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Thread: Binding doctrinal units to tech26 Mar 2021, 20:04 PM Jump back to quoted post26 Mar 2021, 18:29 PMKieselberg Valentin is no call in anymore. Oh thanks, guess I didn't play Royal artillery for a long time. Edit: Just looked it up, it is buildable at HQ now, but still bound to 5 CPs. Even if I teched all the way up to Hammer/Amboss it is still locked if CP requirement is not met. That should be changed to Company Command Post as an alternative unlock at least. Jump back to quoted post26 Mar 2021, 18:29 PMKieselberg I dont see, why stug e are supposed to be tied to tech. To have same timing across all game modes. Because of ressource inflation in 3vs3 and 4vs4 units unlocked by 4 or more CPs just come too late in the bigger game modes to be of any greater relevance. This has no big impact on the heavy tanks and immobile/mobile artillery pieces since they are somehow the end tech. But light and medium vehicles/tanks call-ins are heavily affected by the shift in timing. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Binding doctrinal units to tech26 Mar 2021, 14:12 PM Doctrinal call-ins left that should be buildable and bound to tech with upcoming commander rework: Ostheer: StuG III Ausf. E. -> Support Armor Corps (T3 building) USF Greyhound -> HQ after double officer or officer + appropiate officer tech UKF Valentine -> at Platoon Command Post after AEC/Bofors tech or at Company Command Post Land Mattress -> Company Command Post Late game artillery, heavy tanks and Command Tanks should remain untouched. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: M3 - Replacement for Medical Supplies?25 Mar 2021, 01:50 AM Before the buff to halftrack transports which granted healing to transported troops M3 somehow had some versatility in comparison to M5 with its Medical Supplies ability. Now M5 seems to be better in every way. - Quad upgrade - more than double armor - Vet1 ability (Overdrive) seems to be better, because it gives received acc (M5 -25% and troops inside -50%) instead of M3 speed ability (Step on it), so that handheld AT should miss you more often and passengers are better protected While M5 cost 70 MP more, fuel and population are the same. Shouldn't the M3 either cost less FU than M5 and maybe take one population less or get somehow some versatility in comparison to M5 with a new ability? At the cheat mod you can spawn a M3 version with a repair ability for example. That way the M5 Call-in at Soviet Land-Lease could get exchanged for M3 and Soviet would gain a new HT, instead of the one they get at T3 anyway. Would be a little more interesting. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: General USF Commander overhaul23 Mar 2021, 00:06 AM Jump back to quoted post22 Mar 2021, 21:51 PMApplejack Its not a meme ability. It can destroy a Stuka or Werfer provided it does not move (call it in fast). Combined with recon on the commander, you basically have a 205 muni rocket arty killer provided they don't notice it being called in. You said it yourself. It is a 205 MU rocket arty killer if the opponent doesn't pay attention... If he pays attention you wasted that munition completely. The recon plane should be a big wake up call to move the rocket artillery asap, thats always the first target next to howitzers (which don't afford any action, since you can't do nothing to stop an offmap destroying it). You get a lot more out of other offmap abilities. You can call in a JU-Loiter into a tank battle to do a guaranted ton of damage to tanks for 200 MU or kill a howitzer for sure at 200 MU + 60 MU for recon. Between this top tier offmaps and the P-47 strafing run there are a lot of other offmap attacks that are performing better. The damage of the ability is very close to the centre. Move that rocket artillery piece just a bit and it will survive. Its the last useful strafe ability. AT strafes and suppression strafes are way better: - AT strafes are better because you can hinder tanks to move out of the way by snaring, stuning or blocking them (your skill can make them work) - suppression strafes are better becasue they suppress in a large area left/right around the strafe (the area of effect can make them work) Performance of simple AI/light vehicle strafes are depended on RNG and your opponent beeing distracted or paying attention. Bad ability design if you ask me. