They have pretty much said they want to focus on expansion, therefore no patches before it in attempt of preventing balance disaster that new armies might become.
We have only tuesday and this already deserves "worst idea of the week" stamp.
There is only so much you can do in RTS, thats why idea like this was never ever implemented in any RTS, its because its bad, both for balance and for gameplay creating counter intuitive scenarios.
Thou I'm sure you look forward to planting minefield, being forced to retreat and loose your own squads on the very same mine field you have planted. This is the reason why no one ever did it. Its simply bad.
T-70 wasn't really buffed.
It was adjusted, but certainly not buffed.
Its AI is comparable to what it was and its survivability is exactly the same against everything except upgunned AC, yet it got a hefty cost increase.
I wouldn't use it, unless you were sitting on opponents fuel all the game.
For merely 30 more fu you can have a tank that actually can fight now.
Industry as a whole is also pretty bad right now, tanks got increase in fuel cost as well as menpower and while fuel isn't that bad, its quite noticeable with the menpower in this extremely mp starved doctrine. On top of that all call-ins in this doctrine were nerfed with survivability.
I think the Soviets got a tad bit too strong this patch, and this ELO BS that relic has come up with is not true in my eyes as i am mostly a German player yet after a couple of days my German rank has dropped below my soviet rank.
I am also finding soviets very easy to play now. Whereas playing Germans is incredibly frustrating.
First, here, take this, its dangerous to go out there alone:
And second, rank 200 at soviet do not equal rank 200 as germans.
What I mean is, much much more people play germans, therefore to get the same rank as soviets you need to beat much more people. This somewhat changed post patch but still there is a considerable difference between sov and ger playerbases since day 1 pretty much.
This means you most likely need to score better elo then if you'd played as soviets.
If I was to guess, rank 200 as soviets equals rank 400-500 as germans. Top 50 are pretty much equal.
If you think for a minute about it, it will be as clear as sky.
You can't expect equal rank when playerbase for the factions is so unequal.
Ladder is broken, a lot of people are playing above their league.
We have the last patch to thank for that.
Many players who played germans got pretty high rank without having enough skill to stay there.
Now the game is no longer broken and actually pretty equal they are going down to where they should belong, placing the blame for being badly outplayed on the balance.
@op
If you want wins you NEED to find someone reliable to play with. Either that or go for 1v1s.
If you play just for the fun and don't care for wins, thats why random games are for and you shouldn't really complain about that.
random question, do guards have armour of 1 at the moment? so you can merge cons into them with no penalty?
Yes.
Shocks are the only infantry in game that have armor and for a good reason as they are completely ineffective unless they stick ppsh into germans butthole.