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Thread: Advanced Emplacements help14 Mar 2016, 03:38 AM Yes, very much so. Those 3 ISGs ( 27 popcap) or mortars might seem like a great idea until a couple of Cromwells appear from nowhere or vetted infantry finds them with Brens. Think of emplacements in a resource orientated way. That bofors guarding your fuel and VP cost 30 and 280MP. It lasted maybe ten minutes? Bargain. for gawds sake let it die. You got 80 Fuel in those 10 minutes. Anvil engineers can repair under fire, engineers just get wrecked and barely postpone the death of the emplacement. How much manpower did it save you though? If then answer is more than 10 Tommys then profit. Pits too, annoying some crappy pios or Volks early game is one thing, late game when infantry is thin on the ground because armour is taking up 50 popcap, and the pios are needed to repair, he has to use vetted death dealers to cap. Is it worth 400 MP to take out a single Vet 5 Ober? To weaken them enough that your infantry can take it out? Absolutely. Late game small arms do less, mortars though still wreck. A late game mortar pit is an excellent way to farm rage quits. If the opp is mounting an armoured assault supported by IDF and offmaps to take out a piddly Bofors for gods sake just let it die. Repairing under fire is something only Anvil engineers are designed for, otherwise you are just bleeding yourself in a game you can't win. Not to say targeting his inf is unhelpful, just retreat before the big guns turn on them rather than the emplacement. If he is dedicating that much force to one place it should mean opportunities elsewhere so research grenades, buy a UC and take out that annoying MG42 or whatnot to take his cutoff / fuel while he is at it. You can then build a Bofors there and rinse repeat, probably in a better position where he doesn't have the depth to comfortably use ISGs etc. Don't think you have to stick to one side of the map. Also don't forget the best emplacement of them all. The humble trench. Time is another resource and the number of times the opposition will stop to take out an empty trench is amazing. Course a sniper in one every now and again will keep him wary... The best thing about them is that some of the many counters against emplacements suck arse against them. Paks and tanks in particular. Also you can happily build them out of sight providing you stay away from a capping point. All emplacements are a fixed cost, and none really give anything really useful in terms of vet. Don't get attached to them and stay mobile. In: UKF Strategies
Thread: UKF in its current state does not belong to COH214 Mar 2016, 02:39 AM Damn... If only he'd claimed the Piat was OP someone could have won points on the Piat Challenge. I mean come on, he mentioned every other crap unit. #conspiracy In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: AEC Main Gun Rotation13 Mar 2016, 22:25 PM "If they get the jump on you you lose, but if you get the jump you win." A 444 always could take an AEC ( even two patches ago when the AEC was strong and the 222 weaker) if it got the jump. Trouble is they deal consistent damage where the AEC frankly misses rather a lot, so RNG plays a part. With the health buff it makes it very likely that the 222s will win, more seems to depend upon whether it is for the loss of one or none. Even smoke doesn't save you as they tend to be close in and spit roasting. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Balance feelings after some matches : Not fun at all.13 Mar 2016, 14:45 PM "Your bullshit applies to both sides." Was hoping for a reply from someone with a sexy jackbooted stormtrooper as an avatar but you'll do. Rofl. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: 222 Price needs to be looked at..13 Mar 2016, 14:42 PM Please note that I'm in no way against Ostheer having a useful light vehicle, when I capture one I rather enjoy the 222 myself! With all of the Brits possible counters at T2 however there is a huge problem with getting the relevant units out on the field before being swarmed. IS in trenches do provide a speedbump, but can simply be bypassed, manpower limitations and tier locking clearly prevent a useful defence. