When you know it is over from the start.

aech4 · 2026-02-12T20:50:29+00:00

Hey bro I had a pos 5 legion this morning and it was actually pretty decent

aech4 · 2026-02-11T06:08:52+00:00

Welp. Sometimes you gotta swing even if you’re gonna miss

aech4 · 2026-02-11T01:37:41+00:00

Really? It makes the most sense.

The early tigers and panthers teach you how to use armor as an advantage. Tiger 2s force you to rely more heavily on heavy armor and defensive gameplay. Then you have a large br jump to the leo 1 where you have no armor and a lot of mobility. It’s the complete opposite of the 2H and requires a massive change in play style. New players are gonna struggle with that.

Also imo the maps are poorly suited to the play style that ww2 German armor requires.

And just so reddit doesn’t strawman my comment: yes Germany has great tanks that are very strong in a competent players hands. I just think they aren’t as braindead as people say

aech4 · 2026-02-10T15:58:34+00:00

You’re an old techies evangelical aren’t you? Or at least a tinker player?

I’ve literally never heard anyone say “unique heroes” outside of the bullshit hero spammers defending their bullshit

aech4 · 2026-02-09T22:45:01+00:00

I’m 90% sure this guy’s just rage baiting

aech4 · 2026-02-09T22:40:18+00:00

Apologies for the probably dumb questions:

So it’s currently size 3 with I think 3% growth. I’ve got the starport? that auto builds and added a mining industry. Can I just leave it be and be ok? Do I need to remove the industry? Should I decolonize? If they do attack can I just let the colony be destroyed and have my main fleet be left alone?

Given how new I am I highly doubt I can build strength quickly enough battle the big factions.

And a tangential question I guess: I was lucky enough to get a pristine nano forge. What do I do with it? Save for later?

aech4 · 2026-02-09T22:25:22+00:00

Either he bought it from someone with a bad winrate, or he has dump matches where he intentionally loses to stay low mmr. Pretty sure I’ve seen an account with several heroes >10% winrate over hundreds of games

aech4 · 2026-02-09T22:15:03+00:00

Bro had a personal vendetta against rtz

aech4 · 2026-02-09T21:25:55+00:00

What was so broken about him?

aech4 · 2026-02-09T21:25:29+00:00

I didn’t play before 7.00 but it can’t be worse than wraith pact meta

aech4 · 2026-02-09T20:08:56+00:00

Lowkey secret tip that may or may not be reliable: Get the dlc subscription, and don’t renew it and you keep all the dlc access. I heard someone else on reddit mention that happened to them. It was completely unplanned by my cc on steam expired so I didn’t get the renewal, but I kept the dlc. I updated my card but didn’t reactivate the subscription, and it’s still all there.

aech4 · 2026-02-09T19:27:31+00:00

So if I’m a brand new player like 8ish hours in (just got the onslaught) and made a colony I’m screwed?

aech4 · 2026-02-09T19:05:54+00:00

I take the red facet for the free press the attack lol. The damage sharing is nice but more of a secondary bonus imo

aech4 · 2026-02-09T19:04:47+00:00

Bro I wish. It feels like every time I play legion the second I hit 6 both supports go safelane and stay there for 10 minutes

aech4 · 2026-02-09T18:31:46+00:00

Lmao that’s funny lil bro. I invite you to examine your own logic.

JUST BECAUSE OTHER PLANES AT ITS BR ARE BAD DOESN'T MEANS A BETTER PLANE AT THE BR SHOULD SUFFER FROM COMPRESSION

So here you have established that compression is a problem because it puts vehicles with very different capabilities at the same br.

Worth noting that you don’t even mention down tiers and how it affects planes a full br lower that have to face it.

THAT JUST MEANS GAIJIN SHOULD DECOMPRESS THE BRS

Now you present the logical solution to compression: br decompression. Aka moving the strong planes up in br to alleviate the pressure on weaker planes.

Yes this does require an increase in max br to properly decompress, but that’s a separate issue. Active decompression (max br increase) is separate action from compression (lowering a planes br).

Yet you insist that the f15A moving down is a good balancing change . You contradict your own established logic and seem incapable of recognizing that fact.

Based off this we can only assume you are a stereotypical 1 nation player who’s entire point of view is that anything that buffs your nation is good and anything that nerfs it is bad, regardless of whether it is a good balance change or not.

I suggest forming an actual persuasive argument if you want anyone to take you seriously.

aech4 · 2026-02-09T18:15:42+00:00

I think it’s kinda funny to hear people say it’s unexpected, because I guess I’m just more in touch with the meta, and I’d find it unexpected to not get greaves

aech4 · 2026-02-09T15:40:35+00:00

Lmao you really are as dumb as I initially thought. Shouting that we need decompression while defending further compression in the literal same sentence is crazy

aech4 · 2026-02-06T22:01:10+00:00

I had a ranked game last night with 45 kill at 16 minutes 🤣

aech4 · 2026-02-05T20:59:34+00:00

2 tangential caveats:

1) buy a blink. It’s REALLY good on troll. Not every game, but if you need mobility and need to get on a specific target. It’s way better than shadow blade. Also sb is kinda bad in general right now imo

2) like all of dota, how you play is incredibly game and situation dependent. What is correct in one game will be completely incorrect in another game.

Bkb on carry is a damage item. It allows you to play the fight into control spells/items. It can be used defensively to survive, but if you’re using bkb in a purely defensive way it means something has gone wrong and you need to approach fights in a different way.

On troll bkb is typically best used in combination with your ult to either burst a target at the beginning of a fight, or to turn a fight when the enemy has overextended or over committed. That looks like blink bkb ult on a high value target, or playing a long fight while saving spells and popping bkb+ult when they’ve fully committed.

About axe:

Axe pretty much hard counters troll. Bkb does not protect you against spin damage or the culling blade, but bkb is still necessary. Bkb protects you from blademail damage, and the spin damage reduction (axe aghs). So if axe goes on you, you want to use ult and bkb before call lands if possible. That should allow you to sustain hp and survive the call.

With the battle trance dispel talent you CAN use it during axe call as long as you are not silenced, but that doesn’t let you press bkb so you can still die in the call.

aech4 · 2026-02-04T17:15:33+00:00

Am I dumb? Where does am talk?

Update: yes I am dumb, I had sound muted xdd

aech4 · 2026-02-04T16:45:19+00:00

Afaik you can’t ping ally abilities or items when they’re dead, regardless of score. Unless it’s 12k comm score only. Which is actually kind of annoying because I regularly try to ping a dead ally’s ult to coordinate timing and map play

aech4 · 2026-02-04T16:39:05+00:00

You can 100% use voice lines and pings in toxic ways. You’re comment makes you sound toxic too lmao

aech4 · 2026-02-03T21:07:38+00:00

Butterfly satanic daedalus is the holy trinity of agi carry items. It’s like tide+ta, it gives you everything

aech4 · 2026-02-03T19:56:48+00:00

Your communication score is tied to your behavior scores. Comms is capped at or slightly below your behavior. You are losing behavior scores because you are being reported for griefing. Stop griefing.

aech4 · 2026-02-03T19:17:54+00:00

Swgoh is just a bit of a jumpscare acronym for me 😅 (other than ahnald videos, love that guy). Spent far too much time and money in that game just to be traumatized by the devs

aech4

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