Profile of general_gawain

stop putting words in my mouth. Compare katy vs PW at close, mid and long range and tell me which one is best at all ranges. Have u never fired katy at close range and obliterated sqauds in 1 salvo? go play the god damn game instead spending ur life on these forums

Katy is better, when you are very close, because it fires directly with low rocket travel time at close distance and its rockets will hit exactly in a very small circle to wipe some stuff. But that is risky because it dies in a matter of seconds to anything. Otherwise PW is way better with the aditional advantage that its shots can't be blocked by obstacles.

Arty commander is useless? In team games its solid. The val suck donkey dick by frontline wide flares is beyond strong, and with a price reduction the overwatch arty would be incredible.

Seriously, make the val ~ a stuart and swap its arty ability with recon and it would solve alot of problems (make it come earlier too obviously) and it give a light vehicle option that isnt the AEC.

Maybe give the sexton airbust with anvil or vet too to jaz it up

Priest: 180 Range, AOE near with 200 damage at range 2.0
Sexton: 135 Range, AOE near with 160 damage at range 1.5

2.0 radius nearly doubles the area that is hit with full damage and that will do the squad wipes, this is a huge difference. Range 180 to 135 is a huge difference too, especially when you want to shoot at that stationary howitzers build near base with 250 range. You won't reach them with a Sexton. All of that for the small difference of 30MP, 15 fuel and one population. It doesn't matter that the Sexton has a little bit faster shooting cycle, the Priest does the damage versus crippled tanks and the squad wipes. So just always go for the priest. Yes, the airburst option would make a Sexton more versatile without copying the Priest and would be a good move to make it unique and more useful in one go.

Second problem of the artillery commander is the Valentine, as you already stated. Comes way to late in that 3vs3 and 4vs4 because of ressource inflation. There are AT tanks around when it hits the battlefield so it has absolutely no AI shock value anymore and is hard to vet up. Artillery ability isn't that great, so its basically reduced to its map hack that OKW gets non-doctrinal with a smaller arc but a lot earlier and a lot cheaper (5 fuel to 80 fuel / 5 pop to 12 pop). Infrared truck is way better designed, Valentine just wastes it combat values if it is used as map hack only (and you want use it like that). It should be bind to tech and come when you either researched AEC or Bofors (or something like that).

The offmap flares are quite good in that large battles, the two offmap barrage abilities are just okay. So current performance of Sexton and Valentine ruin this commander for me.

this +1000000000000000000 and if it doesn't work, then like some famous polish man would say: L2P-ISSUE

If you are matched against such an AT force, just spam infantry he cant kill those with his elephant and such

The problem with JT and Elephant only exists in 3vs3 and 4vs4, especially in some maps. The combination of JT/Elephant and Brummbar is extremely nasty versus reactional infantry builds. Backed up by some Shreks and 1-2 AT Guns or other tanks versus allied flanking tanks of course. I would really like to see a raise of population of all super heavy tanks, so that you get more countering troops for the same population. A single JT in a central key point of a 4vs4 really puts the pressure on the allied team without hampering the versatility or striking power of the rest of the german forces.

The problem of a artillery battle is that Wehrmacht has a lot of useful commanders that can dislodge/kill an stationary artillery piece with an offmap in addition while there are way less useful ones on allied side. I wouldn't count on allies winning the artillery battle. Priest is a mobile alternative but costs a lot more fuel, british artillery commander is still too bad to use.

Falls got changed to a paradrop unit. They no longer infiltrate from buildings, but work like USF Paratroopers.

Oh yeah, thanks. I overlooked that, too long patch notes. Yes, now it makes sense

First of all I really want to thank the community for this great patch. My gaming group (5 players) played since the first hour of COH2 but left CoH2 nearly a year ago. We only played AT games 2vs2 to 4vs4 and couldn't bear the imbalance and abusing of cheese in this gamemodes anymore. Now we are thinking about coming back because there is so much fixed we are talking about since years. We were lost behind hope already but hey, maybe we were wrong.

Lets say it again: Really great changes! Its far too much to higlight all this good changes.


Still I have some questions about some things that got adressed but as it looks not for all units/abilities. Please correct me if I'm wrong:

1) Infiltration units: Great changes here, cooldown for abilities does mean that Partisans and alike don't jump out of every house anhilating your artillery vehicles with AT-grenade followed by Shrek. But as it seems OKW Falls are not on that list of infiltration units. Does that mean that a Faust followed by some small arms fire of the Falls still destroys the badly armoured Katiushas? Please change this too, otherwise soviets will loose part of their partisan AT-power (was overdue) but their Katiushas still got destroyed as usual (this is overdue).

2) Targeting of base sector: This doesn't seem to got a change. As we left it was still possible to target base sector with some offmap abilities. Lolbomb was only one example for this. Does this got changed? If not please do it for all offmap artillery/plane abilities.

3) Binding tank call-ins to tier: We always thought either adapt fuel income across all maps and gamemodes or bind all call-ins to tech. this way the don't come too early in 1vs1 and not too late in all other gamemodes. Looking at the list of units that got adresses I do think that still not all units got adressed. The Sherman Dozer springs to my mind for example, which is curious because the M10 in the same commander got adressed. I would say do this for all tanks off all factions with the exception of the super heavies (I do think that it is a good thing that they do come later in big game modes)

So did I overlooked this? I can't imagine that this is intended, because otherwise this patch is so awesome. Thanks.