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Suggestions / Re: Guads/officers can take weapon...BTW GREAT MOD

« on: January 30, 2010, 04:02:24 PM »

if you make a new faction then they cant recapture weapons... its just they way it is, they didnt do because they wanted it like that they did it because they had to.

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Balance Discussion / Re: My views of the Soviets.

« on: January 26, 2010, 07:37:20 AM »

When I go AB or rangers I usually end up with 5-6 squads of either.

Which is why limiting is not a bad thing... the RR's are imba because they have a 80% hit rating and do the damage of a 17 on tanks...wtf? RRs where not even used widely till late 43... back to game balance... unless you are lucky and can get 5 ostwinds the Airborne are gonna just Fire up every time they get  suppressed then run right pastthe MG kill it then turn on the tank that just rounded the corner and take it down faster then an armor column all firing on it at once... point is, is that now instead of using a nasty exploit you are forced to use other units in conjunction with airborne instead of spamming one type of unit to blob....I like it and say Dont change this at all EF Mod team... maybe relic will take note of this wonderful change...

im fine with limiting units but its FUCKED when the soviets can call in as many tank riders as they can afford or when the AI built... I KID YOU NOT an entire army of KV-2s.
i dont care if you limit units but do it evenly.

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Balance Discussion / Re: russian tanks

« on: January 24, 2010, 10:12:07 PM »

im just going to get right to the point.
tanks, especially the t34 are too good for how much they cost. not just the individual price but how much it takes to acquire tanks.
for example. from the start of the game to having 1 sherman on the field takes 245 fuel if just get the barracks supply yard and tank depot. also shermans are worse in every respect and each unit costs more. for the germans if they get panzer 4s as fast as possible (no wehr quarters no krieg barracks NO NOTHING) it takes 265 fuel and once again each unit cost more. the soviets only need 175 fuel to get a t34 on the field and each t34 is 15 fuel and 120 manpower less than a sherman and 5 fuel 110 manpower less than a panzer 4.

my problem isnt with the price of each unit so much as the cost to get there. if each t34 is so cheap it needs to cost considerably more to field your first one especially considering the t34 has about 10% more health and a gun (with 300 munitions) that does 25% more damage than the sherman and p4.

Huh.. i was thinking that the soviet tanks were way too expensive and underpowered. I mean, wasnt the main point of the soviets beating the germans that there tanks were cheaper and were mass produced?

im sick the 'realism' argument, BALANCE is more important. whats next the fuel cost of each vehicle is based on how many miles per gallon it gets? on a side note, about the same amount of shermans and t34s were produced in ww2. more than 50000 sherman medium tanks with MANY more variants.

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Balance Discussion / russian tanks

« on: January 24, 2010, 01:37:28 PM »

im just going to get right to the point.
tanks, especially the t34 are too good for how much they cost. not just the individual price but how much it takes to acquire tanks.
for example. from the start of the game to having 1 sherman on the field takes 245 fuel if just get the barracks supply yard and tank depot. also shermans are worse in every respect and each unit costs more. for the germans if they get panzer 4s as fast as possible (no wehr quarters no krieg barracks NO NOTHING) it takes 265 fuel and once again each unit cost more. the soviets only need 175 fuel to get a t34 on the field and each t34 is 15 fuel and 120 manpower less than a sherman and 5 fuel 110 manpower less than a panzer 4.

my problem isnt with the price of each unit so much as the cost to get there. if each t34 is so cheap it needs to cost considerably more to field your first one especially considering the t34 has about 10% more health and a gun (with 300 munitions) that does 25% more damage than the sherman and p4.