A few acres of snow, SparkleyTits (Axis) Stef78 (Russia), ST welcome

[chaos45]

ST- I stand by most of my statetments...as most of the changes/nerfs to the Soviet side have been done due to lots of complaining by Axis players going back years.

Which were completely un-needed...you can go back years and see that yes even then the Axis were winning games in 1941, if the Axis player had alittle bit of skill.

I can look at the maps STEF posted and see exactly what you did, you used a variation of the super Lvov for the lvl 10 port in the south to jump off your southern offensive. Something that has needed fixed for a long time now.

In the north some key defensive terrain was left open and you exploited it early on- STEF concentrated the extremely limited soviet unit pool elsewhere early on.

In the Center STEF stayed probably 1 turn to long from the looks of it.

However, I would say some of these issues are current game design/balance issues and not so much poor play on STEFs part....basically all the Soviet player can do is run and attempt to sacrifice units in delaying actions that don't really slow the Germans that much in the early game. These delaying/sacrifice actions then compound the lack of units and lack of manpower issue the Soviets have for basically the first 6+ months of gameplay...if not long into 1942.

One additional thing you have to realize is the patches have removed a lot of soviet units from the map in the early turns of the game. The security units used to stick around a lot longer and at least provide some extra MP expenditure from the Axis to clear them out...as well Soviet units used to respawn much more quickly...now if you get bad rolls its can take a very long time for soviet units to respawn that are then completely useless anyway due to the EXP/MOR issue of them starting random and many ending up with only 10-20 starting in those stats. As well patches have made shatter results much more common than they used to be...thus even more soviet units are removed more quickly than they used to be....all these things compound into the current issues the soviet side is having.

Most patch testing is done with comp vs comp tests...I have ran them on my computer as well--the huge failure of these tests is the Axis computer will make virtually no encirclements at all...all its does is frontal assault the Soviet AI after the opening turn of 1941...thus these tests are basically a complete waste of time to try and gauge balance.

[SparkleyTits]

Straight over your head lol!

Forget it man it's all good [:D]