Profile of Alexzandvar

youre assuming that the PTRS will always target the weapon, which isnt true. a lot of the time it will hit the crew members.

tbh, i see cons and guards decrew mg42s more than they kill them. ive seen more paks destroyed by PTRS fire than machine guns.

The PTRS for some reason prioritizes hitting the gun over the crew (which probably has to do with crew weapons being treated at vehicles), so Iv found the number of times Iv 1 shotted MG's without even touching the crew to be much higher than killing the crew while leaving the gun intact when using con PTRS's.

The reason Paks get destroyed faster is that the crew bunches around the gun so all the shots fired at the crew manning it that miss can still hit the gun.

1. monitor weapon hp, repair when necessary

2. the only way you can quickly destroy an mg42 gun is if you have like 8 or so cons shooting at the gun. this means that pretty much the soviets entire army is in one sector of the map, go out and get some map control.

3. 2 mg42s will pin a con blob faster than the con blob can kill the mg42

4. dont leave your mg42s alone, as soon as you see the conblob get suppressed you should be relocating mortars and a gren or pio squad to help deal with the suppressed units with flamers + riflenades.

You don't need 8 con squads to 1 shot a MG42, you need only need 4. The point isn't that people need to repair weapons, I do that anyway (and most good players do it to). It's that you can't when a small group of conscripts runs up to you MG42 and instantly kills it at almost max range since the new PTRS will never ever miss a size 20 object.

The best counter Iv just found is CAS as Ostheer, spam LMG's so they can't get into close range.

Jesus Christ will you stop talking about volks as if they're somehow incapable at fighting infantry.

http://www.coh2-stats.com/compare?utf8=%E2%9C%93&squad1=volksgrenadier_squad_mp&squad2=conscript_squad_mp&commit=Compare

Even at point blank cons barely have more DPS, and they have a huge advantage at long range. Ergo, stick in cover and force cons to advance, and watch as you win the firefight.

Volks. Are. Not. Weak.

They are the most under costed units in the game with reliable nades, readily available AT, cover building and some of the best, most easily obtained veterancy going. Plus cold immunity, for some reason.

To bad if your spending muni on nades your not getting that AT. The veterancy they get is what makes up for them being worse at the early game. But your discounting the fact they have less models than conscripts so if they lose one they are at a bigger disadvantage.

If your relying on Volks for your AI, you going to lose.

I'll translate Katitof's word to Axis fanboy language:
Unlike Sdkfz.251, Battlegroup HQ and Ambulance merge doesn't give you more squad members (aka overall hit points). You just transform one squad member type to another (with exception of shocks because of armor). It isn't exactly REINFORCEMENT at all.

Kettle meet Pot. Thank you more 0 OKW games for accusing people of fanboyism.

All the issues faced in 3's and 4's are just the issues faced in 1's and 2's but cranked up to 11 due to the added resources and unit counts.

Allied early game gets stronger, Axis late game gets stronger. If the factions were designed around being good at all points in the game then this wouldn't be an issue.

Teching needs to be standardized across all factions so certain ones don't get to their late game units faster than others, call ins need to be tied to teching. Unit power should be a logical slope upwards, not a fluctuating mess.

USF and OKW's teching is non-linear and makes no sense power escalation wise. Your going from basic units to your late game units in literally one tier.



Soviets and Ostheers teching makes more sense, but Soviets teching is still bonkers because you only ever build t1 or 2, and then on to t3 or t4 so again your going from you very first units to your very last late game units. Ostheer of all the factions is the only one that make sense with a logical progression upwards in the power of it's units



All the factions should have the same logical creep upwards in power as Ostheer, not this insane stuff we have now were you get access to your best units at the start of the game or right in the mid game leaving little point to go backwards, at least OKW gets some incentive to do this.

Once all the factions get access to their units in a more sensible fashion the issues with team games will by and far go away because everyone will be as strong as the other team at all points in the game as the game progresses.

What about call ins? They should be tied to teching.

The lack of Allied unit diversity is a key issue. I think it will be addressed in the future though.

Soviets don't lack for unit diversity at all, Ostheer is mostly just gren spam and USF has literally nothing else they can make. OKW has a lot of diversity in mainline infantry but none in any other area.

Making the CPV very good against infantry by giving it the same gun as the PIV would probably result in it being spammed more, and used a lot more than it is now.