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That's what Mr. Smith was saying in the shoutbox earlier. But he seemed to imply that if you uncheck the retreat point, it removes those antennas and releases the squad(s)... which in my experience isn't often true. Once they are stuck, they are stuck. You must destroy the battlegroup.

Hmmmm, I have done exactly that to release squads. Maybe we are talking about different bugs. Anything related to the antennae should be fixed once the retreat point is deactivated as it despawns the antennae.

Hoping they can fix the "trapped behind battlegroup after retreat" bug.

Pretty sure this is because the radio antennae erected when the battlegroup is upgraded have real space associated with them in game. By removing that space, in a similar way to the Mirage change of cap point flags to ease pathing, these could be phased through, preventing this bug.

AT guns are not meant to avoid being decrewed, they are meant to get 2 or 3 shots off into a tank. For tanks like the ostwind you are going to pen, and if he has time for a panther you should have some form of support for your Zis.

Keep your Zis surronded by other units and well behind the lines. Use mines, nades, button, etc. to get that critical last shot off. Keep crews alive by reinforcing regularly and recrew guns that have no crew. Loss of the crew is hardly a problem since the major cost of the gun is the gun. You are going to have guns decrewed, what you don't want is to have guns destroyed.

The goal of moving panzerschrecks onto sturms was to make volks blobs ineffective and it accomplished that in spades.

This is correct, the rest is pretty heavily opinionated.

Volks were supposed to be downgraded when upgraded with shreks, that is they were supposed to suffer vs. infantry. However, when they were at close ranges the shrek reliably killed infantry models, making it an upgrade in some ways. The shrek was also extremely potent, initially locked behind a T2 unit that required huge opportunity and munitions costs to unlock. Moved onto a cheap spammable unit it created blobs that could effectively take on most threats and intimidated armor in a way that was unfair.

However, when removing shreks from volks it became obvious that OKW was short of reliable early AT. This job could only be adopted by Sturms in the current game because no other tier structure has an infantry unit that arrives at the time of light vehicle play. This is problematic as Sturms are already highly burdened with combat and engineer duties, adding AT only makes it obvious how much they do elsewhere.

As it stands, removal of shreks from volks was useful in reducing blobs of overly lethal spammable infantry for OKW. It was not part of the core design and was poorly implemented within the rest of the faction, suggesting that a more complete treatment of the issue is still needed. However, the game is not broken by the change and so we push on.


I don't know what you mean by range problems.

Ugh...they want us to pick one because they have no resources assigned to the game. At least pretend to care. USF mortar is going to win this one hands down because of its amazing power, and that is stupid because we knew that the day it was introduced and modified from the beta test mortar, which was already selected but much less potent.

So this is the balance for the next six months then I guess.