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Thread: Infantry Blobs13 Jul 2014, 22:54 PM Jump back to quoted post13 Jul 2014, 22:38 PMBrachiaraidos It's not nearly the same. An ISU with its ass backwards is incapable of fighting back and the PaK can kill it. Ergo, it's a terrible mistake, and will cost you all dem units. What I'm saying is that running many infantry straight into an HMG should also be a terrible mistake. Hardly. Splitting the blob is is decent play. If your opponent blobs, and you play well, the blob will melt and you'll win because better play. Simple relationship. If you try fight a blob one unit at a time you played even more horribly then the blobber and are punished for it. Just earlier you said that it's fine for the blob to walk over the MG with minimal losses - this is the point of contention. If the blobbing is splitting, attacking from the side, or from around a corner... that's different. No one is saying that a lone MG is good play, or that it should work well. It's a point about the mechanics of the game which have moved in a distinctly blobby direction since WF came out. Personally, I think that if you have one or two squads with an HMG, and a fucknormous blob walks directly into the HMG, the blob should either retreat or get killed ... and as of right now, if you have the right balance of PFusiliers in that blob, the blob might be just fine. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Infantry Blobs13 Jul 2014, 22:22 PM Jump back to quoted post13 Jul 2014, 16:03 PMBrachiaraidos That is because all of your examples are armour which functions on a fundamentally different level. Unlike an ISU, no infantry needs to worry about pathing or the lack of a turret, do they? Nor sinking on ice, for that matter. Yes, armor functions differently, that's my point - it's a much more tactical and interesting part of the game than the infantry part, where "spend MOAR = win MOAR" holds more true than it does for armor. Using better tactics to win battles without needing greater spending is what makes this game interesting. Otherwise it is inferior to other RTS games like Starcraft which do resource management better. Bad micro does not in and of itself have any penalties at all. Just because your opponent is doing derpy things does not mean the game is going to reach out and slap him for it. That's your responsibility. Not true for the other examples I mentioned - if an Elefant backs up on to an AT gun, you don't even need to be playing for it to die. Walking so many people into an HMG is a mistake of equal magnitude yet isn't punished ... If a blob kills a single unsupported MG that's a worse decision on your part than the blobbing was. In the current implementation, yes, but this is circular logic. What I'm suggesting is that walking 30 dudes straight into a HMG is a far worse blunder than leaving an HMG by itself. I'm fine with the blob killing or retreating the HMG, but the blob should at least lose a number of models for doing something stupid. If you want blobs to be punished, set up a few MG's and something to explode and actually do it yourself, jesus. Whereas needing to temporarily split up the blob and flank is "too much work." LOL. Also: Glacier, there's no way that what you're talking about is happening. There must be Obersoldaten or something hidden in that blob, as others have already mentioned. If you post a replay we could pick it apart and figure out what is going on. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: PaK43 needs more Range.13 Jul 2014, 15:52 PM Ah, in that case, I rescind my assertion that is was extinct, and will look into experimenting with it. Perhaps it is okay as is, especially versus commanders without globals that insta gib it (which I feel is more often the case now with many people playing US forces). In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Infantry Blobs13 Jul 2014, 15:48 PM Jump back to quoted post13 Jul 2014, 10:52 AMBrachiaraidos No. The point is that the only way to properly counter an enemy force is to have at least a *comparable* investment into that fight. If my opponent has nothing but one MG on the point, spending a few minutes delicately arranging my entire army just to kill it is wasted time. I have enough firepower to wipe it out, may as well punch it in the face, get capping and move on. But so long as your force is at least half of your opponent's, a well micored force will always counter a blob. Two overlapping MG's and a little supporting infantry is a big ol' middle finger to infantry blobs all day every day. That's not the case for armor combat, though. A single P4 or even a puma can defeat an ISU if the ISU is used poorly enough. Likewise, if multiple elefants are reversed towards a ZiS gun, they'll get destroyed. You can lose a Tiger Ace to a lowly mortar if you're dicking around on the ice. IMO walking 30 dudes directly into a machine gun is the infantry equivalent of these mistakes but isn't punished in the same way. Also, it's not so much that the MG should necessarily win that engagement, more that such poor tactics as rushing it head on with no flanking should carry some penalty, like heavy losses. If the blob needed to send one squad to distract it, and then the other four around to flank, that would be fine. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: PaK43 needs more Range.13 Jul 2014, 06:17 AM Jump back to quoted post12 Jul 2014, 09:34 AMFrikadelleXXL Why are you lowies flaming me? Y u no show your own playercard? I can tell you. You are some Rank 2000++ bobs trolling on forums but you can't play at all Pak 43 in 3vs3 buff would totally destroy armor combat in late game! But the game is balanced for 1 v 1 and 2 v 2, where the PAK43 is currently extinct, from what I've seen. It's not something that people build in competitive play. Might be wrong about that, I should probably do more research on that. Isn't 3 v 3 and 4 v 4 supposed to be a mess anyway? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Infantry Blobs13 Jul 2014, 06:13 AM Jump back to quoted post13 Jul 2014, 03:16 AMArclyte oh man 1400 manpower beat my 240 mp MG pls halp relic So if you've spent a lot more mp than your opponent, you should win regardless of tactics? It's one thing if they flank the MG but it's stupid when they just walk right into it and kill it anyway. Blob spent MOAR, blob should win. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: M10: Does it need buffs?8 Jul 2014, 00:53 AM It'd go a long way if it just didn't auto target infantry. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: WWII games similiar to CoH8 Jul 2014, 00:52 AM Lately I've been enjoying CoH 2 so much that it's piqued my interest in other WW2 RTS games. Right now I'm looking at either Theater of War or Men of War Assault Squad, but can't figure out which to try. They both have bad reviews so no help there (not that I have much stock in reviews). Have any of you fine gents tried these, and if so, what did you think? I guess what I'm looking for is something like CoH 2 but with more of a "realism" rather than balance emphasis, preferrably also with more of a macro rather than micro focus. In: Other Games
Thread: OKW players need help vs buildings7 Jul 2014, 19:59 PM In that case, though, you're trying to take down two units with one unit, which is always difficult. If they have a second unit taking down your Sturmpioners you should also use another unit to take down that unit. In: OKW Strategies
Thread: We must force Relic's hand7 Jul 2014, 03:06 AM I think he means you're letting it get to you too much. Relic already knows some people are annoyed with the system, and I doubt they'd care if you got some extra stuff by running a bot farm that slowly fries your computer by making it render company of heroes for excessive periods of time. In: Lobby