Profile of The Silver Sage

The whole "Have fun with 100% chance to pen AP shells" is a tad bit wonkey considering the entire reason it HAD ACPR shells was because of the anemic pen.



Amazing how there is no restraint when people act like vindictive children who enjoy revenge porn

While I can see both sides of the coin, I believe the Jackson needed this buff. Although personally I would have lowered the damage to 160. I don't see why the panther shouldn't fear the pinnacle of Usf anti armour, the Jackson can't do anything else. My concern is for the tiger which will be bullied completely by the Jackson now.

Also you can't fault allied players for being happy about these changes, it was quite clear most of them were needed. Axis heavies have enjoyed their armour vs. penetration discrepancies for too long.

Who wants to bet searching % will change soon? I guess axis units aren't as cool as they used to be.

40+80+260 = 380. That's the cost of 1.6 IS2's.

So not double the cost, more like 1 and a half? Almost would be 1.8 or 1.9. Armour reduction seems fine to be, many players complain about IS2 bouncing shots and that's with higher penetration values in general, 425 was just silly as seen in that video that was trending recently.

Overall I must say I am happy with the changes but I was hoping for them to be more all-encompassing.
Soviets didn't receive much attention but I am happy that b4 was nerfed as it was a bit cheesy.

Also happy to see OST receive some early game buffs and the Jackson finally seems like it deserves it's position as the pinnacle of USF anti-armour. Glad to see my suggestion of 240/220/200 was taken on board (coincidence I know!) also with AP rounds JAckson seems quite frightening now, Panthers will have to think twice now when trying to savage the USF lines as they will be facing a higher penetration tank destroyer and will not be able to rely on the crutch of the blitz ability as much.

Only worry I have is in regards to the Tiger vs. Jackson matchup, then again the JAckson is meant to counter tiger so you will have to be trailing those packs with your tigers fellas.

Side-note: What are the penetration gains at vet 3 for Jackson? I'm thinking at mid range with AP rounds it will have 100% chance to pen tiger.

My concern is not whether that Campaign "dishonours" anybody or not, or even whether it can be historically justified or not - but rather why when there are millions of stories that Relic could have told they chose to tell that one.

A game that should be huge in Russia, and they chose a storyline that's going to piss that market off.

If you can have a clean German campaign it shouldn't be hard to do it for the Red Army.


That's like making an USMC game about the Pacific, and then having key bits of gameplay be about collecting Japanese skulls to send home to your girlfriend and carving letter openers out of their bones.

Now if you do that, you don't get to act surprised if the Americans get pissed at you.


It shows remarkably poor judgement rather than anything else

An excellent post van Voort, you can see the middle ground of why the way Relic went about narrating the story in a game called ''Company of Heroes 2'' is nonsensical, especially given the first game and how they avoided injecting political points. Empathy is key to understanding why this might offend the ancestors of the Russian soldiers.

I have an even more apt example, it would be like when Relic developed the Ardennes Assault campaign they focused on the 761st tank battalion as possibly an Armoured company and how they were treated in general by the US army at that time.

Relic is not the rider becouse there is an universal law of return of a purchase of a product.

There is also Russian state which should suit Relic for assaulting soviet veterans of WW2.

I've always found the Eastern front more interesting than what occurred on the Western front, the scale of warfare that occurred between Germany and Russia at that time is mind-boggling. From what I have seen from documentaries that included personal interviews with soldiers from both sides who were actually present during the fighting, both sides had soldiers who carried out their orders with discipline and honour. Of course given the nature of the fighting there were also those on both sides who commited vile acts (a minority), but again that shouldn't have been the focus of the game.

I was bemused by how Relic portrayed the Eastern front in this game, they decided to focus more on the Soviet politics of the time rather than the soldiers fighting in the war (In a game called Company of Heroes that seems a strange choice). If you had no previous information on the Eastern front, from playing the game you almost would think the Germans were coming to liberate the poor Russians who were forced to fight out of fear of their communist government rather than any act of patriotism or heroism.

From the gunning down of soldiers who were told to advance on an enemy position (the ''blocking units'' end up adding their own gunfire to that of the Germans and I swear they ended up killing more Russians in that scene than the Germans did), to the burning of houses with Russian civilians still inside, I found the whole campaign experience quite bizarre.

This however is vastly off topic and has been talked about to death.

Let's just wait and see what tomorrow brings.

There's a big difference between units/characters in the game using those words and us (modern people talking on a forum) using those words. I'd say that the first is necessary for an accurate representation of the time period whereas the second is just people being rude.

That said, it is a bit odd to enforce what appears to be an Australian/New Zealand/Canadian/American thing on a global forum.

Hmmm I'm very surprised at the results of the poll! Nip is most definitely a racial slur and was used to garner hatred against the Japanese during world war II. Most western countries considered the Japanese to be small, weak and not suitable for soldiering. The British didn't think the Japanese could take Singapore and severely underestimated the Japanese soldiers capabilities. Going so far as to say that perhaps the Japanese could fight Chinese soldiers who were just as terrible as the Japanese but against the might of the British Empire they have no chance.... Well look how Singapore turned out. The United States were shocked when it came down to fighting island to island against nearly always fanatical enemies.

The earliest occurrence of the ethnic slur was probably in the Time magazine of 5 January 1942. The American, British, and Australian entry of the Pacific Ocean theatre of World War II heightened the use of racial slurs against the Japanese, such as jap and nip.

Generals in the south west pacific went so far as to say Nips are just vermin for exterminating.

In fact most of the terms that the Allies used were for the very purpose of instilling hatred of the enemy in the troops, including the term Kraut (a reference to sauerkraut or them sauerkraut eating Germans). It was particularly favoured by the Americans, the British preferred the term Jerry or sometimes Fritz.

That's what a little research has shown me.