Profile of Grumpy

These buildings collapse way too easily, plus Steppes is a huge map.

A single Ost mortar knocks down any of those buildings in 2-3 minutes. Plus all of the misses are going to hit near troops that are trying to heal. Bundle grenades take down any of those buildings immediately at the cost of 45 muni's. I can post a replay if needed.

Daspoulos and friends may get away with it only because they're top 10 players going against randoms. However, I'd bet he's never used FHQ on Steppes because location he shows for the FHQ isn't where the people that use FHQ put it, and makes no sense because it cedes both fuels to the axis. The comments about easily taking the cutoff are far-fetched. The "easy" move to the fuel cutoff is halfway across the map, directly in front of the axis base, and through two choke points.

The normal TAB start is to go three to island, then hit mid, so in the map that Daspoulos drew up, the three axis would have both fuels and hit fhq troops from side while the fourth hits fhq with mortar or ISG.

An ambulance works much better than FHQ on Steppes. Now if some genius wants to start a thread claiming that ambulances are OP then by all means go ahead.

Hi there, it's going to be a short one:

First problem
Do you guys think that sturmpios are taking to long to reinforce? I mean I am not bothered by their cost, or reinforcement costs, the prices are entitled, but the reinforcement time is to godam long, your beards are growing over your keyboards until you will have the squad replenished. Don't you think their reinforcement time need some speeding? Just a bit....

Second problem
I don't understand why in the T2 building's case (for me the medic building) the player needs to buy the upgrade for a FRP (forward retreat point), then, when the FRP upgrade is done, to come again and establish the FRP at T2 by issuing a command. I mean why are you buying that upgrade if not for establishing a FRP? So the FRP must be selected automatically when FRP upgrade is done. Only if you need to cancel it, you should do it manualy.

Opinions?

Sturmpios reinforce slow, but so do most other elite infantry like Shocks. Forcing the T2 to pay for the upgrade was Relic's way of balancing with USF since for the same utility, USF had to buy both ambulance and Major. The USF gets the advantage that the units are mobile but they're also fragile and eat up pop cap.

Since I started playing 1v1's, I don't like the resource penalty because it seems like volks are only a match for cons and lose to rifles one on one, so resources are always a problem at the start of the game. I've played games with nearly equal map control where someone went Guard Motor and was pulling in 2x T34/85's at almost the same rate that I was making JP4's. Now that you mention changes, I'd like to be able to build caches.

I'm intrigued on how FHQ works on Steppes...

Usually it works like shit. I sometimes play with someone who likes to use it, even on Steppes. He likes to make the buildings between the base and the island into FHQ, if we've pushed through the island so that the FHQ is near their base. Unfortunately, the wood buildings go down fast. Sure, we keep them off the island a little longer but in the end, we end up with one player using only non-doctrinal Soviets so our win rate for long games isn't good. Having decent tanks would be much better than FHQ on steppes.

Sometimes he'll put one in the buildings on the top, which doesn't accomplish anything besides pissing the rest of our team off.

It seems like the games where we used it and won, we would've won anyway, but the losses were made worse by everything else in the commander being garbage.

I just faced something new. Did a 4v4 on steppes. One USF player had 50 cal. jeeps, 2 of them in the first 2 minutes of the game. Togheter with two russian trucks they pushed us off entirely within the frist 5 minutes.

Ehm how is this balanced? Relic and their 0cp abilities are just so stupid, I can't believe anyone can actually approve such appalling ideas. The same situation back when the mechanised tiger doctrine came out with the grenadiers with mp40s. They came at 0cp and raped anything. These jeeps do the damn same, riflesquads in them as well...

By any chance, did your team start on the north side, one of your team put a med truck just north of the island, behind the trees but still close to the water, another put a truck by the buildings on the north side, two axis players get voted off the island, followed by the stuff in the mid and finally top, and one of your team complain about someone either being afk or not helping? What you described sounds a lot like a game that some friends and I played, just from a different perspective.

Lol when has blobbing and spam not been apart of the coh series? This post is so dramatic.

I played Pong not long after it came out. It was probably one of the last video games that didn't have spam and had there been a way, it would have been spammed also.