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Thread: Feedback for Commander Revamppatch14 Oct 2018, 08:50 AM Jump back to quoted post14 Oct 2018, 00:17 AMNarcoleptic_I I meant manpower. EDITED That's my point, its there to fill other roles adding to the options of the faction but also fills current available roles overshadowing other units. My problem is not that it can reinforce but does a little of everything and maybe better than other units (referring to normal halftrack w/o flame projectors - that thing is never used as for reinforcing). - HMG team is weak against AI, not against AT, it can garrison buildings. It's role, suppress infantry. Same roles different options. - If you want to flank asap with your infantry instead of 222 now you can. Again, you have the option. - You want to move your units around for decap/cap or harass without risking the squad to AI now you can. Ostheer doesn't have non-doctrinal open topped platforms so that's a new option. - With vet 1 you can reinforce too. An alternative to the halftrack w/o flame projectors (you can also fit a pio squad with flamethrower - not as strong but its another option) Agreed doctrinal units should give you more options or specialized options or fill a non existent role. But the HMG halftrack does everything that's my complaint. It's perfect then, you can use the 250 as a Panzerschreck bus because it's open topped and reinforce and the 251 for it's flame projectors. I would honestly never use dig in and don't even see any reason for it when I have the best MGs in the game at my disposal. Edit: Lockdown vehicles are just a pain in the ass in general, I often forget that even my Ambulances is in lockdown when I order it to move, add to that the non-existent animations for it as well and yeah... Edit2: Talking about lockdown of vehicles that might need to move at some point, it's not such a big deal for the Opel Blitz, 223 or let's say the PE's Hummels from CoH since you're not going to be moving those vehicles a lot anyhow. In: Lobby
Thread: Feedback for Commander Revamppatch13 Oct 2018, 23:14 PM Jump back to quoted post13 Oct 2018, 23:00 PMNarcoleptic_I Only played against PC and tested with cheatcommands. That being said, my thoughts as of 1.7: GERMAN INFANTRY DOCTRINE Before changes: - Artillery Field Officers - Manpower - Tactical Movement - Muni - Relief Infantry - Muni - Light Artillery - Muni - Fragmentation Bombs - Muni Current: Halftrack - Manpower, Fuel VSL - Muni (one time upgrade with indirect manpower cost) Stormtroopers - Muni Assault and Hold - Muni Fragmentation Bombs - Muni First of. The problem about this commander before was it lacked any appeal, strong point, or working tactic within the commander abilities. Munition starved with no power in early, mid or late game. It was considered the worst commander of all and it didn't achieved any cool concept/tactic for the german infantry that couldn't be achieved with other more capable commanders. So this one wasn't meta or competent material it was just a waste of space so please don't buff it to meta level make competent enough and fun to play with. NEW COMMANDER ABILITIES 250 Halftrack HMG - Mobile shooting platform like SU Scout Car. (like it). - Being a mobile HMG for suppression requiring setup. (like it) - Vet 1 Reinforcement platform. (not great) Increase infantry mobility, harassing potential and also helps against enemy infantry either as defense or for ambushes. What i don't like is that it does way too much stuff. Using it as a reinforcement platform displaces even more the normal 251 halftrack which is already rarely seen as for reinforcing even in team games and would make more sense with this commander than any other. Also, the 250 halftrack fits more with a "mechanized commander" concept than an infantry one but i can live with that. Veteran Squads - 5 men squad grenadiers. - locks lmg upgrade. - adds a g43 - makes medkit free. - 5 men pioneers. - doesnt lock flamethrower or wirecutter/minesweeper - Panzergrenadiers "support package" (gives this unit a lot of utility): "Rudimentary Repairs": Can repair vehicles. "Mark Target": "Combined Arms": Sprint and reduced accuracy when vehicles are near. This commander ability gives you just way too much stuff. "Recon Overflight" ability gave you just that, Recon, but that enabled a lot of possibilities and tactical opportunities making it more organic. Also, as other people mentioned, while cool in concept, panzergrenadier combined arms screams "mechanized". I'll save the panzergrenadier upgrade as another ability for