Ostheer Brainstorm?

[HaroldSax]

Okay, I am fairly new to this community, and I KNOW it's annoying when someone does this rather than read through everything, but I figured human responses would be better than research over things that I have very little idea about.

Simply speaking, what is the main focus of the Ostheer supposed to be?

We've seen that the Americans are probably one of the most flexible factions, as is the Wehrmacht, because they both have really powerful offensive capabilities and really strong defensive capabilities. The PE and British are quite different.

Just by the fact that most of the British structures cost population capacity, and they're all very useful in a mainly defensive fashion. Given, they definitely have offensive capabilities, and a lot of it, but overall, by and by, they stem down to primarily defensive play.

The Panzer Elite have, if meager, defensive capabilities if you go Luftwaffe. Overall though, as the polar opposite of the British, they are a very offensive faction. Their vehicles are typically inexpensive, not terribly powerful, but provide massive use in offensive movements. There's also the fact that their infantry is very flexible, and extremely deadly.

So, with that idea in place, how is the Ostheer going to work?

[Nubrannosaurus]

Good question, I'm sure this has been asked before, but I don't know if there has ever been an answer given by the devs. 

When it comes to history, the Ostheer could represent a lot.  In the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, the initiative to invade Russia, Germany was on the offensive and seemed unstoppable as they had the past years.  Therefore the Ostheer could partially represent the standard blitzkrieg (in game terms, offensive and mobile) they had always been remembered for.  However, the Russians proved difficult adversaries with unexpected defiance.  As the war progressed, the Germans turned from an offensive nature to a more defensive nature.  The progression of Russian productivity, technology, and manpower soon proved overwhelming for the Germans. 

Soon vital supplies and resources (like oil) were difficult to attain and it halted the German war machine.  In game terms, this could be represented as the Ostheer being an army focused on attrition-based tactics, or abilities that allow maximum capitalization on resources and/or materials.  The Germans used many foreign, captured tanks for battle, so this could be represented in-game with a faction heavily focused on units provided from captured territories.  Or even perhaps the ability to capture wrecked vehicles (with a bulldozer-type vehicle) which can then be revived to fighting-fit as the Bergetiger utilizes.  The possibilities are really quite varied.

The Ostheer could theoretically represent a mobile, rush, fast, blitzkrieg faction, or a defensive faction relying on a war of attrition, utilizing the wreckages of war to their advantage, or a mix of the two, or aspects not even mentioned in this post -- it can be spun in so many ways.  This is why the Ostheer are an exciting faction to brainstorm 

P.S.  If my history is wrong in any way, please inform me.

[wordsmith]

It should be offensive and also reflect Red Army concept. Later in game it should be defensive - with strong but expensive units. And fuel income should decrease slowly (by loosing units or by time). Something like this:
http://easternfront.org/forums/index.php?topic=2450.0

[HaroldSax]

@Nub - Your history seems to be fairly correct, so no worries there

@word - That is a good read, but I would like to think that rather than creating one huge concept by one's self...we could somehow build from the ground up as a community. This is a mod, this section is here for a reason, lets utilize it.