Profile of Aerohank

Man, I played a 2v2 against those guys yesterday. They played OKW that game. Me and my teammate tried using Soviet combined arms against their OKW combined arms. It was a disaster; soviet combined arms is a myth. It's not spam2win, it's spam2notlose.

Edit: And they did not even win! Why the heck call it spam2win if they did not even win? It's also pretty hypocritical of you to call them out on their playstyle while you yourself abused ghost wire and truck 'because it's in the game'.

3 squads more expensive squads, with some vet, using semi automatic rifles at close range vs 2 squads using long range bolt action rifles. You can clearly see the results are stupendously good for a 30 ammo drop.

I would like to see someone who thinks this is OK try to replicate these results with abilities such as valiant assault and for mother russia. 2 volks squads with valliant assault vs 2 shock trooper squads, 2 conscript squads with for mother russia in close-mid range vs 11 sturmpio models. With both of these abilities costing 100 ammo instead of 30, the volks and conscripts should tear apart the shock troopers and sturmpios even at hugging distance. But somehow they don't...

Lower vet requirements would actually introduce new strategies in the game and some units would be worth to produce, like the Sturmtiger.

What?

OKW has no units that are useless because they are hard to vet up. A Sturmtiger does not need any vet to 1-shot medium tanks or whole squads without warning from outside of line of sight or through a bush. A Luchs does not need to be vet 5 in order to be worth it. It is already as fearsome as a T70 while being more survivable for a lower fuel price tag. A stuka does not need vet to obliterate enemy positions etc.

No, he's hinting that the feedback about tying it to tech is being taken on board and tested.

How the hell did you read it as a double call in.

Probably because the call-in system has not changed ever and the only statements made on the subject have been in the line of "we want to keep no-tech call-ins a viable strategy".

How so, exactly?

Though its not actually ontopic, but Id like to read your strategic insight ( and others too Im sure) on what makes this particular build an "easy win"?

Or perhaps start a thread in the gameplay section as a strategic guide on it?

It's the doctrine that makes the most out of the "No Tech > Tech" system that Relic is so keen on. Spam infantry, preferably a nice combined arms strategy that forces your enemy to make lots of infantry himself. Get T2 for some panzergrens and a PAK, after that it's StugE time at 6cp. The StugE has anti-infantry efficiency comparable to a T70, comes out at roughly the same time, but it's more survivable and does not require a 275mp/120fu investment. This leaves more manpower for infantry and more fuel for the 11cp tiger.

The StugE is easy to keep alive, your heavy infantry investment has probably delayed your enemies tech so he will counter with an easy to avoid AT gun. If not, a single T34/76 is not a real threat to your StugE if you shrek up you panzergrens and keep your PAK behind your StugE.

Lategame Tiger + more PAK40 is tough to deal with, and the doctrine has Light Artillery Barrage which is ideal for countering the Zis3 guns. Plus that StugE is probably still alive at this point and is vet 3 because it vets up fast by murdering infantry.

Trying to play a legit game with Soviets (i.e. using Guard Rifle Combined Arms, Soviet Reserve Army, Conscript Support Tactics, etc) against a Wehrmacht player who uses this strategy is more or less just as lame as trying to play a legit Wehrmacht game (Wehrmacht has lots of legit commanders, too bad nobody uses them) against a Soviet player using cheesy sniper/guard into T34/85 + mark vehicle.

Of course, if you really want to cheesy your enemy, you go for Luftwaffe Supply and spam 30 ammo crate drops that give you the power of Valliant Assault/For Mother Russia for 70 ammo less + in combat stacking healing that makes your troops immune to non-insta gib weapons.