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: 222 Price needs to be looked at..13 Mar 2016, 14:31 PM Watching Dusty getting wrecked in the NA ESL by a 666 just brought home my experiences in game with regard to the 222. Brits have 4 counters. The AEC now costs 60 fuel, and 75 include the unlock. It is very hard countered by double 222s for significantly less. The in game role of the AEC is to counter opposition light vehicles, yet is itself hard countered by massively cheaper light vehicles. Haven't experienced it myself but there is a suggestion that a well microed 222 can solo an AEC due to the slow turret rotation of the AEC. Brit sniper has a role to play against light vehicles, though with equal sight range the bald Scottish dude doesn't in my expereince, stand a chance. Even surviving the retreat leads to the 222 base rape, which the Brit machine gun nests are unable to counter. Piats. Lets not go there! 6 pounder. Can be reasonably effective if backing up an AEC, though 75 fuel and 600 MP for a point defence is not much use against the 222s mobility. Alone a 6 pounder is easily decrewed by a 222, might get a single shot off. Used in conjunction with an AEC massively limits the AEC's mobility, as if it chases, dives or merely wanders outside the effective use of a 6 pounder it dies easily and quickly to 2 x 222s. Mines aren't really a counter as AEC plus 6 pounder is almost a requirement, hence building engineers and laying them is both luck orientated and happens too late for the vulnerable engineers to lay them in time. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Balance feelings after some matches : Not fun at all.13 Mar 2016, 14:01 PM "Nah mate you'd stand better chances at the Reichstag in 1944 XD" Or criticizing the fashion sense of nazi chic fetish freaks at a BDSM festival. It is a genuine paraphilia apparently... In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Advanced Emplacements help13 Mar 2016, 13:14 PM If you think of emplacements as merely a speedbump which you will lose eventually it helps. Mortar pits especially so, in my experience they will be coming for it almost no matter what so plan accordingly. At some point you need to break out to win the game, which I find very difficult with this commander. When they do go for the pit capping the territory behind and building a bofors on the retreat path can be fun. Anvil engineers can put one up pretty quickly. Only use for the 17pdr I've found is distracting the opposition long enough to build one withing range of his Schwerer to wreck it. Sometimes losing defensively placed emplacements is a blessing in diguise, they take up a lot of popcap and assuming you have gained some map control sometimes they'll be doing you a favour. Of course the commander gives you nothing that can help you hunt for ISGs and you've probably locked out the AEC... Don't really have any answers to this. Sticking some engineers in a UC and going happy capping around cutoffs etc can be fun, trouble is even if you find an ISG and kill the crew you can't destroy it, and generally this is just a quick way to lose 420 MP. Can place a mine next to it, again fun, but generally they just get recrewed. In: UKF Strategies
Thread: Vet needs an overhaul 13 Mar 2016, 12:51 PM ??? You say it isn't Vet related then list numerous Vet related issues, and some off topic meta ones... No MG when JLI are around sounds eminently sensible to me. Vickers against a grenade spammer is suicide anyway in my experience even without JLI. I'm not a fan of tank hunters but bit harsh to say he spammed them, think there were no more than 2 on the field? Also the Croc does rather well against PIVs in my experience. Fully upgraded and vetted infantry were swept off the field after dominating the early game. Once the Schwerer went down, and as usual turned it into a 2 VP contest for no outlay, engineers were not going to win it. Engineers against Obers is a free wipe. He couldn't hold onto his fuel despite a reasonable defence with max vet max upgrade infantry. In: Replays
Thread: AEC Main Gun Rotation13 Mar 2016, 12:29 PM AECs just aren't viable against Ostheer anymore. 60 + 15 FU which is supposed, by design, to counter light vehicles, is very hard countered by 2 222s which cost just 30 FU. Haven't yet had my AEC soloed by a 222 - but that could be because I've stopped building them! The only other counters the Brits have are the sniper, which doesn't stand a chance with 444 or 666 on the field and the 6 pounder which also doesn't stand a chance. AEC + 6 pounder can win, but with the 6 being less then mobile and the 222 having long sight range to avoid doesn't make it easy. AEC and mine spam might work, but you'll have to get lucky. In: COH2 Balance