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So how many Ost games since beta?

You can check his games by checking the SOV/OST tab.

Is there any way we can have your playercard, since i´ve seen you critizing and asking for it ?


Can someone illuminate me by why are some of the strats considered cheese?
Cheese: unconventional strat which is designed to take the opponent by surprise if they are not prepared for it.

I understand that they can be dull (stalling for Tigers, T3485s with MV and ISU) but they are far from being a cheese since they are practically easy to identify.
Hate the game, not the people. When there are just a few viable strats and those are mostly locked on commander selection (at least for vcoh2 factions).

Further explanation: cheese strats can be or not effective/reliable. That´s not the point. If someone spams me Su76 i would consider that a cheese. A REALLY BAD CHEESE.

Watch your replays. Honestly, that's step one. Also you have to be willing to look for your faults before you blame game balance and bad RNG for your losses. If you do both of those things, while watching streams every now and then to see how good players manage their armies, you'll improve in no time. Also, consistently playing people better than you will help you improve much, much faster than stomping randoms on the ladder. Find a partner who is a better player than you, and square off against him.

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-Unit preservation
-Reading the flow of the game. How much resources both you and your opponent have. What did he spend his muni/mp early on? What about fuel?
-Build your own flowchart of actions: while this isn´t SC2 where you need to mechanically do repeating things, it helps to have in mind a certain routine.
-SLOWLY start improving your micro: start to slowly add hotkeys and control groups into your play.
-I like to compare some situations with Poker. You need to know when is it worth it to take calculated risks and if it´s worthy or not. This mostly comes with experience.
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-I guess this isn´t directly answering your question on "how to slow down the game". If you do this flawlessly constantly, you slowly start getting used to it without requiring so much effort. This put you on the "zone" where you mechanically do things without even thinking of it.
Putting a mine which 30s later helps you destroy a tank, repositioning an MG prior to see the flank coming, putting some units for an ambush, etc.

-Avoid distractions such as discussing with other people ingame, music (while i like to play with it, it makes me miss audio cues), look at how fancy a unit is attacking or moving , etc.

-Take breaks. After a long game or during a session, take a couple of minutes to move, drink/eat, do something else. Fatigue is something that affects us all, newbies and pros.

I kinda agree. vCoH had it aswell, although more smoother.

The performance differences generally are a little bit over the top. While the OKW/US and Wehrmacht/Soviet matchup feels alright, everything else is quite... extreme.

For example: The US infantry can't be fought manpower efficiently with Wehrmacht infantry, because the discrepancy between Riflemen (-with double 1919) and Grens is huuuuuuge. The same goes with OKW elite infantry and Soviets. You are forced to get hardcounter vehicles, snipers, M3 - not to fight fair infantry battles, but to "cheese" it out. The infantry DPS with the new factions can reach a point where even MGs won't cut it, unless in heavy cover.

And yes, the importance of maps can't be stressed enough. Winning as OKW on Semoisky winter north or on Langreskaya south is a night-and-day difference.

+1

I´m just gonna add that it may require LITTLE buffs and nerfs to solve this situation. Some tweaks here and there.
I´ve this feeling that we might just see ANOTHER big patch which is gonna change several things alltogether.

I'm seeing your point but I'm not really finding it convincing so we're going to have to disagree here.

Cruzz changes basically aims at making the LMG users to suffer also from damage while in certain degree help other units which doesn´t rely on specialized weapons for their DPS.

I guess it´s a matter of point of view, from tweaking them and just nerfing rough dps from them.

Massive micro fail in the first one from Sov. And that was the MG suppression bulletin period, which lasted for 1 patch. Without the bulletin at that point, Maxim actually was BETTER at suppressing than the MG42, and for like the preceeding 6months.

In the second, during that same period, imagine how impossible it was to decrew a 6man Maxim with Grens at close range. So yeah, again, not really.

Furthermore, there is no danger of either of these happening as a result of what is suggested in OP.
So no relevance really.

1- I´m just showing how OP MG42 where at the beggining of the game which seems you are trying to deny.
2- I think we are forgetting that you were able to field MORE MG42 than maxims due to T2 cost and initial mp. Thats the reason most opening besides con spam were not as viable due to conceding the map to your opponent.

The first one the mg42 was supported and in the second he was forced to retreat. lets use see what the maxim can do

3- Sigh. I didn´t mention on any moment that maxim wasn´t OP at ANY ITERATION of the game. Showing another OP unit isn´t a good counterargument to disprove the performance of either unit.

4- Maxim spam was followed by FHT rush into cut off = GG

Conclusion: MG42 was REALLY OP. Maxim was OP.

Stuka AT Support: Needs to act like the P-47 where it only goes after armour in the target area, not the infantry unless absolutely no armour is in the area. Sure it can suppress and kill one-two members off, but that's not why we call it in, and it already has its troubles like the P-47 which is tracking and hitting moving units so it should at least hit the intended target(s).

I think that is how IT´S SUPPOSED to work since some of the different tweak this ability has received. "Problem" maybe you are perceiving is when the plane has already targetted an infantry unit (cause there was no armor) and then armor shows up on the zone. Or just keep improving targetting.

Regarding original post:
-Panzergrenadiers: i think the unit on itself is fine. Problem is the ease of use and performance of specialized weapon. If i´m forced to see a change, i´ll rather see them at 320mp (from 340mp). Is their reinforcement cost still 45mp or 40mp ?
-Osstruppen: i would just reduce their cost.

I want to add something:

Mechanized groups: moved to 2CP. AND i would rather see a fuel decrease to 20-25 with a little hp reduction to compensate.