Profile of van Voort

they do, but you still paying a shitload of fuel to get to it while a Soviet player just has to wait. Really isn't that hard when T2 and T1 give you everything you need.

Then include the cost of T1 and T2 in your calculation then; unless you think people are doing Con Spam into IS2s.

Observations, Summary and Comments:

New maps

Hill 331 back and look forward to it

Rostov, I will miss you because I've had some great games on you but I know you can't be balanced

Shallow water no longer offers a speed reduction penalty.•This has been removed to increase ebb and flow around areas which feature shallow water.

Now not just RNJesus can walk on water!

Truck Pushing, Blobs, Squad Wipes

Good, good


okw


OKW base Flak Gun chance to shoot down aircraft has been reduced to 0.5%

Anyone know what it was before?

Volksgrenadiers

Now more killable by conventional means, but will fire faster at Vet5 instead

Long range accuracy take down as well

Obers

As predicted the LMG-34 now costs munitions and Ober damage with that and STG44 taken down

Raketenwerfer

Slight buff

King Tiger

I presume this is 425 to 375, not all the way to 37...

amis

M10

Better health so will now explode slightly slower

M36 Jackson

Penetration UP, Damage DOWN

Which is exactly what people wanted

M8 Greyhound Canister Shot

Less wipy

USF Mortar Halftrack

Supposed to be made 250/7 comparable

Pak Howitzer

Now better blob counter with some supression

HMC (Scott)

Less wipy

soviets

Soviet Sniper

No sprint anymore, flares need VET1


B4

Generally nerfed, but direct fire is cheeper and gains range at VET3 like other artillery
precision strike gone

Guard Troops

PTRS accuracy buff, which I believe will make them actually useful against infantry rather than deadweight

120mm Mortar

Less wipy


ostheer

Pioneers

Get a sight buff so they can spot, this was unexpected but I can see why

Shreks

Get the same nerf as OKW

Sniper

Healthbuff so nearly doubled

SdKfz 222 Armored Car

Slight health buff, not sure how much difference that will make

HMG 42

Got the slight buff people wanted



axis

Blitzkrieg is now less instant warp, and Tigers and Panthers don't get quite as much top speed out of it


Overall:

Fewer squad wipes, but fewer squad wipes needed because blobbing is more discouraged.


OKW have been nerfed, but the things nerfed are the things that needed nerfing (Volks and Obers)


USF: Net gain as Jacksons will be reliable rather than bouncy bouncy all the time
Artillery gets some improvement

Soviets:
B4 was already endangered by CAS, we'll see what happens to it now

Guards look like they may actually be useful again

Wehrmacht:
May get indirect buff via Jackson change, but not a lot for them here.

Slight buffs to snipers and 222s, MG42s now better

Blitz nerf also affects them


Overall and on range of -10 to +10

OKW -5

USF +4

SOV +1

OKH +1

My concern is not whether that Campaign "dishonours" anybody or not, or even whether it can be historically justified or not - but rather why when there are millions of stories that Relic could have told they chose to tell that one.

A game that should be huge in Russia, and they chose a storyline that's going to piss that market off.

If you can have a clean German campaign it shouldn't be hard to do it for the Red Army.


That's like making an USMC game about the Pacific, and then having key bits of gameplay be about collecting Japanese skulls to send home to your girlfriend and carving letter openers out of their bones.

Now if you do that, you don't get to act surprised if the Americans get pissed at you.


It shows remarkably poor judgement rather than anything else

Just checked, I can live without your approval