Profile of JibberJabberJobber

Just because you struggle against something doesn't mean you have to cry nerf. I'll try to keep my advice short:

1. While the UC is quite effective early on (one of the few units keeping UKF relevant), the MG42 does just fine at forcing it away if you keep it supported by Grenadiers. Your Grenadiers have fausts with longer range than the snares of other factions and are unlocked at the start of the game. All your AT options come quite early like the 222 and Panzergrenadiers with Schrecks, so the UC only has a short timeframe where it can do damage without being in much danger.


2. It's the other way around, Tommies have a received accuracy and dps debuff out of cover. You can exploit this in many ways:

- Get infantry that's strong up close like Assgrens, Pgrens, G43 Grens or Storms. Cover gets negated at close range and Sections don't have good short range dps. Sections can't reposition without taking allot of damage because of the received accuracy debuff out of cover.
- Mortars and flamethrowers can punish the use of cover heavily.
- Early vehicles like the 222 and 250 can force away the snareless sections and still do high damage to them on retreat (RA debuff out of cover still applies on retreat). Be wary of the AEC ofcourse.


3 & 4. Emplacements are not really a valid strategy at the higher levels, especially since the Bofors got nerfed last patch. At most you'Il see a single mortar pit. Best idea would be to post a replay where you struggle against emplacement heavy play at www.coh2.org/replay to get tips on how to counter it. Here's a few keypoints:

- If your opponent goes for Bofors he can't get an AEC, they're mutually exclusive. This means any light vehicle you get will be safe to harass the flanks which the Bofors can't cover.
- The best way to deal damage to emplacements early on is by getting double AT guns. Keep them well defended by your main force, find a way to spot for them (storms/sniper/222 on hold fire) so they can fire at long range and make sure you're able to recrew them if they get shot by mortars. AT guns will take down emplacements fast even if braced

The direction it's moving doesn't really matter for the point I'm making - that the USF AAHT is much less susceptible to small arms (50-80% less).

It does matter, the USF AAHT is just as vulnerable because it will always be pointing its weaker rear armor towards the enemy, whether it's infantry or AT.

Besides slower setup/teardown and lesser range, the USF Mortar suffers from worse AOE distances that reduce overall damage output, and unlike the Ostheer mortar the barrage offers no improvement to scatter. I just can't justify building it on the basis of anything other than free smoke, and would never build one if I develop towards grenade techs instead.

Sorry, I was looking at the wrong weapon in the tools, there's apparently two different ones (m1_81mm_mortar_mp and m1_81mm_mortar_team_mp), hence the confusion.

Yeah, seems like the USF mortar only has drawbacks over other mortars.

You should only ever be using USF mortar for smoke so doubling up isn't going to help anyway.

Afaik, the USF mortar is an exact copy of the Ostheer mortar, except it has 5 less range (75 instead of 80) and gets reduced smoke barrage cooldown instead of counterbarrage at vet 1.

Because scatter doesn't depend on the maximum range of a unit (unlike accuracy), it will have the same performance as the Ostheer mortar at the same ranges.

So while it might not have the same flexibility as the Ostheer mortar, I wouldn't go as far as to say it's only good for smoke.

Would be cool if Medic truck would have an AT rifle Volks squad available instead of the IRHT. It would give T1 an AT option that's somewhere inbetween the Raketen and Puma in terms of flexibility.

This would be better than the double Schreck for Sturms idea, because they would not conflict with the role of Schreck Pfusi's, being only good against lights, which is the main weakness of T1 builds.