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Thread: 5 Year Plan13 May 2017, 19:51 PM Semovente 105 and Semovente 90 are candidates for doctrines. You can work with the "normal" Semovente 75 (75/18 and 75/46) and the M15/42 or P26/40. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: 5 Year Plan13 May 2017, 18:22 PM Jump back to quoted post13 May 2017, 18:10 PMArray One catch is the Italian army didn't fight in Italy. I would however like some content here. apparently they had a plan for coh1 for an Italian expansion but instead chose to try COH online. Jupp. Because both italian armies fought in Italy The RSI army and the italian co-belligerent army. So i cant see the problem? Jump back to quoted post13 May 2017, 18:13 PMCrecer13 Because Italy does not have equipment for a full Faction. Even if it built according to the US concept - without heavy tanks. With German heavy tanks it will be the 4,5 Germans fraction (VCoH+CoH2). Japan will approach this concept - it is self-sufficient. Why Italy does not have the equipment? I see enough tanks, weapons and equipment for a full faction. My problem with Japan is the fact that the asian campaign was more or less a full combined arms battle with naval units, strong air force focus, amphibious warfare, ectpp. That would be difficult for the current CoH design. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: 5 Year Plan13 May 2017, 18:00 PM I think a lot of people cant see the potential of the italian theater. Everyone had read stories about the eastern front and the normandy/western front. But italy is like an unknown battlefield for a lot of people. I would be happy to see the italian army ingame. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: (4) Operation Sonnenwende13 May 2017, 08:17 AM Well. I think the deep snow/blizzard story wasnt well implemented. I liked the idea but the ingame result was a nightmare. BUT i'm using deep snow for this map... However it is "light" deep snow. So you will see footprints and trackprints but it wont influence speed or movement. In: Map Sharing
Thread: (4) Operation Sonnenwende12 May 2017, 21:36 PM OPERATION SONNENWENDE January 1945, around Strasbourg, France. During Operation Nordwind parts of the german 19. Armee (General der Infanterie Siegfried Rasp) started a small supporting offensive. When the german army attacked around Bitsch to break through the lines of the 7th US Army the US army send in all available units. The quiet Rhine river line was thinned out to send in more units. General Rasp used the situation to start an local offensive of his 19. Armee. The army was waiting for revenge since the alliied landings in southern France. General Rasp started Operation Sonnenwende (Operation solstice). He send in a Kampfgruppe (combat group) of the 553. Volksgrenadierdivision. The 553. VGD crossed the Rhine with 3300 soldiers close to the french town of Herrlisheim. US General Brooks, commander of the VI US Corps, was ordered to eliminate the "Gamersheim cancer" by US General Patch, 7th US Army at the 6th January 1945. General Brooks thought that the german bridgehead was defended by 700~800 old men and Hitlerjungen. He send in the 12th US Armored Division. The division was a young formation without any experience in combined armed operations or urban combat. The division send in a combat group to eliminate this german defenders of Herrlisheim. The 12th armored division attacked on January 8. The division took heavy casualties in the streets of Herrlisheim. The 8,8cm Flak guns from the german side of the Rhine, Panzerfaust hunters and mobile Panzerschreck squads killed 12 Sherman in a couple of hours. The 12th US armored division stoppend the first attacked and reinforced the combat teams. Motivated by the success of the 553. VGD the german high command decided to send in reinforcements to take advantage of the Gambersheim bridgehead. The 39. Panzerkorps with the 10. SS-Panzerdivision 'Frundsberg' enforced the 553. VGD. During the night of January 15/16 dozens of ferries transported 50 Panzer IV and 40 Panther tanks over the Rhine into Herrlisheim. Because of the bad weather and the stress by the german offensives in the Ardennes and in the Vosges the US army hadnt recognized the german reinforcements for Herrlisheim. When the 12th US armored division had regrouped for a new and strengthened attack the german defenders were prepared. January 17 the 12th armored division started a new assault and run into the Panzers of the 10. SS-PzDiv. The battle was bloody and brutal. The 43rd US tank battalion and the 17th US armored infantry battalion were annihilate by the german forces. Further attacked were called off. Motivated by successful defense the 10. SS-PzDiv started an own offensive to captured Hagenau from the south and to encircle the 7th US army around Strasbourg. During the next days the region around Herrlisheim became the "Kursk of the western front". The 10. SS-PzDiv and the 12th US armored division fought a bloody battle. Both sides were losing tanks, weapons and soldiers. After 3 days of fighting both sides were exhausted. Unfortunately for the germans the US army was able to stop the northern ambush of Operation Nordwind. The 7th US army was now able to send reinforcements to Herrlisheim. With this reinforcements the US army was now on the offensive again. The german side wasnt able to replace the casualties. Forced by the enforced US troops the german 19. Armee started the evacuation of the "Gambersheim cancer" pocket. Link to Steamwork shop Have fun with the new map! Feedback is always welcome! Thank you very much for your comments and help! Your Lord Rommel. In: Map Sharing
Thread: Cleaning up the 1v1 map pool(again)6 May 2017, 18:18 PM Jump back to quoted post6 May 2017, 15:35 PMSturmpanther Better question will be: Will Relic change the maps when our Mapmakers change them^^ Well. Relic had updated my Westwall versions... so there is a small chance. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Cleaning up the 1v1 map pool(again)6 May 2017, 14:23 PM Well. I have reworked Westwall and Rüstungswerke Essen basing on feedback. There were a small number of people who gave me feedback and i was happy about the feedback. It was important to rework my maps. I know that my maps arent perfect but i cant make them better without any feedback from pvp players. I cant work on maps when u wont help me. And i think that is the biggest problem between community mappers and pvp players; there is no method to help each other. Edit: I would rework Westwall with your help because i want to keep the map ingame and i want to add a map for the pvp players. And i think most of the mappers will share this point of view. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Cleaning up the 1v1 map pool(again)5 May 2017, 18:42 PM Jump back to quoted post5 May 2017, 15:40 PMTheodosios La Gleize, both Semois, Bryansk Forest, Minsk Pocket, Road to Kharkov, Angoville and Westwall should be removed without hesitation. Their inherent map design is not beneficial for exciting CoH2 play. You could argue about the remaining to create a super good map pool like in CoH1 but I think those maps are to start with. Well. It would be nice to have a gameplay based analyse by a strategist. Because everyone is always complaining about the map quality but there is still no useful feedback a mapper could work with to balance and adjust maps for the game. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Africa DLC5 May 2017, 16:49 PM Relic should release a full modding tool with 3d model import/export tool and all this stuff. That would be easier... In: Lobby
Thread: WW2 Daily Pic20 Mar 2017, 18:44 PM Jump back to quoted post20 Mar 2017, 15:10 PMDangerous-Cloth I would not rely too much on this documentary series. It has some harsh critics and very debatable 'information' and 'truths'. Lol. We - germans - call it "Knopp-Propaganda" Guido Knopp had a special point of view on history. Sometimes he is a real problem e.g. when he is cutting down his hours of veteran interviews or "expert interviews" to get only a single sentence out of the context. He was too obsessed with his one-side focus. In: The Library