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Thread: New faction British??30 Mar 2015, 13:49 PM Jump back to quoted post30 Mar 2015, 12:10 PMKatitof Which really isn't any different to anything other companies do. Look at blizzard and D3/SC2 expansion model. You get new content, pay like for full game and have millions of people jerking off how awesome and generous Blizzard is. Or how many Terraria reskins have you seen, next being more expensive then previous. Other studio does the same and the hurt of butts will be felt 3 generations into the future. Players double standards are simply stunning at times. Especially since you can make completely separate, full game out of WFA+AA. I'm not being for or against that model here, I'm simply saying that everyone does that and I see no reason to bash only a single game for it since whole gaming market does it and since players are buying it instead of sharpening pitchforks, lighting torches and marching against evil gaming companies, I see no reason to get worked up against it. Except the Starcraft Expansions added new stuff as well as a full campaign, which we didn't get with AA. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: USF wishes for patch30 Mar 2015, 13:42 PM Jump back to quoted post30 Mar 2015, 09:42 AMAustralian Magic OKW lower income is irrelevant because OKW has other handicaps like no need to upgrade Obers, cheap tech etc. 2 day ago I was playing 1v1, Way to Kharkov vs USF. He went for AA truck so he forced me to upgrade 2 schrecks before 10min. If he would not went for AA truck he would be pushed back really badly, so he invested 60 fuel. Then he made a Sherman at 16:30 and attacked really hard at my troops. His surprise was just amazing when he saw my Panther around the corner at 17:39. Byt that time I had 3 volks with schrecks, 3 Jaegers, Kubel and Panther. So... Starved faction? Recently I saw 2v2 replays. 4 trucks converted and 3 KTs o.O 3 Volks, and 3 Jegar and a Kubel is only 5 fuel. And the Panther was his only tank when you could have a second T34 by that time. Lower income is everything, it means you can't make tanks (so you can only spend MP on infantry), and you can't replace them either. A KT is a massive investment and it's loss almost always results in a loss for the OKW player. Unless you are rammed with something like KV-8 while you have nothing, OKW is more then capable to dispose of outnumbering armor, especially if its fragile USF armor. Have you ever crushed, kited, or done any other shrek negating things? This. Shrekblobs can almost always net more than one Medium tank kill. This is why the fuel starved Justification combined with the cheapest teching in the game means very little in my book. May be true on the large cluster that is 4v4 but who cares people should only play that mode drunk anyway... OKW teching isn't about making units, it's about supporting your army. Most people never make the IR HT, JPIV, or ISG, the Puma is very rare now thanks to everyone figuring out that you can counter Scout Car spam with the Flak HT. The power of the units relative to the actual fuel penalty isnt right. But I am sure you know that and are just being a smartass see Ober/Shrek into Panther as an example. OKW doesn't get better unit, OKW just gets more expensive units. Why should you pay 175 fuel while at an income disadvantage for a tank that can't do it's job? I would be for giving OKW 100% income with lowering initial amount of fuel, increasing teching cost, upgrade for Obers etc. but it's not that easy cause OKW has too many amazing units and 100% income would lead us to even more powerful army so it would have come with increasing cost of all unit or nerfing them. You would need to redesign the entire faction because converting your first HQ and being able to get Shreks ASAP is all OKW can really do when facing Scout Car rushes or early USF armor shenanigans. Again, OKW units aren't amazing, they are just more expensive. In: Lobby
Thread: Zis Guns and Pak 40s30 Mar 2015, 02:35 AM It's funny because he's 100% right about the Ostheer not having a dedicated tank destoryer. In: Lobby
Thread: USF wishes for patch30 Mar 2015, 02:22 AM Jump back to quoted post30 Mar 2015, 00:58 AMJHeartless Once again you ignore everything I posted. 120 fuel is all the Soviets need to Pay for. Starting fuel. US Pays more even without the Ambu or upgrades. As you can clearly see. You said the Panther is better in every way than the JP4 I showed you that you are wrong. Because you are. There are lots of stats the JP4 has that are better. Doenst mean easier to use in an A move blob scenrio but nonetheless the JP4 has lots of better stats then the Panther. SturmTiger has a 50 reload and that was precisely my point. Saying its really good ignoring the horrid reload is like saying the Jackson is really good ignoring its reload. As I have shown you time and time again Time to Kill tanks is what counts. And the Jackson even when Penetrating will do it slower then the Casemate TDs. It already has an inbuilt weakness. Let alone its horrid