Profile of Brachiaraidos

A hard counter to the Japanese empire, weak to suicide trucks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuUR95-o_fw#t=26

Those are almost certainly BT series tanks, not T-26 at all, god. IMMERSION RUINED.

As many have said, it is a T-26 soviet light tank. Very early war, and a development of the Vickers 6-Ton British light tank from 1932.

Not much of a surprise, as British tank designs were pretty much the template to which most Interwar tanks were built. Which is a shame, because whilst they seemed great, a lot of them were crap.

T-26 was a lovely little thing though. Good armour for the beginning of the war, but as all early war tank designs, soon outclassed by AT guns and evolving military theory.


It's things like the lack of light tanks and early designs that really make me miss the fact that there's no option for Early War combat. So much of the war glossed over in lieu of designs churned out for the last ten minutes, given center stage as if they were the most important thing in all of WWII

Coincidentally the same timeframe that makes German armored combat actually good...

Well. Halftracks in general are pretty varied, but I do not in any way count the american AA halftrack as the same type of unit. No reinforcement, no transport; it's just a gun platform.

So let's split this into two:

Comparing the OKW flacktrack and USF AAtrack, both are pretty damn powerful against infantry and unarmored vehicles. Both have their uses, flacktrack seriously needs less environment exploding though (unless that got fixed already).

The reinforcement halftracks come in 3 flavors.

M5 has the usual flamerteam, quad mount AA and reinforcement options. It's power is offset heavily by requiring T3, so pumas can have been on field for a half dozen minutes by the time you get one. They're rarely, if ever, a game changing unit: heavy AT is available before they arrive. Great support, though, and indispensable for keeping Russian unit counts nice and high on the front. Also, their only AA choice, but frankly it's crap at that.

The M3 has no health and is generally worthless compared to any other halftrack at all. Avoid.

Sdkfz has very early arrival, allowing front line reinforcing for the Ost that can be devastating to try and withstand in the first few minutes after it arrives. The bigger the map, the more map control you can brute force with this thing, and it never stops being useful given Ost low model counts. Flamer upgrade comes pretty late, but it's seriously powerful. Sadly, you normally have more things to spend munitions on that will be on the front line. If you want something to clear garrisons or guard your back from infantry, it's hella good, though. Saved many an AT gun from a flanking squad.



The 250 is in a category of its own, and is kinda meh. Transporting squads is nice, though. Has uses.

Guards+DP28, Fear propaganda,

Excuse me one moment.

I simply cannot even, I am afraid.

I'll be over there not evening for the foreseeable future.

In the nicest possible way, point not found. In any mature RTS or FPS you approach it as a noob at your peril. I played some Titanfall recently as a noob and went into it utterly expecting to get my arse re-bored then handed to me sans lube.

Which is what happened.

So people stepping into CoH2 MP, I suspect, are doing so knowing full well they are getting a taste of what the competition is like once they stick at it.

The problem comes when you move from large scale team battle FPS with regular re-spawns and no real player power schism- just player quality.

In something like Counter Strike, you can be a massive noob and die every game. But you'll always respawn, always have a gun, and you can start every round fresh. It regularly resets the playing field so even the noobs can learn from the last life and try better next time.

In CoH2, the number of players is 8 max. In CoH2, a noob that fudges his play is stuck with a crippled army that can't fight on an equal field any more because of veterancy and resources. In CoH2, your noob mistake does not last a mere five minutes. You're stuck with your errors having cost you the game in the first five minutes but making you sit through a hopeless struggle for a further 20.

And I certainly feel bad when I know my opponent isn't skilled, is trying, but no longer has a chance. It's dull for me and it's frustrating for them.

Only more players and tighter MM spread can really fix that. Something we can't magic out of nowhere, sadly.