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I like the idea, but I think that one of the intentionally designed weaknesses of the OKW forward retreat Med HQ is that you cannot move it. So it's placement is high risk/reward strat.

Where as the advantage of the USF ambulance is that it is mobile.

Imagine a moving reinforce point for Volks who can self heal out of combat. Seems like it would be O.P. in the current game format.

Out of the 5 factions, I cannot think of a single squad that requires FRP to work (or for which adding FRP on top of their abilities doesn't make them OP).

This is especially so for OKW and Brits, which already have access to some of the best tanks in the game:

This is a valid assessment of the situation, but it makes more sense to look at it from the other side of the coin.

- FRP and MGs? NO way; too much turtling

This is true, which is why it sort of works having the gimmicky MG34 OKW has now. Anything better should be doctrine, which it is (i.e. bunkers).

- FRP and Volks? They have passive healing and sandbags. Those guys also have salvage to deny team-weapons they can't cap

Volks have no need for a silly out of combat healing mechanic when the faction was designed with a quick FRP in mind. OKW are good at constantly applying pressure, that would seem to me why they have inherent weaknesses to support weapons (like no smoke). It makes more sense to remove the stuff that makes no sense then to remove the mechanic the team was based on.

We already made that mistake once when we ditched the trade system and for no reason at all didn't give caches. The salvage made more sense when trading was a mechanic because you had to make strategic decisions about what to salvage for needed resources and what to take for yourself since you lacked good PAK/mortar/MG. The same reason why advance salvage is now totally out of place.

Perfect example of why removing game mechanics instead of fixing them makes no sense, and we want to just do it again?

- FRP and Pfussies/Obers? No way, they have passive sprint for that; just reduce reinforce time for Obers (which we did)

Panzer Funz don't seem balanced right now (ex pop cap). Once again, they are an out of place relic from how OKW used to be when you had to use Volk as AT/cannon fodder. Obers are out place too because they were the dedicated AI, now Volk have STG and do it instead cheaper and subjectively faster.

Instead of addressing balance as best as possible, we have created all these problems you are trying to fix by changing game mechanics, messing with more mechanics is just repeating issues.

I understand the frustration of dealing with bad design though, so props on effort.

No, that's exactly what I'm referring to. I would deliberately avoid EFA because of certain 3v3 and 4v4 maps where the down time from marching units all the way back to the front was just outright boring and frustrating.

100% agree, that's why we should look at the maps first before ditching game mechanics... I don't even just mean FRP, also mortar pits and huge tanks for example.

It goes equally for maps like Hill 400 where British mortar pits are stupid O.P. or The Port where Jagdtigers can annihilate everything.

Remove the tiny maps from larger games and either remove or change the larger maps so they aren't so painful to retreat from is my vote.

Never experienced anything like it.

I would start with the usual steps like verify game cache in Steam, reinstall video drivers clean and possibly look into system resources.

The memory management of this game is bad at best, during loading screen or end of larger games it can eat too much memory, if you don't have enough available it can do all kinds of weird stuff.

Why after years have people just deiced that this mechanic needs to go?

Instead of just giving it to the two teams that don't have it as a doctrine or something?

It's fun to play USF or OKW because I get to apply constant pressure, some times I want to play things slower and safer with other teams. Removing it will just make the game that bit more boring...