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Thread: Upcoming Comander Update - Wishes5 Mar 2021, 23:14 PM Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2021, 23:05 PMVipper Again compare them to paras. Target size 1 vs 0.95 and at vet 0.71 vs 0.95. Unless in your opinion paras bleed too much also. Maybe a typo of you, but Paras have 0.71 at Vet3 plus out of combat healing at Vet2. I do think Paras are way better because of their great utility/versatility. Multiple weapon options (Thompson/Bar/Super Bazooka/LMG) + additonal abilities and dropping behind enemy lines or at your own frontline plus reinforcing on the field with Beacon. Paras are really good. Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2021, 23:05 PMVipper The combination is dirty if you consider that you get a unit close to SMG US Paras and vehicle for no MU cost and relatively low manpower. It is true that is not very easy to get multiple squads. About this one we share the same opinion. In: Lobby
Thread: Upcoming Comander Update - Wishes5 Mar 2021, 23:03 PM Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2021, 22:50 PMVipper I disagree Does that mean you agree with me about the other seven aspects? In: Lobby
Thread: Upcoming Comander Update - Wishes5 Mar 2021, 23:01 PM Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2021, 22:54 PMVipper Test Vet 3 A.G. in cheat mode vs other squads and you will see who get drained. Until you get them to Vet2 where they get target size 0.71 you are definitely the one who gets drained. Other elite units get even better target size with Vet. I would still question that. In addition you have always to purchase a M5 with them... resulting in very high manpower costs if you want more than one. In: Lobby
Thread: Upcoming Comander Update - Wishes5 Mar 2021, 22:54 PM Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2021, 22:50 PMVipper I disagree Either all abilities should of the same power level or total power of abilities in commander should be about equal to other commanders. Since making all commander abilities the same power level is not really an option "weak" abilities are need to fill commander with strong abilities. I would agree with you if Elite Armored Doctrine would be a strong commander, but Sturmtiger is only situational good. In: Lobby
Thread: Upcoming Comander Update - Wishes5 Mar 2021, 22:49 PM Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2021, 21:52 PMVipper Think you underestimate Assault guards, once vetted they are deadly. You have to keep in mind that thompons and SVT have very good DPS at MID range, although they named "assault guards" they are not an typical smg squad that perform better at range close to 10. Thompson is far better weapon than Shocks PPsh at all ranges and they unit does not have to move to range 10 to get good DPS. An elite close to midrange unit that comes bundled only at 3 CPs with target size 1 resulting in a huge manpower drain? Man that is really bad. Since its comes with zero utility/versatility (compare to the utility/versatility of the other two guard versions please) the only thing it should be good at is combat but it just drains your manpower. In: Lobby
Thread: Upcoming Comander Update - Wishes5 Mar 2021, 22:40 PM My wishlist for an upcoming patch: 1. Buff or exchange meme commander abilities (for example plane strafes that deal next to no damage inspite of the fact that most can be easily doged in addition) 2. Rework bad designed commanders that either have too much munition abilities or no real munition ability at all. Worst case for too much munition abilities: UKF Commandos, follow-up: Ostheer CAS and Luftwaffe Supply doctrine (which are only better because of the fuel to munition exchange ability, which makes sense with so much munition depended abilities). Take a look a Commando doctrine. Using all commander abilities just once means to spend 510 munition. In addition UKF has many ways to spend its munition already (mines, upgraded weapons, grenades (Commandos!), squad upgrades,...). A horribly designed commander. On the other side you will find a least one commander at each faction where the only commander ability that cost somehow munition is trash. This is awful in high ressource games (3vs3 and 4vs4). Commanders need to have a mix of passive abilities and abilities which need different types of ressources. 3. Remove commander offmap flare abilities and fill in other ways of unit depended recon or counterable plane recon (OKW+UKF). 4. More consistent damage over a wider AOE for Calliope and Walking Stuka with lower wiping AOE (80dmg distance). 5. Standardize soviet ressource drops to german version of Supply drop at mun/fuel ressource points. Soviet version is not counterable at all or gets shot down every time in dependance of the map and gamemode. 6. Combine multiple doctrinal unit upgrades in one commander ability. Many doctrinal unit upgrades (weapons/abilities) are not worth a commander ability slot on their own. Bundle two of them to make place for an additional commander ability. Similar to Assault package at Feuersturm doctrine or Urban assault Kits at Urban Assault Company. Just one examples: I would bundle some of the tank upgrades at OKW Elite Armored Doctrine. Two of them are not worth it on their own at least. 7. Have a look at CP requirements. Just one example: I don't get while PPSH for conscripts comes at 2 CPs while you get multiple doctrinal assault units at 0 CPs at other factions. As soviet you can have SVT for conscripts for 1 CP, PPSH for Penals at 1 CP and the perfect elite close combat unit at 2 CPs. Why do PPSH for conscripts even have a CP requirement at all, its not that they are free? 8. Every doctrinal bundled unit call-in should give the option to build the units seperately at according tech structure. In: Lobby
