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Thread: How To Bring Balance To The Brits13 Jan 2016, 00:57 AM "if the defense is weak enough for me to get a tommies within 20 meter three or four times, it's probably not a defense." Fixed it for you. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Strats for 1 vs 1 Brits besides Turtle13 Jan 2016, 00:54 AM Haven't had much luck with AECs though a Bofors helps me shift my forces in the early mid game to put pressure on a second VP. Early game is securing fuel, munitions and a VP. I'd prefer not to rely on emplacements if I could help it but seems like the only way. Big or open maps always see me crushed unless I build a bofors. Other than that, same units. Can't find any use for the UC other than as a command vehicle. Securing the VP that is most difficult to flank on the map edge helps, if you come under lots of pressure you just have to focus on it and hold out. None of the units seem to provide suppression so you have to aim for squad wipes to even up the odds. Anyone else notice that early game every axis player, no matter what the ability, out builds you on the graphs at the end of the game? Tactical support regiment helps if you have it. Very munitions intensive in late game when you probably want to focus on fuel to get a tank out earlyish but the command vehicle buffs all units in it's local area so great for a backs against the wall defence. Excellent for recon too with the spotter plane. Best of all the Air Resupply operation gives you 600MP worth of units ( AT and Vickers) for the cost of reinforcing a squad a few times ( 200MP maybe?). Use a pyrotechnics upgraded IS section to crew them and they get much better sight range than the normal units. Comes a little bit too late to be your only AT so build an AT first to help out. It is frustrating though, having to find almost niche ways of just clinging on in the game until you can get units on the field. Doubt the other factions have the same problem. It feels as though you have to powergame it just to hold in there rather than actually having options, or dare one suggest, having fun. The top playersw on Twitch pretty much say the same thing. One mistake with the Brits and it's gg. In fact once I get the upperhand I don't really know what to do with it as every game is backs against the wall. Had a few Axis players camp against me but it's so rare that I just don't have the experience to exploit it! Bofors down, mortar pit covering 2 VPs with 2 AT and a tank things get easier. Course they're probably using IDF and have you outnumbered in tanks, double capped, with a Shreck blob on their way towards your pit.... Might try a second bofors just to win some time and space to put trenches in... All seems very linear though. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Who will win ESL EU Cup #2?12 Jan 2016, 22:29 PM Yeah, Barton for me too. Lol In: Events Central
Thread: British Forces Unit Guide12 Jan 2016, 18:19 PM Was playing around with Piats the other night.. I'm not sure what their range is supposed to be as nothing they ever fire at is still there when the rounds arrive! They do have surprising range though ( almost off the screen) and can fire over cover. Better still they pretty much always overshoot, if you use attack ground at any rate increasing their effective range further. I'm thinking of using them as mortar support with attack ground. In: Guides
Thread: Brit games from the ESL...11 Jan 2016, 23:43 PM Not my style, like a challenge and always go for the underdog. It does put me off buying any other factions though. I asked for stats on another thread and received some seriously waffly replies about how COH is balanced for the top players and everyone else is just rubbish etc. Hell I don't really care that much if the balance is shot to buggery, I'd just like to know about it beforehand and see some action to turn things around. Cannot for the life of me understand the business model. Release new faction and hope people buy it but make it, shall we say somewhat pale, in comparison to the others? Are they hoping people try the Brits and buy the rest for an easier ride? I don't win much, but I enjoy myself and everytime someone hands me my arse I learn something from it. Provided the devs or balancers aren't actively masturbating over a picture of an Austrian gentleman of historical significance whilst watching my replays it isn't a problem. They aren't are they? In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Brit games from the ESL...11 Jan 2016, 20:01 PM "I played as Brits twice in NA Cup, Once in semis where I got destroyed unsurprisingly by Sprice and once in the third round which was a good game" Yeah, I just watched it and followed your sniper around all the time. Was pretty tense till your Cromwell nailed his sniper. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: How To Bring Balance To The Brits11 Jan 2016, 18:54 PM The UC certainly needs something, being able to transport a Vickers would be nice ( I don't mean fire out of it, merely transport it as per it's primary role!). Suppressive fire doesn't seem to be any use, maybe armour piercing rounds so they could nibble at the Axis lights? Not being able to repair them until T2 is the biggest handicap. Other options which follow a historical path are 2inch mortar upgrade and Boys AT which it pretty much carried as standard ( because no bugger would carry it!). Maybe a suppressive fire ability for a nominal munitions cost on the Vickers at Vet1? I love the Vickers but seeing a few Axis squads waltz past them accepting a few casualties feels wrong when you've taken the trouble to trench and dedicate a unit to choke point denial. Lobbing a nade and forcing you out is fine, some pre-emptive counterplay, maybe only when not garrisoned in a building, would help a lot. As for the base arty I think the primary thing it lacks doctinally is smoke ( other than obvious things like accuracy, tot, weight of fire). You get a smokescreen late game with the Churchill, or with a pit at vet1. It is rather shortranged given the vulnerability of a pit on the frontlines though. Being able to fire a smoke mission within los would give the AEC with it's excellent sight range a useful recon and scouting role. Also the primary role of the 2inch mortar was to provide useful smoke at range, few platoons would go out without a couple of them. Come to think of it giving the UC the ability to call in base arty a la sniper or upgraded IS would give them a role in the late game and wouldn't affect a thing until T2. Would give the Axis lights something to do other than mowing down my infantry down for fun as UC's would need to be hunted. Other than mines it is very difficult to ambush the Axis on COH2. Piats are too inaccurate against anything moving above tortoise pace and nothing other than the Cromwell really has the mobility. Carden Lloyds were often used to truck 2 and 6 pdrs around. Maybe consider allowing the UC to hitch AT guns ( can't see it, would need graphical changes). They'd be pretty much defenceless to AT on the move but being able to reposition your AT rapidly on a flank would make a world of difference. British doctrine then and now emphasised recon, particularly for indirect fires, for light armoured vehicles. Stay out of sight, stay alive and call in the arty. Oh and mow down any trucks you happen to see. The main armament was there to suppress whilst reverse gear and full throttle were selected which makes the AEC a strange mishmash of units. Very decent light AT with woeful AI and terrible handling. Not helped by defensive smoke which only fires after the inevitable engine damage. The humble Humber would be a better choice I think, lighter armour but with a 15mm Besa which would suppress at great range and annoy the hell out of anything it was too weak to penetrate. I'm not a good player so take this as more of a historical critique if you disagree. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Brit games from the ESL...11 Jan 2016, 17:30 PM "And I suggest you don't main Brits at the moment because they're pretty bad." Difficult not to main them, it's all I own! Cheers RoyalHants, I'll see if I can learn anything from the (1? Really?!?) good game the Brits had. I'm even more curious to see stats for the whole player base now. If the top dudes avoid Brits like a plague then maybe I'm not quite as bad as I think. Hell might even hit the dizzying heights of a 25% win average. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: How to farm War Spoils11 Jan 2016, 03:13 AM deleted for idiocy In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Brit games from the ESL...11 Jan 2016, 02:06 AM Wasn't the tournament promoted as featuring the British Forces? :confused: In: COH2 Gameplay