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: General USF Commander overhaul22 Mar 2021, 20:28 PM Jump back to quoted post22 Mar 2021, 18:20 PMVipper ... So coming back from all these numbers to the core. It just was about adding a medium option thas has more AT capability than M4A3 and more AI than Jackson. I proposed the 76mm because it would fill this gap while beeing inferior at AI compared to M4A3 and AT compared to Jackson. That was the point as Stormjäger claimed 76mm would be op (especially with Calliope) which lead to the discussion about stats and numbers. My goal was to show that 76mm hasn't universal shells, it just has a really strong RoF (noone questioned that). If a Sherman has universal rounds right from the start it is the E8, because it has a decent penetration. The core problem of USF T4 tank roster is that there is nothing to choose from. Alternate medium tanks are only in one-out-of-three Companies and that are mainly less used Companies. So it basically comes down to M4A3+M36 every game. I still do think 76mm would be a good alternative, it neither up nor op, just a fine tank with its ups and downs. It would lead to some decision makng finally. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: General USF Commander overhaul22 Mar 2021, 17:12 PM Jump back to quoted post22 Mar 2021, 16:03 PMVipper I don't see how. Just to be clear, Stormjäger always talked about the „universal“ shell which would be way to strong. HVAP wasn’t part of the discussion, it would get clearly the highest reduction in RoF with vet and radio net but wouldn’t have any AI value at all. “Universal shell” with radio net + full vetted (stacked): E8: -1,76 seconds 76mm: -1,59 seconds M4A3: -1,62 seconds I said in my original post E8 gets the most out of it, while 76mm and M4A3 get out pretty even. Whats wrong about that? If you subtract 10% and then 20% (M4A3/E8) or 30% (for 76mm) that are the numbers I do get. But the comparison was never between E8 and 76mm, this was just an example to show that longer reload can result in getting more reduction in absolute numbers with less reload reduction bonus. It was about the combo of Jackson+M4A3 versus multiple 76mm, since Stormjäger claimed they would be op with "universal" shells especially in combination with Calliope. Jump back to quoted post22 Mar 2021, 16:03 PMVipper 76mm has one of the fastest reload with AP and in "absolute" numbers one of the highest gains with HVAP. Never questioned that. Jump back to quoted post22 Mar 2021, 16:03 PMVipper 76mm has very good base stat and scale better than other Shermans. Imo vet 3 76mm with radio net are borderline broken. Overall E8 is the best Sherman (if we leave aside dozer blade upgrade for M4A3). Its higher survivability (armor+hp) results in having the highest chance to get to vet3 actually and stay there. Jump back to quoted post22 Mar 2021, 16:03 PMVipper One has also to keep in mind that the reload bonus is vet 2 for 76mm and vet 3 Easy8. (unless there is bug in radio net resulting to different bonus in game) Shermans/E8 get +30% accuracy at vet2 which isn't as bad as you want to tell us. In addition I wish you good luck by stop move a "blob" of vet3 76mm which have a firerate about 3 seconds. Staggering movement with total micro control, sounds totally realistic if you ask me. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: General USF Commander overhaul22 Mar 2021, 13:51 PM Jump back to quoted post22 Mar 2021, 08:30 AMVipper 76mm has vet bonuses that come from the T-34/76 and that are superior to other Shermans. At vet 3 the ROF of of the Sherman is 4.89 while of the 76mm Sherman 3.26! . Add to that radio net and even "combined arm" for more fun. I wouldn't say they are far superior, because the 76mm gets no +30% accuracy bonus like the other Sherman variants. This is especially important while beeing on the move. About radio net and vet reload bonus: The other Shermans with lower RoF profit more from radio net 10% less reload in numbers because they have a longer reload. 76mm 30% reload vet bonus is pretty much the same reload reduction as 20% reload vet bonus at E8 in numbers. When adding radio net, the E8 has the highest reload reduction in seconds of all Shermans. The MA43 and the 76mm come out quite even if you combine the boni of vet and radio net. Combined Arms: Onlx exists at Mechanized, which has the combination of 76mm and Combined arms right now too, and at Heavy Cavalary. But at Heavy Cavalary it affects all other tanks like Jackson, Pershing or M4A3 in the same way. It is a straight buff to all units. Since it isn't exclusively to 76mm I don't see the point here. Its fun of course but what is has to do with making the 76mm available nondoc? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: General USF Commander overhaul22 Mar 2021, 01:14 AM Jump back to quoted post22 Mar 2021, 00:13 AMT.R. Stormjäger There is no argument, both are overpowered, both Dozers are OP and should be nerfed and 76mm stock would be OP. It is an argument as long as the facts leading to the argument exist. Okay lets pretend it doesn't exist, so that you don't have to apologize for beeing rude without reason. Being a top30 player and having a greater range comes with the responsibility to be more of a paragon, but that are just my two cents as a lower ranked player. So back to topic: I do think that Calliope + 76mm "blobs" will be countered by JPIV, STuG or Panther play, while Jackson doesn't get countered by them. So there is a downside to the AI value of the 76mm (if compared