Profile of isoul

The MWNL#3 was a good enough excuse for me to return to CoH and check out the state of the game. I usually did 2v2 and 1v1 but since my friend isn't that much online anymore I 've tried 3v3 and 4v4 mostly for a change.

What I 've witnessed in most games I did was that :

OKW Volks infantry is being used a lot and they are quite effective. What changed was that you no longer see 5-6 Volks but 2-3 paired with SturmPios. The same "tactic" as before... rush in, fire a Shrek salvo and focus fire infantry. When they lose 1-2 men just retreat. Then tech into rocket arty and/or panthers which in conjunction with the Shreks are unbeatable.

OST relies mostly on either Gren spam w/ an MG42 or spam MG42s and lock down key-regions (with a bunker, a couple of mortars etc etc) to buy time to pump out heavy tanks while bleeding you MP.

How Soviets are right now? I 've red that spamming Maxims is the answer but that seems easy to counter with OST and managable as OKW, if you avoid them and cap the rest of the map till you get the tools to kill them.

Its probably bad RNG that gave you that result.

Maybe atm its best used against stationary targets like weapons teams or crippled vehicles.

No, no, no!

According to what tests I 've done, and I did enough, on my (soviet) vehicles and AI-controlled WM infantry units (and weapon teams) I 've seen that :

1) On light vehicles the damage is lot greater when the attack comes from the sides (for some reason). Hits on the front deal deal to little damage (somewhat reasonable since its frontal armor) and hits on the rear always deal less damage that side hits.

Afaik, armor values are divided to front and rear and there is no different value for side armor (side hits are calculated based on rear armor value). Isn't that so?

So, its probably how the ability works (maybe how many rounds land on the target) rather than how much damage the ability deals on rear armor.

2) On the AI-controlled(Easy difficulty) infantry the ability fails to deal significant damage on infantry squads. Even if the squad is a Gren squad not in cover with half(2/4) squad members dead already, a direct hit from this ability fails to wipe the half-dead squad and sometimes it fails to to even kill a single soldier. Same goes for weapon teams.

On my own (soviet) squads the ability deal no damage at all. What I thought is that it had friendly fire turned off. On the other hand Stuka Anti-tank Run (WM Close Air Support Doctrine), which is a similar ability, deals significant damage to infantry, even your own. I can't say why this disparity exist.

I 've spend more than an hour testing this ability on various targets and multiple times. It can't be just a matter bad luck on RNG.

So, its not only me that can't find some good use.

Its really bad that a 12CP 10CP ability is such a failure, especially when similar ones, like the Stuka Anti-Tank Strafe (Ostheer Close Air Support Doctrine) is so powerful and costs 20MUN more...

My point is that if you want to do a Unit Cost to Unit Cost comparison then you should get your amounts correct.

Yours weren't correct as well, weren't they?

Having access to Luchs at a net cost of 130F (80+50) while Soviets can only a ZiS with such amount, being able to field a Panther for a net cost of 255F (80+175) while a Soviet can field a T-34 at 220F (forget the AT nades...). Suggesting that in order to beat OKW you need a doc with call-in tanks and if he gets away to late game with enough vetted squad you are almost surely gonna lose AND...

AND mines are considered OP'ed??? What kind of evil is this?