Profile of Nano

Content
This is a hard one, since the war obviously only had a limited number of things occur and can't be added too, so who knows =(

Technical stuff / Engine
Being able to zoom out more and scroll better. Supreme Commander set the standard of how every RTS should handle zoom and map scrolling along time ago.

Please for gods sake no micro transactions.

Community
A community that hates every team that isn't exactly the same as every other team...

Thank the Jeebus for the invention of tl;dr.

That said, I like to primarily play OKW (but not exclusively). As OKW I can really struggle with Penal early, their sheer power and that dirty satchel make them hard to deal with until I can get an MG out (but that is easier said than done).

I don't find it to be such a big deal as Ost though, the MG34 you can get right out of the gate is good for dealing with them if used correctly.

Your experiments with OKW are a good read but late game I find that Penals seem to be some what easier to deal with when your Volk are vet heavy with StG. If however you have lost the vet Volk than yeah you are boned and need to rely on Falls or Ober which as you state has far too many draw backs.

I feel that the issue is Penals are just too powerful out of the gate and late game lack the ability to compete with vet and upgrade Volk/Gren. IMHO early meat and late game cheap reinforce units is the position that Cons should have not Penals. Penals should be like Volk, rubbish to start with but with proper care and ugrade very potent mid to late game.

I feel really bad for the balance team because it's super hard to get the balance between Con and Penal perfect, I hope they eventually figure it out though.

It's just a bandwagon effect, nothing new in this game. Now that the OKW is not the most trash team in the game for larger modes people are back on their wagon.

When the British came out right until Churchill's were changed from unkillable gods to actual tanks, it was completely the opposite; 10% searching 4v4 as Axis.

When the cancer commander came out it was the same.

It never changes.

Maybe add a penalty for units clumped together? Say any squad that overlaps another squads gets some cover penalty (like decreases green cover to yellow cover) or the rate of fire is slowed...?

Exactly what I have been arguing for the entire time. Some kind of debuff aura, not big enough to make a difference with two squads nearby but enough to really feel it stacked with 3/4 or even 5.

But perhaps this will have some kind of performance impact on the game I dunno, there are some truly awful computers being used to play this game already.

lol when did aec ever squad wipe?

Before the main cannon adjust in a major patch earlier it could insta kill a tight group squad with 1 shot, it was a mobile oppression palace before. The T70 was a rolling death machine too before the same patch.

Say what you want about the balance team but the change to the cannon arrangement on the AEC was one of their best moves. It can still kill inf with its machine guns and can do damage to vehicles with its main cannon but now doesn't BS kill infantry.