Profile of distrofio

I don't MIND that it got a nerf to its armour so much. It makes the upgrades a much more suspect deal, but hopefully they will allow it it to have the old values back after it upgrades? I can dream...

It will be really hard to explain new players why armour goes up 'magically' but its a valid point that upgrades are nerfed too. Maybe adding some damage to vickers upgrade could compensate fairly well

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The bit that I object to is that is has less armour, so takes more chip damage, and ALSO they made self repair more expensive for some BS 'gotta trade with fausts' when button and smoke have been unbalanced for so long
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I wouldnt add unnecesary catharsis to justify why changes are made and even less make unsensible arguments about other offtopic unsolved balance issues. The armor chip part can be justified by making the unit less RNG dependent. Since its prone to small arms fire from rifles, wich have low rate of fire, it shouldnt rely too mucho on RNG to calculate dmg.
Also a resource trade is fundamentally important in early game, making it trade with faust seems sensible

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Brits dont start with engineers

Brits can't BUY engineers without unlocking a tech tier
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Why this again? You didnt answer me the last time i suggested to include sappers to the UC cost and bring them both together. I am suspicious about you repeating yourself...

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The latter makes it totally worthless to buy a UC before you have T1. And as an ultra light, there's no point buying it then anyway.

There's so little reason now to ever do anything besides buy an extra section and bolster before you T1.

I dont agree stating that UC is becoming useless, its far from that. The nerf could be intended to force UC closer T1 timing and you are just complainting about it. There is a lot of reasons to keep using UC, only more carefully now. Or you want a UKF noob only faction?

Final words Be open to new changes, they bring fresh gameplay and better balance for all

Ambush tactics is not the same as spec ops tactics. What im hearing a lot in this thread is missunderstanding stormtroopers as spec ops, Sadly they are not.
They fullfill an objective, not murder tons of people. They are in doctrines that need an objective. If you want elite inf, borrow some obers from OKW. I have no middle term in this discussion. Pgrens are going to be the new elite for OST, no 'elite' stormtroopers needed.

Added: Whant a pesky katyusha down? stormtroopers get the job. Want to bring down a cache? Again. Want to get a sneaky retreat wipe, maybe stormtroopers get them on the retreat. They are part of a bigger plan, not he plan itself

Not interested in 1999 RTS gameplay after CoH emerged

You should really try OpenRA. It has the old graphics but renewed gameplay and balance. They even added simple but cool indicators to make the game more intuitive. Hotkeys too. And tanks have updated scripts so they can be microed too, they cant reverse tho.

As it is now, its a good mixture of macro and bits of micro since unit lethality is quite fast

OST is meant to have weak lategame infantry. Even if that doesnt sounds fair.
As a thumb rule, OST strongest point ingame is always midgame, because of FHT, Pz4, LMG42, Panthers, Pwerfer. After that, other factions have better time in what is lategame. To name a few, OKW, SU, USF.

Infantry starts Ok (MG42 is beast), then the strongest point in midgame (Pgren, combined arms and team weapons) and then lingers.
Same goes for armour, with a little lategame presence.

But the advantage is that OST doesnt lack any important tool. Doctrinal commanders add to the mix and empowers some of the already strong aspects of OST.

...UC no longer forces german AT...

That was the whole prupose of the UC nerfs, it forces too much reaction for axis, on OST pfaust do not trade well and for OKM its a cheese rush until pfausts are available

... and you can't start with sappers...

I just suggested the idea of UC coming in with sappers, both now in T0. That should solve that part at least and gives UC a new powerspike.