Profile of ShiftyShadow

I love it when people say that MGs don't work - whenever I use them they're generally fine with only occasional mishaps. I find it funny that people think the MG-42 should be able to single-handed stop 4 times it's own MP cost worth of enemies. MG-34, MG-42 and the M2HB .50 all work fine for me.

Only MG that sucks right now is the Maxim, IMO. One-shotted by LMG Grens with a rifle nade, and basically extinct vs OKW Stuka zu Fuss.

I think the Maxim is great for Soviets due to its 6 men squad and instant suppression kicking in with the first burst. I always laugh when maxim spamming because Ostheer have to retreat immediately or really have to have an overwhelming force. Smart players will find better solutions anyway, but suppression wise it seems more effective.

The MG42 is actually only good with vet and vs USF it is in fact useless due to the riflemen's smoke grenades. No idea what Relic's designers where smoking when they decided to give such an early game inf unit this magic "anti mg button" right from start. USF has free reign vs. Ostheer because of this and it also encourages the blobbing mechanic of USF.

My humble opinion what needs to be improved to make Ostheer viable again:

- slightly increase suppression of MG42 or decrease USF / Soviet grenade throwing range when under mg fire
- buff Scout Car slighty by increasing either its armour or damage output but also increase its price in return
- slightly reduce price for Pzgrens
- reduce tech costs for Ostheer or increase tech costs for all other factions
- buff Panzerwerfer because compared to Katyusha or Stuka this thing is a fucking joke, having in mind its teching and unit cost


And last but not least - and this applies to most Soviet commanders, too:

- rework their old doctrines: leFH, Relief Infantry, Camouflage and some other abilities are under-performing or too expensive to use / build and there are too many overlapping commanders anyway

Generally speaking I find Ostheer to be most fun to play with. Combined arms are more thrilling to use and on paper the units and abilities all seem cool. I do not see any overpowered Ostheer unit and Relic should really try to bring all other factions closer to Ostheer units' performance.

Yes. The Angry Bears do have an agenda. We are tired of our primary game mode (4's and 3's) being ignored by Relic and the community at large. I formed the Angry Bears during the small weapons profiles introduction patch. You want to talk balanced game? I lived through 'the balance' and created the largest, most active CoH2 clan.

In regards to the B-4 discussion it is following the common posting trend of the forum right now. "Indirect fire unit XXX killed my unit please nerf" threads are the new Kublewagon threads.

• It is war. Units die.
  
• The B4 operates on gold ammo. At 600 MP, +time to Vet 1, +Gold ammo, +The limitless counters I consider this unit balanced.
  
• A players laziness to change and adapt to the battlefield conditions does not mean a unit is OP.
  
• See a Recon plane? Move your expensive units.
  

As per your replay request, get out. No map vetos? No use of Stuka bombs? You must not have much experience in the 4's game mode. Our normal 4's Axis kit always includes Air superiority or any another of the doctrines with a off map artillery ability.

Get used to seeing our signatures most often. We are large. We are Bears and we are very angry.

(PS: Priests > ML-20 > B4 > LeFH)

We all have lived "through" the balance and things have gotten much better, I guess we can at least agree on that. What I don't understand is what your clan's history or your status in that clan has to do with this thread. If you would like to flatter your ego, please do that in your own forums.

As has been pointed out in many posts already, the B-4 vet bonuses and its recharge time are far from balanced. Your "suggestions" can only be regarded as trolling in its purest form. With those kind of weak arguments we would still have the original Tiger Ace, Soviet Industry or ISU-152.

The fact that you are referring to your clan's 4vs4 commander kits just shows me that you are evading the challenge here. Try 2vs2 without the aforementioned Stuka dive bomb perk and let us know how you handled the equally skilled Allied team. For that you would have to play Axis for a change though and leave your comfortable 3v3 or 4vs4 experience.

I think it's pretty clear by now that the "Angy Bears" have a certain agenda in mind with these posts, and may I add, that agenda is obviously not a a balanced game.

I get it guys, it's just common human behaviour that you are not willing to give up your one beloved abusive tool that gives you the edge when playing allies. We all like having an advantage and take the path of least resistance.

However, you should have a look at the bigger picture, which is trying to improve the game. There are still a lot of things broken in COH2, be it volks / ober blobs, constant squad wipes or the subject of this thread, the B-4.

Please do us all a favour though and come to terms with your ridiculous attempts trying to declare this unit as balanced. Proposing vetoing a map, constantly moving all units around or having to choose a doctrine with stuka dive bomb is a serious case of trolling. I hope you were joking with that, right?

And yes, please provide us with a proper replay of you guys playing as axis vs. skilled allied opponents using B-4. No map veto, no stuka dive bomb. Go ahead and surprise this community. At the moment you are just making fools out of yourselves.

Relic is selling the single player campaign for 39,99 €. You've got to be fucking kidding me...

Damn, Relic really killed the game for Axis against Soviets, especially OKW trucks go down in just two barrages by the Katyusha - so basically in less than two minutes.

Relic should go back to leaving arty in the early COH2 stage, meaning that they were supporting tools and not these weapons of doom that they are right now. Though this really only applies to Katyusha and Stuka zu Fuss.

I hated the late game in COH1 as it always ended in arty spam and it seems we are going back to that bullshit.

I for one think Stuka and especially Katyusha should be nerfed, of course cost could be lowered a bit.