it's honestly not even about balance (for me). afrika korps is just more FUN than brits or US lol

[Bomjus]

the sheer amount of options you have as afrika korps, not even including battlegroup choices, is insane. i feel like i'm playing a faction and a half. the variety, choices, the deployment groups, early game vehicle options, recovery vehicle NOT being tied to a battlegroup, the more answers i have to a fight, the more wild the fight can be. which is, as i said, F U N. even when im losing.

[EroticOnion23]

Relic should honestly just remove the Allies from the game (at least in PvP), so every match is a mirror (everyone can get to be DAK yay!!). They don't know how to balance or just don't care or is "politically biased" towards the nazzis...the queue times speak for itself, 10sec for Allies, 5min+ for Axis...

[Solomon Kane]

Well, the Germans where the most flexible, best trained and quality over Quantity Army, so as it is, this is basicely 1v1, no Industry or manpower destroyed, obviously, the Germans wipe the floor with the Allies.

[EroticOnion23]

Originally posted by Solomon Kane:

Well, the Germans where the most flexible, best trained and quality over Quantity Army, so as it is, this is basicely 1v1, no Industry or manpower destroyed, obviously, the Germans wipe the floor with the Allies.

Then the Allies should have the nuclear bomb lol xD

[katzenkrimis]

Originally posted by Bomjus:

The sheer amount of options you have as afrika korps, not including battlegroup choices, is insane.

You aren't wrong. It is outrageous.

But it's also no fun being called out for using a demigod-army.

I'd rather play as a field mouse and eat through the electrical cables.

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If you count the options in the tech trees alone, Afrika Korps wins by a country mile.

British = 20
USA = 24
Wehrmacht = 24
Afrika Korps = 33

[Revy106]

At first I was really finding the Allies difficult....and well to be honest I still am but I am slowly and painfully finding what works. AK is a very fun faction agreed but also a very broken one too lol extremely powerful.

[POP]

bring in the ruskies and the italians :D that would be fun!!

[Bier und Brezel Spiel]

It is simply a good designed faction. The thing is, the Wehrmacht can not use half of its stuff, because the matches are not long enough. I have never seen tigers on the map, because the battle is over untill then. CoH 3 is more about early and mid gameplay. (The only strong path for the Wehrmacht is the "Luftwaffe" path with the flak AA defense turrets and the Luftwaffe infantery.)

The brits are very strong right now too. Especially their dirt cheap infantery.

The third "weakest" faction is the USA because you can only really use the ariborne in the current meta. Everything else is way to expensive or the battle is over untill you have tanks.

The Wehrmacht is the weakest faction right now. Their early game is basically MG 42 management. Loose the early game fight with the MG 42 management and you can leave the game. Because after that you will be steamrolled, because you have to make it to the end game. And CoH right now does not favour end game units.

But in terms of africa corps, yes they are very strong. They can play the heavy tank game, the strong cheap infantery game or even the defense game with the super powerull 88 mm anti tank weapons.

And their infantery game is basically their artillery game at the same time with gustatoris. One of the strongest metas right now in the game. You can get strong flamethrower engineers there.

Or you go for the german panzer 3 flamethrower tanks.

Or you go for the italian light tanks spam, which can have flamerthrowers too!!!

And last but not least they are getting early mg vehicles. Build two of them and flank enemy infantery super fast. It is a nightmare ,especially for the US players.

[dr46onfusion]

Yeah they designed the gameplay to be no longer than 30 minutes in a sense as units dies quickly as they can spawn.

One way to balance is giving allies more defensive structures and artillery weapons.

[Hedzik]

Originally posted by Donutierende Donutrolle:

It is simply a good designed faction. The thing is, the Wehrmacht can not use half of its stuff, because the matches are not long enough. I have never seen tigers on the map, because the battle is over untill then. CoH 3 is more about early and mid gameplay. (The only strong path for the Wehrmacht is the "Luftwaffe" path with the flak AA defense turrets and the Luftwaffe infantery.)

The brits are very strong right now too. Especially their dirt cheap infantery.

The third "weakest" faction is the USA because you can only really use the ariborne in the current meta. Everything else is way to expensive or the battle is over untill you have tanks.

The Wehrmacht is the weakest faction right now. Their early game is basically MG 42 management. Loose the early game fight with the MG 42 management and you can leave the game. Because after that you will be steamrolled, because you have to make it to the end game. And CoH right now does not favour end game units.

But in terms of africa corps, yes they are very strong. They can play the heavy tank game, the strong cheap infantery game or even the defense game with the super powerull 88 mm anti tank weapons.

And their infantery game is basically their artillery game at the same time with gustatoris. One of the strongest metas right now in the game. You can get strong flamethrower engineers there.

Or you go for the german panzer 3 flamethrower tanks.

Or you go for the italian light tanks spam, which can have flamerthrowers too!!!

And last but not least they are getting early mg vehicles. Build two of them and flank enemy infantery super fast. It is a nightmare ,especially for the US players.

You are joking right??

Wermacht is by far strongest faction . Had games when killed couple of tigers and next ones were droping like crazy. It's ridiclues that they are unlimited when uk Blackprice is single use. Wermacht can have pz4 in 5th minute of game when us don't even have building for tanks. They have by far strongest infantry - Fallschirmjäger and jägers.
Ahh and Kettenkrad with upgrade. When it captures fuel and ammo point u get 8 not 5 so it's like building supply crate on flag for free.

[dr46onfusion]

Munition costs for units and stuff do get very expensive too, they don't want you to have a blob of upgraded units.

When a flamethrower unit dies, they don't drop their weapon.

Only Bazooka and HMG and Anti tank weapons can be salvaged to boost a existing unit.

So if a bazooka team picks up another bazooka or two it basically becomes more capable. But you cant arm them that way normally.

[Kosmos]

Yeah this game need more balance, some german units are to strong.
i play both and win with germans 80+% and allies maybe 10%.
Flamethrower need also a nerf.

[Gyászmadár]

Originally posted by Kai:

Munition costs for units and stuff do get very expensive too, they don't want you to have a blob of upgraded units.

When a flamethrower unit dies, they don't drop their weapon.

Only Bazooka and HMG and Anti tank weapons can be salvaged to boost a existing unit.

So if a bazooka team picks up another bazooka or two it basically becomes more capable. But you cant arm them that way normally.

i saw sometimes flamers drop, it must be rng because sometimes there are no weapon drops from anything.

[JASON BOURNE]

You just dont know how to play dude and its ok

[kalosz]

Originally posted by Solomon Kane:

Well, the Germans where the most flexible, best trained and quality over Quantity Army, so as it is, this is basicely 1v1, no Industry or manpower destroyed, obviously, the Germans wipe the floor with the Allies.

when will you people stop believing Goebbels propaganda jeez it's 2023