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Thread: Balance of power has shifted to Allies in 4v4AT (imo)30 Apr 2015, 18:53 PM Jump back to quoted post30 Apr 2015, 18:44 PMWingZero Everyone here except Alex knows majority of the Soviet commanders are hardly competitive. You will see Lenny or Stephen try out random strategies here and there. We all know how most Allied games go; USF Airborne + EZ8s and SU goes Shock front line or Guards. As for Axis well, the commanders choice are just an icing on the cake as your stock units and all tech structures give me variety of choices. Guard motor Shock motor Counterattack tactics Mechanized support Shock rifle Advanced Warfare Terror Tactics Shock Army Honorable mention to Urban defense for 6 minute knock outs. All in total 8 (9) viable commanders, which are literally more than OKW or USF even have. Lets look at Ost; Assault Support CAS Lighting war Spearhead Mechanized Assault Luftwaffe support Fortified Armor Jeagar Armor Honorable mention to Oustruppen and Mobile Defense. All in total 8 (10), viable commanders. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Balance of power has shifted to Allies in 4v4AT (imo)30 Apr 2015, 18:48 PM Jump back to quoted post30 Apr 2015, 18:38 PMpigsoup 1. i do not think you are in any capacity to tell anyone that. on paper v. in game very different. 2. yea.... ohme talks about the choices throughout the whole game, not just commanders. you've been nitpicking again haven't you? I play AT's for 3's and 4's all the time dude. My clan is focused entirely around it. There is ton's of stuff Allied player don't do that would give them a big advantage. And if were talking choices throughout the game it's not much, since your Soviet players will be skipping tech (with one usually making t4 for Kat's) to get very good units. It's not like they are paying much in effectiveness. Ostheer does the same thing, t1 + t2 then hold for call in tanks. Examples of things most players (because they are not very smart) do not do in team games: 1. Use smoke launchers on the Sherman to give cover to allied units 2. Make use of pop cap abuse, especially with Priests as they do not need to be crewed while waiting for barrage recharged 3. Dropping .50 cal's and AT guns for Soviet players to use 4. Supporting IS2's with Jacksons 5. decrewing tanks sitting around doing nothing in order to help repair friendly tanks 6. giving tanks to players with lots of unfilled popcap, thus reducing the amount of micro you need to personally do 7. Using focus sight on SU-85 or ISU in conjunction with Jacksons 8. Using mark target the same time as P-47's 9. Keeping medics out of their truck to allies can use their heals. 10. USF recon + soviet global abilities. The list goes on, at higher levels Axis and Allies in team games are relatively balanced, but in randoms were nobody knows what the fuck then yes Axis has an advantage. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: UKF alpha test30 Apr 2015, 18:34 PM Jump back to quoted post30 Apr 2015, 17:44 PMWreathlit Noël Relic Weeb biased confirmed? If they were just letting all weeb's in they would be obligated to let the God Emperor of Weebness Han's in! In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Do you think this alpha should be in waves?30 Apr 2015, 18:33 PM I don't think it would be to hard to have certain people on an "always invite" list, and just open a few extra slots in the Alpha to ensure they get in if they want to. Then on the other hand, e-celebs don't necessarily deserve a for sure slot more than the average player. In: Lobby
Thread: Balance of power has shifted to Allies in 4v4AT (imo)30 Apr 2015, 18:00 PM Jump back to quoted post30 Apr 2015, 17:49 PMOhme I got tired of writing, it was a lot of words you know Ach, yeah. Tbh I like the way you structure your argument, and do admit that there is often a biased perspective due to the fact AT's always stop randoms. I think a lot of people fail to utilize Allies true power in team games, which is a damn shame. 1. he never said allies dont have tools. he said axis synergises better. and did not assume that allies players were making dumb choices, he was pointing out how every choice allies players make have bigger risk. are you gonna infest this thread now too? Not much risk in going Guard motor or Shock Rifle, elite infantry + the best call in's. 2. it is funny how it is ohme who keep making us, the crew, play germans when we just wanna play allies. please read then post and yes, you can come at it from "an assumption of weakness on the Allies part and assumption of strength on the Axis part." when you have a wall of text that actually back your statement up. unlike your thousands of posts ignoring facts, nitpicking facts and just enormous amount of ignorance to valid arguments put up against you. I laid out my argument over several posts. TLDR: Allies strengths are underused. ..Alex you're aware both OKW and Ostheer stock is perfectly capable of handling anything available to either of the Allies, at all. The IS2 isn't even that great - a Panther will slap the shit out of it generally. It will certainly be sending it back to base for repairs after any fight. Heck just bring some Pak40s, get some units up front to provide LoS and you'll be making IS2 usage very awkward indeed. For OKW, Rakten's don't quite cut it true, but a large number of Shreks are capable of discouraging particularly brave use. Oh whats that on the horizon? Oh its a Panther! It even has an OK performance against infantry and with allied Infantry AT being 