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Thread: Ostheer - MG42 17 Mar 2015, 13:30 PM Jump back to quoted post17 Mar 2015, 13:07 PMausterlitz ''Ostheer is the most balanced faction imo''.If he didn't mean 'balanced' he could have just said 'best designed'.Balanced means its fine and needs no changes which is not the case.So perhaps his choice of words was off,or perhaps he really think ost is fine.I can't say for sure. Balanced is a word you do not understand and probably won't. You're still persisting in your little personal whiner quote war - as if it would change anything to Relic decision about design and gameplay. You should rename as Victim since anything you touch in this game becomes automatically underpowered that you can't stand a chance vs anybody. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Ostheer - MG42 17 Mar 2015, 10:55 AM Jump back to quoted post17 Mar 2015, 09:50 AMJohnnyB No offense, but you should really play some more ostheer games and play some OKW games before you say that. OKW does not need so much nerf as you imply and Ostheer certainly needs no nerf at all. Don't say Ostheer need a nerf, I say LMG power design can be subject to be tone down and it would impact Ostheer. OKW need to be redesign or nerfed. I'm not saying that badly but, being honest this faction is so strong today that any change in his design would be a nerf in any ways. Simply intensifying the micro required to manage your volks/obers will be a nerf itself. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Ostheer - MG42 17 Mar 2015, 09:19 AM Jump back to quoted post17 Mar 2015, 07:48 AMJohnnyB The only way to keep the pace with ostheer curently (in my view) is to grenspam with as many lmg42 as you can get + 251, a pack + pzgrens with schrecks, get 1-2 PIVs then pump Tigers like hell - they are in pretty bad shape right now though. Red all these walls of text in the thread, everybody is right in a way or another, but it's something wrong with this faction which can't be fixed just by an MG42 buff - which is necessary. I'd say in addition make teching cheaper from fuel point of view and do something with that crippled Tiger, or make units in T4 worthy of investment. Currently for late game what are your options as OST? An intangible T4 with units that you have to wonder if they really deserve to be built - Panthers are eaten alive by 85s IS2s and ISUs, pzwerfers are just Fireworks - and a Tiger call-in which, again, is eaten alive by the same soviet heavy call in mentioned before plus Jacksons. Ostheer used to own the late game and it's normal for a faction to own a moment in game that it should exploit the most. The problem with Ostheer is that it's not owning any moment in game in the current state, while all other factions are. You can replace Ostheer with USF or Sov in your wall of text. Well and USF doesn't have any Call-in solution to skip their T4. The only Faction that hasn't any significant downside is OKW today. Ostheer is the most balanced faction imo, the only nerf they may received is around LMG stats, but this goes for all factions in a raw if Relic decide to touch this statistic. In comparison OKW really need a huge nerf in many areas or a complete redesign (which will probably never occur), Sov and USF need some tweaks to balance their strength and weaknesses. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Your best CoH2 stories17 Mar 2015, 08:43 AM Jump back to quoted post16 Mar 2015, 21:42 PMmomo4sho Nice story, you got a replay for this? I'd love to see someone being able to call in a 2nd Tiger Ace! Ahaha, yes maybe it was not a second Tiger Ace but a Tiger, or maybe it was the other guy who call it. I played that game in June/July last year, so I just remember that I took down 4 Tigers + 1 panther and for sure one was an Ace. And no, no more replay for that In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Your best CoH2 stories16 Mar 2015, 16:34 PM I was new in the game, couple of days after WFA release, I haven't play COH2 since 6 months. 2vs2 Moskow winter random match. I play really badly, my random mate not better and our opponents not much better. At some point me and my allied are completely repelled to our base, almost no more infantry, same goes for the Axis but they have a panther, 2 tigers and a Tiger Ace on the field. I manage to save a Jackson from destruction and repair next to my base (top right) The guy in front of me decide to push to finish me but at the same time I manage to call a second Jackson. With a bit of micro I take the panther down and start to charge on the map with my two jacksons, my two last units on the field at this time. I find a 1st tiger and charge it, I pass on his rear and couple of shots later kill it. (don't ask me how honestly) Time to repair, my two Jacksons are vet2. I continue the roaming, 2 Jacksons still unsupported and found the 2nd tiger, same method, charge and pass in his rear, with vet2 the tiger cannot do much, that