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Jump back to quoted post25 Jun 2017, 08:26 AMTAKTCOM

This.
My attempts to use this strategy in 3x3 or 4x4 have failed. Bcs MG42 and volks hords is everywhere so you penals lay down and car burning.

Elefant or Japtiger with some support hard counter ANY ally armor. Katty is OK.

Jump back to quoted post21 Jun 2017, 19:37 PM__deleted__

What if I told you that OKW is OP compared to vanilla soviets, usf or ukf without croco.

The problem is that they are facing penals + dushkas into sherman spam 8/10 times. And we all know how OP this strategy is and how much is OKW weak against instapinning hmgs and strong medium tank spam (raketten).

Once you nerf dushka and tie sherman to tier, you´ll see how good the OKW is against Soviets or USF

Jump back to quoted post21 Jun 2017, 19:25 PMStrummingbird

The problem with volks is not really the unit itself so much as the synergy with the luchs, medkits, and kubel (vs brits and USF).

5-6 minutes from game start you get a massive power spike with STGs rolling out, flame nades popping, immediately followed by the luchs- which can and will end the game if you don't have AT.

So you have a conundrum as the allied factions in that your infantry can no longer deal with volks, and yet you're going to have less infantry / team weapons to deal with the volks because you need to sink quite a lot of MP and possibly fuel to prevent the instant death condition that is the luchs. This is the steamroller that's such an issue now- volks are OP as part of this build but not otherwise.

Case in point - OKW T1 starts, which i've never ever personally had problems dealing with in recent months. Med truck starts get hammered by light vehicle play from LT and Sov T3, HMG spam (even as USF!), snipers, just about everything- unless used with fusiliers (which themselves are imbalanced).

Volks, of course, receive identical upgrades and unlocks after both med and mech, but with med truck allied factions can keep stacking on the anti-inf firepower and volks never become a problem then because OKW never gets the momentum.

This is very similar to how ostheer suffered vs USF back in the day- you needed a pak to avoid getting rolled by the M20, but the free LT meant that by sinking MP into antitank you lose all your map control to superior inf.