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Hopefully my post makes sense. I feel like this game is fairly well balanced which is remarkable given how much variety in units there is to each faction. A lot of balance issues are result of people abusing certain units in numbers and blobs. Everyone talks about ways to Nerf/buff other units but to take maxims for example they are quite strong at suppressing already and have great survivability and extreme low teinforcement cost. This leads to spam due to weakness of core SU infantry. Rather than lowering squad size or making it weaker at suppressing units simply cap at 3 or 4. SU gets to keep a cheap and survivable and mobile fire base while not being able to get away with putting a maxim in every dreaming building and creating a defensive hedgehog that only multiple mortars can handle in early game.

This cap concept can apply in many areas and help fine tune balance at extremes without wreaking havoc on core gameplay.

The replays are in Documents/My Games/Company of Heroes 2/playback

Find it there and use the "upload a replay" button when you hover over the replay section button at the top of this site.

I want to see what actually went wrong.

ok, so I posted it to the replay section...not sure how to post it straight to this thread...it was Storm troopers not PGs, sorry about that but watch at 50:20 and 53:15, the first mark are point blank shots and the second mark are long range shots....compared to zook vs P4 and stug i'm a little miffed about this...granted the E8 is their best tank but schrecks should penetrate more often and do more damage when deflected at close range at least and maybe give pak some nerf at E8 to compensate...just feels so sketchy.

Yes PG with Schreck are not worth it vs US unless you go assault or mechanized doc which allows you to put Schrek PGs in 250 HT then flank tanks quickly while PGs can fire out the top.

lately i have been using command tanks and pak gun combos to get T4 out and panther ASAP and they seem better than Tigers. Tiger isn't as fast, doesn't kill tanks as well and if you are going to build multiple during a game then the fuel disparity drops as each panther is 170 fuel plus tech cost and tiger is I believe 230...do wish they would lower the tech cost or make tiger require T3 or T4 building to make more variation..same thing with soviet heavy call in tanks.

Before I ask my question, I don't know how to upload replays (also can't find them, used to be so easy to find them on COH1)...been a huge fan of the community since game replay days on COH 1 and I have finally transitioned over to COH2 a couple months ago. Once I know how to upload my replay you will see what I am talking about.

I got PG with schrecks to help augment my AT defense but boy did they fail big time. My most memorable moment was firing at point blank range at front of Sherman E8 armor with a sliver of health and the projectile just pinging off and doing NO damage...I always thought that schreks would at least score a lesser level of damage if penetration didn't occur? Another shot fired againt at point blank on a low health E8 did about 5% damage....PGs are already so precarious with the low squad size and ease of dropping schrecks to the enemy with one unlucky HE round/howitzer shot, etc....but shouldn't they at least do some real damage vs E8? It felt like the old COH1 with bazookas being fired from long range vs Tiger/KT where even if you did connect the damage would be slim to none.

Kappaisgod and I ended up winning still and I had a good score and kill rate because I adjusted tactics but I really want to know if there is something I need to do better with my PGs vs E8 other than try to get at the rear armor.