to M36). So yeah to conclude, thats the thing about decision making, all choices come with a downside. But atm there is just no decison making at USF nondoc T4 tank roster. You need AI, go for M4A3, you need AT go for Jackson... Jump back to quoted post21 Mar 2021, 15:13 PMT.R. Stormjäger The thing is, 76mm have universal shells, unlike the 75mm, and have crazy rof with radio net. Both is not true. Radio net isn't as potent as you said because it is bugged and gives the bonus only once. Yeah I do think a blob of vet1 76mm Shermans could be really strong if it would work correctly but that would be true for normal Shermans or E8s too. Their shells aren't really more universal than the shells of a normal M4A3 as you said. Their shells are identically versus infantry and just have some penetration more. Same penetration at close distance, 10 penetration more at medium distance and 20 at long distance. At long, where the difference is the greatest, this is 66% penetration in comparison to 55% of M4A3 versus a regular Ostheer PZIV. Your shells will still bounce on a regulary basis. The biggest difference is that they shoot about 1,5 seconds faster of course. The shells itself are pretty similar, so either both are universal or none of them. If you want to go for high penetration you have to switch like the M4A3 switches for HE, but your main cannon loose its AI value by doing so and the switch takes roughly about 6 seconds if I remind correctly. A 76mm is more expensive of course to make up for better RoF and slightly better penetration with standard shell. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: General USF Commander overhaul21 Mar 2021, 20:49 PM Jump back to quoted post21 Mar 2021, 20:35 PMT.R. Stormjäger As if Dozer Shermans aren't completely stupid. For fuck's sake, what are these garbage arguments? First of all I don't got rude at your comments. There is just no reason for it while discussing a point. Secondly I opposed your argument with a reference to an actual ingame situation that is in no way less powerful. It seems you don't like to get refuted. Is that the reason for my argument beeing garbage? Maybe we try to be polite and just discuss things. Thx. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: General USF Commander overhaul21 Mar 2021, 20:14 PM Seems this got discussed quite emotionally. Usually if some players say it is op as hell and other say this thing absolutely sucks it is well balanced ;-) The basic idea was to add some tactical decision making to USF tank roster. Something that is missing atm. Jump back to quoted post21 Mar 2021, 14:09 PMT.R. Stormjäger Understand the faction before you change everything about it please. Just to be clear I don't think that Sherman + Jackson isn't a working combination. It is just a bit lazy faction design to have one tank in roster with heavy AI damage and another one which counters pretty every tank at axis roster. This should have been changed long ago. The only way to do this is to add a tank which takes a part of both tanks. 76mm has less AI but more AT than M4A3 Sherman, while still being far behind at AT capabilites of Jackson. It would allow to go for different tactics. Right now it is one Sherman into one Jackson in pretty every game. In multiplayer there are multiple Jacksons usually. Jump back to quoted post21 Mar 2021, 14:09 PMT.R. Stormjäger ah yes, stock 76mm blobs with CalliOP will be very healthy for the game. Take Urban assault company, build a M4A3 with upgraded 50.cal and dozer blade plus the option to fire WP shells and Smoke. Some would say that is the best Sherman in the game. For the late game add a Jackson, a Calliope and Rangers with triple super bazooka. Thats the game right now. Do you think this is somehow less powerful than combining 76mm Shermans with Calliope? I personally don't think so. In my proposal I removed the dozer blade and WP shell from Urban Assault and moved it to E8 commander. Jump back to quoted post21 Mar 2021, 17:48 PMProtos Angelus Like Jaeger said, it would make for a poor stock tank in a sense that it would be "too" good. Right now the Sherman's biggest weakness is the shell switch. If you want to have a good AI cannon, you absolutely need the HE shell and if you want to be able to penetrate tanks from the front, close up, you need penetrating shells. It all balances out. You could say exactly the same about 76mm. If you want to make some AI damage you need the standard shell, if you want to go for the armored target you want to have the armor piercing one which does pretty no AI damage at all. It the same system with the difference that both shells have a shift from AI to AT. But as I said I don't think that USF tank roster ist too powerful or too weak, it is just a completely boring and predictable design. Add the fact that only three of nine Companies have a medium tank alternative. I personally like tactical decisions, but USF tank roster doesn't allow for it. In: COH2 Balance