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Regarding new factions:

What does this map about the pacific region mean? You can see it @ the Sunday Nights Fights interviews. Are they working on a japanese faction? They wouldn´t wallpaper it to learn some thing about history neither to locate Down Under on a globe, would they? Or is it just shown to calm down the community?

If somebody has any ideas, please let me know.

Inb4 Banzai charges and Kamikaze planes (oh wait, we kind of have those already).

@OP: Yeah, why can't they make Flak-88's and Fallschrimjager despite them being in the first game?

Ram has always been a ridiculously binary ability that doesn't create any strategic depth or fun for the game. I remembered this was this one game where I rammed a Tiger Ace and failed three times in a row. I also remember this other game where my Tiger got immobolized (as in cannot move) on the enemy's first try. It's just too much RNG.

It's clearly an "Enemy at the Gates Mode" for the T-34 and doesn't belong in any game that calls itself a strategy game.

This is exactly what I was saying, and you are also correct about setting a trap. However, Ost generally revolves around a trap design. Units are powerful but have fewer members, so you give up capping power to hold one area well, because you can't afford to be as aggressive.

I will concede that con spam is boring...very, very boring. I don't have an immediate answer to this problem other than to say that Ost needs a way to punish conscript heavy starts. This used to be the FHT, but I find that unit under performing. I would give up reinforcing around the HT, if it got a nice buff upon upgrade. Also its vanilla gun could use with something to make it useful.

Ostheer revolves around a trap design but are unable to plant booby traps (demo charges) and have fucking signs on their infantry mines? The irony. Think how much more effective the MG42 could be if you could protect a flank with a mine that was actually hidden.

Why would the Soviets IRL ever need trampler battalions if there were signs on the minefields everywhere? Why are your soldiers in-game so retarded that they just blindly walk into the field while auto-pathing when there are giant signs everywhere? I find this to be insulting and I'm not even Russian.

They should revert the minefield build speed but delete the fucking signs. Seriously.

Conscript spam is not boring - well, at least not as much as Shock spam.

EDIT: Apparently Relic saw this clip and decided to buff the PPSH conscripts. http://youtu.be/l0KttKFrhqE?t=1m36s

Upgraded grens still beat upgraded cons 1 on 1.

Only true if you're on the defensive (as in not moving) and not the offensive.

To take the fight to the enemy you've got to get SkillGewehr43's.

And you have a problem here.
Game can't be balanced for 1v1 games AND 4v4.

Not with asymmetrical factions that have different strengths on different game phases, because strengths and weaknesses will always be enhanced by the number of units/players.

There is no way around that.

This is true, especially with the way Soviets are designed. Why Relic decided to put a faction that is literally supposed to defeat the enemy combined arms relying on solely half of their tech tree is beyond me (you can backtech to T2 but isn't always feasible and you simply can't have both T3 and T4).

This implies that half the Soviet tech tree, in a balanced 1v1 state, must be equal to the whole of the Ostheer tech tree (although I suppose T4 Ostheer isn't really viable in 1v1 so there is that factor). Check out what happens when you switch to 2v2 with that logic.

This effect does disappear in larger games but is very apparent in 2v2 (think 1CP Guards+Shocks last patch or T34+SU85).

What happened to that one idea where people suggested a cheaper cost for Soviet backteching (build T1/T2 for regular price, build the other for a cheaper price, same with T3/T4)? This would allow the game to be balanced a hell lot easier for more modes I feel as the 1v1 experience would not be so jarringly different from the team games where Soviets actually have access to all of their tech tree (it'll probably lessen a lot of the balance bickering too as 1v1-only players have a huge difference in opinion and ingame playstyle to teamgame-only players to players who play both).