which literally do two times the damage to tanks on penetration, can crush inf almost just as well, and can actually hit and splash on infantry. Valentine basically exists for the maphax, which is cheesy, but that's the whole point of the thing.

Yeah, unfortunately that is the case. Frankly, I believe that an emphasis on 1on1 has led us to where we are now in terms of popularity, and lethality. In that respect it makes more sense to balance for the absurd and then have the changes trickle down to smaller modes. Regardless, It's clear that most people would rather play team games; but, that's a discussion for another thread.

In response to you trying to sneak in the idea of an MG34 at every opportunity in the discussion I'm of the notion that you have enough fire power to have a reasonable opening without a suppression platform. Is it one dimensional, probably, is that necessarily a bad thing/is an OKW player significantly worse off without it? Debatable, I tend to side with the discourse primarily 'cos I can remember the Kubelwagon with suppression + Sturm charges; the effect would be the same only slightly later in arriving.

ps. forget the Luchs, double leigs will contend with anything the allies can throw at you, plop down the Schwerer and they're going to be hardpressed not to spend precious resources on indirect fire; that is, if they can catch up in the first place.

In regards to openings, okw, nay, axis in general, is supposed to be a start slow build up into late game type of faction, so it would make sense for them to have a crappy one dimensional opening. I mean, usf past 30mins is literally spam as many jacksons and bar riflemen as you can, so it does sort of reflect there too, just in a mirrored way. It is also worth noting that okw still had a lot of variety in openings, what with good but expensive and kinda fragile assault troops right off the bat, cheap, spammable, "good enough" volks, the kubel, a fast capping, infantry bleeding machine gun car, and a t0 at gun. That's arguably a lot more than other factions have access to at the beginning of the game, and none of it requires teching or constructing a building. I'm not claiming it's overpowered or beats out allied infantry, but it does the job and it's all there, and volks plus Sturm's plus kubels can have some crazy cool synergy sometimes, speaking both from using and having it used against me.

Yeah, double leigs and schwerer is basically simcity on roids but without brace.

Imagine on maps with large buildings or on smaller game modes how broken the initial sturmpio would be with same-player mg support. You could just rush a building with your sturms and then throw the mg in and boom. Huge lockdown on allies. Failing that, you still have the only good squad with automatic weapons on the field at this time, and cheap spammable volks, along with a fast capping kubel and t0 (albeit arguably crappy) at gun now with a machine gun creating a disproportionately strong and varied army right out the gate. It'd be like if soviets got penals, clown car, zis, and maxim from their starting hq. Broken.

I do agree that Call-Ins should get normalized to Tech. It still boggles my mind how they thought T85s needed to be Tech but Lend Lease Shermans are ok to be No-Tech?

I think Tank Balance is mostly okay aside from some tweaks. Crushwells need to crush less well and Comets are probably too good. SU-76 and StuG are maybe-probably too efficient. Ostheer Panther, Bulldozer Sherman likely needs some kind of buff and maybe Centaur needs some kind of mobility buff or something. But on the whole nothing is too game-breaking I think.

That's pretty much how I feel about tanks. IMO Ost p4 could use something too, whether it's skirts at vet0 and a price increase (make it the okw p4) or a fuel decrease or something. Ost panther should be made a little more like okw panther too I think (I think okw one has a little more main gun consistency). M4Cs are a little worse than t34-85s though right? Or are they about even? Still, all call-ins should definitely be locked to tech.

Shocks do their job very well, but said job isn't valuable in the current meta.

If all match ups were possible Shocks would be incredible against the UKF and mandatory vs USF.

That's the thing: they're not really a blob counter and they can't trade well with other close combat infantry (so almost all okw infantry plus pgrens) and team weapon spam in late game is usually backed up by one or the other, with tanks and vehicles on top of all that.