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"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?..The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and... the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough...We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

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Thread: Sega mistakes - layoffs expected10 Oct 2023, 06:36 AM Jump back to quoted post9 Oct 2023, 20:23 PMTickTack Meanwhile, company of Hitler 3 continues to enjoy 15 min German wait times. Wonder why? Do you live in australia or what bro In: COH3 Central
Thread: Is Italian Combined Arms actually bad at combined arms?9 Oct 2023, 20:30 PM Jump back to quoted post9 Oct 2023, 18:16 PMEsxile Bersa would probably be OP to have them work with CA and retaining enough firepower without it. Those are already running fast enough and as long range squad they would obliterate anything trying to close to them. So anyway, as 1vs1 player I don't see what you don't like about this BG, but maybe on teamgame the fact that it is solely a midgame powerspike BG makes it have less value. 1v1s you usually have to get the T1 fire support elements upgrade I think. It's viable in 4v4 to skip fire support elements and go for T2 quickly for the early 254 or marder. Spending points on nothing else in the BG but the Semovente and the Carro usually brings the Carro out after the Marder in 4v4 timing. This isn't really a "buff the Carro Armato (or Bersaglieri)" thread, its more me complaining that Italian Combined Arms isn't really better at combined arms than the stock roster is if you play with Bersas and the Carro. It's just... you give up on the Combined Arms bonus, repair, and AT grenades for out-of-combat sprint and that's really all they have going for them. Their ability grid feels barren lmfao like it's unfinished or something. I think it really is just better in 1v1 than 4v4 and that's all there is to it. ...M13 work in pack of 2 or 3. M13 are also good enough to soft counter Stuarts and Chaffees unlike any other DAK LVs. I could build 2 M13s, or I could just build another marder to pair with the one I already built by the time the Carro is available, then get an 8-Rad and still have spent less fuel in total. It's a cool tank, I like it. It's just objectively worse to me than just using default units. In: COH3 Central
Thread: Is Italian Combined Arms actually bad at combined arms?8 Oct 2023, 12:44 PM Jump back to quoted post8 Oct 2023, 08:23 AMEsxile They buffed the M13 with smoke... That's true. The extra 40 hp and smoke is nice. Still, that doesn't really help the fact that it's bad for combined arms using the BG infantry lmao. ...overall the T1 repair speed upgrade is also a boost to them. Right... if you don't use Bersas lmfao. I don't think anyone plays DAK with two panzerpios but I guess you're obligated to if you build the funny jogging italian troops. Look, here's my point: For a BG about "Combined Arms", it's a little silly that one of the units you call in is literally made to bypass the Combined Arms bonus. If you want to effectively use combined arms, you don't build Bersaglieri, you build Panzergrenadiers. And if you build Panzergrenadiers, the Carro only benefits from nearby Italian tanks. So at most, maybe you have two Carro Armatos with +10% reload bonus (A semovente, 2x Carro, which I doubt anyone builds because it's pretty prohibitively expensive compared to just getting a marder and an 8-Rape Armored Gape). And that's only if you wolfpack them around. Why would you spend all that extra fuel on a bunch of tanks that only perform a little better or are just a sidegrade? I didn't find the Semovente to be so good that it's a game changer compared to just getting a marder and a 254 to deal with MGs. I didn't find the Carro to be all that much of an upgrade to the 8-Rape. These tanks occupy the same timing of the Marder and 8-Rad and at the same time, cost more and are only marginal improvements over them, or even just a straight sidegrade. Am I missing something or what? In: COH3 Central
Thread: Is Italian Combined Arms actually bad at combined arms?7 Oct 2023, 18:59 PM Yes I'm aware Pact of Steel is pretty nice. No I do not think Marder spam is fun or engaging or "combined arms". In: COH3 Central
