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Could somebody explain to me how the new target tables work?
As far as I remember, vCoH used them to determine every damage from one unit to any other.
But in CoH2 it has to be some kind of different, or am I wrong?

The short answer is, we don't know.

Relic stated that they added the infrastructure for damage tables to the game, but that doesn't mean much until they actually use them. The only things in there currently would be the PTRS damage vs. vehicles and infantry, satchel damage vs. buildings and vs. other targets, etc.

Most likely this was done to balance Brit emplacements, which had an odd OP/UP duality with the old system.

We will probably see come September 3rd or the pre-release.

At 26.66666666667 it's DPS is only 1 less than that of a ZiS gun. So is the ZiS gun a sniper instead of an Anti-tank gun?

DPS is only a small part of a unit. An actual sniper deals an effective 80 dmg to infantry units every shot, so does that mean that counts as DPS? Burst damage cannot be thought of purely as DPS, since burst damage gives your enemy a fairly large window to do whatever they want before they get hit again.

Anyways, I'm out of this thread. Peace guys!

The .50 is a perfectly viable MG piece. Sure, it has bugs, but as a USF player I am used to having units made unviable and broken because of those.

The issue with USF, since Relic thinks that they are a glasscannon faction that has to be micro-heavy as a result , is that you need to use your support weapons in a much more supported and deliberatly supported manner than any other faction does. USF mgs have less survivability than the mgs of any other faction (for obvious reasons), which forces you to play to your utmost to keep it alive.

The way Cookiez and I use our MGs is simple. We have RE squads spam Tank traps in wide "V's," then place mgs behind the furthest tank traps (with still enough range to hit VPs). This allows us to use the "closer" green cover to hold our rifle squads and RE squads, who spot for our mgs and tank the damage. It is these squads that also stop the point from being neutralized. Add 1 - 2 Pak Howies, and our little defense is finished.

With these tactics, you also need to micro constantly to avoid stukas and the like. But what else is new ? We have never lost a game without having bled the enemy VPs to below 150, and we typically lose because of a combination of bad RNG, shitty maps (Rhezev Ice on middle VP anyone?), or just general fatigue. Of course there is also the issue of dropping, but that is up to Relic.

Just remember that defense should only be a screen behind which to prepare offenses. Whilst one player holds the line, the other should be poking across the map.

Well shit, looks like I rambled about defenses in general, not the .50. Just use the .50 like a better Maxim. Rely on overlocking fields of fire and support to defend a position, and make use of it's fairly good suppression to make your infantry squads do shit lategame. Don't expect it to do what an MG42 can. The MG42 is ridiculously overperforming (same DPS as an M2 at long range, with higher suppression, lower cost, and incindiary rounds). The M2HB is merely performing.

It's all about the Pak40. No matter what faction you are, the Pak has the best combination of penetration and ROF. TWP is just the icing on the cake.

I used to think like you, but then I learned that RE are not meant to be early game infantry. They are meant to be your lategame infantry.

No, i'm not even joking. RE with bars are 100x more efficient than riflemen lategame, and also have the ability to build their own green cover and defenses when they're bored. I sigh with relief when I lose rifle squads in the lategame, because it means that it is time to que up 2 RE quads.

In the early game, they are useful to hold the line from buildings with their lives, defend flanks with wire and tank traps, harass cuttoffs, and clear buildings (FPs).