Profile of Death's Head

We're not gonna see new units like Knight's Cross holders or any other unit that needs new voice lines. Keep that it mind.

Why not? Rangers just have riflemen dialogue and the US commander's response to calling them is simply "Acknowledged". Flammenhetzer has no new diologue either afaik.

Well I didn't really commit to evaluating Nazis as a whole, just how they conducted their war against the USSR.

Being as crass and inflated as they were they reached the gates of Moscow only to at the last moment face the full might of the Russian winter and regrouping efforts of the Red Army. Add to this their poor strategizing from that point onward.

Had they launched a more cautious campaign, bolstering and empowering Russians in occupied territories for one example, it might have went very differently for the USSR.

It's not really about the leadership being less than staunch Nazis, it's about them being more realistic and pragmatic staunch Nazis.

They way you are presenting the situation one would gather that it would seem impossible for the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact to have been established in the first place. But it was, despite Nazism.

So it isn't always black and white, even with Nazi-Bolshevik relations. There is no reason the Nazis couldn't at the very least put the racial extermination agenda on the back-burner and focus on the imminent danger at hand. But they were overconfident in this regard.

My five word explanation why the Germans lost in the east.

"Russia is too damn big."

Partially. But it also has a lot to do with Nazi ideology in combination with the arrogance of German leaders.

Germany wanted too much out of the war.

a) Eradication of Bolshevism/Marxism which is seen as one of the two primary threats to Germany and western Europe (the other being Jewry).

b) Living space which would be confiscated from Slavs and given to German settlers in the post-war.

c) relocation or extermination of Slavic peoples.

The only realistic (and perhaps moral) goal would have been a); to topple the Soviet regime, install a nationalist fascist/pro-German government that would make some generous concessions to Germany in the post-war and otherwise act as a puppet.

Germany would have had to galvanize nationalists in the USSR, promote national/religious groups that naturally oppose Bolshevism and become their champion.

Instead Nazi Germany saw themselves as a conquerer and master, not a liberator and ally. Of course it couldn't have been any other way as it is really hard to divorce the racial-bigotry from the rest of the Nazi mandate.

Nevertheless had Germans been less racially focused and more interested in securing Europe from Bolshevism as they claimed then it would not have been impossible to win the war by toppling the Soviet government.

Here's what would be better - "Forward Gear" and "Reverse Gear" as toggleables that switch between the two movement behaviours we've had thus far.

Why not take it a step further and expand on ToV's "direct control mechanic. You toggle it on and all you control is the vehicle with the arrow keys and mouse for turret.

Just a thought.

Stormtroopers from CoH1 had a really awesome line when in combat:

"Do you think they get paid for each shot they fire?"