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Thread: Remove Shreck from Volks9 Feb 2015, 05:12 AM Jump back to quoted post8 Feb 2015, 23:43 PMGlendizzle Puma up? Seriously? That thing wrecks allied stock mediums unless you play it wrong. It has good survivability since it has smoke. And quityerbitchin about pen rates. Try Jacksons vs heavies and then we might talk. Puma out ranges everything that isn't a td. To quote many better men than me "L2P issue." I still fail to grasp how okw would fall apart if shreks were moved to sturms. You'd get a snare and ai upgrade for volks and everybody always has 2 sturms by mid anyway. You'd have 4 shreks still, where is the problem? Also your raketenwerfer would get buffed too. This would add a bit of depth to the faction, not cripple it. God forbid you can't get the best at weapon on your cheap nigh invincible infantry. No one is saying the Puma as a unit sucks, it doesn't. But there is a difference between saying it's bad and it's not worth the fuel. You would be better getting a Puma then say, spamming flak traks if your intent is to counter light armor. But generally your better off saving fuel for a Schwer or using your early game fuel to get a Flak trak if you need to counter infantry/scout cars or a Stuka if you need to counter weapons team spam. This of course assumes you went Mechanized. If you went battlegroup it doesn't matter because no one in there right mind is going to go BG -> Mechanized unless you have a team make backing you up. The issue people have is that giving shreks to sturms would basically make them Pgren's 2.0 which is boring. And making Volks grens 2.0 by giving them AI and Snare is boring. Hey here is this faction that does alright for itself, lets make it's early game model literally the worst faction's in the game. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Remove Shreck from Volks8 Feb 2015, 23:37 PM Jump back to quoted post8 Feb 2015, 20:29 PMOZtheWiZARD Are you trying to argue with unit design or what? Puma has been design to fight medium armour and does it extremely well. The more Vet it gets the more potent it is. I had Puma winning games for me. One game against Soviet that went T4 I build only Pumas and destroyed him. Other game (2v2) I had 2 Pumas (one gained Vet5 feeding on Shermans and T-34) and they were able to scare IS-2 off since IS-2 turret rotates slower than Puma is circling it. When handled correctly Puma will threat almost every allied unit. You can take Jacksons, Shermans, T-34 - whatever. It has speed, it has range, it has penetration. It will be at disadvenatge against heavies but it was never designed to handle them. Stop arguing when you have no clue. There is no point of changing something that is not broken. It's not Puma that's bad it's you or the way you handle it. Just because you play against terrible players doesn't mean you know what you are talking about. You know what would have countered those mediums a million times better? Shreks. You know what does well against IS2's? The Panther, Jadgpanzer will also do work. Stop trying to sell people this retarded bullshit that just because you beat a idiot using them, or got insanely lucky with penetration that the Puma is worth 70 fuel at a reduced income when could be spending that fuel on something that has a lot better transition mid to late game. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Pack Howie and LeIG, no skill squadwipe8 Feb 2015, 23:31 PM The LeIG is fucking horrible, the thing hits once in a blue moon and when it does it does piss all for damage. It vets up horribly slow to. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: A Suggestion For Panther Balance8 Feb 2015, 17:10 PM Jump back to quoted post8 Feb 2015, 06:02 AMMarcoRossolini Doctrinal counters to a non-doctrinal tank. Call in meta is king, thank you for stating the obvious. I'm sorry you can't go Irregular or Partisan tactics and hope to beat Medium/Heavy tanks. