Profile of pigsoup

Disagree, All I see is a lot of commanders lacking in creativity and being released unpredictably.

I think it would have been nice to see 5 well designed commanders for each side total. Putting more of them in to make up for the fact that there are only two factions now is silly.

I'm not adverse to another 2 factions being added to this game. I would welcome it, if they were well thought out and worked. But using commanders as a way to keep the game fresh is not a sustainable method. it's shallow and counter productive.

I understand that people gotta make money, but hey - why not make games worth paying for because of what there core offers, rather than what you can tack on later at £1.50 a pop. Just saying.

Here's to a smaller number of well thought out, commanders

After considering some thoughts, i feel adding many of the doctrinal units and abilities as default abilities and having few really varied doctrines (about 5 like you said) to choose from will cause much more interesting and open game.... but that seems to radical too actually happen...

T34 with mark target and 50 kg bomb

The tank battle starts at 25 min, left fuel point

what about making the scope only spot vehicles

So to capture an enemy weapon an Axis player needs to get tier 2, build a certain building and then build a certain vehicle in order to safely capture an enemy weapon when the enemy can build a 6 man squad from their main building and steal it right away?

Not to mention that it requires 80 fuel to do so.

I'm fine with the "3 men is converted" if you capture a weapon with the soviets but it should only be 2 with the Axis because of the smaller squads.

Soviet has to go underwhelming t3(although much better than before) for an unreliable counter to osteer's cheap strafing run, but you really want t4 to counter panzers.

there are advantages and disadvantages to both factions. considering all asymmetries, i think it is fair on a more grand scale of things.

1. Everything aside, when my soviet troops get suppressed at the edge of the arc of a MG 42, the troops go prone and crawl towards every which way, especially towards the centre of the arc. This is extremely annoying and it means that the troops eventually get pinned just because one out of the six guys decides to be stupid.

2. Make squads who get suppressed under HMG fires crawl AWAY from the cone of fire. Of course if the squad is in the middle of the cone, it should get pinned eventually, but if you are caught at the very edge, it should be able to get un-suppressed slowly but surely.

3. I heard a Relic developer say that HMG are supposed to be used in conjunction with other units for maximum efficiency (from one of TFN videos)

I think maxim actually works this way. I find it very useful when I am already engaged in a battle and I use it as an extra damage dealer from the back.... and useless when its on its own unless there is a narrow choke point.

But with MG 42, sure it is technically more efficient when used in conjunction but even when it is alone, its so efficient that its basically Rambo in four men's body...