Why does the game treat US forces as less capable?

Marek_Tucan · #1 February 27th, 2007, 02:52 AM

Given the fact there from time to time appears someone who bashes the game as "Anti-Russian pro-US" and the other time someone else "Anti-US pro-Russian" I take it as indication the game is set to the middle, ie as close to reality as possible

Uncle_Joe · #2 February 27th, 2007, 03:05 PM

I think the effect he is seeing is that unis with Thermal Sights (regardless of nationality) tend to cost a lot of points. By and large, US formations tend to have a lot of units with Thermal, giving them a pretty high price-tag compared to formations from other nations that lack copious amounts of Thermal.

To compound the issue, novice players rarely get the most out of their Thermal Sights and dont properly use smoke to mask those expensive units and effectively render them immune to return fire.

Combine the two 'issues' and thats why it seems like US forces cost more and are less capable. However if used properly, you can often defeat large numbers of enemy units with minimal risk and quickly even the odds.

DRG · #3 February 27th, 2007, 04:34 PM

For US armour, yes, the added thermal sights will boost the cost but "vision" costs add little to a standard US rifle company ( circa 2007 ) unless they include the Javelin ATGM teams which come with "40" vision. The Rifle Co [-AT] can be purchaced with the company and platoon lead units having 10 vision and the rest either 10 or zero. The 40 vision "infantry" units tend to be scouts or missle teams or Arty Observers and yes, when they get to 40 vison the costs go up quite a bit becasue as you noted, if used properly under the correct conditions they have a huge advantage over troops that are not so well equipped.

Don

EnemyAce · #4 April 8th, 2007, 06:24 AM

I started to wonder what exactly matters how infantry can survive or fight if there's no nationatily faction? Weapons, gear etc.?

mr_clark · #5 April 8th, 2007, 02:26 PM

Well, as far as I understood the game Morale and Exp is very important as hte unit then is less likely to get routed.
Apart from that I think the 'US Problem' is that the infantry units of the USA are quite small (menpaower wise) in comparison to other countries as it's mainly mech inf, and then also often splitted into a 4men inf unit and a 2men AT team...