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Do we agree that a 120 mm mortar shell will cause more total HP damage to an infatry in most cases than other mortars will cause?

Look, I don't know how else to say this. The 120mm does not do *more* damage than any other mortar, the AOE is better. Again, thinking about the implications of having a bigger AOE, you can come to the conclusion that it will do more damage over an entire squad.

My point was that the 120mm doesn't have some kind of special damage modifier against units in cover, it's just that the damage is more consistent when it hits units in cover. The important word being when of course. If a 120mm and an 82mm hit a gren behind sandbags right on top of their heads, they will both do similar amounts of damage (leaving a gren squad at roughly 200 health, with 120mm skewing to 190-200 and 82mm skewing to 200-210. I haven't tested volks but I think it's pretty obvious the 120mm will do better there. The 120mm does more damage to the squad compared to the 82mm, but it's still doing the same max damage. It's more consistent when it hits.

For squads out in the open, the 120mm is a different ball game. Of course in this situation the 120mm compared to the 82mm is like comparing a hand grenade to a stick of TNT. Bigger AOE against a spread out squad is a huge advantage. Though squads out in the open tend to be moving around and 120mm struggles against moving targets (save for blobs).

By the way, if you really want to know the reason why I said what I did, it was because I was under that impression myself when I first started playing CoH2. I thought it had some kind of higher base damage. Then when I looked in the stats and found damage all to be the same, and that it was AOE that was the deciding factor, I was surprised. I mentioned it to my friends and they were surprised as well.

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120mm is Soviet... its survivability is supposed to be good...

Certainly, but compared to most mortars that can retreat, needing only one model to operate the mortar + run with it is definitely huge. If you get a model drop on other mortars while it's packing up to retreat, you can slow down the retreat a bit, and it can snowball. The 120mm definitely stands out in this regard in that it doesn't need a second man to get the hell out of dodge, so to speak.


I think that the 120mm should be able to retreat, because soviets don't have any kind of FRP. That's a personal opionion, mind you. What about if it moved slower during retreat than normal squads? The thing is heavy as hell after all. That or perhaps it could lose the recieved accuracy bonus that squads get on retreat. Or maybe slower pack-up time to make up for the fact it can't be stunlocked by model drops?

EDIT: No FRP nondoctrinally, no FRP nondoctrinally. That's what I meant.

That sentence does not make much sense:

1) infatry HP is 80 so if a mortar did 160 damage it would still do 80 damage to a entity.

2) Better AOE profiles means that it will have wider kill radius and will do more damage at greater distance and that actually mean that a unit with better AOE profile it does do more total damage to infatry squad.

Right. Let's cool it with the semantics for a moment here and realize that we're saying the same thing. I said "it isn't doing *more* damage", as in it's not doing more damage on a direct hit or something, it's still 60 damage. And I said "it just has better AOE". Now, if you think about that statement for a moment, you will realize that having a better AOE implies doing more damage over the area of effect.

EDIT: I'm not mentioning the delayed fuse rounds because it's not applicable to infantry, because they can just move out of the way.

Focus on SU76 and T34/76 and T34/85.

For SU76，still about damage at late game，looks like someone think SU76 got 160 damage too OP，so I think maybe could replace the ambush ability be Fire Position like COH1 PE MD3，have switch mode ability，when use this ability will make SU76 can not move，but will increase rotation rate and reload faster.Also have different Vet bonus for this ability，like Vet1 will have ambush when use this ability，Vet2 will increase damage to 160 when use this ability.

For T34/85，I think it should replace RAM ability by some new ability，T34/85 too expensive and RAM already NERF，I don't think someone like use T34/85 to RAM....I think it could have new ability like KT spearhead，call it Breakthrough mode for now（“follow their tracks to victory”），when swicht to breakthrough mode，T34/85 only can shot enemy at fornt like KT spearhead，increase sight to 45 but only have front sight like JP4，and reduce all move speed，but main gun and MG will fire faster.

Last for T34/76 RAM ability，I think it NERF too much，maybe could deal different effect for different target.
For light armor，target light armor will be Main Gun Destroyed and Immobilized，T34/76 will stun few second and have engine damage.
For medium tank，target medium tank will have engine damage and stun few second，T34/76 will stun few second and Immobilized，but still could use main gun.
For heavy tank not change.

Why on earth do you want to change the 85 into an unholy T34/ JP4 combo?

Am I the only one who thinks it's still the best or maybe second best US commander? Would love to hear top player's opinions on this but the top 200 popularity ranking is definitely not representative of its strength.

I might not be a top200 USF player but I can tell you why it's most likely not popular and that's because it's not adding anything that the USF really needs.

Like what do you get from the doctrine? Early light vehicle? Nice, but that's early game. Cav Riflemen? Cool close range infantry, but USF doesn't struggle in close range engagements. M3 Halftrack? An interesting replacement for the ambulance I suppose but it's a bit of a waste to be selecting a commander for an ambulance replacement. Sherman 76? Yeah I mean it's neat and all but it's a Jack-of-All-Trades unit in a faction 90% made up of them. Combined Arms? It's expensive and lackluster.

Now that you've chosen this commander and the novelty factor's worn off; how are you dealing with the axis lategame units? They're tearing you apart at long range and your cav roflmen can't do a thing about it. How are you dealing with axis heavy tanks? Got another bounce from the 76 on the Panther, really regretting not having gone Jackson at this point.

It's like a gimmick commander but the gimmick is sucking eggs.

EDIT: Added the third paragraph.

I used to call in say the stuart switch crews and then withdraw and refit. Unless no meaningful vet was gained.

Smart.