other commander or the new one but it doesn't fits infantry that much. Aside from that i like the fifth men squad in grens and pios and the commander should synergies more with that special ability. Stormtroopers I don't think it fits thematically either. Stormtroopers are more of a disruption thing but nevermind i'm ok with it. Assgrens fit more but they also overlap with panzergrens as a close range combatant and now with 5 men squad pios and they are somewhat of a manpower bleed something that surely will be a cons of this commander. So not sure about it. On a side note, Stormtrooper Panzershreck upgrade mess-up with the hotkey (G) for "throw fire grenade" since its used for "attack ground" with the panzershreck. Assault and Hold Like the idea but i don't see any impact whatsoever when active. Fragmentation Grenade Can kill team weapons crews that then can be manned with upgraded grenadiers/pios without leaving them with just 1 squad member. Like the overall idea of the commander, way more fleshed out than the original one. One thing though (I know its not popular but...) Relief infantry makes more sense thematically and also synergies with fifth men squads. Outstruppen from "Relief" will benefit also of "Assault and Hold". Something like these will make more sense IMO: - Halftrack (no reinforce). - Veteran Squad Leaders. 5 men grenadier (free medkits). 5 men pios. - Relief Infantry. - Assault and Hold. - Fragmentation Bombs. My two cents. off-topic p.d.: German "Battlephase" upgrades have different hotkeys (B, G and T) i dont get why is that way, it should be just "B" for all 3 (maybe a technical restriction?). Stormtroopers also cost manpower, not just muni. And the 250 is still a Halftrack, it just doesn't make sense for me for a Halftrack not to be able to reinforce, especially a doctrinal one. And I don't see the comparison of it to the 251 making sense, this is again a doctrinal open topped vehicle and it fills an entirely different role to the 251, so what if it can reinforce as well? So since it also has an MG it's even more similar? Give me a break. It gives the player an option, it's what it's designed to do, doesn't matter if it shares some similarities with other such vehicles. Going by that logic some Armies shouldn't even have support weapons or medium tanks then, and we all know how that turned out. In: Lobby
Thread: Feedback for Commander Revamppatch11 Oct 2018, 22:10 PM Jump back to quoted post11 Oct 2018, 20:41 PMKasarov Pioneer 5-man is already more than enough for repair speed, having PzGrens also repair is overkill as there would already be better squads for the job available earlier and for cheaper. Methinks the best way to keep the combined arms ability is to replace a lackluster ability with the Panzer IV F1 that emits a passive combined arms that applies to Panzergrenadiers. It also adds late game to the commander. I would happily give up 250 to see the PzIV Infantry Support Tank. All in all though the Panzergrenadier stuff is uncalled for and doesn't seem to fit the infantry theme. Panzergrenadier changes tend to imply a mechanized theme: why would an infantry doctrine have better coordination with vehicles than mechanized? Transferring its ideas over to other core infantry units is the more elegant solution. In my suggestion, all of the Panzergrenadier changes have been incorporated in some way within other units with the exception of the field repair, which like I already stated is overkill. Ostheer is a very repair deprived Army, up until this point their sole repair capabilities were in the hands of the Pioneers and that was the end of it. Looking at the Soviets and the amount of options they have to repair in terms of commanders makes me think that there is nothing wrong with giving options to the player. Many people have also said that Mech Company is also overkill with the amount of light vehicles it now has and it's entirely out of the question to see all of them in a 1v1 game but that's again left up to the player. So all in all the utility given to the PGs in the end doesn't hurt anyone really and just provides the player with some more options at his disposal. As for how it fits in the doctrine, PGs are still infantry so I guess you can say that they are entitled to get something out of the bargain, doesn't matter if they're supposed to be supporting tanks. If we're going into semantics they're also supposed to be either motorized or mechanised, meaning only coming on the field in either trucks or Halftracks which they don't. But I agree with you about the F1 Pz IV, if you go back to about the middle pages I think you can see my suggestion of replacing the Arty officer with it as well for some additional late game presence from the commander. I had the Tiger as a suggestion before that but the F1 made more sense because it was a dedicated infantry support tank, similar to the StuG E but not exactly, plus it further added something new to the table. Speaking of the 250 tho, would be awesome for Urban Assault Panzergrenadiers to come in it as a mechanised combat group lol. In: Lobby