was impressive. Almost when the tiger is down, the tiger Ace show up and I do the same... charge pass on his rear and BAM, Tiger Ace down, two Jacksons vet3. If I remember well, he directly called a 2nd Tiger Ace but it didn't change anything, I took it with the 2 Jacksons. we finally won the game After this match, I thought the Jackson was a beast... na, couple of other games later I understood my opponents were just worst than me In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Ostheer - MG42 15 Mar 2015, 10:58 AM 1- Having the MG42 at 300mp would put you behind in term of opening. Waiting 60mp more to build you next unit + the fact your MG will take more time to be build is an incredible opportunity for your opponent to crush you early game. 2- 300mp MG would do nothing more vs Hoora and smoke, and making you potentially lose a 300mp squad instead of 240 , with less squads around to support it, it would probably occur more than once. That again a huge nerf for Ostheer. 3- The impact of this change would be enormous at low level where people does not know how to flank but at mid-high level, apart from what I expose above, I don't see any benefices. A powerful unit, for sure, but lonely vs 3 rifles / 3 cons. The Mg42 is doing pretty well its job actually, for a 240mp unit. On early stage with the appropriate support it denies an area. The clear difference between this Coh1 and Coh2 is that you need to micro it more, you cannot just put it somewhere to negate any infantry. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: The Great US Strategy Thread13 Mar 2015, 09:35 AM Variant of your early strat (depend of the map) RE Rilfe RE WC51 You're going to be waaaay faster into pushing. In fact, your WC51 comes 2-3 second after your second RE. So you put the squad in it from your base. It give you a strong numerical advantage and also let you repair faster the WC51. If you succeed your push you can build a fast and forward position and hold it for quite a while before they come back with AT capabilities to take it down. In: US Forces Strategies
Thread: 4v4, close air support or strafing doctrine12 Mar 2015, 13:32 PM Jump back to quoted post11 Mar 2015, 00:42 AMPorygon L2M could be the truest and simplest for your problem. (1) I find Katyusha does not need the so called move forward to shoot more accurate theory, their saturation of fire is more than enough. (2) When you see smoke, you don't move, it's your problem. That's why I said L2M. Move one inch away then you are safe (assume those are Close Air Support skillplanes). And how on earth you fire your Katy in axis LOS? Losing tanks to CAS anti-tank Stuka is like losing infantry to off map arty, it's your fault, not the ability. It has smoke, a very specific warning that units shouting LUFTWAFFE or AIRSTRIKE, and it arrived like 3 seconds after the smoke. (3) I never have problems against COH2 Volksspam, and I find myself using pure Volksspam is like throwing games away. They may be durable but they can't shoot shit before vet. Conclusion, ~~L2P~~ L2M. Being so aggressive is part of your nature when you give advices to someone playing Ally faction? your feeling Allied players = brainless ennemis is taking over your rationality, you should react. Most of what you say is interesting but in fact the part where you are aggressive is out of frame since you do not have experience in 4vs4. 2vs2 blobs and 4vs4 blobs aren't at the same level and you don't need vetted volks to make a good use of Shrek when you have 5 squads in an A-move blob at 8min mark, if you hit with half of them in two salves before you retreat, GG you already kill anything that is not medium and almost kill anything that is medium. Anyway, Allied players need to adapt in 4vs4, this is true, strategies based on heavy arty or kat spam is on the back foot today with the CAS doctrine being so common. What still works is the usual call-in meta IS2/T34 85 and being really aggressive early game. There is also maybe enough room to see the ISU coming back since you'll see less heavies (no tigers, no elephant). Doing a bit of cross-posting but Allied mechanized doctrine / fast jeep + Soviet T1 / fast M3 has a really good potential to counter the basic 3 okw kubel start + 1 ostheer MG / bunker. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: COH2 sold 4 million units in 201411 Mar 2015, 10:40 AM Like 99% of games which haven't been design first for multiplayer. In: Lobby
Thread: ostheer CAS overperforming.11 Mar 2015, 10:37 AM This game hasn't been design for Air strategies... At the beginning it was for reco + strafing/bombing runs working like a faster arty. It has always been a problem to balance the strafing run till they finally implement a system taking account covers. But Relic, the only company that doesn't learn from his past experiences, decided to do it again and convert the strafing run into an AT strafing run, more powerful, no cover, ripe out all kind of units etc... In: COH2 Balance