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Thread: 76mm Sherman and M4C's AP shell needs a small buff I think2 Apr 2022, 19:32 PM The main problems with the old 76 mm were: - powerspike of 2x76mm timed attack with Combined arms - because of the RoF of the AP shell it wasn't necessary at all to switch to the AT shell, because the lower penetration chance vs heavy tanks was equated but the RoF. In the end AP shell had similar DPS vs heavy armored targets and higher DPS vs all other targets including infantry of course They should have just removed Combined Arms and replaced it with an offmap ability. With the nerf to AP RoF 76mm got worse vs infantry and lightly armored targets. This should have been compensated by other means like buffing AOE of AP shell. AT shell could have 50 range to make it more appealing in addition. That way 76mm would have stayed unique and maybe more of an alternative to the Jackson/M4A3 combo. In the end 76mm is at the same tier as Jackson, only 20 fuel between them. If major fuel cost would have been split in two parts somehow and Jackson would come later than all Sherman variants as a heavy tank counter, the 76mm would see way more action without another single buff. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Conscript PTRS AT-grenade ability2 Apr 2022, 18:48 PM Jump back to quoted post2 Apr 2022, 17:23 PMSkysTheLimit You also still have hoorah which also helps with seeing setting up the ability. But camo + hold fire is how you really use it, that way the tanks get close enough Even with camo its hard to use the ability in time if the tank drives through. After all its mainly a snare, just with more damage. So you will need other AT sources either way. The main purpose for its use is the motor damage if you ask me. Camo and Hoorah helps to get into range but the tank will still just move backwards and the ability will be completely canceled. It only works vs bad/distracted players or tanks that fuck up their movement path while kiting. The first grenade should be thrown always at least. As another option the upgrade could give the multiple throw as an alternative ability and conserve the original AT grenade ability as a different one. PTRS cons already suffer from beeing locked out from 7th man upgrade so they will stay to be more expensive to reinforce in the late game. I can see it working in your AT team if other players help to pin down the tank for a moment (for example tulips) but that shouldn't be the situation the ability is balanced around. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Conscript PTRS AT-grenade ability2 Apr 2022, 13:48 PM If you throw an AT-grenade or AT-satchel or shoot a panzerfaust the snare will hit the vehicle/tank always as long as it was in the range off the ability as you activated it. The projectile will surpass any obstacles and go as far as it has to. So a snare always hits once activated in range. Only PTRS conscripts doing weird. I noticed that as I tested it ingame. Once you upgrade PTRS your cons will throw an AT-grenade per squad member alive instead of only one. Not all members at once, there is a delay. The weird thing: The whole animation thing has to be finished before the vehicle/tank leaves the range of the grenade. If the vehicle/tank leaves the range while the animation is ongoing the squad interrupts the throw and starts chasing the vehicle/tank to come into range again. But that will never happen of course. This makes the ability pretty useless versus a half decent player which will keep his vehicles/tanks moving. The only strength of this commander should be the AT department since it comes without any good AI abilities or AI elite infantry. But somehow this fails. With AT-grenades not connecting, nondoctrinal penals with PTRS and AT-satchel seem to be the better choice, their PTRS are better vs infantry on top of it (accuracy). In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Do you like the command panzer?4 Feb 2022, 18:24 PM Jump back to quoted post4 Feb 2022, 17:46 PMmrgame2 i just tried the cp4 + panther + brumbar build in 4v4 random not ideal for 2 panthers in 4v4 imo. it is costly and lacks vision. i dont know i keep getting hit by allies TD. i wont mind replace the elefant with spotting scopes! Without scouting its not as good for sure. You need vetted 222, forward positioned pios, a camouflaged sniper on hold fire or something like that. Using the plane which comes with the doctrine all the time is too expensive for sure. Or you need a teammate which has the hindsight to povide los with a unit like infrared HT. Allied TDs need that vision with their own faction tools too. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Do you like the command panzer?4 Feb 2022, 17:35 PM Jump back to quoted post4 Feb 2022, 17:02 PMHannibal It'll work if you have an arranged team on voice chat though, otherwise the reaction time will be too long and you'll probably need to pull your Panther out anyway, even if it can take about ~12 shots accounting for penetration. Good guess. Taking in account penetration chance and accuracy of ATG (4% miss chance at long range for ZIS and 6pdr) a ZIS or 6pdr needs to shot 13-14 times on average. That are about 35 seconds for double ZIS and about 30 seconds for double 6pdr (with the initial shoot of both ATGs taking no time). That leaves some time to react. Using panzer tactican while remaining hulled down would prolong this furher since not all ground attacks will hit. So I do think there should be some time to communicate with teammates that are listening and reacting. Of course there are random mates where all communication is sucked up by a black hole. I do think USF has the biggest problem with Command PzIV / hull down combo since they have no ATGs which aren't a munition sink. USF only has the Jackson as a reliable AT source and that one will loose badly vs Panther with hull down / command PzIV aura. You can pretty effectively shut down USF tanks at certain areas of the map that way. