Profile of Mortar

Good article.

It certainly seems to highlight in a respectful way the frustration of a well known community member in his attempt to work with Relic. I do recognize this is an opinion piece, and congratulate you on your well stated opinion based on years of experience with Relic. It has a lot of weight with me and the community.

However stating ESL is just Relic checking a box is HIGHLY speculative. You may in the end turn out to be right, but for now I find it counterproductive to complain Relic has held the community at arm's length over the years and when they FINALLY come forward with Go4Cup you simply dismiss it as doomed from the start. You have the right to that opinion of course just as others might raise an eyebrow at the opinion or its timing.

I know this won't happen, but I would be fascinated in hearing a response from Relic to this thread to hear their "side" of this.

I would point out that this article is being posted as a headline on Coh2.org. In order to post an article here with this type of prominence it certainly DOES take the support of Coh2.org and its leadership. To state the article doesn't necessarily represent the views of leadership of Coh2.org is disingenuous IMHO.

With all due respect Ipkai, as one member of Coh2.org staff, I know this article certainly doesn't necessarily represent MY overall view of the situation, nor do I feel that all "contributors" should be lumped into this viewpoint you expressed. I moderate Coh2.org. I've created a map for the community. I certainly consider myself a "contributor".

This is your opinion piece. Nobody else wrote the article. Just want to make that clear.

p.s. Thanks for opening the dialogue. Hopefully some good will come from it.

Overall, I rated it 8 out of 10.

By faction, I'd break it down this way.

Ostheer = 9 out of 10 (best designed but also somewhat boring...been playing it since 2006!)
Brits = 9 out of 10 (although it still needs minor tweeks)
Soviet 8 out of 10 (just wish Penals were redesigned OR cons scaled a bit better)
Americans 6 out of 10 (because I find them a bit boring with rifle heavy play)
OKW 6 out of 10 (used to be 9 out of 10 till the December redesign)

Also, all the newer factions need more commander options to come close to matching the other factions choices AND of course we need bug fixes and a war spoils fix desperately. Lastly optimizaton...but none of the above mentioned directly impact my enjoyment of actually playing the game.

Bump...

Back in December, I created this thread to see what people thought about the newly designed OKW.

I thought I would revisit this topic with a new thread now that the community has had a month to play with the new OKW. So, without further adieu....

My five word explanation why the Germans lost in the east.

"Russia is too damn big."