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https://community.companyofheroes.com/discussion/comment/284733#Comment_284733

Tournament mode is known to have a bug with the dummy picks (some commander abilities from the dummy pick commander are kept) which should be hotfixed later today.

What do you mean exactly by the "dummy pick commander"?

The title reminds me of something someone said about war a long time ago.

If you gave it the same snipe ability as CoH 1 it would be problematic to have on an already powerful 5-man squad (everyone goes for bolster anyway) that could always tip the fight in ur favour by sniping small squads of ostheer/Obers and MG's. Also if you blobbed them you could send them to another dimension instantly.

I'd like to see it, but rather at the start of the game which would allow for counter snipes as brits struggle with snipers as is until they can field their own counter sniper or use the UC but the UC got nerfed now aswell. But again I feel like it would be problematic because of the ability to snipe Grens to 3-man from the get go.

While I agree with your points the reason they were not OP was because as they are here, had and still have not any AT capabilities unless you equip them later on with PIATs which has become a meme taboo among British players and the only unit getting equipped with them is the Sappers.

Of course I saw a strategy of a guy rushing the munition points in a video and just spamming Recon Sections with the snipe ability but I've never actually seen in practice and would probably fail against a prepared opponent, his Wehr opponent in the video just didn't realize what was happening and thought it'd be an easy win.

I actually found the video I was referring to so here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFbn-S28iVs

I honestly always felt Recon sections should have been an upgrade in one of the commanders, or just another standard Tommy upgrade to choose over the med-kits or flares. Scoped Lee Enfields that take up a weapon slot and choice of abilities such as the 'Prone Camouflage' they had.

Hammer itself, would be fixed if the Comet would be fixed as it does have the vehicle tracking and gammon bombs aren't the worst thing along with mini-blitz/flank speed clone. Anvil at least offers a very vital unit for screening and pushing forward vs defenses.

I agree with you, my suggestion for the Hammer thing was again like I said a counterpart for the IS to the Heavy Engineers upgrade for the Sappers in Anvil, while the gammon bombs are a nice addition they're not exactly a reason why you'd pick Hammer if you know what I mean, while I believe that especially in team games the Heavy Sappers provide some pretty nice repair speed boosts.

But yeah if it was made as a 3rd upgrade by default that'd be pretty nice.

The only thing it really offers is SVT conscripts. The Airborne Guards are just worse Shocks / Guards in their respective role. There's no guard PTRS's or M-42, so light vehicles will bully you all the time. The doctrine has very high munition costs because of the dshk, expensive DP's, weapon crates and skillstrafe.

Giving Combined Arms (my preferred option), you'd be given something that can help in the late game if you're already well established. It won't do much if you have an inferior composition on the field. Add on top of that the high munition cost of this doctrine, it wouldn't be easily spammable.

Otherwise, how about a completely different idea. We don't merge the Rally Point and add no new commander slot, but add the option for Airborne Guards to upgrade 2 elite zooks, how's that?



My point was: 15 muni sprint is not a very strong ability, it's good, no more.

If early game AT is needed maybe an air dropped M42 could fit the bill instead of like the DSHK or something, similiar to the US Airborne.

Hello, so while we're on the wave of core changes, to the Brits as well, I would like to propose the idea of adding the Recon Section as a 3rd upgrade for the IS once Hammer tactics are chosen.

To clarify, the current Recon Section in game is a leftover from the Alpha of the British, they had things like crawling camo and other stff which I can't remember right now but I also propose they be given 1 or 2 scoped Lee-Enfields as well as having a "snipe" ability similar to the first CoH.

Reason for this is because Anvil right now is overshadowing Hammer simply because of the lackluster Comet tank, giving this upgrade to Hammer, as a direct counterpart to Anvil's Heavy Engineers upgrade for the Sappers, could be a reason why it is chosen to at least help out the IS altho I realize that it comes a bit too late.

Well that's about it, I just wanted to see if people think there's merit in the idea of somehow "ressurecting" Hammer tactics.