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Thread: Puma (vs Centaur)6 Jul 2016, 20:13 PM Jump back to quoted post6 Jul 2016, 16:52 PMMr.Smith The chance of penetration for Puma varies wildly depending on range. At max range, vs the Centaur you should have a 50% chance of penetration. At point-blank range the chance becomes 100%. You need 6 penetrating hits (with the Puma) to kill the centaur. Thus, your estimate was entirely correct! Alternatively, you could use your superior mobility/range/sight and try to flank the Centaur a bit to the side/rear, where you have an almost-guaranteed chance to penetrate. Thanks for the feedback. Would you build a Puma against a centaur? In: Strategy Desk
Thread: Puma (vs Centaur)6 Jul 2016, 15:41 PM Jump back to quoted post6 Jul 2016, 15:20 PMMr.Smith You don't need anything to spot the Centaur with for your Puma. Puma sight range: 50 Puma gun range: 50 Centaur (and other Medium Armour) gun range: 40 If Puma can shoot at it, Puma can also spot it for itself. Most likely you ran a tight corner somewhere and went too close to the Centaur. Puma has good enough penetration for medium armour paper-armor, and is a beast if you micro it properly. Yeah the centaur was well within range of the puma. I guess i just expecting an AT vehicle to beat the an AA tank without problems. Quite honestly i never really used the puma; i underestimated how papery it is. So i guess my answer is that i really did have bad luck. The 4 shots that hit the centaur barely did any damage. At that rate i would have needed 10+ shots to kill it. In: Strategy Desk
Thread: Puma (vs Centaur)6 Jul 2016, 13:53 PM Jump back to quoted post6 Jul 2016, 13:45 PMShell_yeah puma has more range and more speed than centaur, so you just didnt micro it propely. What am suppose to spot the centaur with for the puma to get range? Im not going to use infantry, thats suicide. Besides, my question was weather the Puma is suppose to penetrate the centaurs armor or weather i was having bad luck. I didnt know 20mm caliber penetrates Puma so easily. In: Strategy Desk
Thread: Puma (vs Centaur)6 Jul 2016, 13:41 PM I was playing a match against UKF a while back (pre-patch) and was a little on the backfoot. I went mechanized, lost my P2 somehow, and saw a centaur. It made a nice flank and wiped a racketten. So my natural reaction was to get a puma - to my surprise the puma did terrible job against the centaur. The puma fired off 4 shots, none of them penetrated, the centaur killed the puma in 3 volleys or so with more than ~70% health. So now I'm confused about what a puma is good against. Is a puma generally useless against medium armor (chassis) or did I have just bad luck? If thats true, then is it not worth building it at all as it tends scale terribly? Thanks In: Strategy Desk
Thread: July 5th Hotfix5 Jul 2016, 15:26 PM Jump back to quoted post5 Jul 2016, 15:07 PMmycalliope what the hell so people are saying just increase the price to 320 mp and keep the mortar as it is lol...if this is how unit balance works then whole lot of units need re adjusting if thats the case...i mean give greandiers better stats and dual lmg and i will gladly pay 320 mp for them lol A faction cant deal with early MGs in buildings. Do you: a) give them t0 mortar with medium spread (to cover the area of most buildings), medium damage b) give them a) mortar with flame mortar round ability c) give them a) mortar with smoke mortar round ability d) give them short range, high accuracy, high damage mortar, then increase price when people complain its OP I would choose d if USF had problems with MGs inside super armored, tiny houses, but it doesn't make much sense for all other things. Its like giving a faction that suffers from lack of AT a short range AT gun that has a high chance to kill any vehicle in 1 shot. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: July 5th Hotfix5 Jul 2016, 14:24 PM Jump back to quoted post5 Jul 2016, 08:16 AMKatitof I've never said its fine. I've already said I'd like it to have high lethality, but only 60 range to force aggressive use and exposure, making it effective alternative vs garrisons and HMGs, but not superior to other indirect fire weapons, especially PACK howi, which should be superior piece here. So high lethality + pinpoint accuracy = what USF needed? Is that the consensus? I thought USF needed a way to get MGs out of buildings. Having an extremely good chance to wipe a whole squad on the first shot, was that part of the need? with all other mortars, even double british mortar, you can safely let the first volley hit and not fear losing a full health squad, statistically speaking. With the USF mortar there is no such guarantee. If any of your full-health units stop moving, they have a very real chance of being wiped. This gets quite micro-intensive when you have 5+ infantry to juggle constantly. I had a fresh Volks squad wiped on the first mortar round, it was the first shot fired in the game. The volks squad just vanished, no body parts flying off, nothing. Vaporized. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: A USF Fanboy's Plea27 Jun 2016, 18:33 PM So is the accuracy considered a bug or is the sniper mortar working as intended? Aside from that I agree with bean. They just need a t0 grade mortar. Smoke, maybe expensive flame rounds, or wide spread on regular attacks. Just need something to dislodge garrisoned mgs. This is an all around best mortar in the game. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Where's the hotfix?27 Jun 2016, 18:15 PM That's what you get for asking rhetorical questions. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Solid OKW BOs for post June 21 Patch23 Jun 2016, 18:31 PM Just wondering if any pros had any success with any new BOs (or old BOs) I personally found that building a second sturm slows me down a bit initially when the timing really matters. It takes forever to build sturms it feels like. If I do build them, its usually the last unit I build in t0 In: OKW Strategies
Thread: Obersoldat reinforce rate23 Jun 2016, 14:53 PM sigh ... this is sooo getting moved into the balance thread. In: OKW Strategies