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It was not behind the shed on the right it was back from the munitions point on the left. The point is though that this is not that specific. A similar thing happens in a lot of games where the minimal effort to seek out the schwerer is rewarded too generously with a win in most circumstances.

The fact we establish is that the schwerer is not that useful being outside the base these days after allied power creep in team games. Yet this "free" emplacement is often tallied as a large plus for okw in balance discussions. Why not at least console those realists who know it's too risky outside the base with a discount or production speed boost? The points about USF free units is valid. Their destruction does not destroy teching and okw is the only faction whose teching can be destroyed by off map arty.

Then it was not on the cut off. You went for the left fuel and held that position or, as normal, your partner went for the right fuel and VP. Any unit combination (as mentioned before) can take a forward building if your focus is on the opposite side of the map.

This games doesn't work equally on 1v1 and 2v2 onwards. A schwerer covered by a hedge, and nearby protected by the flak/MG bunker is the ideal location for it (which on several maps cover strats points like Crossing) and can't be easily nuked if you are strained out of resources. 2v2 onwards means you can focus on a single aspect and be backup by your partner, as well as saving munition to use offmaps kind off freely by comparison.

OKW tech can be equally destroyed as OH or SU (if they are close enough to the border of the base as to still be near the AoE of offmap ), specially when is meta to build it close enough so you can reinforce as far away.

If you are playing 3v3+: unless you have 100% control of a zone, don't build a Schwerer outside your base.
If playing 2v2: check what commanders they have. By the time you can deploy a Schwerer, unless they haven't choose yet, you should know what commanders they went for. If they have one of the few commanders which can easily nuke a truck, don't deploy it on sight range.

Left side of south spawn, back at the cutoff. As soon as it was noticed, smoke mortar, call in arty and major arty made very swift work of it. I'm talking seconds not minutes. There were undoubtedly things I could have done differently but none which were objectively more correct without benefit of hindsight.

So the cut off on the right side, behind the house on the middle, behind the train line, in front of the train line behind the fuel point ?

Rails and metal plays with both side having a half of the map and slowly creeping or you constantly swap between the 2. If you put the Schwerer on any side, this means you are playing for the first.
That's absolutely your mistake (and you are relying for emergency def in your partner) if both armies can't stop a major from running into your position, dropping 2x offmap into it cause your whole army is supposed to be fighting from that side with small incursions from your positions into the left side. If you have the left side and fightings towards the right, it's your fault if you put the Schwerer in any side besides your base as you are extending the frontline in such a way that it's irrelevant that you call a "strat" point a cutoff as it's way more vulnerable than it would supposed to be if you had the other side.

USF: armor (RNG bombs), infantry and the other 2 offmap requires a unit to get nearby.
SU: IL2 /AT nade bombing
UKF: Precision barrage, concentrated barrage

Check what commanders they have on the loadout. Anytime you play OKW, you should know that you can have your trucks been late game nuke by 1.5 offmaps if they have any of the above. That's not hindsight, that's knowledge and experience.

Same way if you are facing, say Penal spam (satchel rush) or late game Hammer (with gammon bombs). If the enemy can have a straight LoS into the Schwerer, then it's not in a defensive position.

To make things even worse Flare are not essential since the vet 1 ability "tracking" increases sight so that one can see targets or do not suffer FOW penalty and the mini map information allows to avoid rakketen or barrages packs from out side their range.

49 limited time sight range is far from been OP. Also minimap spotting makes a difference with FoW penalty?

I agree with you, however Relic probably can do it, too bad they're too lazy as it seems tho.

We hardly had a patch every 2 or 3 months. Releasing a different "client"/mod for another mode means doubling the workload.

I'm curious. What kind of changes were you against? Reminder that main issue with 3v3+ is matchmaking not balance. Most of the games are not balance skill wise. Either through mismatches or having a team composed of totally different skill levels. Main reason it's a clownfiesta.

I mean, 3v3+ was an Axis joke. It was even worst when they released WFA with OKW (USF auto lose lel) but completely opposite with UKF (LM, comets, nuke offmap and party cover). I don't think too many things were done which could make things worst than they were with each commander or faction release.

A little detail as well: small values (3%?) are ignored. So you won't have some small arm fire penetrating different armor values.

There are weapons which also have deflection damage and some can deal dmg to units through AoE rather than hitting and penetrating them.