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Thread: Panzer Tactician too strong, prove me wrong.24 Sep 2018, 13:53 PM Jump back to quoted post24 Sep 2018, 13:34 PMblvckdream Every smoke ability in COH2 should be changed to the UKF/USF design of having to shoot a smoke grenade with your main gun. Just pressing a button to get your vehicle out of a difficult situation is just brainless and stupid. Super annoying IMO. I think it works on vehicles that have it stock because they're balanced around it. Panzer Tactician adds it to every vehicle OST has, which makes a huge difference to their survivability. OST has two doctrinal smoke abilities, Smoke Bombs and Panzer Tactician. Smoke Bombs is really useful but Panzer Tactician is substantially more powerful in my opinion. One solution is to simply redistribute the two abilities. LIVE Panzer Tactician Blitzkrieg Doctrine Elite Troops Doctrine Festung Armor Doctrine Fortified Armor Doctrine Mobile Defence Doctrine Spearhead Doctrine Smoke Bombs Festung Support Doctrine German Mechanized Doctrine Storm Doctrine *REARRANGED (italics* have moved) Panzer Tactician** Blitzkrieg Doctrine Festung Armor Doctrine Spearhead Doctrine Storm Doctrine Smoke Bombs Festung Support Doctrine German Mechanized Doctrine Elite Troops Doctrine Fortified Armor Doctrine Reconnaissance Overflight Mobile Defence Doctrine Restricting Panzer Tactician to four relatively underused doctrines makes those doctrines more desirable. Festung Armor and Storm are barely used and Spearhead already loses out to Lightning War as a Tiger doctrine. Blitzkrieg competes much more strongly with Mobile Defence and Elite Troops if it's the only one that keeps Panzer Tactician. Elite Troops, Mobile Defence and Fortified Armor lose Panzer Tactician in favour of the more versatile but less responsive Smoke Bombs. Mobile Defence loses smoke entirely, although it might be worth sticking it on the OST Puma as stock in that case. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Feedback for Commander Revamppatch24 Sep 2018, 11:43 AM Jump back to quoted post24 Sep 2018, 11:41 AMTiger Baron If you're gonna make em an initially handicapped unit like the Osttruppen you might as well at least arm them with some proper weapons like the Thompsons right from the get go. I was thinking they're like Assault Engineers without their aura, but they buff up to Rangers when close to a vehicle. They're priced somewhere in between. In: Lobby
Thread: Universal Carrier vs Volks24 Sep 2018, 11:33 AM Jump back to quoted post24 Sep 2018, 10:24 AMmr.matrix300 Which is a bad decision (at least when it comes to the UC) anyway. In my opinion there should be made some changes (not only to the price) Given you're claiming to have enough trouble with the UC to warrant complaining about it I doubt that's a change you'd want to make. The UC is currently set up as a manpower opportunity cost: you get it instead of an additional infantry section. It's an immediate tradeoff: you trade the capping power of that Infantry Section for mobile fire support. If you shift that cost from manpower to fuel you turn the UC into an early game power spike: both the lower manpower cost on the UC and the delay to T1 means you'll probably be facing the UC and the additional infantry squad. It's a delayed tradeoff: you get a much stronger build early on but delay your teching. I agree with Relic in that making the UC an immediate tradeoff is the better way to do it for UKF. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Feedback for Commander Revamppatch24 Sep 2018, 11:05 AM Jump back to quoted post24 Sep 2018, 09:45 AMTiger Baron Speaking of Armor, maybe combine the M10 and 105 Sherman and put them in Mechanized, then Reserve Armor and a Pershing can be added to Armor Company? Even if the 76 Sherman remains broken it can be remedied by the normal Dozer Shermans and Pershing. That'd just make Armor a better version of Heavy Cavalry. The M10 is also somewhat redundant in Mechanized: the Bazooka Bus already fills the anti-medium fast AT role. That or making Combined Arms a passive for the Cav Rifles would also probably work to free up a slot. I agree with this. Make them kinda meh on their own but give them an Ostruppen/Infantry Section style cover bonus that triggers when near a vehicle. In: Lobby
Thread: Feedback for Commander Revamppatch24 Sep 2018, 08:32 AM Jump back to quoted post23 Sep 2018, 00:25 AMmiragefla We've been talking on the M10. Some ideas are: -Cheaper in fuel (Might not happen with self-sight) -Self-sighting (50 sight) -Flanking speed to vet 0 We are also likely removing HE shot. Elite Crews we also think might just be an auto passive so you get those faster repair speeds, increased vet gain, and the tommy guns off the bat. Is scrapping Elite Crews entirely an option? Then you could stick Mark Target in its place. In: Lobby
Thread: Universal Carrier vs Volks24 Sep 2018, 08:25 AM Jump back to quoted post23 Sep 2018, 20:42 PMmr.matrix300 Well ... technically it is. It is T0 (unlike most other Lvs), costs no fuel and can be upgraded with flamethrower (or MG), can repair itself and can transport troops. No other vehicle offers that much features ... and this all for 0 fuel. The UC costs no fuel for the same reason the Kubelwagen costs no fuel: Relic decided to give these units a high manpower cost instead of a high fuel cost. It can self-repair because UKF doesn't get repair units until T1. It has a flamethrower because the Royal Engineer squad doesn't. It's literally UKF's one garrison counter without an infantry flamer or a proper mortar. It's a decent unit but if you really think it's impossible to deal with go play UKF and let your opponent teach you how to counter it. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Universal Carrier vs Volks23 Sep 2018, 19:38 PM Jump back to quoted post23 Sep 2018, 19:15 PMmr.matrix300 So I see the UC. Then I wait till I have the MP for the Raketen(if i don't have enough), then I wait till its build and then I send it to the front ~~and then I watch it miss~~. This takes some time. And Katitof don't tell that I am supposed to build it at the start of the game. I mean what could go possibly wrong? If you want a hard counter, you've got it. If you want a soft counter, group your squads and charge it. The Universal Carrier is no different to any other early light vehicle. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Flame Halftrack23 Sep 2018, 19:08 PM I don't see the need for that. A second snare on the same unit is just clutter. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Universal Carrier vs Volks23 Sep 2018, 19:07 PM So having a AI unit which takes quite a lot of damage and costs no fuel before your enemy gets a option to counter is ok? T0 anti-tank gun. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Flame Halftrack23 Sep 2018, 17:50 PM Jagdwolfe is correct in that a scenario exists where it is possible to have a Grenadier squad that's locked out of its panzerfaust. Katitof is correct in that this is so improbable that it's irrelevant to game balance. In: COH2 Balance