Profile of BeltFedWombat

What do we think about...

"For example, soldiers are more than disposable grunts — keep them alive and their skills improve over time."

This is a bit like CoHO, right? Or is it a campaign thing only?

My views are mixed.

1. I really like the idea of precious, much-loved and nurtured units

But on the other hand...

2. Won't they make MP a nightmare from a competitive POV?

3. Will they be allowed in ladder automatches?

4. I suppose the desire to preserve veteran units will change the gameplay dynamic and even the metagame... people will play differently to preserve their pet unit(s)

5 But man, I hated those CoHO assault jeeps.

Thoughts?

"Ivan's snipers were easier to spot in the alpha!"

Please take this post in the spirit in which it is intended, and I understand that some folks simply won't care less. That's cool.

But me? I like military history, esp. WW2.

The liberties the original CoH took with this were perfectly okay for me, because the Normandy Campaign / NW Europe theatre was the end-game for the Western Allies. So Pershings, RR's, Ostwind fleets (despite their nonsensical inclusion) made sense within the internal consistency of CoH, i.e. the verisimilitude jived for me as a player. The average one-hour long 2 v 2 has as much armour in it (for two company-sized Wehr units) as a division in late 1944.

So what?

Well, CoH2 covers June 1941 - April 1945. Units, doctrines, uniforms and all of the rest of it changed dramatically. Soviet light armour deployed against the German Schwerpunkt in 1941 was utterly obsolete by 1943-44. Similarly, the light tank fleet that motored across the Ukraine was utterly different from that at Kursk.

So, how do the CoH2 devs / designers (who I know love military history and have put a shit-load of work into getting this right) display that variety whilst maintaining some sense of verisimilitude within the game they have created? Does it matter? Who cares?

I do care, but am also chilled out enough to understand that liberties _have_ to be taken. But where is the line? Are small BA-20s storming Berlin in 1945 something that bothers you? Or Panzer II rolling eastwards in 1943?

Worked for me too, tx RiflesReady.

I have just made level 10 on automatch 1 v 1 as Wehr versus a level 10 Brit who didn't (a) build a single Stag and (b) never accused me of hacking, even when I V1'd him using a heroically concealed sniper.

Given my lack of skill I am chuffed to bits by reaching level 10, shout-out to Inverse (again) as I followed his anti-Brit strat / build.