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Thread: 1v1 / 2v2 - Anyone using Churchills?15 Mar 2016, 14:22 PM I use them for the same reason I use Sextons - messing about in games that I'm confident I've already won anyway. There was quite an argument over why they're useless in this thread: https://www.coh2.org/topic/50337/anvil-churchill-could-use-a-slight-buff Personally I find they're too expensive and can't keep pace with the end game because of it. The gun isn't powerful, and the health bonus is easily mitigated. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: 50 cal should be a vehicle killer14 Mar 2016, 22:34 PM A while back I mentioned the .50 cal not really being like a .50 cal. Another member (firesparks maybe?) mentioned that it's more a stand in for the M1919A6(?) machine gun. It would certainly make more sense that way with its current stats. I'd certainly back making it more of a threat to light vehicles though. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Layoffs at Relic? And the future of COH214 Mar 2016, 11:21 AM I would suck if it's true, primarily because being laid off is a shitty thing to happen to anyone. In: Lobby
Thread: SturmTiger+KT11 Mar 2016, 19:34 PM The AVRE is also more expensive I believe. Despite having much less impact. The sturmtiger managed to escape the OKW cost adjustments somehow, it's really far too cheap. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: 2 unseen commanders left from old leaks10 Mar 2016, 14:39 PM Jump back to quoted post10 Mar 2016, 14:31 PMKatitof I'd like new toys for sov and ost Lelik pls Just curious, but do Sov and Ost have generic armour lines? Most of their lines seem self-referential ("T-34 reporting" etc). I suppose they could probably cobble something together from the other lines though. In: Lobby
Thread: Should Artillery be limited, and if so, to how much?8 Mar 2016, 18:36 PM Jump back to quoted post8 Mar 2016, 18:24 PMTiger Baron Why the limit on Heavy Tanks then? I mean, if what you say is true, I don't see a point in the heavy tank limit being 1. Yeah sure it's not the same type of unit but still, it's a limit, something which you're opposed to. The heavy tank limit has two reasons. First was that most of the heavies are tech free call ins. There was a period where avoiding tech costs and simply spamming late game heavies was the dominant strategy. The second is that the heavies are (mostly) powerful generalist units. With a Tiger or King Tiger you can be reasonably confident in most fights. This is also why the Churchill is labelled a heavy tank but not limited - it simply doesn't have the offensive power that limited heavies like the IS-2 have. Following on from the first point, end game fights also turned into heavies vs heavies all the time. It wasn't interesting or particularly fun. It wasn't an ideal way to deal with it, but it's what we got. Arguably there were also a few units caught up in it that had a "natural" limit anyway - few people every bothered with more than one Elephant or Jagdtiger anyway. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Anvil Churchill could use a SLIGHT buff8 Mar 2016, 18:22 PM Jump back to quoted post8 Mar 2016, 13:52 PMMr.Smith My personal opinion is that the Churchill is still quite viable. I posit that the biggest reason people shy away from the Churchill is the psychological low-armour = bad-unit mental connection. With my OP I aim to correct this dissonance. I can assure you I'm not avoiding the Churchill for psychological reasons - I'm avoiding it because economically it's a bad choice. Likewise I was avoiding anvil before I knew its abilities were bugged. I simply don't think removing the vet pinata would make it any more viable than it is. It would make it less of an own goal, but it would still be one all the same. You simply can't be as situational as the Churchill is when you have a cost of 540mp/180fu and 18 pop cap. For reference, the patch I cited was the December patch where the fuel cost was changed from 150 to 180. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Should Artillery be limited, and if so, to how much?8 Mar 2016, 13:37 PM Limits are generally a bad way to design and balance the game. It restricts what options you have and if carried far enough would railroad everyone into the same builds. Instead the game is balanced around the notion that you can build whatever you like, but it will have weaknesses. Sure you can spam 4 or 5 arty units, just don't expect it to stop a tank rush. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Anvil Churchill could use a SLIGHT buff8 Mar 2016, 12:49 PM I had a more thorough reply written, but the forums ate it on me. While I agree it shouldn't be a vet pinata, I'd have to strongly disagree with the notion that its price/performance is fine. It's simply too expensive for what it will ever be capable of. You can see how it died after the patch which increased the cost to current levels. I'd go as far as saying that building a Churchill is better for the opponent than it is for the player who built it. It has poor speed and a relatively weak gun (it's literally a Cromwell's gun with a longer reload). In the end game that means you either need numbers or supporting tanks to achieve much of note. The problem is that its cost is so high that the opponent can easily afford units to nullify the Churchill. It's more expensive than the Ostheer Panther for example. As a british player, you're almost always better off going for the Comet or simply more Cromwells. The HP of the Churchill simply does not justify its current cost. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Cancer Doctrine has no counter6 Mar 2016, 14:28 PM Really, how can you expect to be taken seriously with such a limited vocabulary? Calling anything you don't like cancer? There are quite a few places where disease based insults like that aren't tolerated. In: COH2 Balance