Profile of donofsandiego

*insert gigachad image* yes

On a serious note, I think the whole mechanism of soviets, a faction that always floats muni, should get an all the way self repair bonus.

What do you mean by this?

At any rate, be a smart boy and park your t34s in base to repair.

Well yeah but my post still stands.

Alright, now I know this has been discussed before on these forums. I distinctly remember Vipper pointing out the fact that unlike other crew repairs, Soviet crew repairs go all the way until the tank is repaired, so one really shouldn't be complaining.

However, can we just admit how stupid this is? Seriously. You find a (clearly risky if you're getting caught and put into combat, but this is besides the point) spot to start repairs and then issue the command. Assumedly, inside the tank, the crew pulls a repair box out of wherever and starts hitting the engine with a wrench idfk. Alright cool. A few seconds later, enemy pioneer squad runs up to the T34 and starts chipping the paint job with their mp40s.

Now, because of this, you aren't allowed to stop repairs, because you're in combat. Explain to me why it makes any sense at all that the T34 crew now has their wrenches superglued to their hands. Okay, cool; the pioneer squad is over here wasting ammo, big deal right? But now here comes a wild Panzer 4 with the big guns (or at least big enough to actually damage the tank). You're telling me that these ruskies are SO DEDICATED to repairing the tank, that THEY DECIDE TO DIE IN A BALL OF FIRE instead of putting the freaking grease gun down and shifting the f@ck into reverse?

Please, explain why this is the direction that the balance team decided to take with balancing soviet crew repair. It makes zero common sense besides from a balance standpoint. They could have done something cool like make it so that the tank abandons on hit like with Sturmtiger (at least then it's not like having your skin peeled off while you're tied to a chair, now it's quick and painless) or hell, why not double the damage and instantly cancel the crew repairs? That would be one hell of a penalty, but it wouldn't be watching your nearly full health T-34 die to a panzergrenadier with one shreck slowly but surely taking the tank down to zero.

EDIT: And before you make the joke, no I didn't just lose an IS-2 to crew repairs or something and then immediately came to the forums to complain . It's just something that I thought of while I was reading the ability guide and saw OST's crew repair ability.

Though this did happen to me once in a 1v1 years ago and I was so confused and furious that I stopped playing for the day. Rest in peace, poor T-34/85. You were missed.

Bro, I think you could have closed left side of map out in the first 7-8 minutes. I watched with fog of war on to get a sense of what your battlefield knowledge was but I do get some spectator info so some info might be a bit harsh.

I like/love the double MG/double pio opening it worked fairly well especially on that side of the map. If USF has to make a mortar even better as you can have an infantry advantage. The issue that arises is your lack of commitment, your LV into flamer was a great choice was expecting a great push.

Ty. I can't remember if I did this specifically because I was in the urban side or because I was expecting airborne because one of the players only had airborne commanders or something, but the early game definitely worked out in my favor with it.

But you hid behind the fences driving back and forth, I think you were attempting to attack ground or scared of a snare? Either way you should have burst thru that fence like the Kool-aid man and handed out flames to everyone.

DUDE I SWEAR TO GOD I WAS TRYING SO HARD TO DO THIS XDDDD

I remember DISTINCTLY being so pissed off at the halftrack because it wasn't breaking through the fence. I eventually just figured that it wasn't heavy enough to crush the freaking fence AND THEN IT CRUSHES IT ANYWAYS. I really have no excuse for this part and completely agree with you lmao

EDIT: After re-watching, I'm realizing now that you probably meant at the 5 minute mark. I understand what you mean, looking at it again. I really should have leveraged that halftrack more. I was probably scared of a snare and then getting killed by a theoretical Stuart tank. (I don't have a good intuitive knowledge of enemy tank/LV timings...)

You need to get as much ROI as possible since both sides have guaranteed fuel shortening your LV window

Good point. I didn't think about the guaranteed fuel part shortening LV time. Even though it's kinda obvious.

The situation was multiple Paths and 1 Rifle man a few MGs at best. Take the snare if it comes and reverse your way behind buildings to protect yourself from MG. Repair and push again. They were not going to be able to kill it as it would take what 3-4 snares or AT rounds which would necessitate a reload allowing you to get away. So at WORST you take a snare and back up to safety, at best you catch the Allied Player who only had Paths and you force a mass retreat allowing you and teammate to push further up.

Also a very good point.

Back to your STRAT, you took way to long to build PG, you need to pop them out as fast as possible as maintaining pressure is paramount while getting as much VET early for your PG is needed. PGs with Vet1 alongside flamers would have bullied what was around while giving USF players pause due to the possibility of Shreks to counter LV.

All good points.

For this map I am not 100% double flames would have been better as a AAHT could have really messed you up as pathfinding multiple LV between building can lead to rage inducing moments.

I am going to be honest with you dude; I have never made 2 LVs in 4v4 before. What are the situations in which this *would* be a good call in your opinion? I'm guessing paths spam is one of them? Serious question, I'd like to know for myself.

I think you did a great job placing schu mines, keep it up as it is really unexpected for most players.

Thanks dude. Schu mines are god's relic's gift to Wehrmacht. No, seriously, I love them

Sadly as my APM is pretty low that is also partially what contributed to me floating manpower so frigging hard xD.

As an allied main, you going for a Panther was a win. Your panther ain't doing shit to anything but tanks.

Yeahh. Seems to have been the case.

If you find yourself in a similar situation again try going for Brumbar...(snip)

Yeah, you make a good argument for the Brumm for sure. The only thing is the whole paths + jackson thing would make it a bit difficult to use I think. Though I suppose it could force retreats on paths with a good hit + panzergrens advancing along with it.

Lastly...only one of your teammates had AA, so give him a bit of help while also boosting your AI.

Noted. I forgot about the AA properties.

...why didn't you upgrade MG on your Panthers?

I actually didn't upgrade the Panthers with the mg because my thought process was: "I'm killing tanks with this thing, maybe support weapons if I catch them out of position (of which there were none), so I don't think it's worth upgrading with the mg". But again, that AA wouldn't've hurt.

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Wow what? I really didn't see replies on this post. I'm baffled as to how I missed these. Reading now. Thanks for the advice!

shinasukac make a coherent OP challenge (impossible)

On-topic though (I think???), imo fresh arranged teams should get a temporary rating based on the average of all the players' ratings.

The way it works--as it is now--is that when a single player is swapped out of an arranged team, the new arranged team is given a complete fresh start (I.E. they can get matched with total newbies). This is absolutely unacceptable.

I'll just share some of my personal experience as to why this is. I play 4v4s. I play a *lot* of 4v4. But you would never know this from my playercard. Why is this? Well, I don't like to play CoH2 without being able to communicate with my teammates. So, I play arranged teams. The issue is that I play with *a lot* of different teams.

You see, I've joined a discord server where I can find other players to play with. We make teams and then go to 4v4 automatch. Often times, these teams can have one person leave to go to work. This leads to a bunch of different ATs where I've played one or two matches with then switched to another.

It's not my intention that I keep getting matched up with new players, I just prefer communication over silence and ping noises. The AT baseline rating system needs to be changed.