100% fucking pathetic: Getting a AT grenade to not bounce off a Panther is like getting ice to sink. Bazookas really don't fair much better and often players won't purchase them anyway because the BAR is a much more confident usage of munitions and weapon slots. OKW also has access to the Jagdpanzer. I'm surprised its not seen all that much. Actually I'm fucking not. The reason I'm not surprised is because Shreks and Rakts are just fine, and its really not that long till you see a Panther if they're playing alright (and if you have an Ostheer building catches). Meanwhile, the Soviet equivalent, the SU85, fulfills a desperately needed role of "Mobile(ish) AT", which the ZiS-3 often can't cut because it just isn't mobile enough... and is vulnerable to Walking-Stuka. So every Soviet player is essentially forced to go into a tier in which there is no general purpose tank (not that I would want a T34 anyway). Sure it has the Katyusha for anti-infantry but that's artillery, not a combat vehicle. And the SU76 is just complete rubbish. Which then leads onto Doctrine dependence of Soviets. Virtually every viable doctrine will include Shocktroops. Because they can actually sodding compete at all with Axis late game infantry without bleeding manpower like a 5 year old attempting to use a Ketchup bottle. They bring in no AT but at least they can be used to cover the retreat of your own vehicles if things get desperate, but really your other infantry options were not bringing all that much AT to the table anyway, so you might as well opt for an infantry thats worthwhile. The reason this is being brought up is that Soviet options are already limited by if they want infantry worth a damn (where the only alternatives are FwdHQ and PTRS blob, both of which tail off like heck late game without good skill with handling ZiS and SU85's.) So, from doctrines including Shock troops and some sort of late-game viable unit, we have: - IS2. It's a good tank no doubt, but it takes up just shy 1/4 of your pop cap, and is very vulnerable to Stock Axis units (can't say that about Jadgtiger, Elefant, Tiger(less so) and the KT). - ISU152. Retard strong gun. Shame it's Armour isn't as thick as the buffoon of a driver handling this thing. AFAIK admittedly most players skip of this nowadays. Oh its even more expensive than the IS2. - B4. As this argument is based around stock units of Axis, this is actually very good. In reality though CAS or any kind of "hand-of-god" will get rid of this. Heck Walking-Stuka is hardly a bad option. And would you look at that I'm all out. We have 3 doctrines to pick from if you want a reliable AT that isn't the SU85 (or can be used to supplement it). Heck the best thing about the Shock-Motor Heavy is that it has precision strike - maybe their engine is damaged/destroyed so you can land that and kill a vehicle for a whopping 200 muni. Woop-dee-fucking doo. Uh, for one. The IS2 isn't shit versus the Panther at all, it had a decent chance to pen it frontally, has good speed to chase, and good reverse speed to get away. The chance to penetrate the IS2 with a Pak40 is about the same as the chance to pen a KT with a Zis gun. And second, you don't need shock troops anymore, the guard buff makes them excellent which is why the Guard army commanders are so popular now. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Balance of power has shifted to Allies in 4v4AT (imo)30 Apr 2015, 17:48 PM Jump back to quoted post30 Apr 2015, 17:42 PMAustralian Magic Yes, cause Panthers, Pz4 horde, Jadgpanzers cannot win agasint IS2, ISU ot T34/85 In teamgames T4 price for OST does not matter. OKW has conversion. I mean... You are just retarded. There no point taking with you. You don't see this? Everyone here agrees about something, most of them are player with bigger experience than you, yet you are totally different and try to negate everything. It's just to much for me to handle this tons of pudding. And by the way, Aerohank must be shitty player since he's teching with Ostheer in 1v1 to get a Panther almost always. Yes they can, the same way you can win versus KTs, and assorted heavies using SU-85's and whatnot, but it is far, far, FAR from optimal. You will be fighting an uphill battle the entire time. OKW's conversion isn't the same as caches, since your losing a map dependent resource to get more of another, rather than using a non-map dependent resource like MP to get more income. Ost T4 price absolutely does, as the limit factor is MP, of which you will be spending more on caches. And uh, I'm not disagreeing that much with the original post anyway, more or less just nitpicking the fact he didn't mention any of the things allies have up their sleeve. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Balance of power has shifted to Allies in 4v4AT (imo)30 Apr 2015, 17:20 PM Jump back to quoted post30 Apr 2015, 17:11 PMilGetUSomDay OH NO!! forced to tech? what ever will you do?? I never tech up to tanks ever in my games either So what you are saying in the logistics part is that OKW play as intended until Ostheer break the designed draw back of OKW I dont understand how you dont get what a pro and con list is Being forced to tech as Ostheer is a killer because your spending much more resources on teching than basically any other faction in the game, and the vast majority of Soviet doctrines utilize call in's (because of how the faction is designed) while most ost doctrines focus on augmenting your forces. If your forced to go T4 and blow all your MP and lose map control 1 Panther ain't going to save your ass. And the OKW lack of caches isn't a problem in 1's because the Allied player can't spam caches without hurting his income, but in 3's and 4's the Allied players can split up the cache cost amongst themselves and get not just more income than OKW, but vastly more income than OKW. Your "good" stock units won't save the day when they are outnumbered 2 to 1 or 3 to 1. Ost team mates are then made to have to make caches, further hurting their MP pools while all the OKW player can do is float MP and twiddle his thumbs while everyone else is actually playing a team game. EDIT: And before everyone gets ahead of themselves and starts throwing fits because they think I'm implying Allies are better in team games, I'm not. I'm saying Axis and Allies are more balanced in team games than most people will believe. