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Unfortunately that requires you to have purchased a DLC - Ostrupen can't be obtained in any other way.

So its not exactly fair that one of very few possible counters requires you to not only PAY more - it also restricts you to a relatively poor commander.

I love this kind of arguments. "Just get this high tier unit/shitty call in unit from DLC commander/expensive upgrade that arrives 10 minutes later and you can kill that unit easily!!!"

a) a counter is available either in a reasonable timeframe of - let's say 2-3 minutes or
b)less expensive than the unit that it's supposed to counter. I.e. sniper costs 340 mp, jeep costs 220mp. Jeep > Sniper, and jeep costs less than a sniper. So that one works

For all the counters that have been suggested yet they all come well later into the game than the snipers themselves or are no hard counters at all. How are grens with lmg/g43, pgrens, tanks, artillery cheaper than the snipers? Fact is they aren't. Also, the same counts for axis snipers also. Soviets can't counter them properly, too.

Another point:
Snipers are a hard counter to ALL infantry units. They kill each soldier with only 1 shot, and if you have some decent micro your enemy should not be able to kill your snipers at all.

But a specialized hard counter ALWAYS has to have a hard counter to itself.

In vCoH this were bikes and other snipers + the usual soft counters like arty, strafes, tank guns, mines. So, you have HARD counters and SOFT counters in coh 1.

In coh 2 there is none. ONLY! soft counters (arty, mortars, Gewehr rifles (<- lol? why do ordinary rifles counter snipers anyways?). So, a hardcounter that can only be countered by chance - gj rly.

Sure, countersniping mechanics were also not optimal. But there are different options to improve the mechanic. Throwing the mechanic itself out of the window was not.

Thoughts on reducing Raid CP to 1? With or without increasing AWM by 1?

Probably fun to spam jeeps into m8 with rapid response and cap the map in 2v2s

If that's the case let's also make conscripts and guards 8 men squads to compensate for the extra firepower of the grenadier. Also make every individual infantry die faster by making small arms more accurate so it doesn't look like they're shooting blanks at each other. Also increase armor for the Panzer Grenadiers to 2. Good ideas?

How about making grenadiers with 5men just as strong as 4 man squads instead?

You can adjust health, armour, weapon strength etc to create a 5 man squad with exactly the same stats as a 4man squad without any problems. All you just need a tiny bit of maths. It's a matter of a few minutes to code something like this.

Have you looked at how the weapons are programmed?

Ready aim time
Fire aim time
Post firing aim time
Post firing cooldown
Cooldown
Windup
Winddown

What does all this translate too? The time between shooting one bullet and shooting the next.

lol!

Yes, I absolutely love watching people discussing about stuff of which they have like 10% of the necessary insight.

on topic:

Well, penetration should always be in favor of - higher range, less penetration. Anything else makes no sense at all. However, if you want to be remotely historically accurate this would mean that axis tanks/assault guns would have the higher chance to penetrate soviet vehicles in general.
(better, more precise cannons and better ammunition quality). So, this makes SU vs. OH lategame even worse in terms of vehicle combat.

I really enjoy these mornings of whining German fans, in fact just come to the forum to see what they are going to complain now, sovs op that, sov op there... maybe the best solution its make COMPANY OF GERMANS german faction vs german faction

Maybe best solution we rename CoH2.org into "company-of-people-who-have-actually-a-clue-about-broken-gameplay-mechanics.org" and remove posting rights for people who don't...


joke aside.

It's not a balance problem people are whining about, it's the design how the units are setup. And this design is ... let's say... suboptimal. It's like you have a maserati with a 20hp engine. Looks good, but drives awful. This + coh 2 = sniper mechanics.