Profile of blvckdream

Cons actually are OP in mod. They do not need to get better especially since Penal remain so strong.

How are they OP? PPSH doctrines are meh...PTRS for cons is limited to one one-dimensional doctrine.

So you still end up with Cons that are next to useless against upgraded Volks and Grens.

Fight some Vet 3 Grens with MG42/G43 upgrade or Vet5 STG Volks with Cons and see how well that goes.

The notes are incorrect. Accuracy is still (to offset damage change):
- Accuracy from 0.541/0.495/0.334 to 0.9086803/0.7918258/0.6678531

Oh ok. That makes sense. Thanks

I totally agree that there is a balance required, and that OKW should actually have more powerful or versatile infantry than average, as per their design. However they should not have more powerful infantry and way more infantry at the same time

• Cons 240
  
• Grens 240
  
• Volks 250
  
• Rifles 280
  
• Tommies 280
  

I have to admit I think 250mp is cheap for Volks, considering the complete lack of sidetech costs (aside from the truck, but that's not an optional upgrade, it's not like you can go without one).

Also while you compared upgraded Rifles/IS to upgraded Volks, I'm not sure that's fair because as I said upgraded Volks are often facing unupgraded Rifles or IS, and by the time Rifles and IS get their upgrades OKW also has Obers / Jagers / PFusils. In early game USF v OKW the discrepancy is just ridiculous, you're facing off a RE + 3 vanilla Rifles against a SturmPio and 3~4 Volks with flame grenades and at least one StG upgrade, and Cons vs. Volks isn't even worth mentioning.

Please tell me if there's something wrong with my interpretation but to me, although USF and Sov are supposed to have an early game advantage, it seems to me that OKW has both the best early game and the best late game at the moment (even if their mid-game is not as good).

If you want you can upgrade your Riflemen/IS almost as fast as Volks can upgrade their STGs. Some players delay weapon racks until mid/late-game but that´s not the norm AFAIK.

Conscripts shouldn´t even be in the discussion because in current state they are absolutly helpless against any axis mainline infantry. They do well vs Grenadiers in early game but that´s about it. The only setting in which they are borderline useable is maps with lots of CQC and PPSH upgrade but even then they require insane micro to be of much use just because how fast they die and how little damage they do at mid-long range compared to upgraded Grens or Volksgrens. That´s the reason why anybody uses Penals because that´s the only useful main-line infantry Soviets have at the moment.

OKW has bad support weapons. Raketenwerfer is very unreliable, MG34 sucks, no mortar. USF and Brits have good support weapons and tanks that are better value than their OKW counterparts.

I think when you consider everything you can´t seriously say that Volks are OP. They are just right in my opinion.

Their faust does not require either vet or side-teching, and so once a few Volks are on the field, OKW has fausts everywhere.

Volks have no shrecks until you build a truck so struggle against UC, WC251 (ok i admit it sucks) and M3 scout car.

This way, OKW will have access to a mobile reinforcement platform (Which, in my opinion, is needed to all faction non-doctrinally), the open-topped part (Allow troops to fire out, similar to the M5) could be a nice touch for those who doesn't want the OKW one to be exactly the same as the Wehrmacht one.

I dont think that mobile reinforcement platforms are beneficial to gameplay and I find them even worse than FRP. Just makes no sense when you see units fighting you at key points of the map or even right infront of your base while being able to reinforce at the same time. It also encourages camping because of how easy it is to keep MGs and AT-guns alive without having to retreat them after they got hit by mortar/sniper/arty etc. If there was some sort of cool-down on reinforcing (for example units need to be out of combat for 10 seconds before they can reinforce) it would be OKish. But right now NO.