Thread: Feedback for Commander Revamppatch11 Oct 2018, 19:44 PM Looking at what the Panzergrenadiers get from Squad Leaders maybe it's a better idea to tailor the abilities which are given from this instead of giving both Grenadiers and Pioneers a 5th man. Somebody mentioned something about buffing pioneer repairs and giving them an AT rifle upgrade instead of their 5th man, maybe that would be better since I see many people here saying that 5 man flame Pioneers are too effective? Grenadiers... I don't know, it's weird being locked out of the MG42 for some reason. So perhaps like others have suggested making the 5th man upgrade worthwhile with a Grenade Assault or something would be the best course of action. Panzergrenadiers stay the same I suppose? I really love the fact that they can repair and get the combined arms type ability which I also suggested. 5th man I guess wouldn't hurt them but then again it would probably be downright OP. Stormtroopers I feel like should also benefit from the upgrade somehow seeing as they're in the same doctrine but just adding a 5th man doesn't feel right. Maybe make the Urban Assault Panzergrenadiers into an upgrade and give it to them instead? Then you'd have the option of free MP40s, or for 40/60 or more ammo MP40s, plus a flamethrower and survival training? Or just survival training and a 5th man I don't know. but if the Pioneers get an AT rifle package making the Stormtroopers be even better close quarter combat troops sounds like a good way of tailoring the commander ability for them. Maybe rename it to "Infantry Specialization" then? Or "Advanced Infantry Training", something along those lines sounds like a good fit for the ability. In: Lobby
Thread: OKW Fortifications Docrtine9 Oct 2018, 14:09 PM I think it's a better idea to just add more artillery options to existing doctrines instead of focusing all of the Artillery into one which makes it preferable over all others like Fortifications is right now in the live version of the game. Like for example making the Sturmtiger into an SPG, that gives an existing doctrine an artillery option without the need to create something new altogether. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: OKW buildings and resources upon cancellation8 Oct 2018, 07:22 AM Jump back to quoted post8 Oct 2018, 04:38 AMAntemurale Alright folks, let's discuss in a constructive manner and not bash each other. You mean pick a side and censor me. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: land mattress commander7 Oct 2018, 20:27 PM >https://www.coh2.org/topic/82569/commander-revamp-patch-bug-list In: COH2 Bugs
Thread: OKW Ardennes assault campaign7 Oct 2018, 18:25 PM I never understood why go for a Dark Crusade/Soulstorm type of campaign and invest time and resources into it and make it 1 sided, the OKW being playable just made sense, especially for a $40 price tag. Or at least they could have played it in 2 parts, the first being the German push into the Ardennes, catching the American forces there off-guard, and then part 2 being about the retaliation of the American forces or something like that. In: COH2 Central
Thread: OKW buildings and resources upon cancellation6 Oct 2018, 20:37 PM Jump back to quoted post6 Oct 2018, 19:50 PMJae For Jett And that kind of thing will (rightfully) get you in trouble with the mods. Im not a mod and dont want one to have to come to this thread, so just do yourself a favor and stop right now. I stopped... about 6 hours ago I think, if not more. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: New CoH game director & unannounced game (info by Cobra)6 Oct 2018, 17:36 PM A 3rd Axis Army for CoH2 would be nice, or that unfinished Italian Expansion for CoH. But I'm really sceptical about a new game right now for one reason or another. If it were me I'd go back to CoH and "finish" it so to speak, the Eastern Front mod is ripe for making an official expansion, with some backing from Relic they could make the campaigns and voices as well as any assets they might need. In: Lobby