Profile of AvNY

One thing is confirmed.... I am the oldest geezer here.

You can recognize such people by the fact that in more than 90% of their posts are arguing in one side's favor. I think that the most dangerous for balance are those who are constantly defending Allied, because they think that they have the "moral" advantage (if you like Axis side and defend the balance if they are exagerrating you probably are a hidden nazi). These people forget that it's just a game, and, in order to be enjoyable, it needs as much balance as it can get. Easy victories are frustrating both for the winner and the looser.

I don't think "moral" is ever a factor. There are people out there who do favor a side. There are players with Axis bias because they think the Axis were l33t and had all the cool kit. And Allied players who would prefer not to fight under a flag that perhaps at some point flew as an occupier over their own country or had slaughtered their people. But neither of these means that by definition that players opinion is not considered and balanced.

It is absolutely possible for someone to play little of a faction and still understand how that faction works hand have VALID opinions on it and on balance. It takes longer to understand a faction you play against and don't play yourself, but it can certainly be done.

As an aside, I do believe that there are some in Relic who believe in the version of history where the German kit was so much better and where the Germans were ubersoldaten and that they have tried to design a game around that version of history. It is a load of hooey and one day when I have the time to do it I will put together the whole argument against it.

Jumbo makes much more sense than the Pershiing.

Either could make sense from a combat perspective, though the Pershing was an actual design that the US invested in and didn't discontinue mid-war.

But they are very different tanks. The Pershing was automotively superior, had the bigger main gun, and I think was better armored everywhere but the front turret glacis.

Really it is up to Relic. In CoH they made a Firefly that did have the more powerful gun than the Sherman, but without the Shermans armor and HP stats. In fact there really was such a vehicle produced in numbers by the British (a 17 pdr "glass cannon") and it was called the Achilles, which was a 17pdr on an M10 chassis. About half the numbers produced as the Firefly but not as famous.

i dont want to derail but, the best fighter aircraft in ww2 was the fw-190 series. they had the most success

Can't gauge it that way since we are talking about different factions with assymetric balance.

The FW190 operated in a much more target rich environment. While Allied fighters later in the war seldom had targets other than other fighter to shoot down, the German fighters had a sky full of large and medium bombers, recon planes, possibly even transports doing airdrops, slower (and distracted?) Soviet ground attack planes.

German Aces also benefited from the German Ace syndrome were a "star" pilot was going to get the benefits of the doubt in the case of kills as well as when it is being determined if they made the kill or someone less famous.

Airplanes are not machines, they are "weapons systems". The FW190-A was an inferior plane to the P-51 in all but low altitude combat (which rarely happened with a P-51. The Dora-9 variant came in the fall of '44 (so it is a year or more newer than the P-51D) but at best only edged out the P-51 in high altitude performance by a bit. But the German pilots at this time were of much poorer quality. And even had they been the equal of the allied pilots, they were by then almost always vastly outnumbered.

That's why all these ostheer air raids capabilities against USF are rather unrealistic. But then, let's not forget about Mescherscmidt 262 the best fighter plane in the war. Anybody wants to deny that?

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The M262 came late because there were lots of problems with the engine design and with it's reliability once in production. It had superb speed that stunned the Allied pilots when they came up against it, but it had one very major weakness.... It was slow on take off and landing, and by the time it was operational the allied fighter aircraft were able to loiter over German airfields relatively unopposed and took out many Me262s on landing and takeoff.

Like with the super tanks, having a bit of superb tech is not sufficient to win a war.

So many are jazzed by the flashy German tech that they miss the Allied tech that were real game changers. As an example the US artillery doctrine was very advanced for its time, and since it could be applied to any tube, and the US had lots of tubes and lots of good ammunition (a lot of German ammo was of low grade and often faulty), it made seemingly low tech tubes very devastating. As a method of organizing a weapons system is was much less flashy but much more effective than all the KT's put together.