Profile of richarddear

I voted for giving rifleman a standard build time , but at the very least the ability should give RE's the standard mine and open up the opportunity for riflemen to build the light mine. Being able to secure your flanks, with the Infantry company at least, is crucial and mines are the key to doing that.

I feel like the argument that they can be 'spammed' because they are a core infantry unit is a bit of a moot point. The said riflemen would/should be upgrading it's weapons to deal with either infantry or armour threats whilst (at least in my case) throwing grenades this way and that.

Infantry Company and Heavy Cav Company are muni sinks in themselves with whitephos from the mortar HT's LMG's, Thompsons on rangers and combined arms. This isn't a bad thing, it's just play styles.

Of course the beauty of coh2 is that there is a choice, I could spend 120 munitions on four mines or I could double BAR, or I could save for ToT or combined arms.

Armour Company can build mines at regular speeds (yes they are engineers, so that makes sense) and yet unless you build 3 or 4 As.Engi's and bank a lot of munitions you still are not spamming mines (depends on what you constitute as mine spam I suppose).

Soviet defensive Doct, and Tank hunter Doc CAN spam mines, albeit light mines which aren't generic (unless you build a field of light AT mines and put a flare in the middle, that's great fun).

Finally, I'm beginning to wonder if the extra deploy time is residual from when riflemen could plant the light mines (not generic m7's) because even with this delayed deployment they could still be installed quickly. Where as the m7 has a default longer deployment time and now there is the multiplier on top (theory crafting however, I have no proof)

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Bugs aside, your stating opinions as fact. Look I can do that too!

M2 50.cal is the most cost in-efficient HMG available to the allies.

For an MG which is supposed to be a soft vehicle counter, it certainly cannot soft counter and fails in that department, thanks to a short burst time.

I use the 50 cal fairly often and supported, its a shame it can get concentrated on with models that die like flies.

let stop de-railing?

What is clear is that the USF does need a solid form of non-doctrinal indirect fire.

firing endless smoke grenades into the face of support weapons at an upgrade cost and ability cost is simply a long term drain, especially when you consider non- doct mortars with FREE smoke barrages. PACK howie is not exactly indirect seeing as it is best used with direct line of sight, and its barrage is only 3 (IIRC?) shells with tremendous scatter.

I'm really liking the idea of tripling the number of rounds in the barrage salvo. It has always pissed me off knowing that the pack howie fires ( I do believe 3) shells when relic had clearly for the weapon platform to be used primarily for barrages (Has a longer barrage range than the ISG, and a vet2 bonus which applies to the barrage)

I'd Like to point out that the 152's ability to fire the concrete piercing round is a 'attack ground/region' ability, meaning it WILL miss a lot. Because the vehicle is not aiming at a 'target' the shell can be intercepted by debris/ foliage/ terrain more easily. I would like this to be looked at, seeing as I pay 70 iirc? munitions for the shell to fail miserably. On the other hand the Jgd Tigers ability is a timed ability meaning it is actually 'targeting' vehicles meaning its more likely to hit as it takes into account target size... just saying.

One way this could be fixed is to give the ISU's special shell the ability to 'phase' through objects and for the attack ground style ability to have a smaller spread radius