surviability. I guess doing less damage then the SU85 means double? Because AGAIN you are ignoring DPS and straw manning away at the 240 a shot. But I must digress because your brickwall nature and straw man arguments are becoming tiring for me. You can lead a horse to water and all that... The Jackson doesn't have a 50 second reload time. The Alpha damage is much more important than DPS when dealing with fast tanks because the tank can scoot away if your not doing that much damage. If the Jackson had better DPS it would be better versus heavies now, but right now it's amazing because the minute an enemy tank pops into view you can force it to retreat because of how the Alpha damage compounds with multiple Jacksons as well as other AT. The JPIV is just a worse Panther without a turret or gun traverse, it has all worse mobility stats, worse armor and health, and it has much less penetration. There is no reason to get a JPIV unless you need more immediate AT and you can't get a Panther. In: Lobby
Thread: USF wishes for patch29 Mar 2015, 22:17 PM Jump back to quoted post29 Mar 2015, 21:56 PMThe Silver Sage I feel this debate is getting a bit out of hand in terms of the theory you guys are using. The fact of the matter is, the Jackson is the pinnacle of what the USF can field in terms of an anti-tank vehicle. If you look at the options they have compared to the Axis factions (OKW is much more guilty of this than OST) then the Jackson needs to be effective. How else are Americans meant to deal with heavy tanks? They have 1) mines which require a certain amount of luck and can only be placed by the m20 2) Bazookas which are not effective against anything with thicker armour than a panzer 4 3) Sherman which again can not take on heavy tanks unless in numbers and you flank 4) Doctrinal stuff like the M10 wolverine and p47 5) The Jackson Now OKW have volks with their ubiquitous panzershrek and to be honest that's all they need to back up their vehicles such as the Panther. Until volks get looked at Allied vs. Axis vehicle combat will always be frustrating to the Allies. I made a thread a while back about the penetration value of shreks and it's quite crazy how reliable they are. Once again, if the Jackson is meant to be the be all end all of USF anti-tank capability, having basically a coin toss against the Panther to pentrate just leads to a lot of frustration. Can you imagine having a sniper that missed 50% of it's shots? Who's going to use that as it is just not reliable. Something has to be said in regards to the faction with lower armour values and low penetration anti-tank capabilities going up against higher armour value units with superior penetration capabilities. As I said earlier, increase the penetration value to 240/220/200 and decrease it's dmg to 160. That way T3 units such as the Panzer 4 can take more shots and the Jackson becomes more reliable against the Panther. Before you start about 240 penetration up close remember that the Jackson has 480hp and poor armour, if it is that close to an enemy tank it is in serious trouble. This is all perfectly fine with me. But the point has been made USF needs better AT outside the Jackson. In: Lobby
Thread: Brainstorm: Encirclement Doctrine Stuka Break Supply Line29 Mar 2015, 19:27 PM Jump back to quoted post29 Mar 2015, 17:44 PMFaustCostBulletin Whatever the case, it has too much overlap with Stormtroopers and Breakthrough. Sprint and Stormtroopers already eat your munitions, let alone Close the Pocket; the selling point, so the doctrine does not need another slapped on poorly thought through psuedo-relevant ability. Why not replace breakthrough with conversion of fuel to munitions? In: Lobby
Thread: MGs are not supposed to kill?29 Mar 2015, 19:25 PM Jump back to quoted post29 Mar 2015, 19:07 PMFaustCostBulletin Yup, this really needs to be the case. I would apply it to DShk, .50 cal and Maxim too. The DShk and Maxim both have 6 crew men, in their case they need to have the bunching mechanics fixed so they don't get 1 shot by rifle nades. For them the 25% more received accuracy isn't as much of a big deal. But it would be nice to see as suggested earlier it made so were the gunner is always the last crew member to die. Vet 2 grens rifle grenades dont help either... Step at the edge of the arc, rifle grenade the gunner from a mile away, and the rifles will finish the crew. This isn't helped by the bunching mechanics making it so your crew are all in one big group hug when the nade goes off. In: Lobby
