Profile of general_gawain

My suggestion test flamer Ro e in game.

Don't have, but yeah I will do.

Coming for the person who though Penal battalion will flamer will not be an issue and proven completely wrong, I can not take you opinion seriously.

Just won't get between Katitof and you, but T1 Penals with Flamer were in a completely different time frame. Yeah, they were an issue. But thats absolutely not comparable or scaleable: Different factions and early vs late...

Overall the patch is a good thing. Thank you for your continuous work.
I still think UKF is in the most awkward spot of all factions. My thoughts:

Mortar emplacement:
The cheaper and upgradeable mortar is a real good idea. Thumbs up! But I’m not sure about the 180 range mortar shells. This will promote playing Advanced Emplacement Regiment with Repair stations again. Don’t think that is a good way to go. I would be all in for the mobile Land Mattress as a stock unit instead. Locked either behind AEC/Bofors tech or in last building, not entirely sure about the timing. An Avre or Crocodile could fit the spirit of “Mobile Assault Regiment” as a replacement for doctrinal Land Mattress ability.
With the changes to the mortar emplacement I do think the mobile mortar of Lend Lease is less viable, may be exchange it for a flame grenade/flamer bundle or something like smoke cover from Commando doctrine or keep it and give it Vet1 WhitePhosporous or Flares for some more utility. All this would fit the aggressive play style of that commander.

Heavy Sappers:
All in for the idea of removing Vickers at heavy sappers upgrade. Just make the upgrade cheaper and give them the ability to build demo charges (like commandos) or throw satchel charges (AI/AT?). Would give more game options and fit the idea of heavy engineers. Maybe add a flamer upgrade, so you can use them on building heavy maps in late game as a heavy fortification assault unit (do they still have the armor upgrade?).

So, whats next? -> The answer is pretty easy: Iron Harvest in semptember.

CoH2 really was my favorite game in the past few years and Imo the community dev team did a very good job since they took over. But there are some major flaws they can't change like ressource inflation in bigger game modes or awful vehicle pathfinding. Iron Harvest looks a lot like a CoH3 in an alternative timeline and will do better regarding the major flaws hopefully. I'm triggered.

Medium tanks have more range (40) than handheld AT (35). They are faster and have quicker aim time. It's pretty easy to kite AT infantry with medium tanks and kill models while taking next to no damage.

Handheld AT blobs are quite easily punished by players who know what they are doing. There are plenty of counters: kiting, mines, rocket artillery, HMGs, AI infantry, etc. Blobbing AT infantry is generally absent from higher ranked games. I can understand lower ranked players might struggle, but ultimately it is a strategy game where there are counters available (both on a micro-level and on a rock paper scissors level), and if players can't or won't use those then there is a certain point beyond which balance itself can't help anymore.

Im mainly playing with friends from 2vs2 to 4vs4, we are going up and down in rank usually somewhere between 200 and 600, the best rank I ever achieved was about 120. There it is a problem. So it seems at 2vs2 and up lower rank starts below Top200 already. Thats a hell lot of players. I know it is much less of a problem in 1vs1.

In theory there is always a counter, although the most important next to MG (rocket artillery) isn't available non-doc for all factions.

My main argument in my last post was that med tanks get useless in lategame because they just can't get into frontal fights with heavies and TDs while flanking/diving in gets denied by AT-blob, which does needs way less micro than defending with mines and PAKs. You don't need 5 or 6 squads for that. Given the potency of AT handheld atm, you just need two squads with triple super zook or double shrek and you will force off or destroy every medium that tries to close in.

Even if you used recon before the attack the blob surely comes just in time back out of the base when you start to flank. When you are driving forward you can't stop your tank fast enough to not get hit with an At handheld aiming time of 0.63 seconds.

So it mainly comes down to TDs and heavies in lategame, it could be so much more. Strong handheld AT restricts lategame tank diversity.

Edit: I have seen a lot of complains that it always comes down to TD/heavies. So, there has to be something wrong, when meds have no real place anymore. I'm just saying what is the reason for that imo.