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Comparing your rank vs that of your opponent's you outrank everyone you've beaten with T34/76s.

Dullahan: 124

FinalSolution: 414
[HAN]Victor: 358
Dike815: 243
Sawik: 277
~TAB~Mackie: 162

Are you certain you weren't better than the other players despite the T34/76s instead of because of them? Comparing your ranking to that of your competitors the only player within 100 ranking of you is Mackie. It's possible to get away with sub-optimal builds/units if your micro and macro play are better than your opponent's but much harder, as evidenced by the trouble Mackie gave you in the replay, when player skill is closer to equal. There might be a bit of unintentional selection bias if you're only beating lower rank players with the T34/76.

Relic might not be a fan of one time call-ins but the JT would be perfect if you could only call in one a game. It would be affordable enough to call in regularly in longer team games, would be a game changer while on the field, and yet being unable to replace it would ensure that even bad trades by the allies would be worthwhile if they manage to kill the JT in the process.

OKW doesn't magically have significantly more manpower.

They start with a 300 mp squad and ~350 manpower ready to spend.

USF starts with a 200 mp squad and ~400 manpower ready to spend.

Soviets start with a 170 mp squad and ~400 manpower ready to spend.


etc etc.

OKW starts with more upkeep, so gets less manpower per minute from the start of the game. They get +287/min ish while soviets for example get +294/min.

All things said and done, manpower is essentially equal.

Looking at your numbers it actually does seem like OKW might have above average starting manpower compared to Soviets. OKW starts with the equivilent of 650 MP while soviets start with the equivilent of 570 MP for a total difference of 80 MP in the OKW's favor. Meanwhile OKW starts with a higher upkeep meaning Soviets will earn 7 MP more per min than OKW. For the Soviets to make up that 80 MP advantage OKW starts with they would need to be at proportionally lower popcap for ~11 minutes. As a result that is either 11 minutes in which the OKW enjoys a MP advantage or Soviets reach equal popcap earlier in the match and the OKW has effectively received a small amount of free MP to start.

Note that this doesn't take into account tech either. When you consider that the soviet players is probably going to spend another 160 MP on T2 (or 150 MP on T1 if they like to live dangerously) at the start of a match it means OKW will have a 240 MP advantage. In other words at the start of the match the OKW player is only going to be 10 MP short of having an extra volks squad on the field. While things do begin to equalize when OKW builds their own tiers the bonus medics/engies and the fact that the tiers behave more like soviet T3 than T1/T2 means soviets will still be in a MP hole all things considered.

I'm not saying it's unbalanced, as there are a lot of different factors at play, but OKW definitely does have a manpower advantage early on.

The entire reason ram was nerfed in the first place was due to the fact that the T34 was being used as a ram platform instead of as a tank. While ram could certainly be made more reliable/less RNG dependent I think the core issue is still that the T34 isn't currently doing it's job as a medium tank thanks to its late arrival time and poor main gun performance. I'd rather see the T34's performance improved than see it turned back into a tank you only build because you need to ram a tiger ace.

Man, the shipping costs for that would be a bitch.

And uh, actually playing it, of course.

"In order to build Tactical Marines please insert disk(s) 000,042,187,455 to 000,061,865,224"