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Thread: AT infantry4 Jan 2015, 17:21 PM ^ Yes, I think that's a perfectly valid solution, too. But it doesn't really change the level of micro required. I think the idea of having to position AT infantry and screen them might add to the tactical fun / challenge of CoH2 for Axis. I loved that Brit PIAT ambush ability. You could have all sorts of stuff like that. It would challenge the heavy armour stomp meta. I want driving un-screened tanks into urban areas, for example, to be a nightmare for all factions. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: AT infantry4 Jan 2015, 15:00 PM ^ That's a good point about the zook rack. I hadn't thought of it TBH. Like you say, every change has knock-ons. Maybe zooks could stay as they are for untrained troops and be unlockable but AT inf have better aim and pen due to their specialisation. I dunno. PzGrens should be heavy assault infantry. Freeing them of the At role would give a Wehr player a solid short-range shock-like AI unit. Maybe the cost should be revisited. Their upgrades should be sprint and maybe non-doctrinal G43. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: AT infantry4 Jan 2015, 14:53 PM Something needs to give, across all factions, when it comes to AT infantry. I just won a 2 v 2 where my shrek PzGrens eviscerated several tanks (T34 and Easy-8 Shermans) better than my Paks. I just lost a 4 v 4 where ludicrously durable Vet 4 and 5 Volks blobs roamed the battlefield like T2000s. So I'm not making a pro-Allied fanboy point (I like playing Wehr, actually, where the meta demands heavy T1 / T2 play into Tigers and Elephants, making shrek infantry more or less mandatory. OTOH US zooks are like pea-shooters and Soviet guards are increasingly impotent against anything but the lightest vehicles. The answer? AT teams. I used to play the Close Combat series where AT teams were separate infantry teams. Shrek crews should be three strong, not very good versus infantry and require screening by other units. There's one thing that straight away makes Axis E-Z mode less-micro issues disappear. Bazooka crews should be the same. The zook should be dangerous against medium armour but require micro and ambush tactics to use properly. Lone AT teams would be super-vulnerable. For Russians, I'd just give them zooks or make the AT rifle more of a focussed weapon that can do crits a la the Stuart. Currently we have AT teams with MP44 / G43 and captured small arms. I recently had a Vet 3 PzGren with shreks and a captured flamethrower. LOL. My proposed AT teams would be able to use 1 captured weapon but as a unit they should never be as good as a proper anti-infantry configured team. TL;DR - AT infantry should be small, frail high-risk high-return T2 units. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: [Speculation thread] So what's next Relic?4 Jan 2015, 10:36 AM Two obvious ones are Commonwealth late war (NW Europe) and, yes, Italy. I also have a fantasy wish which WILL NEVER HAPPEN. NW EUROPE The British and Canadians fought their own distinct campaign up the northwest coast of Europe and into Germany. The Brits and Americans launched the biggest airborne op of WW2 in 1945 (Varsity) plus you have the Canadian-led Scheldt battles(honoured with that fabulous map in vCoH). Units? Well Brits would be brand new (lets have Comet heavy tanks - 102mm main gun - to shake things up) but the challenge is the Axis. We've got OKW. How do you make a third? I'd argue you could. The name I'd leave to someone else, but it would be an armour-lite German force with excellent mobile and static defence. Think Panzer Elite with less cheese topping. German paras would feature heavily. Armour? StuG ace (lots of assault guns in late war), captured Shermans, Jagdpanther, Wespe etc. Lots of interesting halfies. BIG mortars. Would love to see some German jet air support call-ins like Arado bombers and ME262. ITALY I think we've already covered but the Allied army there was the biggest multinational force of WW2 with a dizzying number of possibilities for specialist and call-in units. The German / Italian hybrid sounds intriguing but ultimately doomed as by 1944 the Italians had surrendered and only vestigial units took part as part of the German effort. My fantasy-will-never-happen idea? CoH2 - 1946 The Soviets don't stop at Berlin and WW2 segues messily into WW3. The newly sworn-in German government pledges an alliance with the Allies. A small Democratic German army is made from the remnants of the Wehrmacht utilizing wunderwaffen concepts. So to hell with historical accuracy, lets see the dieselpunk sturm und drang of the century with IS2 + series Soviet armour, Pershings, hastily assembled Maus tank destroyers and all the rest of it in the mother of all wars. Go for it Relic - it would be a massive hit people love counter-factuals. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Remove USF Major and OKW Med truck retreat3 Jan 2015, 17:16 PM As others have rightly said, OKW is the problem, not the other factions. It's not as badly designed as Brits but it comes from the same poisoned, discredited school of thought. OKW could be the coolest, most fun and challenging faction. Instead it's this gimmicky temple to the spam god. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Listen to this beautiful song and read the lyrics - COH2 <3 3 Jan 2015, 14:51 PM ^ Yup. Look at the OPs romanticism. Jesus, some people here seem to think WW2 = Warhammer 40K. In: Lobby
Thread: Listen to this beautiful song and read the lyrics - COH2 <3 3 Jan 2015, 14:33 PM Jump back to quoted post3 Jan 2015, 14:06 PMFichtenMoped but damn son you should pay some respect to the dead although they were on the losing side. I'm 45. You're probably in your twenties. 'Son.' Edit - every German who died in the Second World War died in vain. Because they were ultimately fighting for the Third Reich. The clue is in the swastika on the uniforms. The subtle 'tributes' and 'poor mislead landser' memes on this forum are suggestive on one thing only - a creeping revisionism about the war. I blame education. Look at the usernames and Nazi fetishism. It's either deluded, creepy or offensive. Get as butthurt as you like about it but it's a problem in this community. In: Lobby
Thread: Listen to this beautiful song and read the lyrics - COH2 <3 3 Jan 2015, 13:58 PM Cry me a river. The amount of pro-Nazi Revisionism on this forum is disgusting. In: Lobby
Thread: Listen to this beautiful song and read the lyrics - COH2 <3 3 Jan 2015, 13:51 PM More fanboys of the losing side. Who were Nazis. Sheesh. In: Lobby
Thread: The Propagandacast.3 Jan 2015, 13:48 PM Dane, slightly off-topic - what are your predictions for CoH2 stuff happening this year? In: COH2 Shoutcasts