Profile of Bulgakov

Jump back to quoted post19 May 2014, 17:56 PMOZtheWiZARD

One thing you tend to ignore is that Maxim spamer lost this game. If German player went for second Sniper the game would have ended much quicker. Instead he went for fairly standard build and managed to win regardless despite being pushed back in the early game. When the tanks came he was prepared and delt with the threat quickly.
Not to forget this particular map encourages this kind of gameplay. If German started south he would achieved even better results with single bunker on cut off point.

Jump back to quoted post19 May 2014, 04:48 AMCieZ

There are already tons of drawbacks to going a 4x MG start(or any heavy support weapon start). As I said before you're less mobile, you give up map control, you have no protection against light vehicles (no faust/AT nade) you're highly vulnerable to flanks, you are extremely vulnerable to indirect fire, you have no combat-boosting weapon upgrades (LMG/PPSh/Dp/G43/etc), they can't chase/wipe retreating squads, they don't bleed your opponent as much as normal infantry, you risk giving your opponent the weapon if your squad dies - I think you get the point. Also, build order *IS* considered, and honestly probably more so than in vCoH. It's actually pretty humorous that you seem to think that vCoH had deeper build orders or some crap. Yeah rifle spam into BARS or M8. Wow. Much strategy. Such deep. So vCoH.

Finally - @Porygon - suggesting that a 4 Maxim start will give you as much map control as a 4 Con start is bullshit. Maxims hit the map slower, have to pack up/set up, and don't bleed at all. Please tell me how that's capping the map as fast as cons... =/

Jump back to quoted post18 May 2014, 08:25 AMAerohank

Maxim spam done right is the most OP strat in 1v1 at the moment, but increasing reinforcement cost of the maxim is not the way to go. This would kill the maxims effectiveness in combined arms because it would just be a huge MP drain on yourself. What you would gain in map-control by adding a suppression unit will be instantly nullified by the need to send conscripts back to merge.

Reducing capping speed for support weapons is the best way to go on this issue. Here is why: maxim spam works not because of MP draining your opponent. In fact, maxims barely kill anything as you can see in the replay. Maxim spam works because it's very easy to get map control so you can rush a T-70 and spam the field with mines.

Reducing capping speed will greatly nerf support weapon spams with little effect on combined arms gameplay.