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You are missing the point. It was "drawn-out" like you say....no other military force has lasted so long while being so ill-equipped, outnumbered, strategically displaced etc...

In light of the situation at the time, I do no see many other historical examples of such a tenacious defense against a vastly superior coalition of forces that, by mid 1944, had Germany spread on three major fronts.

No one is crediting Germany with any kind of success, other than prolonging the war well past when it should have ended. This is not much room for discussion/interpretation in this regard.

Hogwash and bullsh-t.

They succeeded spectacularly early in the war because they were both starting from their "home base" (zero length lines of supply) and against both the French and the Russians they weren't just better trained and lead but were veterans of real warfare.

Neither was the case for their opposition by 1944. Once the Allies broke through in Normandy They kept those supposedly defensively brilliant Germans on the run ... until they ran out of gas. They neither attacked from some home base since they had to transport everything over the channel and onto beaches or through distant and inadequate ports (Cherbourg). Likewise the Russians moved the Germans some 600 miles during Operation Bagracian and since they had already made progress they were not starting from some built up home base nor was it against something like the non-veterans, poorly lead Russian Army of 1941. They too had to stop once in a while to rearm and reequip.

By 1944 they had a couple of years to prepare for defense and they got to do it with experienced troops and officers.

Germans aren't ubermencsh. Quite fooling yourself. In fact they were so stupid they killed or chased away all their smart people and destroyed their future.

(From 1900-1932 Germany won 16 Nobel Prizes in Physics. The US, a much larger country, won only 7. From 1950-2000 the US won 62... the Germans only 5.)

In the final years of vCOH smurfing did not match you against lower level players, it took your highest account and matched you as if you were playing on it. Smurfing was useful for testing new unproven strats and to hone your skills without fear of prideposting or revealing an upcoming strat that you're working on. Of course it was annoying when certain people would remake their account after every game, but every plus has its minus.

Thanks. I did not know that!

being a noob (particularly at that time!) I must have run up against the latter more than the former.

Or maybe I sucked so bad I didnt' realize the people who rolled over me were not too good themselves.

The noob stompers I get.... I don't understand it, but I get it. I don't get when a stack of decidedly good players who let a stack of noobs fill the side opposite them.

The blobbomaster will probably say that we need a nerf to threads like this. But as long as the blobs keep on coming it would be strange if we didnt discuss them. As title says a solution could be to nerf the way we move the game instead of finding the solution in nerfs and buffs. It could be that Relics testing (if there ever was one) shows that the units are balanced, so why change them? Then maybe its better to remove the dragbox so that players would be encouraged and forced to actually micro the units. The dragbox (is that whats its called?) is the box that makes you select multiple units in a sector by dragging a box around them before you attackmove against the enemy. Without the dragbox blobbing would be much harder.

I guess that such a change would imply some other changes. Maybe the tempo of the game would slow down a bit. But I cant see any negative consequences. Thoughts?

You can still group them and move groups. heck, you could probably create a macro that creates the groups.

i blame the lack of playstyles on the horrible commander system design

there have been multiple threads calling for an overhaul since the beta

Not going to happen. This game is coded for the commander system and not a tech tree like in vCOH. A tech tree would give choices on what to do even after you choose a doctrine/commander, the system as it exists doesn't. That so many factions have limited choices within their doctrinal unit mixes only makes matters worse.

Cynthia ignores question about the future of CoH1 so it´s save to say that there won´t be a new CoH1 patch. Also there will be no offical "we don´t support CoH1 anymore" announcement. It´s over. The steam migration killed CoH1.

@The_rEd_bEar
Shame on you for this post. Sad to see that threads like this always end up the same way because of people like you.

I don't care if there isn't a new patch. Just go back to the old patch.