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I'm intrigued by the disparity in your levels across factions. Like, you have level 12 with Soviets but only level 7 with OH, even though you have about the same number of games with both...

Any feeling about why that might be?

Hi Paid Player.

I like what you did with coh2chart, but especially now it would be great to also see the day by day stats you used to have (even if it's just for top 150 and even if its sometimes bugged). Is this possible? It would be helpful to understand what's going on with this patch and the bug fixes etc. A week averaged doesn't cut it in that regard. Of course I am only suggesting it in addition to what you already have.

Not sure how meaningful this is, though. Even the week averages show rather strong fluctuations, so...

Here are 2 week averages, only including games between players that are at rank 200 or better (incl. error bars).

Welcome!

One comment first: I see that you haven't played a lot of games yet. Specifically, you have not had 10 games for any combination of game mode and faction, so the matches are still your "placement" matches. This means that you will be matched with more or less a random selection of player, which might much better or worse than you.

So, don't despair if you lose badly now, you should get more evenly matched games once you have your 10 games. Until then, I'd stick to one mode/faction to get to this point quickly.

Secondly, you can upload replays here and people way more skilled than me will give you some pointers.

Regarding build orders: Fixed build orders won't work well as the strategy will depend on the map, what faction(s) you face and what your opponent does. Also, they depend on the game mode (1v1, 2v2, etc.).

The rest of the comments are from a 1v1 perspective:

Yes, with mechanized assault you can replace a lot of the non-doctrinal units. Assault grenadiers are an option, but they are not overly good on open maps, scale not too well and don't have a Panzerfaust.

For starters I'd suggest you stick more or less to the standard set of units. Once you know their strength and weaknesses, you'll have a better idea on where and when it could be worthwhile to augment or replace them with doctrinal ones.

The typical build order for Wehrmacht would be

MG and T1, 3x grenadiers (maybe a mortar) => T2
Then, build stuff depending on the situation.
Eventually, the typical progression would be to build T3 and get e.g a Panzer IV from there. Beyond that you can consider pumping out more T3 units, tech up or get some call-in armor.

I guess allied factions aren't really an option for you, right?

While we are at posting XKCD comics, these are somewhat more relevant (Go Relic!):





...ok, maybe the examples aren't super relevant for CoH2, but still...

Hi MissCommissar,

cross-reading your posts indicates that you are passionate about the game and your posts are well above the random rant, which both is good.

However, I think there are some flaws in your original statement, because you seem to forget that 6 cons have simply more HP than 4 grens. Even taking "target size" into account, 6 cons have effectively about 440 HPs, whereas 4 grens sit at 351. Likewise, the combined DPS of cons is about 20.6 vs. 23 for 4 grens (point blank). You can do the math, and it turns out that cons on average will win vs. grens at short range. At long range it is the other way around.

This "balance" originally was kept while both squads would level up. However, after the buff to vet3 of cons about almost a year ago (more reduction in "target size"), vet3 cons probably have the upper hand now in slightly more situations vs. vet3 grens.

Now, the obvious "problem" is that grens eventually will get the LMG upgrade, at which point they will win regardless of the distance (unless you are somehow able to keep them moving). You wouldn't be the first person to complain about the lack of a similar upgrade for cons.

However, looking through the soviet commanders it seems pretty obvious that this is not a simple oversight, but a deliberate design choice: Unlike Ostheer, almost every commander has either weapon upgrades for cons, Guards or Shock troops, or other call in infantry. It's ok if you don't like the choice (again you wouldn't be the first one there) but I guess chances of that being changed isn't too high.

That said: I read a lot of your posts. In several of those you complained basically that some Russian units don't have the role of their Ostheer counterpart (e.g. MGs) or that Russians can't e.g. build Ostheer bunkers. Taking this together it sounds like you would be more happy if Ostheer is copied over to Soviets, relabeling the units and using Russian models. Wouldn't that be kind of bland? Btw, glad to hear that you seem to have realized that Ostheer fits your preferred style of play better.

Last comment: In terms of having your squad killed by the main gun of tanks, target size is not overly relevant. They don't get whiped because the tanks hit a model, but because they hit some place close to the squad; and the only thing of importance then is having your guys not bunch up. Guess which property of cons helps them in that situation over grens...

Edit: Molotovs do have impact damage, same as OKW's incendiary grenades. I guess you checked out the stats site? You have to look at the "_MP" version.