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Is there any rule of thumb everyone uses?

I just can't play anymore at a high level. Always lose too many units. What is the secret to retreating?

Hi, how was your coma?
Was it easy to adjust to missing last week?
Once you're ok and back with us, I highly advise checking email for newsletter and watching attached video from relic or checking it directly on steam news for coh3.

Oh I found the video. Lol. I really haven't been keeping up.

I like that they said they accidentally defaulted most people to low settings. It's proletarian and populist.

All I need is more existential dread in my chosen forms of recreation. +1

Option 1 is best and really would solve the one major aggravation with retreat paths even for people who know the maps and possible paths well - if your unit is in front of an obstacle and has to go east or west to retreat south and you are near the middle of it, it's very hard to guess which way it's going to go. One way = squad wipe, the other, you save the unit. Most of the time people won't even need to use it I think.

Option 2 is just prima facie unfeasible. The murder stuff on retreat meta is already aggravating as hell and this would just raise it to silly new levels with camping of retreat waypoints.

Alternately, I am not a fan of this mechanic anyway - I totally disagree with Stormless that players should lose units for taking risks. COH already punishes aggression and risk-taking enough in numerous other ways and overly rewards caution. So you could just buff received accuracy on retreat to make retreats less painful, though I realize this lowers the skill cap. But keep in mind that making retreats less deadly would just lengthen games, the better player is still going to win, but it lets people make a few mistakes and indulge in some risky moves. To me, that would make for a more exciting and fun game.

A concrete example is the very common initial con/con/eng vs gren/mg/pio engagement. In the current game, unless the Axis player really screws up, this engagement gets lost every time these days by the Sov player because while the MG might get scared off, one con is almost certain to die on retreat because the damage output from the defending pio is so high. This engagement on paper ought to be a toss-up every time if players have equal micro but never is in practice because of the retreat damage.

If there was a way to counter the B4 in a 3v3 or 4v4, it actually feels pretty good and made the doctrine useful. But they took away counter battery, so there is no counter except suiciding a tank.

In 1v1 or 2v2 it's probably better, but on a rectangular map with any kind of mine play you're not going to get it.

It's a game breaking design failure. Really no way to rework it again I think.