Thread: Upcoming Comander Update - Wishes5 Mar 2021, 21:09 PM Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2021, 17:00 PMZeroZeroNi But the guards come with 3 ppsh and 3 thompsons. Thx. Nice to point that out, i never noticed that (okay I played them once, so maybe I didn't notice because of that single try). So it fits thematically at least. I remember they felt underwhelming as I played them. So I just tested them a few times in comparison to ShockTroops and sadly Assault Guards are worse combatwise. So the mix of target size 1 at Vet0 + Vet1, no additional armour and no smoke grenade (or sprint) results in loosing quite a few models by closing in. They are just worse in many ways. Further drawbacks: - because of M5 they hit the field at 3 CPs = less game impact / less time for vetting - exclusively come in bundle with M5 I really hate that bundled abilities. It is the same with the Combat Group ability (Reserve Falls + Howitzer) at USF Recon Support Company that comes at 4 CPs (!) or the Mechanized Grenadier Group (LMG Grenadiers + 250 HT) / Mechanized Assault Group (Pzgrens + 250 HT) at Ostheer Mechanized Doctrine / Mechanized Assault Doctrine that come at 3 CPs. The worst one is the Combat Group Ability of USF, it means you can't drop your Reserve Falls behind enemy lines, because you will give away that Howitzer to the enemy. Maybe there is a chance to get this abilities reworked. You should have the option to build the units seperatley in your base at least once you unlocked the ability. Assault Guards should be reworked somehow or just exchanged for something different. In: Lobby
Thread: Stuka dive bomb to be added in another commander4 Mar 2021, 01:07 AM Jump back to quoted post4 Mar 2021, 00:57 AMGrumpy I haven't had Supremacy fail to kill a howitzer in the 4-5 times I've tried it. Thx for your comment. Yeah, I tried it myself a moment ago a couple of times and it destroyed it every time. Maybe I didn't know because I play this commander wy to rarely. While comamndos are good it is one of this bad designed commanders which has 4 of 5 comamnder abilities with munition cost. you are better of taking one of the other two commanders with Commandos, they do have a better mix of abilities. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Stuka dive bomb to be added in another commander4 Mar 2021, 00:19 AM Jump back to quoted post2 Mar 2021, 15:17 PMelchino7 I was also saying which are guaranteed killing. Player input not using the ability dead center or aligned is not considered. OH: there are 2 commanders with Railway artillery. Festung and Osttruppen Use this site (coh2.win) for commander abilities. Just click on an ability and it will show all commanders with it. Yeah, thx for that link. I overlooked one of the railway artilleries. That adds up to five guaranted kills with the three stuka dive bombs. Seems Soviets are on the backfoot here by loosing two of their IL-2 bombing runs. Ostheer lost 1 out of 6, Soviet 2 out of 4. All other factions have a better saturation with howitzer killing abilities. That should be adressed soon with the next patch. Jump back to quoted post2 Mar 2021, 15:17 PMelchino7 UKF: all the 3 commanders that i listed will kill a Howitzer. The only unreliable one which is much better than fragmentation bombing is Concentration barrage. I made some test way back in the past, but your chances improve if you can keep vision on it. https://www.coh2.org/topic/105234/il2-precision-strike-seems-uncounterable/page/7#post_id818865 Are you sure Air Supremacy kills always after it was nerfed? The bombs seem to scatter random over a large area. The thing about the vision is true, but it is not very realistic to keep constant sigth on a howitzer. it is much more realistic that a plane flies over and you trigger the ability the moment you get sight. The plane can loose sight or get shoot down. I always test with FoW by building a howitzer, giving it to AI and using a plane plus ability. That way Concentration barrage will decrew most of the time as it seems. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Stuka dive bomb to be added in another commander2 Mar 2021, 09:05 AM Jump back to quoted post2 Mar 2021, 08:02 AMVipper Railway artillery has 1 shot (think the last one that has not scatter) if I remember correctly. It should always take out a howitzer if aimed on it. Thx, then we would have (first number = commander with offmap with 100% kill guarantee / second number = total commanders): OH: 4 / 22 OKW: 4 / 9 Sov: 2 / 22 UKF 2 / 9 (since it has a copy of Railway Artillery) USF 1 / 9 (since 240mm has no aimed hit as far as I know) Edit: Prepatch OH had 1 more, Soviet had 2 more. I do think this should be reverted by granting the removed ability to other less attractive commanders to hamper artillery slugfest in 3vs3 and 4vs4. Maybe even giving OH / Sov / UKF and USF one commander more with the ability to kill howitzers with offmap. In the end this abilities are still too expensive to spam them, so it shouldn't be a problem. In: COH2 Balance