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Jump back to quoted post20 Jan 2015, 18:21 PMMetalon

I really appreciate all the advice given here, but I haven't recived any real solution to the particular rush i encountered in this replay(?). The problem is that my first riflemensquad got suppresed before they even managed to cross the bridge. I guess i could send my engineer squad over right away, but that gives me delayed fuel, and that will put me behind if my opponent decides not to rush... hmm..

Jump back to quoted post20 Jan 2015, 10:33 AMThoseDeafMutes

Whether or not it's mentioned in an official statement or not, the fact of the matter is OKW doesn't get medium tanks under normal circumstances. They get light vehicles, then skip straight to heavies. Yet a doctrine provides them with these Medium tanks that they would otherwise lack. You can certainly argue that it's not a particularly viable doctrine, yet it is an example of an obvious category of units that is missing from their faction that is overcome by an unlockable/purchasable doctrine. It's not like every second doctrine provides them with a medium, in the same way that every other Soviet doctrine provides them with a heavy callin of some kind or an elite infantry unit of some kind and is thus expected to be a standard feature of an army.

These vision statements were not and have never been iron clad contracts. "Air support was virtually non-existent" = they get a pretty amazing strafing run+paradrop ability - coincidentally the USF only get one airstrike. Enormous fuel shortages = cheapest teching in the game, fuel salvage, resource diversion, and the ability to field Panthers faster than the non-shortaged Ostheer faction. Even after the game came out, they experimented with significantly altering the "resource shortage" part of OKW and in one patch literally gave the faction full munitions income. If Relic believes the game can be improved, they're not going to go "oh well, sorry, the vision statement says no!" Particularly if some future DLC pack adds Theatre of War type missions set after the Battle of the Bulge where it would be thematically appropriate to add a Pershing. But nobody should get upset if a Pershing somehow found its way back through the same time portal that sucked the Vampir STG44s from Feb '45 into active service during the Bulge.



It's not needed for 1v1s but would go a long way to making USF competitive in team games, particularly the larger ones.