Profile of hubewa

Lol. This happened on VCoH as well with corpses flying everywhere.

Was it a bot doing that?

In any case, that was pretty funny

If it is really possible, just a wish list

Soviet:
- Conscripts Mosin firepower increase 150%
- Remove HTD
- Decrease Penal squad cost to 300
- Making T1 and T2 fuel cost slightly cheaper
- Move Sniper to T2, one man or wowan only, HP increase 100%
- Zis-3 move to T3, increase fire rate by 50%, remove barrage, give AP round at vet 1
- T-70 need 60 muni upgrade to become what it is now, accuracy decrease 50% before upgrade
- T-34 (both) -10 fuel cost, slightly increase damage and penetration, RAM cost: 60 muni
- SU-85 cone vision move to Vet 1
- IS-2 cost -20%

Ostheer:
- Gren Kar98 firepower increase 150%, G43 firepower increase 125%
- Riflenade damage to buildings increase
- SdKfz 221 Scout Car move to T1, cost and HP increase 50%
- SdKfz 222 becomes upgrade, enable at Phase 2, accuracy towards infantry buff to PE level cost: 80 muni
- Scharfschütze ablity: cloaking like vCOH, but only activate for 30 seconds, muni cost: 30
- Pioneers now have 30 muni univeral mine
- Panzerfaust now require upgrade: cost 100 manpower/25 fuel, damage increase 100%, only damage engine while target under 50% health
- Panzerscreck upgrade becomes single, cost: 70 muni
- Halftrack HP increase 20%, flamethrower upgrade move to phase 3
- Pak40 can now cloak
- Panzer 4 damage decrease 20%
- Ostwind -15 fuel cost
- Opel Blitz & Strafe nerf
- LeFH 10.5 offmap & onmap, damage and rate of fire increase 50%
- Panzer 4 command tank move to non-doctrine T4
- Tiger cost -20%

- Garrisonable Buildings defence bonus = COH1 level

Now let's talk about each of these changes

I kinda disagree with increasing small arms damage. Grens + Cons work perfectly fine for now. Instead, either decrease the health on Weapon teams or add a damage modifier to weapon teams for small arms fire.

I agree with any changes to Penal squad, mines.

T1,T2 changes I'm not sure about those for now.

Design elements like snipers aren't going to change, so I don't think that would happen.

ZIS-3 to T3 - that would be just like VCoH. Move the T-34 as well to T4 and make T3 cheaper and you now get Motor Pool/Tank Depot kind of thing which I'd like

T-34 cost less 10 fuel - no. There was a reason as to why T-34's fuel cost was increased from 90 to 70 - so that it was less spammable.

Strafe will get nerfed, devs have been talking about that for a long time

Panzerschreck needs to be a 70 or 75 muni purchase. I don't think too many people would disagree with you.

Scharfschütze ablity: If they took out that cloaking system for snipers, they're not going to put it back for Storms. They don't seem to want magicians back in this game.

Halftrack/PaK Changes I agree with.

Ostwind: -15 fuel cost. Kinda agree (considering how much it's not used instead of P4), but you can't solely buff units like that. increase MP by about 20.

IS-2 and Tiger - a little bit iffy, haven't played with them much tbh.

Only a lack if you opt not to choose the howitzer, panzerwerfer or build their recently-buffed mortar, or doctrinal mortar halftrack.

Anyways, make the strafe lock down an area like the soviet one, and just shoot there constantly. As it stands, I can't see that having it follow units that are almost certainly going to made to retreat, to be good for balance or enjoyable. A mostly impervious plane (not many soviet players opt for tier 3, and even so, they are not perfect at shooting them down, considering the Quad costs 90 munis + the mp and fuel for the M5) that can negate the majority of an infantry push completely, is too strong, as Hubewa said, for any amount of munitions.

Whereas if it were akin to the Soviet IL-2 strafe, yes the damage is higher, but it is more area denial than an "I win" button.

Howitzers are too expensive in terms of Manpower so it's usually not an option, Panzerwerfer is an option, but only if you're winning and mortars are very hard to keep alive by endgame. (I know the same can be said about snipers too, but still)

I would completely agree with the 2nd paragraph though, and I've suggested this doctrinal ability to try to stop this silly lockdown mode (as if blizzards weren't enough)

http://www.coh2.org/topic/5356/air-superiority-doctrinal-ability.

Just out of interest, how do the better people play around strafe?

It will follow whatever it deems as its target in the radius it operates, its not like your units stop attacking just because the enemy is retreating....

Fair enough, the main problem is it pinning retreating units which they said they will fix.

It is still way.... too good in killing retreating snipers though. I would pay 120 muni any day to kill one retreating sniper squad - snipers are way too useful and hard to kill endgame considering the lack of German indirect fire at that point.