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Thread: Some tips needed30 Apr 2015, 22:35 PM Well I didn't look at your replay but to counter PTRS there's a few things: 1. Try to look for the signs. If you see nothing but conscripts fielded for the beginning of the game, he's likely to go for PTRS spam, especially if he has it in the loadout. 2. After you are certain, definitely make two HMGs that can cover each other, either by covering 2 entrances into the area you want to lock down or have one behind the other, this helps with the suppression. 3.If you have an area (e.g. VP or Fuel Point) you have to lockdown, try planting S-mine fields with your pioneers. If your opponent doesn't notice he could lose alot of men running through. Even if he notices, he still needs to sweep them, and this takes away from the munition he can use to upgrade PTRS and if you keep the area occupied, the engineers will have a hard time clearing them anyways. 4. Try to get an Ostwind! Generally players who blob PTRSes won't have much else on the board. They are also likely to be low on munitions to spam alot of AT grenades. The Ostwind's armor provides reasonable protection vs. PTRS and the flak cannon really punishes blobbed up conscripts. The soviet's stock armor choices are rather weak to AT fire so your PaK guns should be able to defend you easily vs. T-34/76s. 5. Since you are relatively new, I don't know if you ever participated in the event that gives you the Closed Air Support commander. The Anti-Infantry strafe from that doctrine really punishes infantry blobbing by pinning everything in the area. Hopefully these tips will help In: Strategy Desk
Thread: A letter to Relic COH2 Game balance team28 Apr 2015, 00:36 AM I think people are really running in circles with the comments here so I will refrain from saying any more about truck push. I also like to say that I've played the game for a while but I feel like I'm still learning and I don't consider myself pro, but I don't think I'm complete noob either, so I wanna say somethings about how I feel about OKW after the patch. Raketenwefer - Yeah it got buffed. I also think that it performs much better than before, but it's still an underwhelming AT gun. Being able to retreat is a nice feature yes, but it only really reward players who dont really take care of their support weapons and leave them somewhere alone. I'd like to think that an AT gun's job is to kill tanks, but right now I feel like it's really just up to RNGesus whether I do damage or not. I agree that after some vet it can be incredibly powerful, but generally speaking the process of getting vet can be tricky since it dies so easily/can bounce alot. Blobbing - Alot of people like to bash OKW for blobbing their infantry. I am personally not a fan of that because I'm unlucky vs. 120 mm and katyushas so if I blob I just lose the game, but I feel it's more than that. Alot of the times I feel like I don't have any choice but to blob. When I play Ostheer, I might field some grens, some PAKs, some MGs and mortars for different situations. Whether to try to get building control, get AT or lock down a zone. When I play OKW I feel like I don't have these options. Since both Raketenwerfer and the Infantry Support Gun are rather unwhelming (yes, even after the buff - I personally feel), I don't necessarily feel like wasting the MP to get them. the MG34, in my experience, is kind of poor in its suppression capabilities, especially considering that it's a doctrinal unit. If I want AI and suppression, I'd rather go Flak HT. So I basically feel like the only things that are worth fielding are infantry and the Flak HT. Jagdpanzer is a nice choice but depending on the opponent I'm facing it might or might not be necessary. Especially considering the low fuel income of OKW, sometimes I just rather save for KT or a panther. Obers - There has been alot of discussion about the obers on whether they were too OP and if the current version is too weak. I won't pretend like I know alot but I just havn't seen people use them lately. I personally have started to use them less because now they are quite a heavy investment compared to their performance. Considering the power of PTRS and the occasional insane 120 mm shots, this 4 model squad can get kicked off the field rather easily with bad RNG, especially with the heavy reinforcement cost. I now find myself using panserfusiliers more and more because they are simply more cost effective. You could argue that it is a good thing that with the nerf of obers I am learning to use PF and the Flak HT as a counter to heavy infantry play, and I will agree to that. But I feel like there's really no reasons to go obers right now, and that just feels wrong for an unit to exist without a purpose. Doctrinal Choice - This is a really big ballbuster for me cause I feel like the faction is just boring to play cause I can only viably go either Heavy Fortification or Breakthrough Tactics. Even with these two doctrines I'm really only just using the PaK43 (occasionally MG 34) and PFs. The other doctrines are fine but they just don't give me what I need. Both fallschrimsjaegars and jaegar light infantry suffer from high MP drain. You could argue that I dunno how to use them, which is fine, but I just think that with all the mortar/PTRS RNG and rifle blobs, these units are just too costly. Basically for most games I'm just building volks and Flak HT and trying to stall for KT, either with PF or PaK 43, since I feel like my fuel income is usually rather limited. I'm not here to cry for OKW buff or any kind of fan-boyism. The point of the post is to say that I think OKW has some fundamental design issues and we should help relic redesign some of the things instead of trying to fight over which side should be hit harder with the nerf bat. Also if anyone think what I'm saying is wrong, you are very welcome to correct me, but refrain from name-calling and saying l2p, because that's just unconstructive and is really just a waste of both of our time. In: COH2 Balance

Thread: Some tips needed30 Apr 2015, 22:35 PM

Well I didn't look at your replay but to counter PTRS there's a few things:

1. Try to look for the signs. If you see nothing but conscripts fielded for the beginning of the game, he's likely to go for PTRS spam, especially if he has it in the loadout.

