Profile of CasTroy

Set Sound quality to: Low.

Yeah do this.. I was having ridiculously long load times even when I set my graphics to low, despite having a system exceeding the recommended requirements. When I set the sound quality to low, I now load super fast. I'm sure it'll fix your performance issues too.

Thanks for this advice.

At any rate we can now make some excellent tactical and strategic decisions about a war that was waged 70 years ago, now that we had all or most of the facts from both sides. The parties at that time suffice it to say did not have the luxury and it can be reasoned that many of the decisions made at the time were justified by what either side knew/believed at the time. If you won, you were the brilliant gambler, if you lost you were hopelessly doomed all along, or so the histories go.

This conflict, the Crusades, the War of 1812...it doesn't matter, my point was that hindsight is 20/20, and good historians do not expect and judge personalities based on what they themselves know now in the 21st century.

You have made some very good points here Death´s Head!

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Regarding playing Field Marshall on paper:

We can simulate various situations, decisions and/or military operations, even with the knowledge of todays information of both sides, but who can definetly ensure that the opposite side would still act the same way as it did 70 years ago and would not counter our "improved" orders with a new operational strategy and military performance?

According to a popular saying: "No battleplan survives first contact."

Also the factor "Hitler" is allways neglected.

His intervention in the military operations of the OKW amassed since "Barbarossa". After the failed assasination on Hitler in 1944,the whole coordination of the german military (Waffen-SS and Wehr) lay in his own hands. A german military high command staff which was independently coordinating operations in any shape or form was effectively not existing since early 1944.

Due to that you can explain furthermore the (strange) german focus on super heavy tanks like PzKpfw VII "Löwe", the PzKpfw VIII "Maus", PzKpfw IX, Superpanzer E-50, E-75 and E-100 instead of mass-producing and improving the concepts of the Panther or Kingtiger.

Comparing dictatorship and the modell of totalitarism you can come to the conlcusion that Stalin in relation to Hitler did it ironically the "right" way. After Stalin eleminated nearly his whole officer corps especially from 1937-1939, as already mentioned, his officers left had to gain experiece in operational warfare. The key point is that Stalin let them doing throughout the war not intervening in major operational decisions made by his staff, but so did the almighty Führer.

Jazz Hands

Looks like Relic just has a complete different version in their head than the community wants...

Sometimes I believe they´re playing a different game version than we do..
>>The balanced Relicentertainment-Version<<

Hell yeah I would, I love Panzer IV's. My favorite tank.

Anyway Peter says CoH2 is completely balanced, so don't count on a balance patch anytime soon, if ever.

+1 for Panzer IV.