Profile of Kothre

The forward retreat point cooldowns are counterproductive and I hate them, especially the inability to toggle it off. Terrible, terrible idea. Please revert. I can live with the FRPs coming later, but not this cooldown BS.

Also, I'm going to suggest a new change that really needs to happen. The British Royal Artillery ability should require line of sight to work. I'm so sick and tired of endless flares and anvil arty on my medbay and howitzer that has literally zero counter. I cannot believe this hasn't be fixed in all the time the British have been out.

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The OP hinted at it. I went looking for a thread detailing future changes but I can't find one. I hope that means the OP is wrong.

I still stand by that people have suggested far too many retarded radical changes on the forum, though. Though I will say that the past couple balance patches have been mostly good, but I can't help but bite my nails every time I look through balance threads.

I think everyone should just get them. They're a risk/reward feature since you can easily arty them, and they help to alleviate the bore of retreating on massive maps like General Mud.

Imo emplacements just need to be restricted to one of each type (one mortar pit, one bofors, one 17 pounder) unless the player has the advanced emplacement regiment. This way the brit player can still lockdown one vp/a good part of the map and make a proper army to contest the other two vp's.

I actually disagree with this. I think their survivability needs to be tweaked, and the Bofors needs to cost more fuel. That alone should be enough to fix it in my opinion. With survivability, that especially means adjusting the doctrinal abilities that buff emplacements.

British emplacements, particularly the Bofors, are so cancerous in large team games. They're somewhat manageable on their own or in smaller games, but as soon as you pick the doctrine(s) with the extra emplacement health and/or auto-repair, multiple well-supported emplacements become f'ing invincible until you get tanks. It turns areas of the map into free Allied territory until the Axis tank hordes start rolling out.

Stukas do nothing for some reason. Le.IGs and mortars are okay if they don't just keep auto-repairing it and repairing with anvil engies. I've had games where my teammate and I collectively had 5 light arty pieces and we still couldn't kill one Bofors among several because of the repair + brace (not every game is that bad, it depends on how actively they repair).

If Brits push you off a fuel point early game for about a minute and set up a Bofors and a pit, it's essentially a no-go zone for the rest of the game until tanks come out. Emplacements need some serious rework. It's such a braindead strategy that works way too well for how little effort it takes.

I remember a specific 2v2 (and they're nowhere near as bad in 2v2 as in 4v4) where I had a Stuka and a howitzer + off-maps bombarding 2 mortar pits, a Bofors, and a 17-pounder all lined up perfectly for Stukas every second they were off cooldown and I still couldn't kill them because of the cancerous emplacement doctrine. It took 30+ minutes into the game before even a single pit died. It was ridiculous. I even fired a stolen AVRE shot at the 17-pounder when it had ~1/3 health, and it braced, survived, then repaired to full health in less than a minute. We did win that match, but had that been a 4v4 where Brits could do that shit on 2 VPs, it would have been a different story.

Absolutely broken. Anybody defending this is just wrong. I don't want to hear people's theorycrafting about how I need to l2p. It feels broken even when I do this shit. I'm not saying I can never beat it. I'm not even saying it has literally zero counter-play. I'm saying it takes too little skill for such a high payoff, and that's a problem. A strategy doesn't need to be "literally invincible" in order to be too strong. About the only early game strategy I find really counters emplacement spam is the mortar halftrack w/ incendiary rounds.