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Remove Shreck from Volks8 Feb 2015, 17:04 PM Jump back to quoted post8 Feb 2015, 15:34 PMOZtheWiZARD Puma counters medium tanks and it does this extremely well. It requires a bit of micro though so I understand that it may be off putting or simply too much to handle for some players. Getting Puma just to counter light armour is an overkill. Also there is an opinion that racketen werfer is weak. It can't compete with regular AT gun but when use as a supplement to Volks with Shrecks or in buildings it becomes very decent in its role. I understand however there is no buildings on Steps. If your using a Puma to counter medium tanks, as in you got it to counter mediums then you are insane. The Puma's issue is not that is bad per say, it's just like Iv been saying again and again is that it just doesn't scale well for it's cost. Jacksons eat it alive, and if you fuck up microing it or it gets AT naded it can die pretty fast. It call comes down to the same issue, as long as OKW has a fuel penalty people will -always- spam shreks, people will -never- get the Jadgpanzer, and taking away shreks will keeping the core of OKW the same is dumb as the whole faction is designed around the fuel penalty and on being very choosy with your tank build order. You want to see less blobbing? You want to see less shrek spam? Then make it so you have alternatives, stop trying to shoe horn this dumb idea that OKW has these wealth of alternatives when they simply don't in competitive games. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Remove Shreck from Volks8 Feb 2015, 04:20 AM Jump back to quoted post8 Feb 2015, 02:54 AMThoseDeafMutes Salvaging vehicles and weapon teams gives bonus fuel, start sector is not reduced to 2/3 income, they start with enough fuel to build their first truck (so the first tech choice is essentially free), and the truck that builds the puma allows you to rush it by sacrificing munitions. The extremely cheap nature of teching and options for supplementary fuel income mean that it's not the case that you can multiply fuel costs by 1.5, and you definitely can't multiply the fuel costs of the fuel you get for free at the start. The OKW has to earn 70 additional fuel to construct the puma on top of what they start with. Assuming no salvage or conversion, that means earning the adjusted equivalent of 105 fuel (actually slightly less because base sector not reduced). OKW's starting fuel being quite generous and their teching being so cheap means that the first vehicle they get out can be purchased very quickly, often before the Wehrmacht equivalent, and at a time when they can have a real impact on the flow of the game. The point is not how quickly it can come out, the point is that it's fuel better spent on other things. A Puma just doesn't have the same staying power or impact as other things you could get with it. For 30 fuel more you can get a stuka, and for only 55 you can get a perfect counter to early game scout car/infantry rushes. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: "Blobbing"7 Feb 2015, 23:22 PM Suggests to discourage blobing: - All factions get demo charges - The amount of indirect fire each faction has is increased - Artillery pieces become better at area denial. - MG's become more potent but more expensive, that way people can't spam maxims in place of making actual infantry - Make tanks cost much less man power to encourage people to spend pop cap on gettings tanks instead of endless waves of cons/volks/rifles - Get rid of the OKW fuel penalty, increase tier buildings cost accordingly, keep unit costs the same In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: "Blobbing"7 Feb 2015, 22:27 PM Jump back to quoted post7 Feb 2015, 21:10 PMSnack_Master There is a difference between having squads completely alone on opposite sides of the map and strategic troop placement to take a specific point on the map. I believe the people here are making the case that blobbing is more effective than strategic troop placement (which takes micro and decision making) because the counters to blobbing aren't reliable enough for the time/resources they take to implement vs someone who only has to attack move. Blobbing exists, and you will never be able to get people to stop doing it. You can give people counters to it, a and a LOT of counters current exist for Soviet's. The amount of options as far as anti blobbing goes are this. Soviet > OKW > USF > Ostheer. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: "Blobbing"7 Feb 2015, 20:57 PM Jump back to quoted post7 Feb 2015, 20:55 PMSpearhead Thing is, Engineers are not a front line unit like sturmpios. If you want to plant a demo charge somewhere relevant you are always risking the whole squad getting killed by Obers in 1-2 seconds. I feel like a broken record here, but you normally want to keep your troops together, not wandering around the map alone. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: "Blobbing"7 Feb 2015, 20:20 PM It's almost like people don't understand demo charges are a thing that exists, the OKW mine detector can't even detect the damn thing until it's far, far to late for your "blob" In: COH2 Gameplay