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Do you like the command panzer?4 Feb 2022, 16:46 PM Jump back to quoted post4 Feb 2022, 14:03 PMKatukov regardless you also get elefant in the same doctrine, which can use hulldown and get upwards of 100 range (the kv-2, for comparison, has only ~70 effective range) Its a range of 87,5 actually (70 range +25%). But either way I do think the Elephant should have been excluded from the hull down range upgrade. On 3v3/4vs4 laney maps it is alreay close to op with 70 range on other maps and smaller game modes sometimes so useless that the extra range doesn't change anything at all. It is especially idiotic that you can destroy 17pdr emplacements without any effort head-on. 17pdr emplacements are situational useful at best already. But looking at the state of the game I don't think this will change anymore. Edit: Sorry for going offtopic with Elephant hull down. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Do you like the command panzer?4 Feb 2022, 13:29 PM Jump back to quoted post4 Feb 2022, 12:13 PMBasedSecretary You just gave me an idea for my next OST game cheers mate have a good weekend take care. You are welcome If the game draws out into the super late game and you have the fuel, don't forget to hull down your Elephant. You get a 87,5 range monster. Don't worry too much about the cone of the fixed cannon, it gets pretty wide in the end. ...and the elephant really can take 10 shots. 1040:[160x0.75x0.9] = 9,63 hits It helps vs. artillery shells too (200 damage goes down to 135). Edit: Panther normally needs 5 direct artillery hits to be destroyed, with hull down + damage reduction it goes up to 8, since 7x135 is only 945 damage. Barely a few hitpoints below its total health. Depending on the situation you can sit out a barrage if needed. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Do you like the command panzer?4 Feb 2022, 13:18 PM Jump back to quoted post4 Feb 2022, 12:36 PMHannibal Small correction though, Panther can survive "only" 9 penetrating hits with all bonuses combined. Strong thing though is that you don't need the Command P4 close by all the time. You could wait until your Panther has eaten 7 shots, then drive it close and jump up to 9 shots. The only drawback is that this build takes quite a while to get going. You basically need the Panther, Command P4 and at least a PWerfer for fencing off ATGs, better yet a Brummbar. Potentially you need to build a normal P4 for the mid game, which would put the game at the 30 min mark until you have everything together. On the positive side, you can create the build from a standard, unspecialized Ostheer one by just adding a Command P4 once the normal P4 dies. Yeah you are right. I miscalculated because I took the formula 960:[160x0.65] = 9,23 hits The correct one is 960:[160x0.75x0.9] = 8,89 hits Thanks for correction. Either way it feels like crazy survivability ingame. I played with it and I had to play against it. If you don't loose your first 1-2 tanks you will have your command PzIV and 1-2 Panther plus Pzwerfer/Brummbar at some point thanks to resource inflation. At that point you are super strong. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Do you like the command panzer?4 Feb 2022, 11:59 AM Jump back to quoted post2 Feb 2022, 14:23 PMJulianSnow In 4v4 games with fortified armor doctrine. Set the command P4 up so it covers the fuel (or a VP). Then put it in hull down. Extra range to keep enemy infantry off the point and the reduced received damage gets your mortar(s) or Pwerfer enough time to kill enemy AT-guns. It is like he said. Command PzIV is really strong in 4vs4 in Fortified doctrine. While the 10% damage reduction let sustain your Panther one hit more while mobile it can take two more 160 damage hits because of command P4 damage reduction if hulled down. Panther: 6 penetrating hits Panther within command PzIV aura: 7 penetrating hits Panther hulled down: 8 penetrating hits Panther hulled down and within command PzIV aura: 10 penetrating hits 62,5 range + 260 armor + the equivalent of something more than 1440hp. This is total madness. If targeted by artillery/offmap you can quickly reposition because there is no delay when going out of hull down. In addition you have Panzer Tactican and the high speed of Panther if you are in need to draw back. You can't have a unit with more survivability. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: 105mm Sherman and Brummbar should be less durable1 Dec 2021, 13:08 PM Yeah it sometimes is really hard to kill and it kills pretty much any squad or AT-Gun with two shots. Still you can fight it off with TDs and supporting AT tools as long as you are not behind in fuel. The biggest problem with Brummbar is that it doesn't let you come back if you are behind in fuel. There are no real effective counter meassures without TDs. You just can't fight it somehow cost efficient with meds, ATGs and handheld AT weaponary. An early rushed Brummbar with an axis team leading in fuel can be a nail to your coffin. In: COH2 Balance