Profile of Tiger Baron

Penals, as their names suggest, if you ask me, should be cheap throwaway infantry that could be spammed a lot.

I mean, why in the hell would you give better weapons to infantry who are serving in labor units basically because of crimes they've committed than to give those same better weapons to the Conscripts or Streltsy or whatever?

I mean, just make the Penals into like an 8 man squad or something, of which only 4 or 5 guys are armed and give them an upgrade that allows them to arm the rest of the squad with rifles, like in EF.

Give the Conscripts a few upgrades like SVT package of the old penals, AT rifles and either DPs or PPShs, or hell alright they'll be replacing Guards and Shocks with the last 2 upgrades so just SVTs and AT rifles then, scaling? No problem, Soviets can't bitch about their shitty mainline infantry anymore.

Also, give the Penals make shift molotov cocktails and give F1 grenades to the Conscripts, and we remove the satchel charge bs altogether.

Or, give them to the Combat Engineers through and upgrade or something.

Another option is to give demo charges a randomized explosion. That is to say, triggering the demo spawns (say) 4-5 explosion sources within the same 8-yard radius.

The goal of this change is that you can no longer predict whether triggering the demo will wipe a squad that's standing right on top of it, yet the demo charge will cause massive casualties to an enemy blob.

Something needs to be done with Demos at somepoint.

How about just making it only deployable on structures like in COH, hmmm? Because I don't believe the Soviets in reality could spare explosives on randomized places on the battlefield in hopes they would catch an off guard German squad and blow em to high hell.

Demolition charges should be used for what they were intended, blowing bridge, obstacles and denying the enemy strategic structures, not using them as MLG pro competitive trap bombs like it is now, that's just cheesy bullshit.

Nobody complained about demo charges in the first game after the change was made for them to be only deployable on structures and not like, sandbags like it was before.

And the commando demo charges weren't there most of the time to make a drastic impact since most British players like me preferred to go either Royal Artillery or Royal Engineers.

I just realized that, with the release of The Far East War mod for CoH, as well as the imminent release of the French for TGW and a few other projects that are still in development like for example that Star Wars mod, people are just sick and tired of COH 2's limited modding capabilities, people want new settings, custom units, custom weapons and so forth, and that was possible for COH since day 1, but now Relic just want to continue to honk the cow until there's nothing left.

I just wanted to let off my frustration here at how bullshit this game has become, and all because of Relic's greed.

Yeah, they'll become available with supply later. It's just good business.

Seriously, skins require so much time and effort to make. It's great that creators can get some return on investment for that. Plus it mean money for tournaments, and a trickle to keep Relic vaguely interested in the game.

Relic get more out of it than the modders, you do realize that, right?

Building all necessary/unnecessary structure to get a KV-1 seems pretty end game to me, OKW could enjoy a KT with same effort, KV-1 as last tier unit is IMHO a bad idea especially for a sluggish tank with medicore armor and short barreled gun.


Authentic(Not realist) wise, T-34/85 is suitable for COH2's theme, consider how late the Jadpanzer 4, Jadgtiger, Kingtiger, participate the war, yet they are dancing in every corner in relic's fantasy game.

I still didn't say end game unit, plus the KV1 will never be one and I don't see the point in comparing it to the KT, the KT is superior, it's gun, armor and size are wayyyy better plus it's price, compared to the KV1's one, buffed or not, will never be close to each other.

What I wanted to do with making the KV1 require all of the tech buildings was somewhat make it come out late enough for it to meet the heavy German hitters such as the Jagdpanzer, Jagdtiger and so forth so it can protect the Soviets' lesser armor tanks.

How I see this topic's idea going for the Soviets are in 2 ways: You already have the T-34/85s gun in the SU-85, but it too lacks the 85's protection, so make the KV1 a default tank which should be timed to come out around the German heavy hitters' times to soak up the damage like I already mentioned.

It will need a buff to it's armor and not to it's health since the Churchill's health pool is sorta ok when you take into account the vetted Sapper's repair rate plus their heavy engineers upgrade, the Soviets don't have that luxury so a tank with a huge health pool would be useless for them because it would take such a long time to repair so the KV1's armored value should be buffed a bit to meet it's damage sponge role.

OR add an upgrade that replaces the normal T34/76s with 85s like in CoH with the American Army's Sherman.

As far as the USF goes, if only we had a model for the Jumbo something similar could be done for them as well.

Both Armies DO NOT lack proper firepower against German tanks by default, they lack armor to take hits, both the Su85 and Jackson are excellent heavy damage dealing tank destroyers altho they lack armor screening units for protection and take a lot of micro to manage sadly.

Those are the problems and solutions to those problems I see, wether or not Relic or their community modding team implement them is up to them, that or find another way to tackle the problem which I highly doubt.