Profile of JPA32

I really like the thought of giving Sturms a second Shreck upgrade after the first truck is built. Currently the thought process on the upgrades are intended to be, "Do I need Anti-Tank or Minesweeping/Repair ability" and you always go for the latter because it's just objectively better in 99% of situations due to the weak AT ability of a single shreck on an engineer unit while the Sweeper synergizes better with what an Engineer unit is already trying to do.

By adding more utility to the Shreck upgrade, you allow OKW to branch out a bit more in terms of their early game build. With an expensive investment in Muni's on Shrecks you may not need to go Mechanized every time to survive in a game between equal players and instead can rely on your Sturms as AT while you play a Battlegroup into a fast P4 or run a Flak-Trak for anti-infantry purposes. I find it hard to see players going Shrecks and Mech since giving up the ability to sweep mines and repair faster as well as being a massive Muni sink seems questionable for the standard Luchs+Puma build. I could be crazy and this might be busted but I'd love to see it play out in the Balance preview.

But still, I feel that there's plenty of counter play to this over just allowing Sturms to upgrade 1 Shreck and Sweepers since that comes off as more of a brainless "Press the button when you need it" type deal. you can glean information based on what your opponents Sturms have upgraded and play accordingly, or as the OKW player you could push an advantage such as controling double muni's, or wiping a Soviet's Combat Engineers and forgoing the Sweeper upgrade for Shrecks to get a leg up on the t-70 without Mechanized.

Giving double Shreks to Sturms has the opportunity cost of making you extremely weak to mines & slightly weakens your repair speed since you can't afford a second Sturm until late game. I think it's perfectly fine, especially since the option right now is a no brainer to always go sweeper. Might even open up more options for going BattleGroup with the option of having a good repulsive LV squad.

Also Sweeper Squads should get XP for Sweeping Mines, not shared vet. I don't know if that's possible or not though.

Riflemen weren't/aren't bad. They were just inefficient for a while there because you could field more effective early game units from the get-go before the rounds of nerfs hit.

Ass Engies originally could be called in immediately for instant field presence. Can upgrade a Flamethrower at half the cost of Double Bars for garrison denial and improved CQC effectiveness. While having access to Demo Charges to instantly wipe squads when placed correctly.

Not only that, but Pathfinders had the same instant field presence, could be vet 3 in a couple minutes of basic infantry fights, have a pseudo-sniper for wounded squads forcing early med bunker/med-kit on top of being upgradable with double Bars for terminator potential. Plus your doctrine had Paratroopers to shore up any infantry trouble you might have going into mid-game.

Thing was, the only thing you traded was the ability to snare on all your infantry, so you just built a single Rifle if you thought you needed a snare.

After the "starting on cooldown" nerf both those squads received and the veterancy nerf that pathfinders got hit with they're a lot more in-line with Rifles.

(2) Deuxpont

Hi! So this is Deuxpont. Back in Mid/Late March I had a burning desire to create a map with a river, but I didn't want to just make some Compstomp map with a bridge in the middle that has been done a million times before, so I opted to create a map where the river sliced the map in halves for both players from roughly Base to Base.

Once I had a concrete plan in mind the map came along fairly quickly, from April 2nd to the 5th I banged out the design and layout of the map to essentially what it is now besides some minor aesthetic details and some bug fixes. Then I spent the past 2 days setting up a presentable workshop page with intent of sharing here.

Being a fairly new map I'm hoping to get some criticism and am open to mass sweeping changes if necessary. Considering that this map is quite "out-there" design wise I am hoping to see how it plays by more than just my small friend group. So I'd love to see any replays of the map in action sent my way.

Up until now I've really only made maps for my friendgroup and as a personal hobby but assuming I get some good feedback, maybe some map-making tips, and perhaps even some compliments I'm open to posting some other (more traditional) maps that I've made.