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The maps aren't exactly the same in summer and winter, that's why.

Furthermore, that's would be a bad idea for those who want to play only on the winter version of a map for example.

In my opinion, the KV-1 is performing better than the Churchill. I'd rather call a KV-1 on the battlefield than a Churchill, really.

But I agree that both of them need to be adjusted.

The main problem for me is the barrage, which completely wreck infantry at medium/long distance + highly suppress it.

And the brace ability but it got nerf few patches ago

Atm the Bofors is far more balanced compared to how it was at the release of the British.

Of course the problem with that argument is that it just reinforces the sheer unrealism of the game and how a Japanese faction has to be equally ludicrous in order to be feasible in said unrealistic game. I still don't buy that, because it's a mentality that accepts increasing implausibilities just to accommodate an almost implausible scenario.

He got it.

You can't use the argument of " Something is unrealistic, so there is no problem if we put other unrealistic things. "

The fact is, yes, it's a problem. At the moment in CoH, some units have unrealistic values for the sake of balance, but here we talk about a whole faction, not a bunch of units.

How can you imagine IJA winning a front against IS-2s and KV-2s ? You need to overvalue all of their units to do that, that's not correct in my opinion.

so at least it seems that the game already has some basics in camo and ambushes.

I agree with you, but the problem that i want to underline is that the ambushes features in CoH2 are extremly basics. We talk about IJA, who mostly fought in Jungles and Mountains, where it's easy to defend, or to ambush/place traps. And where it's difficult to maneuver with vehicles like tanks and light armoured support vehicle. It's mostly an infantry battle than a real battlefield.

In CoH2, you don't have those cons. You have tanks everywhere, AA SPG, artillery etc.

So in my opinion, the only way to design a competitive Japanese faction in CoH2 is just boosting their units to allow them to compete with the other ones because their tactics in the war can't be added in the game. ( It would require a complete rework of the gameplay, Relic has other things to do i guess )
For me it's not interesting. I'd rather wait for a next CoH with a complete gameplay dedicated to ambushes and jungle skirmishes, where the Japanese Army will really can show what she was capable off 70 years ago. Not just put her in a situation she almost never saw so that would never reflect the real potential of the Faction.

And on top of that, i can't see Japanese soldiers on the Smolensk's ground, that would hurt my heart

They're really beautiful, good job.

But once again, non-historicals skins in automatch