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The other thing to consider now is the new squad spacing.

The way squads spread out now ( out of cover ) means that grenades, tank shells and indirect fire won't be as effective.

Prior to last patch I found that if USF player could effectively dodge grenades, and was lucky with rng in respect to tank fire and indirect fire then killing USF infantry was considerably harder..

It is hard to tell how these changes will play out long in the long run especially with the vet buff, if anything it should offer more consistency..

Just like grens are superior to cons for the cost.
Or Lefh to ML-20.

This is quite long list.

Ostwind have much better mobility and as you've seen on balance mod, Centaur is getting changes.

Does your hard-on for grens ever go away?????

You can tell if a unit is OP.

You see it in every game, M5 Quad for example.

Panther imo is no more prevalent than any other OST tank.

Panther is not balanced. It overperforms. It should only perform as a tank hunter, but its used also as recon, antiinfantry with crush and high speed and pops up smoke to get away with a slither of health while bouncing off shells.

Stop talking crap, your just embarrassing yourself.

It is fine. It is a tank hunter and does its job.

It got crap AI compared to most other tanks. Ost sacrifices a lot of AI by going panther rather than Tiger or T3.

As for crush, it pales in comparison to many other tanks with crush and in reality using it to crush leaves it open to AT nades and then allies at guns or tank destroyers, so it is hardly a frequently used feature.

Smoke is doctrinal.

Seriously stop reducing this forum to a pathetic joke with continuous shit posting. Its getting old.

Basically the teching changes plus call in fixes destroyed the old meta and there is no real new meta. I have seen more than one viable strategy for Soviets and Ostheer. Strategies that looked like meta can be easier countered than the old broken meta and do not necessarily require a certain OP commander to choose in order to be able to beat them. We will see how the process of finding viable strategies will go on in the next weeks but as far as I can tell I have not seen a broken strategy which can only be countered by one or two commanders.

I do not know about the WFA factions though since I have not played them yet.

There was variety for about 72 hours, then Ost realized you need a puma commander or your screwed. You also need a commander with dive bomb or your going to feel the hurt from artillery. That leaves one commander. Either a tiger or Elephant, depending on how you choose to deal with sov heavy callin.

Sov vs Ost matchup brought variety for a few days, but build orders are now becoming fairly predictable. Almost every game is cons>maxims>m5 or T70> Heavy tank or Artillery. Its fucking nauseating.

Teching is a welcome change but most games are literally the same. I haven't seen conspam, or m3 or penals or T34/76 or Su85. Every game just turns into T2 campfest. The unfortunate thing is midgame is extended so the support weapons play a bigger role.

Ost vs USF can be a little more interesting but early mgs tend to make early game a bit of a dull affair. Most usf now go 4 rifle into captain, then pack howie. Ost has more flexibility vs usf but almost always need to build a pack/mg wall which gets boring.

Relic stated they wanted to extend light vehicle play and in some respects that is true but the thing I have noticed the most is the reappearance of mg spam, indirect fire and camp play.

I am optimistic fine tuning can improve the game further, but atm a lot of players are choosing the path that will lead to victory, not diversity.

Perspective : 1v1 Ost vs Sov, Ost vs USF.