Thread: USF wishes for patch29 Mar 2015, 19:22 PM Jump back to quoted post29 Mar 2015, 12:57 PMJHeartless ALEX! LOOK AT THE STATS MAN! lol SU85 cost plus teching minus starting fuel Building 1 50 fuel Building 2 120 fuel starts with 50 fuel. Total Fuel tech cost? 120. SU85 cost? 120. 240 Fuel. Else AT nade and molo 50 fuel 290 fuel. Jackson cost plus teching minus starting fuel LT 50 fuel Major 90 fuel 10 starting fuel. Total tech cost 130. Jackson cost? 125. 255 fuel Else Grenades, BAR, Ambulance 25+15+10 = 50 fuel. 305 fuel total. Captain 80 fuel Major 90 fuel 10 starting fuel. Total tech cost 160 fuel. Jackson cost? 125. 285 fuel. Else Grenades, BAR, Ambulance 25+15+10 = 50 fuel. 335 Fuel. JagdPanzer IV Tech cost minus starting fuel? 0 thats right GOOSE EGG! Unit cost? 135 fuel. JagdPanzer has a smaller target size then the Panther by FAR in fact smaller then most light vehicles and DPS of 32-25. With enough Pen to ignore all USFs armor values but the Easy 8s/Dozer at Max range. Panther DPS? 21-15. Tech cost? 80 fuel. 170 fuel for the unit itself. Total fuel? 250. So AS YOU CAN SEE the Panther can arrive around the time of the first USF vehicle. At the same time if the USF player techd to Nades, BARs and Ambu or went Captain tech. Please take the time to look this stuff up before you make claims. Its gets tiring digging up the stats to crush your intentional or accidental misinformation. Edit: I am going to start calling the USF fuel starved since all their tech is more expensive then Soviets and OKWs. USF is a fuel starved faction. Oh yeah and to scale need alot of Muni so they are also Muni starved. Edit again: Forgot the JP4 also has a mini version of focus sites up all the time. They spot for themselves. The Panther does not.And the Jp4 has 60 range. The Panther has 50. You don't get to arbitrarily factor in the cost of nades an a ambulance when talking about the fuel cost of the Jackson. The Major tier is only 90 fuel and comes with several good tanks. T4 for Soviets is 120 fuel and comes with an insanely useless unit in the form of the SU-76. Not to mention the fact that you keep ignoring that even if the Jackson only cost 15 fuel more it has a turret, higher damage, moves faster, and is more accurate. You don't get to have a mobile TD with almost double the damage of the other TD's then on top ask to have just as much armor and health. And by the way, all the things that would normally be shooting at a Jackson have just as much garenteed a pen chance against a SU-85, which is much less mobile and doesn't have a turret. The JPIV is the most unmaneuverable medium in the game, do you think it has good armor as a joke? No, it has good armor because it is extremely hard to maneuver around the battlefield and it lacks even the ability to traverse it's main gun like the SU-85 can. So what if it's free if you make the BG HQ as your first HQ? Nobody is going to ever make it their first piece of armor because is massively delays your Schwer and the JPIV can't deal with how mobile allied mediums are. The whole point of this though as I am sure you will ignore is that the Jackson is better because 240 a shot! Thats not the bonus everyone makes it out to be as shown in the above posts. Back to the Sturmtiger reference. Except a Sturmtiger has a 50 second reload between shots. If it could do it's damage faster everyone would say it is OP as shit. It also doesn't track anymore. The Jackson is not only better because it has 240 damage a shot, it has great mobility compared to the other medium TD's. Because the faction design already takes it in account. OKW's Fuel units are cheaper than their Other faction equivalent. Like OKW panther cost vs Ostheer panther cost. So why would we count them twice? No they are not. the Ostheer and OKW Panther are both 175 fuel. Teching doesn't change the fact your still at a resource disadvantage which means replacing your losses is far more costly. The KT is the most expensive tank in the game despite being only 30 fuel more expensive than the IS2 thanks to teching costs. In: Lobby
Thread: MGs are not supposed to kill?29 Mar 2015, 19:04 PM Jump back to quoted post29 Mar 2015, 09:40 AMKatitof How pointing a jump ability from outside of heavy bolter range right on top of them and hardcountering it this way is harder then walking up to MG? And since you're talking about killing gunner and not actually throwing a nade, then let me remind you this again: Only one faction got obersoldaten and their power level over 9000 will get reduced to normal human strength in 3 days. Actually every faction can kill gunners fairly easy, they all have only 80 health with 25% more received accuracy. And the issue is exacerbated with the MG42 and 34 because they only have a 4 man crew and take long to swivel and acquire their targets and begin suppression. Not to mention grenades, so you don't even need to risk your jump units by jumping them into possibly an enemy army you can just crawl up to the MG and kill it with a grenade. Or just move 2 squads into the line of fire and kill the MG because it won't be able to swivel in time to hit you. The MG42/34 either need a larger crew size, better swivel and firing time, or they need to lose the stupid outdated 25% more received accuracy. In: Lobby
Thread: USF wishes for patch29 Mar 2015, 09:03 AM Jump back to quoted post29 Mar 2015, 08:08 AMAustralian Magic I believe you just misspelled. 58% to penetrate KT at max range? Yeah I misspelled, as max range it's 50% for a Panther and 58% for a regular Tiger. But if you wanted do know, the Jackson has a 37% chance to pen the KT frontally at max range In: Lobby