Profile of Lady Xenarra

Let's hope they can fulfil their roadmap. Relic don't have any other major products around (AoE IV is stable IIRC), call it hopium if you will, but being the premier WWII RTS keeps ppl coming back. Even when ppl were trying desperately to leave COH2 for alternatives. It's a low bar, but SURELY Relic can do better than say Warcraft Reforged and SCII-in-maintenance-mode?

With any luck we'll just look back at this period and mark it as a better part of a series of bad game releases by various game companies.

Well...has the most recent balance patched help dramatically with giving the player tools to handle blobbing? MG suppression? Ability of LV to kite AT blobs?

Short answer: Yes.

Long answer: MG suppression has made it perhaps almost too easy to shut down a blob now. You frontally charge one with a blob now and can expect to get suppresspinned quickly.

StuG III D can more plausibly get into range to take a shot without being hit before even aiming. Achtrad is very good against the ATblob now that they don't reinforce as fast as you drop models. Generally speaking, the AT boys blob is no longer able to so easily A-move through entire armies. A lot of skill micro is required. I did not know about the frankly insane scaling they used to get from the training centre, explains why fighting them always felt like OKW vs UKF again.

Schreckjaegers took quite a hit to their general power and specifically anti-inf firepower. Prob much harder to pull off that blob successfully now.

Seen a lot of players now struggle to handle grenadier x2 openers, now that combat reinforce time is rightfully loooong. Even with a reinforcement truck parked near the front, the pressure generated is a small fraction of what it used to be IMHO.

One concern is BAR rifle blobs. I did see a lot of those before the patch and used them myself too. The buffs have made them a very formidable squad overall. But LVs will chop them up easily.

Gachigasm posted this basically two years ago already.
This might be "dead data" by Relic and they do not plan to follow up on it but make something completely different instead, but I find this hard to believe.

Okay thanks for clearing that up.

EDIT: I missed the spoiler within a spoiler.

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Best bike in COH history but also countered by A-moving Britblob. I'm all for full combined arms, bike, 2 Pzgrens, MG34 + ISG etc. going as far as WWI tactics, but this isn't for most people lol. Also forget about MG ambushes, due to recon flares, unless they get really sloppy. Speaking of flares, they'll see your camped StuG III D as well.

Slightly off-topic but that's an interesting point about the Marder.

I still have no real idea what i'm doing in COH 3, so take this with a pinch of salt, but I find it quite tough to get the most out of them, they seem to be very clumsy and they barely have more range than regular armour. Obviously, it's a casemate so I know its not supposed to be very agile when it comes to moving and targetting, but unlike the previous game, its gun barrel can't 'move' at all so it relies completely on the whole vehicle rotating to find its target before it fires.

Anyone else noticed this? If its by design that's fair enough obviously. But they seem to have a noticbly harder time adjusting to close up, or moving targets compared to similar units in the previous game.

It's not just the Marder III, all the casemates have less 'free' gun traverse in COH3 when compared to COH2. But it's not without a plus side, eg: WM casemates (eg: Brummbar!) come with Hull Down, which reduces incoming dmg by 25%. Prob best for those dastardly laney maps that are very campy.

Marder III is hard to use, unless they dive you or present nice open map options. General casemate manoeuvrability problems plus easily getting into trouble if they push too hard. Forget about shots on the move, if that's even mechanically possible with COH3's casemates. A pair of them has a strong tendency of getting in the way of each other. But these are not new problems tbh, anyone who used a pair of SU-85s or JP4s knows instantly these things. I find it best to simply have them lined up and then fwd or reverse in a straight line. Turning seems to cause the biggest problems. The WM version seems to miss a lot more than the DAK one IMHO. Now aerafield is correct in saying they, "....out-rotate shermans and crusaders trying to circle them from 3 meters away". Of course, they only have 360HP normally, so 3 med tank shots. The DAK one however scales to have 440HP and finally 520HP with the two durability upgrades. And 160dmg increasing to 192dmg with the Tungsten core ammo upgrade.

Marder III has apparently 50 range to a typical tank's 40 range. Even Hellcat only shoots out to 45. AT gun range is 60. Use that info as you will.

What are you on about? With 210 armor Stug Ds, Propaganda arty (which you can't counter), combined arms counter blob and the stuka, DAK has one of the best if not the best tools in the whole game to counter the current "blob near a heal truck" meta

StuG III Ds are abysmal vs anything bigger than a Stuart (which also outranges its 30 range by 10). I read somewhere that it has 100 pen far, but it tends to miss the target or detonate too early (eg: Chaffee seems to eat shots up like no tomorrow). AT guns pen that 210 with little difficulty. They have nice anti-inf cluster performance but let's not pretend it's a Tommy deleting machine. AT boy squads outrange it and 2 will beat it consistently. If one uses the StuG III D in places with lots of LoS blockers (to mitgate AT gun power) then it's asking to eat snares.

Combined arms (CA) is indeed fantastic. And vet I IS gets improved accuracy vs targets out of cover (Base of Fire), so forget about diving the heal truck. It evens out CA in my experience and stomps your men out of CA, at least until vet II. I suppose it could be the battle of the heal trucks but I never liked this playstyle. And your (usually) LVs are also countered by their A-move and/or Stuart(s). I can do the micro fine but most ppl will struggle immensely.

Propaganda arty is available in only 1/3 BGs and only really works once as a surprise. Hardly much micro tax to split the blob up into 2 slightly apart groups.

If you can make the Stuka work in the huge med tank spam meta, I salute you o7. Delaying your Pz III Ls that much is literally asking for you and your army to get rolled by Crusaders and 76mm Shermans. Unless you are already winning of course.


tl;dr: DAK does indeed have fantastic tools for dealing with Brits. Mainly in the late game and of course Achtrad