Profile of ferwiner

ah come on you know that won't work

all that most people know about ww2 is that there are Tigers and panthers, tom hanks and normandy.

nobody would want to play with panzer 2s and 3s, already because they don't know them and that this isnt ww2 for them

You say that, but it is only russians and americans who want the ww2 to be seen as late 1941 to 1945. Pretty much all the european countries had their gratest war histories happen before that. Let me give you examples:
1. Germans - as they were considered unstoppable back then. Operation barbarossa was the begining of an end of the 3rd reich. And they were safe from genocide stigma back then.
2. British - as they were really the most important force after the germans back in 1940. Battle of britain and war in Africa are the most important parts of the war for them, as it is their empire that fights, not american army with a small addition of british forces.
3. French - becouse they were independent and on the right site back then.
4. Italians - couse they were also still independent and even though germans helped them, they still had their own campaigns and their equipment wasn't that much outdated.

The list goes on and on. You can add multiple smaller forces as well and create a game with multiple factions and playstyles. There is still room for Finland and Poland for example. There is possibility to tell the tale of USSR being german ally.

So really, not all games have to be the mouthpiece of russian and american propaganda.

I personally like the idea of an early to mid war game that pleases both those who like the late war tech and those who would prefer an earlier setting.

It’s fairly easy to pull off in my opinion, all you do is ensure that all of your nondoctrinal units are from the early war period and have your late war units and tech tied to doctrinal units and abilities.

Using the Wehrmacht as an example:

Core units/weapons: Pioneers/MP38 and MP40, Grenadiers/Kar98k, MG Team/MG34, Rifle grenades, both AT and HE Medium tanks/Panzer III and Panzer IV, Anti Tank Gun/PaK38
All of these things are 1940 production or earlier.

Doctrinal only: StG44, Panther, Tiger, Panzerwerfer, King Tiger, Panzershrecks, Panzerfaust, MG42.

This also allows you to introduce new units with new commanders to show the progression of the war with the life cycle of the game as DLC. You could even have the “reward unit” function from Tales of Valor where you can swap a core unit for an alternate unit if the same type. (M10 Wolverine for M18 Hellcat in ToV or in a new game Panzer III (Default WH “early war” medium tank) for a long barreled Panzer IV ( replacement “later war” mediumtank ))

This opens up lots of possibilities for player choice.

I really liked what they did in blitzkrieg 2. They had only a few armies, which is a bummer, but they also made each of them in 4 versions, depending on the period. When searching for a match, players could choose the period they want to search in. And even though the later periods were a bit more popular, you could still find a match in all of them if you wanted to. Coh2 actually had something similar, as original armies had their early war versions for theatre of war, but it was never polished and published for multiplayer.

"WII: 1939-1945 (If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.)" Well, we never really got anything earlier than 1943 pvp wise. And I would really love to. I know coh3 is already settled, but I would love a game in 1939-40. You can even have 3 viable axis factions without copying and including japaneese that way

Although I respect all of the players who are in and I think they all deserve some prize, I think it would be better for the competition if the 7th/8th prize wasn't as big. The differences seem to be very small down there. I would take 50$ off both 7th and 8th, then give it to 4th and 5th place. But hey I'm not the organiser here

I'm actually surprised there's no commander that gives both Spotting Scope AND Hull Down.

Seems like a no-brainer to add a mechanized defense playstyle to Ostheer. Wonder what the chances are of one of the lower tier commanders being revamped to have both.

I guess it is for ballance reasons. It would be pretty much impossible to ballance hull down if it was in one commander with scopes. You would either nerf one of these abilities, making all of the other commanders that use them useless, or you would have to cope with having an OP commander. Too much synergy can also be a bad thing.

There were additional defensive buffs aside from the normal ones provided by directional cover? Who even thought that was a good idea...

But anyway, I'm still confused regarding whether the damage bonus for Osttruppen is per-model or not.

Or is it definitive that the entire squad gets it as long as the icon is over their heads?

Makes a huge difference for a six-man squad of flimsy expendables, where saving several seconds by getting into the wrong side of cover instead of walking around to the right side can really make or break an engagement.

It is pretty simple. There are two types of bonuses. The first type is the one that all infantry gets and it is directional, given per model and its strength depends on the type of cover. The second type is the one that only IS and ostruppen get and this one is not directional, squad based and the same for all types of positive cover. The second type also has a separate icon and only when this icon is shown, the squad benefits from the bonus: flanked or not.

Also, I don't know what vipper is smoking, but IS clearly has an offensive squad based bonus.