As discussed in several topics it seems that the idea of a British faction in CoH2 is favoured by many players.
I thought about it and these are my first suggestions:
Make a new expansion with the following content:
The Battle for Afrika
New factions:
Allies: British Forces
Axis: Deutsches Afrikakorps
Include a single player campaign that contains the following:
The fight for Africa as seen by
BOTH(!!)
factions.
At the beginning start with the Afrikakorps advancing more and more.
Always play 1 or 2 missions from the one side and then switch to the other side.
After the Afrikakorps won the first missions play a mission where you have to defeat the German advance to a certain position. Then after 5-6 missions the tides turn and the Germans are more and more in defense.
The campaign ends with the Afrikakorps leaving the continent.
But only with the fact that there is a
PLAYABLE CAMPAIGN AS GERMANS
the players will go crazy.
Relic, why don't you understand this?
Sure heroising the Germans in a WWII game is always some kind of a risky thing but at least most Germans even see Rommel as a hero until today because he represented the true soldier without war crimes and so one. The fight between Montgommery and Rommel was game of cat and mouse.
GERMAN AFRIKAKORPS
The Afrikakorps could contain a hq of tents that can be moved around just like the Afrikakorps did while advancing in Afrika at first. It is not as defensive as other HQs but can act as a forward point. It can be very strong but is very risky on the other hand. It still has to be connected to the starting sector to get any ressources (to show the German problem of the supplies while fighting the British).
In addition the Base can be upgraded with MGs for an amount of fuel just like CoHs defensive doctrine.
T0: Pioneers, Kettenkrad, Opel Blitz T1: Grenadier, Scout (Weak in Battle but huge line of sight and can cloak in cover), MG34, Mortar T2: Pak 40, SdKfz 231 (A bit like the Puma/Scout Car in CoH1), Fallschirmjäger T3: Panzer III, Stug IV, Nebelwerfer T4: StuH42, Tiger I, Goliath Mine
About the Afrikakorps units:
BRITISH FORCES
The British would get a standard HQ (why always make something complicated)?
They can move up in tiers like the Ostheer but they can switch their 'status' to defensive and 'offensive'.
While on offensive they can call in other units and build other things by their pioneers. In addition their damage is a bit stronger while fighting on ENEMY territory. Same thing on defensive but they have stronger DEFENSIVE stats in OWN territories while that's the case.
Switching between defensive and offensive states takes some time (about 60 - 120 seconds) and costs a bit of ressources so you have to make decisions.
T0: Pioneers T1: Jeep, Tommies, Lieutenant (Grants some offensive stats while in OFFENSIVE mode) T2: Bren Carrier (A bit better than the one from CoH1), PaK, Sniper (Better than Ostheer one but A SINGLE MAN!), Captain (Same as Lieutenant but Defensive) T3: Valentine, Crusader Mk I, Wolverine, [Pioneers can built 6 Punder AT Guns] T4: Churchill, Sherman Firefly
About the British units:
Red = Units that can only be built while in offensive mode. Blue = Units that can only be built while in defensive mode.
So what do you think?
Feel free to comment and discuss!
NO ! PLEASE ! NOT another german faction... It's so boring lads ! The game should be renamed: Germany VS The Rest of The World !!!
This is the second time I see this commander, first time as a drop and the second time now in the load out of one of my random 3v3 mates. I asked the guy what he thought about it, but he didn't say much. I think this commander can wreck any okw player that goes early ht/puma/p2. I am not sure I like that. Plus with so many commanders it just seems you dont have enough slots for all of those commanders anymore.
I have the commander. I used but is not so good because you dont have nothing against infantry. The cons are weak, you get blasted by sturmpio or grens with LMG's. So, it's a bad commander in the present state of the game (blobbing). If Relic will change the gameplay to something that inquires more strategy it will prove to be a good commander (but far from beeing an OP commander).
Invite me whenever I'm on Steam –– I think I have 600+ hours, and I don't think that I suck! If you think otherwise, I bet my charming personality can win you over.
We are 2 decent players with 300+ hours of COH 2. We are looking 1 or 2 players for 3v3 4v4 just for fun. We want the players to have 300+ hours and a decent gameplay. If you are interested contact me. See u on the battlefield !!!
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