Profile of Nemesis10192

Oh? So you're just gonna sit there and go afk as an allies player?

I can literally flow 1000 manpower and build 2-3 tanks, because I didn't have to reinforce shit before Ostheer can throw in any competant artillery at 8 CP. And mortars are Fuel-free.

No, Between CPs 0-4 early emplacements are really vulnerable to combined indirect harassment and some timing pushes and of course you have to get them up in good positions in the first place which is no guarantee. You can easily lose too many emplacements/too much control of the game before 4CPs and enough time for counter barrage to turn the tide.

Then CPs 4-8 the strat is really strong no denying it, but then you just play more passively as axis, spam fuel caches then pick superior late game doctrines. LeFH eats emplacement spams, Jagdtiger does too, KT can come also for OKW, and ofcourse spec ops flare+ fortification zeroing arty is absolutely brutal. Start a fight in vision, call down zeroing, stick around as long as you can and then as you are about to lose vision (which is normally pretty soon around emplacements) drop the flares to maintain vision and watch the sector get absolutely annihilated.

Thing is a group of emplacements is not truly safe until it has 1 bofors (280,30) 2 mortar pits (800mp), forward tent (250mp?), repair upgrade (200mp) and +toughness upgrades on all (300 munis)...Even then it is still vulnerable to an all in if your infantry gets retreated so requires FRP unlock (another 300mp).

Even then 1 bofors is walking a tightrope really you want two, and this cluster only locks down one area of the map, with the mortar pits having a decent zone of influence a fair ways around to be fair.


The thing is just how good this strat is really depends on the map. On small clustered maps (like trois points) the strat is obnoxious as fuck (read: OP). Counter barrage hits any point on the map, the mortar pits influence nearly the whole map so you get all the resources, and you can't gun down emplacements from max range late game with things like jagdtigers because of shot blockers.

However on other maps like liernux or hamlet counter barrage does not influence the whole map (especially on hamlet!) so often your emplacements get pummeled for no return and of course the emplacements are controlling proportionately a much smaller % of the map. Furthermore on liernux by map design two VPs are together at the top, but all the munitions are at the bottom. So you either camp mid/bot and risk losing VPs or you camp top and have no munitions, either situation is dire for an immobile strat but its much better to be in the central city and try to move up, however if you lose the initial fight for the city and are forced to camp top you are basically fucked. And brits are NOT GOOD at city fights early compared to OKW/ost (flame nades, sturmpios winning initial engagements, fast mortars from ost). In fact how the city fight goes is basically spawn dependant (west spawn wins because it is closer to key buildings).

Also remember things like LeFH do not cost fuel either, so your opponent can have plenty of (superior axis) tanks to fight your tanks when they come too.

Tip for ostheer players: LeFH RUIN emplacement spams and guarantee free vet that allows you to fire almost nonstop over the entire map after a few barrages.

In theory yes.

In practice no.

Once you end up in the lower leagues it is hard to get out of them due to the generally poor quality of your teammates. Whilst this does apply to axis too, they are more user friendly in team games and for newer players.

In theory over a decent sample of games yes, in practice over a decent sample of games yes.

Your second statement is also untrue. I would agree OKW is a very forgiving and 'easy' faction but I would say ostheer is rather unforgiving to be honest. Make a single mistake in composition and/or position and you just crumble. But rather to the point you are only ranked against your fellow allies performance, so even if random 2v2 was axis favoured at noob level (which, emplacement spamming brits aside it might well be), everyone low on the allied ladder is having to deal with that difficulty imbalance so you still get appropriately ranked amongst them.

In every RTS/competitive team game people low in the ladder all believe in some sort of 'hell' they can't get out of because bad team mates but it just logically cannot be and is not true. In games like league of legends that are 5v5 and champions cannot realistically 1v3,4 or 5 people even if extremely far ahead it really can feel this way because even if you are quite a bit better than your current ranking would imply, there is a lot of 'noise' in the system with 80% of the team's performance being random you can easily lose games you personally deserved to win (and vice versa of course). You might only win 55-60% of your games and games take a good 45-60+ minutes often between queuing loading and playing so it takes ages to climb. Coincidentally (or not) league is famous for having hundreds of thousands of people who all incorrectly believe in this 'elo hell'.

^I had a friend who was stuck in bronze 4-5 (the bottom of the lowest league in league if you know anything about the game) and had been stuck there for hundreds of games and sweared by elo hell. So one day I told him to give me the account I would prove it wasn't bad players keeping him at his ranking, but his own lack of skill. I went on no less than a 43 winstreak from bronze 5 to silver 1 before I lost my first game and I was by no means an amazing league player (I was good, but not great- Plat 1 at my best, so nowhere near the top, something like the 96th percentile, which left a few tens of thousands of people ranked higher than me lol).

However, in a 2v2 in COH, there is only two of you, so you represent a massive part of the team. Coh 2 is also the type of game you can thoroughly crush an opponent worse than you so if you are truly better than your rank you will win most of your games, many easily, some averagely, a few will be tough, and you will lose a few when you randomly have a truly dire ally and/or you got severely over matched by the matchmaker. But, overall, you should climb steadily and easily until you are more appropriately ranked!

Is it just me or is the 1v1 matchmaking somewhat off?

Note beforehand: Currently level 9/12/10/11/16 (Sov/Wehr/USF/OPW/Brit) after 47/83/69/89/132 games.

Lately i have noticed that my wins are really 1-sided. Out of maybe the last 40 wins, only 4-5 have been memorable games where i had to outsmart/outtactic/outplay my opponent to win. Rest have all been gg easy, stomps really. What surprises me here is that when i check their level after the game, they're all between 3-5 levels below mine. Most recent game i was LVL12 as Ost against a LVL7 Soviet. Rest of his levels weren't any better. And this isn't just a single case. If you go back in my history it's the case way more often.

I know there aren't a lot of people playing so matchmaking can be a bit off, but isn't this taking away the fun for both parties involved? I cba to wait 10 minutes in queue to get matched against some disgusting blobber or maxim abusing animals (hi zarok) that has no clue how to play differently due to being HARD stuck level 7-9, while they are probably tired of waiting that same queue time and then getting gg easy'd in 15 minutes.



Also, on a side note, what is up with the Brit ranking? Ladder -> page 16. Level 13 -> 16 ???

Ranks 1-2 are always level 20, 3-13 is 19, 14-36 is 18, 37-80 is 17, 81-200 is 16, but then after the ranks use elo to differentiate. So in more populated ladders levels 14 and 15 are both used, in slightly smaller ladders there tends to be no level 15s, and in smaller ladders still (brit 1v1) there is no level 14 or 15. This is because after the top 200 players have been given the fixed ranks, there is no one with elo high enough to classify as 15 and 14.

Basically a lot of the level 16s as brits might only be level 14 as ost even if they were equally good at both factions, and the same as level 17s being 'real' level 16s etc.

And LMG does more damage all around, late game most cover is destroyed anyways.

Thats not really true, whilst lategame all the initial cover may be more or less destroyed, the ground is usually littered with craters giving yellow cover.