2. After you are certain, definitely make two HMGs that can cover each other, either by covering 2 entrances into the area you want to lock down or have one behind the other, this helps with the suppression.

3.If you have an area (e.g. VP or Fuel Point) you have to lockdown, try planting S-mine fields with your pioneers. If your opponent doesn't notice he could lose alot of men running through. Even if he notices, he still needs to sweep them, and this takes away from the munition he can use to upgrade PTRS and if you keep the area occupied, the engineers will have a hard time clearing them anyways.

4. Try to get an Ostwind! Generally players who blob PTRSes won't have much else on the board. They are also likely to be low on munitions to spam alot of AT grenades. The Ostwind's armor provides reasonable protection vs. PTRS and the flak cannon really punishes blobbed up conscripts. The soviet's stock armor choices are rather weak to AT fire so your PaK guns should be able to defend you easily vs. T-34/76s.

5. Since you are relatively new, I don't know if you ever participated in the event that gives you the Closed Air Support commander. The Anti-Infantry strafe from that doctrine really punishes infantry blobbing by pinning everything in the area.

Hopefully these tips will help

In: Strategy Desk

Thread: A letter to Relic COH2 Game balance team28 Apr 2015, 00:36 AM

I think people are really running in circles with the comments here so I will refrain from saying any more about truck push.

I also like to say that I've played the game for a while but I feel like I'm still learning and I don't consider myself pro, but I don't think I'm complete noob either, so I wanna say somethings about how I feel about OKW after the patch.

Raketenwefer - Yeah it got buffed. I also think that it performs much better than before, but it's still an underwhelming AT gun. Being able to retreat is a nice feature yes, but it only really reward players who dont really take care of their support weapons and leave them somewhere alone. I'd like to think that an AT gun's job is to kill tanks, but right now I feel like it's really just up to RNGesus whether I do damage or not. I agree that after some vet it can be incredibly powerful, but generally speaking the process of getting vet can be tricky since it dies so easily/can bounce alot.

Blobbing - Alot of people like to bash OKW for blobbing their infantry. I am personally not a fan of that because I'm unlucky vs. 120 mm and katyushas so if I blob I just lose the game, but I feel it's more than that. Alot of the times I feel like I don't have any choice but to blob. When I play Ostheer, I might field some grens, some PAKs, some MGs and mortars for different situations. Whether to try to get building control, get AT or lock down a zone. When I play OKW I feel like I don't have these options. Since both Raketenwerfer and the Infantry Support Gun are rather unwhelming (yes, even after the buff - I personally feel), I don't necessarily feel like wasting the MP to get them. the MG34, in my experience, is kind of poor in its suppression capabilities, especially considering that it's a doctrinal unit. If I want AI and suppression, I'd rather go Flak HT. So I basically feel like the only things that are worth fielding are infantry and the Flak HT. Jagdpanzer is a nice choice but depending on the opponent I'm facing it might or might not be necessary. Especially considering the low fuel income of OKW, sometimes I just rather save for KT or a panther.

Obers - There has been alot of discussion about the obers on whether they were too OP and if the current version is too weak. I won't pretend like I know alot but I just havn't seen people use them lately. I personally have started to use them less because now they are quite a heavy investment compared to their performance. Considering the power of PTRS and the occasional insane 120 mm shots, this 4 model squad can get kicked off the field rather easily with bad RNG, especially with the heavy reinforcement cost. I now find myself using panserfusiliers more and more because they are simply more cost effective. You could argue that it is a good thing that with the nerf of obers I am learning to use PF and the Flak HT as a counter to heavy infantry play, and I will agree to that. But I feel like there's really no reasons to go obers right now, and that just feels wrong for an unit to exist without a purpose.

Doctrinal Choice - This is a really big ballbuster for me cause I feel like the faction is just boring to play cause I can only viably go either Heavy Fortification or Breakthrough Tactics. Even with these two doctrines I'm really only just using the PaK43 (occasionally MG 34) and PFs. The other doctrines are fine but they just don't give me what I need. Both fallschrimsjaegars and jaegar light infantry suffer from high MP drain. You could argue that I dunno how to use them, which is fine, but I just think that with all the mortar/PTRS RNG and rifle blobs, these units are just too costly.

Basically for most games I'm just building volks and Flak HT and trying to stall for KT, either with PF or PaK 43, since I feel like my fuel income is usually rather limited.

I'm not here to cry for OKW buff or any kind of fan-boyism. The point of the post is to say that I think OKW has some fundamental design issues and we should help relic redesign some of the things instead of trying to fight over which side should be hit harder with the nerf bat.

Also if anyone think what I'm saying is wrong, you are very welcome to correct me, but refrain from name-calling and saying l2p, because that's just unconstructive and is really just a waste of both of our time.

In: COH2 Balance