Profile of Lady Xenarra

Just veto it along with the other anti-Allied hellholes maps like Steppes, General Axis and Rzhev Winter.

Just so you know you keep posting incorrect data despite me telling you otherwise, it’s not the first time you have done that with respect to penal squads. Read the feb patch notes. It was changed and modified at vet2. For their cost they shouldn’t have to scale bad. That line of thinking makes no sense and part of the change was to address that but it didn’t fully fix it.

Ok I take it back, seems that the vet guide is wrong again. Perhaps I should start looking through my favourite units and seeing what else is wrong \o\

They're 290 MP for a 6 man squad with those stats, not sure how much more generous one could expect for that price tag. Riflemen and IS are 280MP but are worse starting off.

And it's actually not threatening at all, literally all you have to do is kite at max range with P4 and watch as his manpower bleeds like the Niagara Falls.AT guns do the same PTRS penals but it's obvious why they are all-around better, they're simply not effective because Inf-based AT weapons need high-burst damage, something the PTRS clearly lacks even with three of them, doing with 3 rifles as much DMG as a single PZshreck, with slow ROF to boot.

In the campaign it's actually modelled correctly, PTRS guards for example have a insane ROF and will take half a P4's health pool off in less than 7 seconds.I'm not saying it should be a "counter to all Axis armour" as I've stated in the OP, CE often times do nothing but plant mines and repair late game, they can't actually assist in a armor battle and giving them 2xPTRS would solve that whilst also giving them faster vet just because they plinked some rounds at a 222 or P4 from max range.

Even with the 23% received accuracy, in any prolonged fight PTRS penals had against any armor that wasn't a light tank, if they aren't behind some heavy cover they'll just get shredded and be forced to retreat within seconds.They don't work well as a AT squad, atleast if CE got those PTRS they would have a sustainable amount of MP bleed.

How do you kite a range 40 AT rifle with a range 40 cannon? Is there some flaw in the targeting mechanics you can exploit? This time I did check the patch notes and they have 0.5s ready-aim time.

Pzschreck has 7.75s reload time to what...3s on the Penal PTRS? They're much more consistent for dealing damage to LVs and even mediums (Over 100% hit chance).

Your CE aren't crazily busy already just doing those tasks as is? I have to send even my flamethrower guys back to repair as there's just too much damage lategame.

They are not supposed to win 1v1 with a medium tank (Pz IV), this can be seen in testing Tightrope did where they consistently lose (but do heavy damage). Nor should they or it'd be very easy to blob and mass effectively.

I think you're trying to answer a problem that's already been solved. SU-85 is the SOV answer to late game armour fights, not another AT inf squad.

Then there's the big problem that a med tank can just run your AT CE squad around and mow them down at close range without worrying about an AT satchel. You can also do this to a zook/schreck squad because they have to stand still to fire.

EDIT: Even in your original post scenario, I'd argue that even a Pz IV can ignore your AT CEs long enough to finish off your T-34 (1? 2? 3 shots hp?) then bug out. Panther absolutely will.

Was wondering what faction to recommend to a new/starting player and I think OKW is the most beginner friendly/least punishing faction.

*They have the safest bases that prevent infantry and light vehicle base-rushes.
*No-tech AT guns so you never get rushed with vehicles without an answer
*AT gun with retreat - much less likely to lose them if you missmacro
*No weapon drops for mainline inf so you are not feeding the enemy your weapons if you lose squads
*Free-ish weapon and nade unlocks (baked into tech and cheaper overall)
*Strong nondoc elite inf lategame that can replace volks losses (less punishing to lose inf)
*Extra support and protection if you build shwere outside of base sector
*Nondoc super heavy tank that can be build even if you lose strutures

Is there a faction that is better or similarly good for a new player?

As a long standing OKW player who also had the gauntlet of coming back after 5 yrs and getting rolled by the changes over time - I would actually recommend OKW last.

It teaches you a lot of bad habits

• Poor AT gun micro leading to A-moving, which will punish you hard for non-retreatable AT guns. Nvm rocket arty. You'll cluster up your AT and overextend constantly.
  
• Schwerer can be placed extremely aggressively in low ranks but you'll cost yourself the match vs decent ppl.
  
• You learn nothing about the timing of grenades + weapon unlocks and the choice of the fuel allocation. Incendiary nade burns a lot but has little direct killing power unless they're truly asleep at the wheel
  
• Pz IV ausf J is little more than an overpriced Pz IV at low ranks, easy to expose it to serious danger
  
• Your healing is mostly locked in T2, med crates are not cheap.
  
• Blobbing. This is bad by risking your entire army to even a clumsy Katyusha shot.
  
• KT stall; speaks for itself
  
• T2: Flak HT has an extremely high skill threshold
  
• T3: Luchs is easily beaten by the most common Allied LVs - AEC, T70, Stuart, Show Spoiler
  . Puma is a deceptively difficult vehicle to master, esp with its pathfinding. Stuka rush is extremely powerful vs weak players but again another bad habit - > a LV dive and you're in trouble.
  

Volks scale extremely poorly into the late game (read: not at all) and thus encourage a 'disposable' mentality knowing that you can just get Obers. You can't do this for the other factions (except maybe for Paratroopers) and your unit preservation suffers. COH2 is extremely focused on keeping units alive to gain veterancy.

I would recommend SOV T2 as well (don't maxim spam) as it gives you all the tools you need until you get to a very very high skill bracket. Maybe slot in doctrines with Guards which are overall a direct upgrade from Cons. The combined arms of cons with your weapon teams teaches you some solid fundamentals of the game.

For the man power cost of an infantry section and the fuel cost of a halftrack you can completely lock down a section of the map 360 degrees for 5-10 minutes. It doesn't even matter if it gets destroyed you can just build another and the advantage it already gave in map control means you don't need to rebuild them anyway. And if you go advanced emplacements infantry section can build them and have them out really early on.

I'll give you the same advice I give other people in this situation:

OKW -> Feuersturm -> ISG incendiary
OST -> 250/7 Self-Propelled Mortar doctrines -> Incendiary

Congratulations, the UKF player is now dead (or very far behind) and you have light arty that also completely melts any mortar pits. Now their only option for countering MGs are (muni) smoke and Sniper.

You do not mess around with them, you give them no room or mercy. Burn all their fixed stuff down.

This isn't early COH2 with ultra-swivel Elefants stacking 11% rotation bulletins. The only casemate that might be a problem is the JP4 but you will only have a dead JP4 if you try to outturn-in-place vs any turreted Allied tank.