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Thread: Are Snipers able to target individual models?6 Aug 2015, 13:53 PM Are they? Came up against a blobber on Ango who was using the Sturm Officer to make his blobs extra cheesey. I had a sniper at the time and had some success sniping the officer to force the whole blob to retreat. Is it possible to have a sniper 'Hold Fire' and manually target models within a squad or does it just auto-fire on whatever model is the closest? In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Recommended War Films 6 Aug 2015, 11:19 AM How has no one mentioned "The Pianist" yet? Love that movie. There's a movie I saw ages ago that was set in a SS academy. It was German but I can't remember the name of it. Anyone know? In: The Library
Thread: A Tale of a Blobber and Lend Lease4 Aug 2015, 13:53 PM For some unusual (sometimes sloppy) non-meta gameplay against the crutch-meta gameplay. In: Replays
Thread: UKF - infantry units3 Aug 2015, 05:22 AM Jump back to quoted post2 Aug 2015, 22:06 PMAlexzandvar Like I'm not kidding. The most effective doctrines against British are Ostruppen and mobile defense. Yeah when I saw how expensive the Brits initial four-man squads are I immediately knew that Osttruppen with snipers would wreck them. Mobile Defense would only add some extra spice to the annihilation. I guess Royal Engie spam might be a thing then? In: Lobby
Thread: ML-20 and barraging the enemy base need a nerf. 28 Jul 2015, 12:14 PM Jump back to quoted post28 Jul 2015, 11:55 AMAustralian Magic It's quite obvious why OKW does not have 2click counter against ML-20. Remind me, how many recon+stuka doctrines we had the the beggining for OST? Only Jaeger Armor I belive. Point is, it's hard to make counter agasint XX soviets doctrines, when you have only 6. It's not a problem with Ostheer cause they can adapt to any Soviets doctrines and vice versa. With only 6 doctrines, OKW cannot adapt to all Soviets doctrines. Solution? Wait for new commanders (easiest way without killing ML again + $$$) This was discussed. The way the doctrine system works now, if your opponent does not give any clear indications of commander choice until the ML-20 is built, and you have already chosen a doctrine without recon + Stuka, you are screwed. All the Soviet player has to do is turtle in their base, hold a VP and literally just barrage your base to death. It's not fun, it's not interesting and it definitely does not take skill. Like I for one don't want to always choose Jaeger Armor(or whatever has the recon/stuka combo) if I see a ML-20 commander "just in case" they select it. It's BS. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: ML-20 and barraging the enemy base need a nerf. 28 Jul 2015, 11:34 AM Honestly, I think the issue by and large is the 'cheesebombing' of the enemy base and OKW's lack of a natural counter. OKW trucks in a forward position is the PLAYER'S CHOICE. I have no sympathy if they choose to build it out of the HQ sector and it gets rekt by the ML-20. What you could do in vCoH is irrelevant. Like mentioned, we have a completely different doctrine system now. Let's talk about NOW instead of THEN hey? Anyway here's my suggestion: 1)Make howitzers unable to target the enemy HQ sector. OKW players then face the dilemma of setting trucks in forward positions or safely in HQ sector. This removes the cheesebombing of enemy bases, because its just so damn cheap. 2)Give OKW some sort of off-map arty or something. Or alternatively give the Stuka zu Fuss a better chance of actually destroying the ML-20 itself. 100 fuel for OKW is no small and amount and even then the Stuka is going to have to get reasonably close to barrage the ML-20. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: The patch only made a new meta that's even more boring28 Jul 2015, 11:14 AM Jump back to quoted post28 Jul 2015, 05:46 AMBeefSurge Once quad and ml20 are nerfed and USF t0 given mortar and cleaned around the edges (buggy commanders, slow af nades, shitty zooks, etc) games meta will be amazing. +1. But I don't think the M5 quad needs a nerf. It's more of an Ost T2 timing issue. Reducing BP1 by 10 fuel and T2 by 5 fuel would make a world of difference in that regard. Don't have recon + Stuka? You're screwed against the ML-20 cheesebombing your base to death in 1v1. The turtle is real. And of course OKW don't have a hard-counter for it apart from the YOLO bumrush. ML-20 is just too much in it's current iteration. Completely agree about USF. All of these changes would make the game pretty darn fun if they were implemented! In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: ML-20 and barraging the enemy base need a nerf. 26 Jul 2015, 10:32 AM Jump back to quoted post25 Jul 2015, 19:33 PMBlackart You can easily counter ML-20 with Close Air Support commander or leFH 18. I like the change because arty was useless before the patch. Longer barrage is good idea because you can deny points. The leFH is a soft counter at best. Vet 1 counter-barrage can work but its unlikely to actually destroy the ML-20 outright. I don't like using CAS. I've started using Jaeger Armour. I'm having success with it when any ML-20s are fielded, thanks to Katitof's suggestion. Ele is good because it shuts down heavies and TD's and ML-20s are toast thanks to the Stuka bomb. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: ML-20 and barraging the enemy base need a nerf. 24 Jul 2015, 16:26 PM Jump back to quoted post24 Jul 2015, 16:10 PMElSlayer 1) What means "screwed"? You've picked doctrine earlier to gain advantage of it. He picks doctine later as a reaction to your pick - maybe he realized, that you will have hard time to counter it. 2) 200 damage will wipe squads just as well as 300 damage and would be enough to take out that medic bunker. Not sure what problem you trying to address with that change proposal. 3) It's not like ML-20 is free. It is fucking 600 MP. It is like Windustry manpower penalty, except you can't utilize its bonuses early to get snowball rolling, because of 8 CP requirement. You should take advantage of that too. Barraging HQ is a chep trick, I agree with that. There isn't much counterplay for such tactics. But let's not pretend that opponent does not pay well for such possibility. Relic definitely should do something with that without nerfing stationary artillery pieces to oblivion, because... let's be honest - the reason is in small map size. On 4v4 maps you can't bombard enemy HQs from your base sector. Hell, you can do this only from like middle of map which is super risky position for on-map artillery. 1) I wouldn't say it was early. Probably 10-12 minutes in. When does the ML-20 become available? Like 8 CP? It's not like it arrives super late at 12CP or anything, the game was still pretty even a that stage. 2) Or even reduce the damage to that of the LeFH and make it fire the same amount of rounds? Another solution would be to stop howitzers being able to barrage the HQ sector. I'd be fine with that. 3) So I'm supposed to steamroll my Soviet opponent before 8 CP, where I'm probably fielding one PzIV if I'm lucky? Rightio... Don't get me wrong, I think the howitzer changes are awesome. But being able to barrage the opponent's HQ sector and just turtle your base meanwhile is very lame. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: ML-20 and barraging the enemy base need a nerf. 24 Jul 2015, 15:42 PM I'm not one to cry "OP OP!" but this last patch has made Soviets a bit er...stronk? Like the Ost vs USF matchup is retarded, while the Ost vs Soviet matchup is an uphill struggle for Ost the entire time. You hardly get a reprieve. @Katitof: What doctrine would you recommend that has the recon + Stuka combo apart from CAS? In: COH2 Gameplay