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Thread: Your thought on USF early game3 May 2018, 13:50 PM Jump back to quoted post2 May 2018, 22:24 PMOutsider_Sidaroth You really need to keep your forces grouped up vs OKW, specially around your fuel and cutoff until you see where the Sturmpioneers are, once forced back it's all about using cover and holding onto as much ground as you can, as OKW can really fall off if they make no gains, as your Rifles outscale his Volksgrenadiers. USF has no problem early vs Wehrmacht, unless a Sniper 1st build is well played, but then you can go for resources and rush LT+M20 to deal with it. VS OKW the early game may be resolved with the removal of the flamnade so early in the game. I can't count how many time I had the upper hand and the flamnade just break it like -oh oh oh, no more cover for you guys! VS Ostheer, the sum of little advantages Oshteer has is what make it determinant if well used. Suppression, better vision and same number of squad than you make it impossible to flank if having the same number of squad one of yours is under the HMG fire. Now I agree some maps are more Ostheer friendly than other in that matter. One other point is if you decide to go Lieutenant, you not going to build more than 3 riflemen squad due to the high upkeep price while with the Otheer is just going heavy T1, Ostheer can pump 1 HMG, 4 Gren and then another HMG and have around the same time than your Lieutenant. In: US Forces Strategies
Thread: Future balance tweaks for usf30 Apr 2018, 06:34 AM Jump back to quoted post30 Apr 2018, 02:52 AMMittens Honestly the Sherman needs a small buff as it stands now that the P4 has had such a drastic increase in performance. I don't however find USF indirect fire lacking at close range due to the mortar barrage being rly good but I would say the long range pak howi is pretty bad due to its cool-down, scatter, 3 man crew, and the fact that most of its medium to close range is worthless. Another thing that rly bugs me about usf is the core Riflemen squad's 5th man seeming to drop off a drop of a hat meaning you lose DPS while closing in on long range units like volks. It makes it extremely stressful and hard to get around the range limitations of USF early on or until you get bars but its such a long stretch that you endlessly fight and up hill battle due to the manpower drain. Its not the Pz4 that is too good, it is the position you are when it hits the field that makes the difference. To explain myself, before the last patch the Pz4 was the "game changing unit for Ostheer", and I'm only looking at a balance match for this statement. Today the Pz4 isn't anymore this milestone unit it was before because Oshteer has such a far better early game vs USF that's the moment the Pz4 is out the USF player is already struggling vs Ostheer heavy infantry play. This mean Oshteer have better access to fuel and retain more map presence early game increasing their fuel income = faster Pz4 As USF to counter heavy infantry play you need to invest in weapon rack, ambulance and probably a light vehicle which put even further the moment you can have a sherman when the Ostheer play can skip T2 because those USF light vehicles have been so much nerfed that they're not a significant threat... Just compare the effectiveness of the Flak-trak vs M15 if you have any doubt about it. It's silly because as USF you need those vehicles to reduce the manpower bleed or to counter the sniper but at the same time they do not pose a serious threat and even if, a pak is usually enough to reduce even more their capacity to slow down the Oshteer player. So the Pz4 comes simply earlier, check the last time you had a sherman before a Pz4 (here again in a balanced matchup), in my case it was probably last patch. So you (and I before start thinking about it a while ago) think the problem is the Pz4 when it is not. USF problem is a serious lack of powerness early game due to the modder will to make all factions equal at this stage, which is great on the paper, but at the same time USF is still not having all the tools to compete with those new rules. USF is still dependant on having early game advantage and still need to pay extra for that. But today you must pay those extra to be at your opponent level which is stupid which lead you to have your medium far later than your opponent. hell you may get your sherman after OKW pz4 hits the field... USF need a serious overall design revamp. Will it happen, I don't know. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Sniper Role Overhaul29 Apr 2018, 21:19 PM Jump back to quoted post29 Apr 2018, 19:38 PMthedarkarmadillo Iirc pathfinders crit at 40% health or something like that meaning the opportunity to sniper models is less and USF is a faction that any problems you have arw better solved by throwing another rifle squad on the blob over diversifying your units. Why add a unit that can model snipe and little else when you can have a squad you can attack move with the rest and snare and throw grenades and and and and.... You will find any unit that uses a different tactic than brute force will fall by the way side for usf. hum actually a Pathfinder does bring something Rifle can't, vision. But I agree they are lacklust but this has more to do with the Faction itself than the unit. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Future balance tweaks for usf29 Apr 2018, 21:15 PM Jump back to quoted post29 Apr 2018, 19:53 PMElSlayer Being on recieving end of Stuka Dive Bomb have taught me that abilites with wipe potential without red smoke is complete bullshit and their existence makes this game only worse. BUT! I'm always up for making other side taste their own medicine, so I agree with your suggestion about removing red smoke and making this game shittier. The ends justifies the means. Lieutenant arty barrage has nothing to do with Stuka dive bomb I had more in head something to match any other on field rocket artillery... In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Future balance tweaks for usf29 Apr 2018, 18:17 PM Lol major artillery OP... Players have plainty of time to remove their units from the area before the first shell land. No smoke and adding a sound effect would make it more like regular onfield artillery. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Future balance tweaks for usf29 Apr 2018, 11:01 AM Jump back to quoted post29 Apr 2018, 01:53 AMFiresparks the major artillery is the USF's analog of the rocket artillery for the okw/wehr/sov, but several limitation restrict its usefulness. Major artillery range should be increased to 80m (with vet bonus), and be callable into FOW with scatter penalty. And while the major artillery is a munition ability, the USF can compensate by building munition cache. Two munition cache cost around the same as a katyusha anyway. Or keep the same range but remove red smoke warning, and add a sound warning. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Sniper Role Overhaul29 Apr 2018, 10:59 AM Jump back to quoted post29 Apr 2018, 10:45 AMzarok47 Do we need snipers in coh? To me, the answer is no. But Reco squad such OKW Jaegers or USF Pathinders have their place in the gameplay. The only thing I would keep from the proposal is making sniper only being able to snipe models below a certain % of life. The suppression proposal smell OP, remembering me old kubel. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: What's with the raks stealth?27 Apr 2018, 07:17 AM What is annoying is it cannot be countered by its natural counter, infantry. Just hit retreat button. maybe give it the max range and camo but remove retreat button. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Jackson nerf26 Apr 2018, 16:15 PM Jump back to quoted post26 Apr 2018, 15:35 PMLago Fairly sure he meant make M10 nondoc without locking the M36 behind a commander. Replacing the Jackson with the Wolverine would leave you with exactly the same problem as before: one tank destroyer having to fill all the vehicular AT needs of the faction. Nop I was right. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Jackson nerf26 Apr 2018, 15:26 PM So USF would be the only faction who wouldn't stock option to fight tiger/KT and such. Amazing design. In: COH2 Balance