Profile of Purlictor

"terrible design"

there's that buzzword again for "i just had this happen to me" threads

Or maybe it's just bad design? Having to shoot every single crawler to prevent bullshit RNG happening to you is a tedious and almost pointless APM sink. There is nothing about crawlers setting off mines that makes this game any better in any manner whatsoever. So yes, it is terrible design. The creation of crawlers also seems to be pretty random.

I learned it the hard way back in the first year.

Implying that you actually play(ed) the game? Now I know you're lying.

Exactly. You have to spend manpower to counter things. You have to spend more manpower if you want to counter things quickly. 2 LEIGS counter mortar pits quickly and require almost no micro to do so. After you killed the mortar pit, you now have 2 Leigs to bombard infantry sections -that have to stand bunched up in cover to be effective- with. I don't know what more you could want. Countering emplacements HAS to come at a price, otherwise there would be no point for the opponent to even construct the emplacement to begin with now would there?

But the mortar pit has more range? You can't just start attacking and kill it within a few seconds. Double leig also comes out a whole lot later than brits can build their mortar pit, as well as the fact that some mortar pit placements (like the one posted by the OP) can not simply be killed with leigs.

Double mortars/LeiG followed by infantry/armored assault, any bloody flame weapon = RIP emplacement.

What are we talking about here? When does ostheer and OKW ever have the time and resources to get 2 mortarHTs or 2 LeiGs out? Armored assault? This isn't the late game. Axis will at best be able to afford a luchs, if that. And if they get a luchs, they have no Leig or puma for the AEC.

Want me to get flamer pios? Must be great to be completely annihilated by rifles and the AEC when I spend all my resources on 2 mortar HTs and multiple pios.

Flame halftrack will get it rekt too.

Right, the thing that dies instantly to the AEC and/or stuart the allies always have. Hell, even soviet ATGs destroy it easily. And yes, the AEC will be out by then.

Oh wait, he popped brace? if you played your cards right, all this will do is buy himself a few extra seconds before dying, where he can't fire back.

Luckily for me, you can go engineers and repair while doing so. Or even better, laugh at the fact that the axis spent so many resources on trying to kill an investment that completely forced them into a specific strategy and commander. Look at the moscow screenshot the OP posted. It denies the entirety of the middle, and you're telling me I have to somehow take that out with leigs and mortarHTs, followed by an infantry push?

If he went Mortar pit it means he sacrificed significant field presence, making him especially vulnerable to flanking. most people go head on anytime they see an emplacement and this is exactly what the Brit player wants.

Irrelevant on maps like Rails, Crossing in the woods, and Moscow. We're talking 2v2s here: the US ally will always have field presence to stop you, especially considering the very short distance to the allied bases. It's the maps and specific placements that make the mortar pit so annoying to play against.

You lot are boring and lack creativity, really.

Please, show me replays of you executing these strategies against decent allied players and not some shitters in a 4v4.

That's impressive, how did you manage to get as low as 50 when there are only 30 players in the game?

Ladder meant less than nothing in coh1 though.

Anyone who thinks maxims are fine has never played as okw on crossing in the woods/ettelbruck/moscow/rails/pretty much any other 2v2 map.

It's their huge squad size combined with extremely quick set-up time, massive fire atc when in a building and the requirement to build a truck for grenades which makes them so insanely good vs okw.

It's frustrating to deal with as ost but at least you have some early game solutions.