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that's an over exaggeration. bofors and mortar pit were not buffed in this patch and the problem with emplacements tend to be in teamgames and not 1v1. usf mortar is broken but that's it. mgs/sniper/mortar should still do fine against usf once that is fixed. mgs, mortar, sandbags and infantry will perfectly fine against penals. you should be rushing a 222/sdfkz flamer since they have no AT.

at least its popcap finally refers to its usefulness. Worth of third army :/

not exactly but close. It's worth 30 pop cap now!!!!!!!!!!! but it still can't hit anything.

make it non doc too

Sure, I'm sure I won't see many OKW nor OST field it with the new requirements.

Right, so I expect to see brace on the Pak 43 and OKW Flak next patch, along with both no longer being possible to decrew.



What's that? That would be horrible?

Huh. Who would have thought.



Look, I can understand why brace is there, but it's horribly implemented; and also unneeded. However, emplacements should be used ONLY when you know you can defend them well. If you get pushed out of the area of your emplacement, well, you lost that emplacement. It was like that in CoH1, it was like that in CoH2 (until UKF). Brace is just a 'padding' mechanic added to make emplacement use more forgiving - something that they REALLY don't need, considering their damage (especially against smaller OST squads).

How can I say that they don't need brace? Well, look at the Pak43 and OKW Flak - neither has ever had brace, and in fact, BOTH are decrewable. However, did anyone ever complain that they were incredibly OP? No, not really. Maybe one thread every few months back when the Pak43 could shoot through objects EVERY shot (but that was nerfed), but that's about it. The OKW Flak also never really gets talked about (although the 1-shot decrew should be looked at). Why is this? Because they are very high risk/reward units. If you place a Pak43 down in a good area, and defend it well, your AT 'power' goes up by an insane amount. However, if you get pushed back, even a little bit, that thing is getting decrewed if not destroyed pretty much immediately.

It works well. No idea why it's so impossible for other emplacements to work this way.

Sure DO IT! Make the pak43 cost 20 pop cap, 75 fuel, and a HUGE target that anything can hit. Also, remove it's ability to fire through walls and shotblockers and require to use munitions to do that just like the 17 pounder. I don't mind.

Sure add embrace to the okw flak emplacement (I'm assuming it's not the Flak HQ).

Other emplacements don't work this way because they're not reliant on it as UKF is. Does OKW units cost an arm and a leg to build? Does UKF have a mobile sniper arty unit called ISG to replace it's mortar pit? Does it have starting out 5 man mainline infantry with laser rockets? Does UKF have a mobile rocket unit (only if you include it's soon to be 8 cp landmattress)? Does UKF have a super heavy late game called KT? OKW does not need it's emplacements (which are doctrinal) to win. That's why it's not as big of an issue.

Now tell me, if you removed all of UKF's emplacements, how would they counter a fortified position with MGs and ATs? They have no indirect fire now. They also have no rocket artillery. Base howitzers require close range, muni, and is timed. The enemy simply has to relocate a bit.

As already stated, Flak HQ can't barrage your at guns and kill the crew. It is also a lot more expensive and needed to build tanks.

And as already stated, it's 'free'. With support of volks blob and ISGs, it's also extremely resilient. It also doesn't take any flame damage like emplacements do.

If i could build T4 OST building or SOV building on a rear cutoff point that has almost 2000 HP, suppresses, damages tanks, shoots down aircraft, at 0 pop cost, and comes along with teching, I would. It's expensive because T4 is expensive just like EVERY OTHER FAcTION! If you lost your T4 building of SOV or OST, it would cost that much to build it again. The cost you're paying for is part of teching, not the building/unit itself.