Today I'd like to talk to you about 1v1 game play. Full disclosure, I'm primary a soviet player and would normally play 2v2, 3v3, or 4v4. I've recently been forced into playing 1v1 as my core group of CoH2 buddies have started playing Titanfail.
The good:
- Fairly balanced game play start to mid game. Becomes more challenging late game with superior German armor.
- The people I've played tend to be super polite.
- Once it was obvious who was going to win the late game they'd say GG and terminate the game. Perfect for saving time.
- Unit retention becomes VERY important.
- Less unit spamming. Units are purpose built.
The limiting:
- Tiger spam. I'm assuming this is because this unit is decent against both armor and infantry? Multiple games the foe made more than 5 tigers throughout the game. It's not very dynamic game play and really forced my hand to build SU85's. As such, being a Soviet, T2 and T4 are necessary. Kinda takes the fun out of it a bit.
The bad:
- I've yet to encounter something I'd call unfair or game breaking. Granted, I've yet to play a bunker spammer on crossing the woods.
Overall if you are a player who only does 2v2, 3v3, 4v4 give 1v1 a shot. It's a ton of good fun with little noticeable imbalance.
Coles notes for the reading impaired:
~*Massive update April 1, 2014*~
My opinion has changed and 1v1 are no longer as balanced due to the latest patch. If you are looking at picking up this game for 1v1 play I would not recommend it in the current state. However, if you are looking at rapidly increasing your German 1v1 rank I would highly recommend picking it up.
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Late game armor is getting a redo next patch but we'll see how it goes.