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Jump back to quoted post13 Apr 2015, 16:29 PMAlexzandvar

I'm glad we could have a thread requiring in depth knowledge of how OKW works when half the posters have less than 10 games played as OKW.

Jump back to quoted post13 Apr 2015, 01:42 AMcomm_ash

The reason why caches for OKW would be a bad idea is because it would give them far more income than they were supposed to have (talking in a ones perspective).

Imagine, for a scond, that an OKW player has his/her infantry horde of 2 obers /pfus + 4 volkshreck. The OKW player is folating 800mp, and doesn't need more tech to field KT. WHat does he do? He takes that mp and puts it into fuel caches. These caches do not detract from his infantry horde (he already has them), because they do not bleed his income over time, it is merely a sink for excess manpower. This results in a KT coming out much faster than it normally would, but at little to no real cost the the OKW player, because he was just going to be floating the mp anyways.

This is the problem with adding caches to OKW. I would be fine if OKW had for example access maybe to an opel truck for 400mp and 10 popcap, so that the boost to economy would come at a great cost to not only manpower, but to future manpower income. I honestly don't think that OKW really needs any opels trucks or caches anyways, the faction is fine as it is.

Jump back to quoted post13 Apr 2015, 02:08 AMcomm_ash

Thats not true. All it means is that the OKW player is able to go through the game without large manpower expenditures. This just shows how cost efficient the OKW army is in fact. You can put that spare manpower into a raketen, or a pak43, or bunkers, or more obers, or an mg34, or a tank. The thing is that OKW doesn't really need much more than 2 obers + 4 volkshreck, so they don't usually feel pressured to make the decision to invest that manpower on units, and instead choose to sit on it as a "rainy day" fund. That is fine, OKW ends up waiting on the fuel to callin armor, like an opposite soviet industry.

You didn't address my point about how OKW would get a much higher income than is needed. Why does OKW need a larger fuel income than they currently have? You can normally get a panther by ~19 minutes, and will have all of your units either when they are needed, or before they are needed. Adding caches would simply increase the fuel income rate, which will mean that some units will arrive faster than they are supposed to, before their own counters arrive, and making it easier to replace lost armor, which is something I am fine with. OKW has scavenge. Take advantage of this ability to supplement your fuel income.

I'm yet to see any reason to add fuel caches besides "to negate manpower float," and it will only negate manpower float insofar as it allows you to supplement your fuel income at no real cost. The idea of fuel caches is that you are expending resources meant for your infantry/ armor on a higher fuel income which is a real choice for every other faction. OKW would just build caches with their float at no real cost.

Jump back to quoted post12 Apr 2015, 13:15 PMG4bb4_G4nd4lf

The Sturmoffizier buffs accuracy and reload. The reload modifier was reduced from 0.6 to 0.87 = 13% faster reload.

The le.IG has no accuracy so the accuracy buffs do not apply.