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Balance of power has shifted to Allies in 4v4AT (imo)30 Apr 2015, 17:07 PM Jump back to quoted post30 Apr 2015, 16:58 PMilGetUSomDay Please, I'll take any of the shitty axis commanders over the shitty Allies one. There isnt even a bad commander for OKW, the worst one is Elite armored and well its sure great you have solid OKW units that themselves are not bad. Ost teching is pretty rewarding. You get these great stock units with no terrible choices in the structures unlike Allies. In addition hey, you get these glorious nukes called Rifle Grenades. Something that to get an equivalent of as allies you have to spend extra fuel. Lack of OKW scaling? I thought you played this game. You do realize Vet 5 is un obtainable by any of the other factions? They dont scale poorly, not any poorer than other factions anyhow. The only point you listed that is true is the OKW building weakness The worst Ostheer doctrines are shit because they force you to tech, which is extremely expensive for Ostheer. The reason why Ostheer teching isn't rewarding is because your stuck paying insane prices for things, not because the units themselves are shit. And by OKW scaling I mean in team games, in 1's it would be broken for OKW to have caches because OKW isn't supposed to be able to supplement it's income, but in higher game modes were your enemies can spam caches and get almost twice your income you need caches in order to not get overwhelmed, which means you need to get your Ostheer player to play logistics officer. EDIT: The same could be said of USF's doctrine choices, vis a vis OKW's doctrine choices Alex I was sadden to see you post here with such a poorly written post after such an amazing post from Ohme. Suffice it to say you are not contributing to the discussion and I would request you not respond anymore because of the way in which this is effectively an attempt at trolling and will derail the thread. lol In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Balance of power has shifted to Allies in 4v4AT (imo)30 Apr 2015, 17:02 PM Jump back to quoted post30 Apr 2015, 16:55 PMAustralian Magic Yes, because of you pick shitty commander, you are losing access to LMG Grens, Panthers, King Tigers or Obers. And let me get this straight. Did you sa that OKW lacks of scaling in team games? If you pick a shitty commander you are going to lose to IS2's, ISU's, T34/85 hordes, and get pop cap abused to hell and back. Let's not try and pretend that the Ostheer Panther isn't extremely expensive to get to, let's not pretend the KT is cheap to get to and that it wasn't nerfed literally a month ago. OKW doesn't have the most basic form of team game scaling, caches, which is given to every single faction but OKW allowing a player to focus on supporting your team mates with resources instead of just making more units. An Allied team can split the cost of a bunch of caches between all the players, a Axis team is forced to make 1 or 2 players make all the caches and for a MP starved faction like Ostheer that can be quite difficult. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Balance of power has shifted to Allies in 4v4AT (imo)30 Apr 2015, 16:52 PM Jump back to quoted post30 Apr 2015, 16:45 PMilGetUSomDay His post addressed how Allies are cornholed into taking the few competitive commanders which do not synergies as well as Axis due to unrewarding trade offs Allies have to take which are non existent in Axis. He did look at the neutral ground you just dont want to see it. He started by comparing base units from each side and their cause/effects. He could if you want, elaborate on why Allies suffer more because in the commander section he only addressed Axis ones If you pick shitty Axis commanders in a competitive game regardless of game mode you are going to get brutally owned. The commander selection for Axis and Allies is more balanced than it has ever been in the past, mostly due to the fact Soviets have 2 choices instead of one for elite infantry. Axis "synergies" in the sense you are required to have an Ostheer team mate and or team mates because OKW cannot last on the field without indirect fire support as well as caches, because you bet your ass the Allies players (if they are not retarded) will be making caches. There are plenty of unrewarding Axis trade offs, Ost teching being unrewarding, lack of OKW scaling in team games unless Ost player enjoys logistics work, OKW having significant weakness to buildings unless a stuka is rushed, ect. To wit; Axis is just as much forced into a set "meta" amount of strategies and doctrines as Allies are, to pretend this is not the case is ignoring Ost's teching problems and OKW's gaping holes in it's unit list. In: COH2 Gameplay