Thread: Is Italian Combined Arms actually bad at combined arms?7 Oct 2023, 18:56 PM It's called "Italian Combined Arms", I know, but when you get down to brass tacks, it really seems like using this BG for combined arms tactics is actually kind of a letdown. Ok so, theoretically, "Italian Combined Arms" means literally that, you are playing combined arms with Italian units, because Bersags actually don't have any combined arms bonus, it's like a reverse combined arms bonus where the Carro Armato benefits from nearby Italian units. The Semovente, on the other hand, doesn't even benefit from being near Italian infantry. Ok, so, you think: "I want to take advantage of this bonus and I will build some bersaglieri". Joke's on you, bersas actually suck at supporting tanks. They sprint, they throw nades, and they're fast outside of combat. Do they repair? No. Do they have AT grenades? Nah. Do they benefit from being near tanks? Only if you're okay with gimping the squad's fighting capabilities. And all this for a measly, piddly, +5% reload speed bonus on the Armato for every Italian unit standing near the tank. Really? And on top of that, bersas only get one Breda now, so if you want to boost their effectiveness around tanks, you have to double nerf them and give up on the extra squad member too. This BG is just not made for 4v4 and it's sad. I'm sure that in 1v1 this allows for a really fast and loose playstyle, sliding along the battlefield on the seat of your pants, with 5 man bersas taking points quick alongside tanks, smothering the opponent Soviet style, but for 4v4, this isn't an Italian Combined Arms doctrine at all. It's just Bersaglieri doctrine. And if you're about to write "just play with panzergrens instead", then believe me I've done that. It's okay. Really it's mediocre. If you don't build Bersas then there's really no incentive to build the Carro at all. It's 50 goddamn fuel and the Stuart can bounce it. It's nothing to write home about. Very sad doctrine. Hopefully it makes more sense in small gamemodes. In: COH3 Central
Thread: 4v4 US Infantry Support Company Build (Non-Doc)7 Oct 2023, 16:16 PM Jump back to quoted post14 Sep 2023, 03:40 AMGachiGasm Point here is, USF is super vulnerable to early LVs, bazooka squad is garbage, at best it will just somewhat protect you from dives, but besides 250 flame-pio clown car, there is nothing what will dive you, rather will snipe you from range. Rifles with sprint and AT nade will usually be more of threat then zooka squad. The whole ready aim time really makes the bazooka squad a nonissue on the field tbh. I just had some success with a 4 riflemen ISC build with early Adv. Logistics into SSF and then Hellcats. Basically muscling the enemy off the field with waves of riflemen. You can't suppress everyone lmao. Breach makes this strat actually viable in 4v4. The only issue with breach is you can't effing cancel it, which is so silly when the squad you're "breaching" literally walks right through the front door past you and you're sitting with your hands in your pockets still throwing the nade in. Would make more sense if you just instantly garrison the building if they abandon it tbh. Though that would look kinda stupid. Maybe just speed up the animation a bit or something? EDIT: I'm still not high rank enough to encounter the people sniping from afar, it's mostly gung-ho axis players who run at you and rely on their overtuned units to do all the work. In: COH3 Central
Thread: Sega mistakes - layoffs expected6 Oct 2023, 01:14 AM Yea Creative Assembly are clowns. What else is new? Seen that trending vid about the mortar bug? In: COH3 Central
Thread: 4v4 US Infantry Support Company Build (Non-Doc)5 Oct 2023, 21:49 PM Maybe people are going to try bazooka squad with the jeep nerfs, bazooka squad price decrease, and 250 buffs. In: COH3 Central
Thread: To All the People Who Removed The Following COH 2 Features2 Oct 2023, 12:14 PM Jump back to quoted post2 Oct 2023, 06:04 AMShadowLinkX37 mods No mod that does that. There was COH2013 that was kinda like it but the developer abandoned it and unlisted it from the workshop. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: To All the People Who Removed The Following COH 2 Features2 Oct 2023, 01:34 AM Based as fuck??? In: COH2 Gameplay