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Oh yea, because these shermans struggle against Kubels and 222 and really need more penetration with less DPS then almost 50% cheaper axis ones.

No, wait, its because they struggle against axis armored infantry, because all axis units have armor.

Wait...

#reliclogic

At this point in time I'm about 100% sure that PQ only job is to troll hard and be hated, think of lolcake light but with the ability to actually change things.

I used to joke that it was a business plan to make a game that gives Wehrmacht/Nazi fanbois a hardon. Weirdly I am now actually starting to believe it.

When one argues about capability disparities the response is "historically this was the case!" When one wants to point out the historical deficiencies of German super-material the response is "this is a game!"

By late 1944 there were no such thing as ubersoldaten. A green US unit would outperform a green German unit, and in the case of US troops who had been in combat they would outperform better equipped green Wehrmacht troops.

If they wanted difference, there would be more similarities in the faction cores (though small differences would definitely stand out) and much bigger differences in the commanders. Artillery is a good example. The German artillery was relatively fast to respond, very accurate, but pretty lightweight in hitting. Russian artillery was very slow to respond (though when timed with an offensive quite timely), not very accurate, but devastating in quantity and damage when it did come. British artillery was quite fast to respond, not as accurate as German artillery, but much more powerful. And US artillery was almost as fast to respond as the British and slightly faster than the German, very accurate (IF maps were available to the troops, which they usually were) and very powerful

(Historical note: The US had ample 105s and 155s attached at the divisional and regimental level as well as some 203mm guns at the corps level. The fire missions and the artillery structure were such that anyone who had heard the fire mission (given in map coordinates and time for it to land) was able to quickly join in regardless of their caliber and position. All they needed was to be in range and have available tubes and ammunition.

"Time on Target" Meant you could have multiple tubes worth of 105, 155, 203, 120mm mortar, 80mm mortar, etc all landing in the same place pretty much AT THE SAME TIME.)

It actually does make a lot of sense fro a historical perspective. The Germans had to husband their fuel if they ever wanted to attack, and when they did attack fuel was one of the main goals because of its need AND scarcity.

A - you have to save the fuel for an attack. B - the sacrifice of some fuel now to save a unit that to replace would cost a whole bunch more fuel. (Or to attack and capture more fuel.)

Feels historical even in the Relic sense of history. Of course that would be a nerf to Panther by some standards so it won't happen. #L2NP (not a typo)

The orders were usually to keep the distance as it had thin side armor (I don´t know why people exclusively refer to that on the Panther as it is pretty much this way for most tanks).

But the idea of vulnerable sides makes all the difference, especially in the more congested battle fields of Western Europe and during counter attacks. From the front you could consider a Panther to be superior to a Sherman since the Sherman will struggle but the Panther will not.... But warfare is fought by real people. From the sides it dies as fast as a Sherman or an m10.... and there were a LOT more Shermans and M10s.

I would add that after August 1944 the best Panthers were given to inexperienced crews by Hitler's orders, and those Panthers died FAST against the by now more experienced allied armored crews.

I know you hate to hear it, but it's true. You can't balance the game for 3v3 and 4v4 without ruining 1v1 and 2v2.

For those of you who are CoH1 vets, you'll remember that 1v1 and 2v2 were very well balanced. 2v2 was actually a little to difficult for Axis because the Brits boost in resources made it too difficult to win early game.

But 4v4 games in CoH1 favored axis, b/c axis could actually drag out the game and get heavy tanks and buy vet 3.

It's always been like this and unless you want to homogenize the factions and make them exact mirrors of each other, you have to accept the fact that the lion's share of the balance teams efforts has to remain on 1v1 and 2v2.

But it didn't have to always be like that. There were enough differences between US and Wehr that you didn't need bought veterancy to make them different. Bought veterancy I think cheapened the Wehr. I didn't play them for a long time, and when I did start there was this weird feeling... You would wipe an opposing squad and there wasn't ever that satisfying feeling of watching the veterancy chevron float up in return as a sort of "good job". And never that desperate need to keep a vet3 alive that allies had since any new unit you bought came out with that vet.

Bought veterancy would not have changed the imbalances between the mortars and the mgs, the med tents (soft, one free unit for each 6 men, un garrisonable) and the bunkers, the HT and Pak coming T2 vs T3, turreted AT and AI Allied tanks vs. the Suh & Stug, jeeps vs bikes, etc. etc. Small differences add up, and add up fast. And there were lots more of them. (Invisible units, arty disparities, armor disparities, etc.)

I am trying to understand myself why this last patch has so many up in arms. The response to that patch was clearly much more emotional than in the past. Sure in the past there are people who said "I won't play until...." But now we get people throwing up their hands and saying "I give up. They won't fix it or can't" and walking away.

I too deleted it. I have been lurking (and sometimes commetning) for a while waiting for the game to get to a state that would make me want to play and after this patch I decided is wasn't even worth a few gigs on my machine, and worse, I didn't want a friend to be able to tempt me into a game so now I would have to download it again.