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Thread: The OKW conundrum15 Jun 2015, 16:48 PM The overall design for OKW is off. Do you all remember OKW being marketed as a high risk/high reward faction? You can't have that in a strategy game, you just can't. I hate dealing with mine spam as OKW. Sturms are so expensive and squishy having them spearhead pushes to find mines is not very cost efficient, but you don't have much choice if there is a mine on every key point. Volks are so bad against inf. Obers take forever to outshoot guards now (and might not even do that) and are exposed to the heavy mortar and the squad wipe city that is the Soviets in the late game. Obers definitely don't fill the anti infantry gap that they used to and it is showing. I think they should just redesign the faction and be done with it since right now OKW is annoying 1v1 L33t pros by being UP or people in team games by being OP. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Relic add accuracy to Jackson14 Jun 2015, 20:10 PM The Action Jackson seems fine to me. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Is it just me or are the Allies too spam heavy lately...14 Jun 2015, 05:05 AM Jump back to quoted post13 Jun 2015, 23:43 PMPanzerGeneralForever Classic argument If you respond to my points with vague nonsense turnaround is fair play. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Is it just me or are the Allies too spam heavy lately...13 Jun 2015, 22:35 PM Jump back to quoted post13 Jun 2015, 21:34 PMPanzerGeneralForever Um, everything you just said works more in favour of the allies so not sure why you brought it up. You are just proving my point further. Except not at all. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Can't stand ground against allies13 Jun 2015, 19:55 PM I really like Spearhead too but it just isn't as viable against USF since they are always moving and 40 fuel on the MHT is a lot. Although if you go spearhead using the flamestrike at every opportunity is good. In: Ostheer Strategies
Thread: Is it just me or are the Allies too spam heavy lately...13 Jun 2015, 19:46 PM Jump back to quoted post13 Jun 2015, 19:32 PMJason Late game advantage? You can't be serious. Current Soviet meta disagree with you. USF have the p4p TD Jackson now. Jacksons are very easy to destroy and PaKs are awesome. Dual PaKs haven't gone out of style yet. Tiger's wreck infantry and Panther's are easy to keep alive especially when supported. I don't like Guard Rifle because of the OP heavy mortar and Guards sniping infantry which put Axis too far back for the late game but if those units were fixed things would be better. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Is it just me or are the Allies too spam heavy lately...13 Jun 2015, 19:41 PM Jump back to quoted post13 Jun 2015, 19:18 PMPanzerGeneralForever The difference in retreat paths you are talking about actually works alot different than you think. The axis infantry typically need to be standing still do deal decent damage but the allies don't. Best example of this is the American BARS compared to LMG42s. The rifles can walk beside the retreating squads and easily wipe them while the grens and volks grens cant. Accuracy matters a lot against retreating units and while Allied accuracy on the move isn't bad it isn't going to gank a squad that will be out of close range in 1 second thanks to the speed of retreat. Now if an Axis player gets outmaneuvered and the allied squad is sitting on their retreat path that is the axis players fault for exposing their troops to that much accurate close range fire and path blocking, I have no sympathy for that. The STG 44 units are super accurate close to medium range even against retreating squads and can fire on the move. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Teach you to play USF and win13 Jun 2015, 19:29 PM I do like getting the AA halftrack in team games since Axis gets really blobby. This strategy of yours takes a big risk from AA halftrack to Major tech. There is an inherent big disadvantage in going Lieutenant that a decent Axis player will exploit the second they see that single bar. I would go Captain or at least get a zook squad or M20 for mines before major. Ya it slows the Sherman but proper micro of Lieutenant and Captain tiers should win you map control before their medium armor shows up and is safer. In: US Forces Strategies
Thread: Maps you really REALLY do not like to play on13 Jun 2015, 18:58 PM Dealing with deep snow as the allies is the most annoying thing ever. Semosky Winter has too much of it especially near the south fuel point. Dealing with snowboarding sturmpios around there is so annoying. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Is it just me or are the Allies too spam heavy lately...13 Jun 2015, 18:52 PM Jump back to quoted post13 Jun 2015, 18:37 PMPanzerGeneralForever I think the problem Ostheer has against the USFs in 1v1s is that they require combined arms to defeat the more mobile US army. Rifles are excellent for capping the map while also fighting infantry and with zooks, tanks as well. The ostheer player can't control much of the map because it can't have mg 42s with infantry support and AT support everywhere at once. At the same time, one wrong move from the ostheer player can mean the game for him whereas for the US, they make a wrong move and can easily retreat before they lose any full squads. It not that the two armies are that unbalanced atm its just that ostheer needs to play a perfect game in order to win while the USFs can easily recover from their mistakes. I think this is mainly due to Ostheers reliance on support weapons that get decrewed and taken by the enemy for essentially free (just reinforcement costs). Anouther problem Ostheer has is RECREWING their lost support weapons. If they lose 1 man then they cant recrew the weapon without losing the whole squad. That is why the Halftrack for ostheer is so vital. Without it you will have a hard time recrewing weapons on the field. Mess up a rifle squad and then put a flame pio on their retreat path. Also it is easier for Axis squads to retreat than Allied squads. Allied squads have to get in close to do damage and Axis squads are more accurate at long range. So if an allied squad gets in close and gets in trouble it has to retreat a lot farther from the axis squad through more accurate fire. Whereas the Axis squad is taking less accurate fire once its last model gets to mid-long range. The only exception are Pathfinders who are good at ganking retreating squads. In: COH2 Balance