Profile of August1996

Noticed that we have buildable air units that can act as off-map strikes in this game. So PVP will be interesting with some players going hard on air support. Its quite cheap(both muni and fuel) for the damage it can do.

Breach mechanic is a much needed concept after the garrison hell in COH2. But maybe should tone down the damage to not one shot entire squads the moment someone with grenades even touches the building.

Commander system is based on COH1 which is much needed than the P2W system of COH2.

Vehicles actually drive well and responsive, I'm actually surprised that vehicles dont have a stroke if I order a move button in urban areas.

Auto-vault can be very annoying if you misclick in front of cover and your squad vaults in front of their own cover. Needs to have an option to turn it off.

Base building need to be a bit more explained to the player. As USF, you have 4 additional buildings other than your HQ, plus HQ upgrades which are separate. Then those additional buildings have their own upgrades. Took me around 1 hour to get the optimisation down and that's a COH2 vet talking.

Quick switching weapons are very good, but should come with a short cooldown after switching.

Squads are not as sticky to cover as they should. Many times a 4 man squad just wont stay put behind a wall, leaving one guy out in the open and getting suppressed immediately.

I cannot issue move and captures orders directly on the minimap. Not sure if that's intended or a bug.

Talking about minimap, let's just say I'm very disappointed at how useless it is at showing information other than which capture point is blue/red. Its not hard to put actual icons in the minimap Relic. I prefer not having to stare at the tac map 90% to get the maximum use of my micro.

TLR, great foundation and concepts to build on PVP wise. But there's still a LOOOTTTT of technical issues like hotkeys, unable to customise own UI, no soldiers yelling grenade before they get blown up to pieces.

If we can't compare the Pershing to the Tiger, then don't compare it to IS2. IS2 has its strengh which is durability even if it lose to a Tiger in a vacuum test. The potential the Pershing is given doesn't match its cost and all the lacklust its doctrine comes with: No arty, no loiter. For what it worth CA could be replace by 188mm arty barrage from mechanize doctrine that would make the doctrine more appealing.

Balance team doesn't want to buff the pershing because it would make the doctrine top1 on 1vs1. But Tiger doctrines are already Top1 for Ostheer and it never made them blind an eye also it took them years to finally do something about special ops for OKW. That's just double standard.

You forgot the fact that Ostheer's Tiger docs has a lot more going for them than just a Tiger right? Plus heavies arent that good anymore in 1v1s because other docs give all their abilities a lot earlier which means you can have your late game army a lot earlier.

I've been experimenting with Raid Sections, so far I've been having success with this build:

UC
RS
RS
RS
T1
AssOfficer
Medics
Air Resupply (if cannot deal with LV)
T2
Cromwell (or Centaur if ahead)
Wep Racks

Since you dont need Bolster you can just straight rush for T2 and still have enough to upgun RS. AO is there for his buff and nade. Weakness is double LV. 2 Vickers RS absolutely steamroll everyone except elites.

I have to agree, there is not much reason to get 5 man Grens after the nerf, main reason why German Infantry Doctrine is picked is because of 5 man Grens. DPS nerf AND a RA nerf together is super harsh.

About Tactical Support Doctrine, I would like to ask if its possible if balance team can introduce a special unit with the abilities that are usually tied to the building on them instead. Like the Major for USF.

This is because I dont think you can properly balance a building-based special unit without it being broken OP or worthless. As it stands the doctrine is among the least popular in all game modes.

Radio Officer:
- 3 man armed with pistols
- Comes out at Hammer/Anvil(preferred) or high CP.
- Poor combat stats.
- Has access to all abilities that was available to the FOP previously.
- All abilities rebalanced to compensate for a mobile FOP.