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I just dont get it. Its always 95% playin as axis and 5% as allies becouse axis are a-move factions.

No, OKW is the a-move faction. Ostheer is the weakest. USA and even Soviets are a-move aswell. Rifles running straight into MG42 and finishing it off is standard gameplay.

They are easier to play, units are durable and long range effective. It takes less micro to play em. You just a-move em and you know its safe cuz you can always retreat em before they get wiped.

People play axis, nobody wants to play allies as allies requare much more micro and die quickly if you make misstakes. Its not rewarding to play allies.

Bullshit. Ostheer 4 men squads die the fastest. Losing Ostheer squads is incredibly easy.

If you are referring to armor: This game is asymmetrically balanced and inspired by historic events. Guess who had the better performing tanks? So who gets the stronger ones and who gets the cheaper ones? Perfectly logic that Germans have some armor advantage piece by piece.

The real problem of this game is overperforming USF and OKW. Those are the a-move factions.

There would be two german factions. One with the Leo on NATO side and one with T-80 on the side of the Warshaw Pact.

Blasphemy! Too many German factions!

It's so obvious that that all axis players care about is tanks. Because everyone who suggests a new german factionn completely forgets that they have no small arms left to use. More stg, schreks, and lmg42s? RElic would have to copy paste a infantry to get another faction since they used almost every combination between OKW and Wher already.

Just to annoy you, here´s a new German faction I developed within 5mins out of my mind:


HQ: Kettenkrad, Engineers, Bodentruppen, Volkssturm (random weapons like partisans).

T1 Schützen, BMW Motorbike, Opel transport, Pak 36.

T2 Marder II, Marder III, Panzer III Ausf. M, Panzer III Ausf. N, Pak38, Häuserkampf-Trupp aka close-quarters infantry.

T3 Nebelwerfer, StuH 105mm, Wirbelwind, Möbelwagen, Hetzer, Jagdpanzer IV L48, Wespe SPG.

T4 Nashorn, Jagdpanther, Gebirgsjäger, Hummel SPG, Bergepanther, Instandsetzungs-Trupp.



* Infantry is mainly armed with Kar98k, upgrades: G41s, Mp 38, MG 26 t...
* For infantry-AT: Panzerfaust 100, Faustpatrone, shaped charges, Goliath.
* T4 unlocks the ability to build the 88mm Flak 36
* There´s too many units in each tier. Some units are redundant. I´m just showing all the possibilities.


You are seriously going on my nerves with your "please no Germans, everyone who disagrees is ignorant!" - attitude. Chances are super high, we won´t even see a third axis faction. And even then this crap I made up in some minutes has multiple times the potential of every fictional Japanese prototype faction you proposed.

I just want a Japanese faction more than anything. If whatever new Axis faction that comes with the hypothetical British one is German AGAIN, I'm going to cry.

I´m totally against that.

1) Russians, Germans aswell as US forces have a connection to the European battlefields. It doesn´t look totally ridiculous to see Americans on Semoiski. It´s still shit but not as far off as seeing the Japanese invading a French or Belgian village.

2) What competent land army was there fighting for the Axis side other than the Germans? The Italians? Pretty much any of their actions was a failure and the Germans had to come to the rescue. By the time the game is set they had switched sides and what remained was a puppet state in the north.

The Finnish? They pretty much fought their own war up in the north. Hungarians, Romanians etc.? Hardly enough to make a whole faction.

What remains are the Japanese, but I prefer seeing Hetzers, Jagdpanthers, Nebelwerfers fighting IS-2s rather than a Chi-Ha tank. The heaviest the Japanese could field would be a Chi-Nu, which is around the strength of a Panzer IV (early, 50mm armor).

3) Still lots and lots of stuff not included for the Germans.

and hit like my fiancée.

No offense... you have a fiancée? I always pictured you as around 14 years old.

But on topic: I never ever see partisans. They can be useful on Semoski to spawn behind weapon crews or to cut off the fuel. But that´s pretty much the only thing. Not worth denying yourself T-34/85s and IS-2s for that. It´s kind of like that thread with people complaining about artillery. In the current call in meta not going for anything out of the standard call in tanks is suicide.

The whole doctrine is crippled further because it contains the aforementioned under-performing artillery. Oh and on top of that Partisans suck even more than artillery.