Profile of Hon3ynuts

Sturmpanther heres one for you

I believe one player Sismonti is using a maphack based on the gameplay and a review of the replay.
He continually targets my (Hon3ynuts) Units in the fog of war using artillery despite having no vision or any knowledge whatsoever that they are there, primarily with pack howitzers

Instances include
4:00 - Targets mine sturmpioneeer laid that he did not see left of bot CP
4:15 - targets volks on Strat point north of south vp
4:20 - camera looks at sturmpioneers left of south VP in an odd position hiding behind bushes no vision
4:40 - camera looks at volks not in vision on south munitions then bombards them
9:45 -targets Raketen north of south VP with no vision
10:00 targets 2 volk squads camping cover with no vison near south vp
11:45 targets raketen and mg nearby OKW med hq
13:13 watches Okw volks on the munitions point no vision
13:20-13:40 Bombards camoflageded JLI left of bottom cutoff that he can't see.

I'm sure there are more instances but I'm not sure what the burden of proof is or what verification process there is but these are just the first things i noticed going through a bit of the replay.

Snipers aren't very strong at the moment. They have been toned down significantly over time.

1. Camo does not work in combat
2. Bonus acc for light vehicles (specific vehicles)
3. Bonus detect range for LV (specific vehicles)
4. 360 mp and 9 popcap is a rather large investment
5. Everybody has access to some light vehicle as an asymetrical counter to the slow and vulnerable sniper

I do agree they are not the best designed unit b/c they ignore cover but I think that right now they are not particularly strong.

The most effective way to avoid this strategy is to produce vehicles that have more than 640 hp and require more than 4 hits (or 2 volleys) to kill.
You probably also need to use infantry to effectively screen/scout for tanks.

The Katusha may have some RNG involved, but over the long term it can be quite efffective. Usually you should try to fire on units that are revealed, relatively close to the katusha and are under fire from small arms or vehiceles in order to maximize damage.

I do agree there isn't really a good counter for USF outside of doctrines with indirect fire. I find myself obligated to pick the calliope doctrine as it does provide a hard counter to strategies such as this which might be otherwise very hard to deal with.

Another effective counter can be smoke, to force attack ground, or WP which prevents firing and slows. The raketen is quite strong offensively but still suffers from losing 2+ models at a time to explosives if the gunners are targeted.

Raketens are quite strong but also quite vulnerable still. Probably the biggest differentiation is if you are able coordinate your units to overwhelm them at once and subsequently destroy the guns when they do get decrewed. If you are inflicting 290, 580, 870 manpower damage on your opponent surely you will gain a big advantage, especially if you can do it without losing a vehicle

I don't know

Cheat mode is an actual game with a mod that lets you pick commander abilities

Its only gonna be different if you pick the wrong ability in the menu when there are multiple versions or units

He lost 2 matches in quite quick order against Asiamint and didn't play the third match.

Heard from someone that Prodi said he didn't really want to play in the tournament, but that people expected it from him. Don't know the reason why though.

He started College like 2 months ago and wanted to get more involved rather than play tons of coh2, pretty normal stuff. Hes still playing just less than the summer when he got unbanned and streamed for like 8 strait hours