So, I played a game today on assault squad. The games fun, but the community is stuff, and they broke a lot of things that were great in the original men of war. The worst things I think they broke in the new men of war:
1.) Spamming emplacements, like flak 38s, machine guns, etc, actually works now. I mean what the forget is that? A guy who's terrible at the game can spam a whore of emplacements and turtle down near a point, turning it into a god damn death field for anything nearby. Worse, emplacements often outrange high explosive shells for some reason, so that's stuff.
2.) Rushing a light vehicle and tactically controlling it into enemy territory doesn't work either, because emplacements are so much cheaper now. The moment you get 5cm into enemy lines, you get swarmed by a whore of Flak 38s and light anti tank, which is insane.
3.) Number two nullifies any counter early game to emplacement spam. So your forced to save your points and watch your infantry die while you wait for that little itty-bitty tank button to become not grey. And by that time, the enemy probably has a better tank on the field, because your forgeted.
(Note that these problems mostly arise with the germans, because germans always have to be overpowered!)
So I'll continue on to possibly the worst experience i've had with this game thus far.
I start the game in the center point with my teammate, as it was a 2 vs 2. We both get to the point first, lock it down with well placed infantry, and hold our ground, as our flanks are secured. We then worked out a plan that my ally would get an anti tank gun early, and i'd save for some heavy anti-armor late game.
The tank gun gets to the frontlines, and sets up, and it's still quiet.
Than comes the massive stuffstorm. First wave was 2 rushed squads of volkssturm. just double clicked on to the center point, so they didn't stop to shoot. Mowed them down quickly. about 15 seconds later, out of the fog, like 3 heavy machine gun stands, 2 handheld machineguns, and a Flak gun roll out of the fog and deploy right next to the point. They killed everything. Litterally everything. I had more infantry by this point, and my tank, and just needed to clear out the point of those guns. But every time i'd try to shoot one of the little guns with direct control, even though the aiming rectile was perfectly centered on the gun, it would hit the dirt like 10 meters in front of the gun. I killed one mg42, decrewed another, and that was it. I wasted all 50 HE shells on the sherman trying to blow up the loving gun, but it never died. It just kept hitting the dirt right in front of it. And when I was about to pull back to get more HE shells, the tank got sniped across the map by a Stug. The game was stuff the majority after that, german stormtrooper spam rendering any attempt at caping the point stuff. Until I finally saved enough for a sherman jumbo 76, then we managed to finally get them out of the middle. But, of course, by this time, the germans got their own fat-ass overpowered weapon the field. The sturmtiger, which basically fires a 300 mm rocket shell with pinpoint accuracy at a target.The thing snipes my god damn sherman from across the map, the shell lands on top of the sherman, blows the turret off, makes it explode, and forgets us royally for the rest of the game. I almost threw my computer threw the window.
I'm not sure if i'm just stuff or the germans are overpowered, but I doubt skill makes enemies less acurate.
TL,DR Version:
Germans are overpowered.
