Profile of Storm Elite

I'm not that great but this just sounds like a learn to play issue. Sure there's been a few times where i right click and accidentally order my squad to pack up, but thats on me-thats a mistake, thats me needing to L2p.

Sounds like you suffer from the same issues i do, the only difference is i recognize them as problems i have as a player, while you blame them on the game without realizing they are things you can actually fix yourself.

This is the kind of logic that makes tech startups go belly up.

This has nothing to do with player capability/skill. It's a UX design issue. You can't allow a feature to be designed in such a way that a slight twitch in an enemy unit's movement results in the complete collapse of a frontline because of a tearing down HMG squad.

Nor should an extremely vulnerable suppression arc weapon be chargeable head on by the very units it's supposed to hard counter.

But yes, keep blaming players for bad UX design. It's well in line with what Relic have been doing for ages (see Dawn of War II and how the Eldar Warlock's long range psyker AoE ability did nothing regardless of how accurately it was aimed and was never fixed).

Make them also over 40 fuel and make sure they won't appear before 2CP too, right?

Again, price literally means nothing. You can pay any price as long as you save up for it. The objectively unbalanced aspect of 222s is that they take damage from bullets. Less now, but they still get demolished by machine guns.

Meanwhile, Allied light armor gets to literally drive into your base, stand there and murder every single unit you have, and there is absolutely nothing you can do until you can bring out some kind of AT weapon. That is a HUGE THREAT to Axis players that Allied players absolutely never experience.

I assume you aren't aware of existence of FHT?

The OKW Flak Half-track? Yes, it's armored. It's part of the "EVERY other armored car in the entire game" that I mentioned. Which is why all 221s/222s taking bullet damage while being "armored cars" makes absolutely no sense.

What is so hard to understand about this whole scenario?

Being able to bring out vehicles that are COMPLETELY IMMUNE to bullet damage at a time in the match when literally not a single unit has any anti-tank damage capability on the field is an enormous, cataclysmic threat. It allows a single armored car or light tank to completely wipe the entire map clean of every single enemy infantry squad and lets the player take every single control point while the opponent sits in base waiting for an AT weapon.

And even when said AT weapon arrives, you can only barely claw back a single victory and fuel point with it, since bullet-immune armored cars and light tanks are fast and can patrol the entire map in no time at all, denying enemy infantry access to literally every other area not covered by an AT weapon while constantly devouring enemy munitions and being repaired over and over, then rinsing and repeating.

Do people just not understand the dynamics of the game? OKW has Raketenwerfers that can't be built early because you have to build enough infantry to hold ground, and Ostheer has absolutely no AT early. Meanwhile, every single Allied faction has handheld AT that allows all infantry units to be universal anti-infantry and anti-tank powerhouses that are never threatened by anything.

Making 221s/222s actually armored would be a tiny step in the direction of fixing this blatant imbalance.

Oh, so when soviet plant these mines, its overpowered and unsustainable op bleeding mine, but then okw does it, its useless and pathetic?

Allied factions incur no cost when losing models. They can literally lose all but one model in every single squad in every single engagement all match long and still bring out armor and a heavy tank just as quickly as if they lost no models.

Axis factions, and Ostheer especially, get stuck in Tier 2 forever from any kind of consistent losses.

Ostheer in particular continues to be a farce in terms of infantry because four-man squads continue to be blatantly self-damaging to the player because of both resource bleed (first model dies within the first second of every single engagement, entire squads get wiped by mortar shells when using cover, etc.) and inability to recrew any enemy team weapons or abandoned vehicles.

So no, Allies don't get to systematically wipe models off squads that have to retreat immediately upon losing just two models, and certainly not by paying munitions (which Ostheer is always starved for due to how low Ostheer infantry DPS is without the use of grenades, while Allies have munitions in spades at all times).

I watched around 10 games yesterday and if "overwatch" was picked, its abilities was rarely used. Admitted some games were over after 5 minutes thx to dominant play of top teams but i really think this commander needs some buffs.
Some observations:
- Goliath was not build in any games
- Jaegers were barely seen and didnt contribute much
- leFH was not build in any games

So all in all, the early impressions are not really promising.
Lowering the CP for the Jaegers will certainly help but it might not be enough.

So here are some ideas:

- Create 1 commander ability slot called "demolition experts": Gives you not only the option to build goliaths but Sturms can also lay down tellers and build demos
- Jaegers at CP1
- Replace the leFH with an AT-airstrike

No one is ever going to risk wasting munitions on a Goliath when even Brits are invulnerable to it due to a combination of Brace and their stupidly overpowered anti-air/anti-infantry/anti-armor gun that's always built alongside whatever other emplacement.

But I'll upvote anything that gives Sturmpioneers something to do other than plant their pathetic mines that get triggered by infantry and trade 30 munitions for two models while leaving flanks exposed to vehicle rushes -- doesn't even have to be Tellers, can just be capture point booby traps, but something other than the bloody shoe mine to place instead of just standing around waiting to flank or spamming shoes.

This is something I've been droning on about for ages, but for once I figured I'd visually illustrate this since I watched a cast that had both sides of the threat equation illustrated perfectly in a single clip within a few moments of each other.

Any Axis unit or units in this situation, ganged up on by Allied units in close range, would either be left with one model or wiped:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq1KcsEoeyo&t=713

And that's exactly what happens when a lone T70 does the exact same thing THREE Axis units, including a 222, did just moments earlier, but with vastly different results:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq1KcsEoeyo&t=813

Now I'm sure there'll be endless excuses for "this is just bad tactics on the Axis side" yet magically not bad tactics on the Allied side, but here's my point.

Axis units NEVER pose a threat to Allied units, while Allied units ALWAYS pose SEVERE threat to Axis units.

This is the underlying problem of balance in CoH2.

The excuse for Ostheer especially is that it's a "defensive faction", but here's the problem with that excuse: Allied units deal EXTREME DPS at close range (huge threat), while Axis units NEVER deal extreme DPS at any range, which means they never pose a huge threat, as accurate but low DPS at long range isn't threatening to anyone.

As illustrated in the above clips and in every single match ever, this goes for infantry, vehicles, tanks, literally all units.

People can pretend it's "bad tactics" or "Axis must use combined arms to win" or "Axis units are cheaper" but at the end of the day, it all boils down to the complete and utter lack of threat that Allied players endure from Axis players, allowing Allied units to run through open fields into enemy fire, stand in melee range, and do all the other nonsensical things that should be 100% lethal in a tactical RTS (and are, but only to Axis factions).

Watch any 1vs1, 2vs2, any mode, any match, with any players, and you see this time and time again REGARDLESS of who wins -- as in, this is an issue that is objectively observable, so win/loss rates mean absolutely nothing, stats mean nothing, unit costs mean nothing -- this is a fundamental, critical problem that must be addressed for the Allies and Axis to be properly balanced.

Though let's be honest, it's easier to wax philosophical about tactics and tournament win rates, so I won't be holding my breath.