Profile of elchino7

WP barrage cost should go up to match that of the flame barrage.

Pack Howie should had never had an auto attack and instead improved barrage capabilities.

It has one MG with nearly same DPS as all 3 MGs of Panzer4 (upgraded). That is ok?

Because it is one weapon shooting on only one model it kills model per model way too fast. (E.g. german tanks will shoot many models at same time, reducing the hp but not kill). Also the AI performane of the main-gun is very good. Why such an op hull-MG? It isn't needed.

Edit: and it is buged too, makes damage even without animation.

Because the main gun performance is not good and instead of relying on cheesy random wipes, you get constant AI boost which can be nullified by vet, cover and retreat bonuses.

It was a band aid fix because the ability was UP. Then they realized the ability become OP when rng favored the player and the unit spawned with LMG and removed it. In the end they created the new weird system limiting slot weapon to 1 and adding a penalty modifier to slot weapon when in cover.

There is little reason for Osttruppen to have complicated stats and LMG-42 access. There is little reason for non elite infatry with 6 entities to have LMG access, there are other better solutions. The DPS drop off for 6 entity squad is simply too low.

I'm not talking about the fix made by the community patches, i'm referring as to how Relic put a conditional RNG wise 6 man LMG42 squad.
And TBH, the difference between 6 moodel squads or 5 model squad is minimal. Relic designed Rifles to be able to double wield 1919 and even worst, RET. If we didn't see as much RET with them, is because they even gave the 1919 a free suppression ability when equipped on Rifles.

Just so we don't go off:

-I agree with the fact that high dps LMG is problematic on high model count.
-I don't necessarily agree that the current "complex" situation is a problem or there been better/easier solutions.
-My initial point was: let's not bring "Relic design" when they have many contradictory decisions done in the past, way before community influence.

This year: Age of empires 2 DE

Next year: Age of empires 3 DE/HD

Maybe following year: Age of Mythology/Trailer for AoE4

I prefer vcoh2 or close to that.

The original has clearer faction designs, distinctive abilities that have clearer leveling tiers, more asymmetrey, more rng unpredictable so every game is different.

I belive Relic just needs to tweak the original formula a bit more, instead of gutting the core design choices with black tapes. Their balancing is strange, this patch is supposed to work on certain units while others should not be touched.

I don't think you remember well what vcoh2 means.

Original design means, the only useful things are the ones which are broken OP and cheesy. You live and die by the meta, cause any deviation is insta 90% lose compare to todays meta, because faction can actually hold on it's own with non doctrinal stuff.

"Now it is everything goes, the engagement pace has picked up, too much arty, too much camping, more standardised meta to follow."

Games were defined in the first 7 mins by either FHT (stupid vet2) or T70 (which had crush).
Too much arty? What about turbomortar and precision strike on every single soviet piece. 120mm nuking your squads every 60s if you didn't move them? B4 nuking tanks with pinpoint accuracy? Did you play with old Joint Operations on 2v2+? You could fire LefH nonstop because the cooldown would refresh after it ended shooting up after vet2.

Camping is playing with/against Maxim spam. Having every freaking 2v2+ been Guard Motor/ISU152 vs Joint Operation/Elephant/I win pinning run.

After they somehow fixed vCoH2 factions, they broke the game again with WFA. I always found it funny that some of the people who complained about UKF simcity, weren't as vehement with OKW when 2v2+ was camping around forward medic HQ, ISG, using fortifications MG34 + pak43 into KT.

Sure this create balancing issues if you fall behind in tiering, but its make unit perservation fun, makes mastering a faction fun.

There was no such a thing as unit preservation with the amount of AoE wiping abilities.