Profile of Aerohank

I think we need a new L2P commander (4€).

1cp "Junior Strategic Advisor": You can call in an experienced player to explain to you what strengths and weaknesses certain strategies have. For example, when playing against someone using bofors, the experienced player will tell you that the Brit player has now locked off an area of the map to infantry and lightly armored tanks, but by doing so, he now has a lack of early and midgame aggression options. - 30 ammo, lasts 45 seconds

2cp "Logistical Serendipity": Units that are bad against a certain strategy can not be produced. Units that counter said strategy have an extra glow in the unit roster. For example, if the enemy has a bofors with a mortar pit behind it, AT-guns will be disabled until the 11 minute mark, while the 222, fuel cashes, and panther/panzerwerfers will glow up brightly. 0 ammo, passive

3cp "Senior strategic advisor": You can call in a more experienced player to explain to you how you can use the enemies weaknesses to your advantage if you are unable to figure these out for yourself. For example, exploit the low numbers of enemy infantry and lack of AT by getting a light vehicle and capping the map. Not over-investing in units that you don't need, and instead teching up rapidly. - 45 ammo, lasts 30 seconds

3cp "Junior Officer Initiative": Squad leaders and officers will ignore obviously bad tactical orders, such as engaging bofor positions with a skeleton crew of early game units. - 0 ammo, passive.

15cp "High Command Intervention": You are relieved from your duties and an Expert AI takes over. - 0 ammo, click to activate

The idea of this commander is to provide you with a strong early-game and giving you a nice boost in the late game.

If you build 5+ maxims every game, yes. But is that a really fun way to play? No.

In high level ESL games we mostly saw conscript-heavy builds and they worked just fine.

As good as this sounds this doesn't happen. If done properly, you keep the opponent away from areas you'd like to set up emplacements on with Vickers and Tommies. Once you force a retreat you are free to put up an emplacement. Leaving a properly placed emplacement alone is not an option, especially on smaller maps where single emplacements are easier able to cover VPs. Not to mention the abundance of maps currently in the map pool that feature plenty of shotblockers which in turn promote campy play; not that there's anything wrong with campy play if that's your thing, but emplacements are simply too cost effective at the moment and shouldn't be dominating the current meta as they are.

As good as it sounds, it is exactly what happens. This is why, when 1300 euros were on the line in the ESL (multiple monthly salaries for some East-European countries), nobody went for emplacements.

Going bofors in 1v1 is extremely risky. You give away the initiative to your opponent and then you can only pray that he launches a few small-scale assaults onto your bofors; which will naturally fail as bofors are designed to stop small scale assaults. By going bofors, you completely give away your offensive capabilities as you just locked yourself out of the AEC, which is your only early game offensive option against a player who is smart enough to get a 222 when he sees a bofors.

In 1v1, dealing with bofors is simply a L2P issue. Once you figured out the trick, you will win every time. The bofors only counters players who have the wrong mind-set and think they need to take down the bofors ASAP.

Soviets are strong. They have the big advantage of 6-man squads that makes them very resistant to random wipes. They also, like Ostheer and to a lesser extent OKW, have an answer to pretty much every battlefield situation in their standard unit roster.

Bofors are already easily countered in 1v1. I see no reason why it should be more expensive.