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-MGs are your friends. All 3 allied factions will outnumber you with infantry, don't be afraid to extend T1 a bit and get a 2nd MG to stabilize the frontline. On urban maps, a mortar might be useful instead, the Ost mortar is a killer.

-Keep grens in pairs against USF/UKF. They will more or less always lose 1v1 fights on their own, you don't want that.

-Use your starting pioneers! Can't tell you how many times sneaking in a pio squad helped tip the balance. Their DPS is acceptable up close, so try to have them support your grens early game.

-Move your MGs. If you see a smoke grenade, pack up immediately and repostition further back. If you see Ooorah'd conscripts and can't reposition in time, retreat. Losing your MGs is a death sentence.

-Consider getting PGrens if the early game went well. They can take some hits and unlike Grens can win 1v1 engagements, and also plug Ostheer's weakness in urban maps.

-Panzer 4 is only worth it if you comfortably won the early game. Otherwise getting a Stug is more prudent. You might hurt on anti-infantry a bit more but a properly supported Stug can tackle anything short of Jacksons or Comets. A pair of properly used Stugs can handle any single allied tank.

-If you start to fall behind, take territory one at a time. Have your MGs in an overlapping field of fire. The longer you're driven off from the field, the more muni your opponent has to fuel the doomblob and the more fuel they have for the medium tank onslaught. Better hold on to 50% of the map comfortably, than try to hold on to 70% and get beaten back by a strong push.

Everyone was praising the patch and the patch preview around these here parts.


More than a few "OMG JESUS PATCH THANKS RELIC" posts.

Honestly, they got a shit ton of positive feedback from people about the patch note. They also got positive results from the survey.

It's amazing how much the community flip flopped on a patch that they even helped design. (Relic listened to the containment thread about OKW)


You all are going to pretend that you always knew the patch was going to be shit, but one only need look at some posts from last month to see all the praise they were giving out. Obviously not everyone agreed, but I find it pretty funny to see posts like yours claiming everyone knew it was going to be bad. We were in the minority of posters, the vast majority of people thought these OKW changes were great.

That's not my experience. The thread where the test notes were released already coined the term ''OPKW'', as we see not without reason. Most certainly not everyone was praising the patch once they thought a bit about the implications of the OKW ''overhaul'' being pretty much a straight buff of everything they have at once.

I certainly thought the UKF nerfs went too far (despite arguing for them being clearly OP at release) and the OKW buffs were ludicrous. So far I saw little that dispels those notions honestly. OKW in particular was overbuffed (Volks buff, popcap buff, much faster timings on their extremely potent vehicle arsenal, the damn Goliath), that much is crystal clear to me, and I don't expect the stats to change much in the coming weeks. Like the Brits, I have a feeling OKW will get an arrow in the knee in 1-2 months.

If the other player invests 100+ ammo on a snare and PIATs (not counting the weapon unlock cost, too) and you let your lone medium tank unsupported as they get snared and then pelted, you deserve to lose that tank if you ask me. Assuming of course the Panzer 4 doesn't cut the lone sapper squad to ribbons even when snared.

Snare into double PIATs was far from a problem back when UKF sniper had its critical shot as I remember it. I get and support them losing that ability out of the gate, but it leaves UKF too exposed to light vehicles unless they shell out previous fuel for an AEC that is going to do nothing else. On top of all their problems with Volks being able to fight back against Tommies now, it makes UKF early game quite hard vs OKW.

And yeah, the Brumbar sucks, but that doesn't justify any other unit sucking as I said. Two wrongs don't make a right.

Good thing they cost less money and arrive in the game a lot sooner then.

Eh? Shocks cost more than Obers and are doctrinal. Not if you include the LGM34, but LGM34 Obers also vastly outperform Shocks at anything by knife edge's range. 12 pop for Shocks is too much, 10 pop for IS is too much, 5 pop for Volks is too little.

Changes take some time for people to adjust to. Especially extensive changes like what was done with OKW. All the tech timings being different throws people off.

So instead of freaking out about shit a handful of days after the patch, give people some time to adjust.

Lets do some math.

Shock troops = 6 man squad. 12 popcap = 2 popcap per squad entity
Bolstered section = 5 man squad. 10 pop cap = 2 popcap per squad entity
Obers = 4 man squad. 8 popcap = 2 popcap per squad entity.

Whoa.

Fucking why?

It already requires you to spend 45+25+50+120 fuel on tech, let alone 200 fucking whatever fuel on the KT itself.

It's barely ''new'' timings. Beyond the early game (because of their 10 starting fuel), it's just faster timings across the board with no nerfs of any kind. To say nothing of the new muni income that ensures every single Volks squad has shrecks and can chuck grenades. Doesn't require years of testing by the NASA to see that this is potentially problematic.

The maths don't reflect the reality that an Obers squad is about on par with a Shock squad yet the latter tanks your economy more, to say nothing of 5 pop Volks being stupid compared to 10! pop bolstered IS. As Acht says, popcap should better reflect unit value.

The KT is a superheavy that may cost a bundle, but even in a closer game can arrive at the 16-17 minute mark, even worse in team games. Sure, we shouldn't balance around team games and yadda yadda, but when something is that broken I feel it needs adjustments. Doesn't help that Volks are now powerful and versatile enough to somewhat hold the fort, along with the Flackstruck, to delay until the KT arrives and the asskicking begins.