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Thread: OKW Handheld AT solution.5 Mar 2018, 10:59 AM Get a vet 3 Pershing. As an instant call-in for manpower only? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: OKW Handheld AT solution.5 Mar 2018, 10:55 AM Thats why you don´t tell us some examples, right? Tiger Ace. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: The Sherman in WWII 1 Mar 2018, 22:29 PM I'm not sure the quality of the tank crews has to do with MajorBloodnok's actual question (how good was the Sherman?) The answer to that? It was good enough. The 75mm gun couldn't penetrate Panthers or Tigers without getting dangerously close to them but Panthers and Tigers only made up about 30% of the German tank forces as of D-Day. The rest was StuGs, Panzer IVs and various older designs. The 75mm gun could handle those just fine. A good tank is an adequate tank you can build a lot of. The US could build a lot of Shermans and they were good enough against anything that wasn't a Panther or Tiger. The Firefly carried a 76.22mm gun (which was the equivalent of the UK 17lber) The Firefly's gun was a British 17 pounder. It was a British tank. The British wanted to mount the 17 pounder on a tank and their attempts to mount it on a Cromwell weren't going well. So they used the Sherman. It was a very awkward vehicle. Outside of a battle they had to point the turret backwards so the gun barrel didn't stick in the mud when the tank drove over a bump. The gun was so big that they had to weld a box to the back to the turret to fit the radio equipment in. The main gun's muzzle flash (for which the tank was nicknamed) was so bright that the crew had to close their eyes when they fired or be temporarily blinded. But it could reliably knock out anything the Germans had and for that it was invaluable. In: The Library
Thread: Relic Request: Remove Redundant Bulletins & Add few new ones24 Feb 2018, 12:15 PM I'd much prefer any dev time that could go into redoing the bulletins went into updating the ability text. A fair chunk of it is just plain wrong now. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Recent "update" (not the Christmas one)24 Feb 2018, 10:35 AM https://community.companyofheroes.com/discussion/67/coh-2-changelog/p5 Smoke Grenades were moved from Riflemen to Rear Echelon Troops and the three Officers in the December Balance Patch. The idea was to move some utility from the Rifleman squad to the Rear Echelon Squad. In: Strategy Desk
Thread: My idea to balance OKW22 Feb 2018, 16:47 PM The precedent for mobile HQ trucks, the CoH 1 Brits, didn't have any combat utility on their trucks outside of reinforcing squads. They wanted to set up in a quiet resource sector and provide their +80% income boost without ever being bothered by enemy units. This isn't the case for the OKW trucks: their abilities incentivise them to get as close to the action as they can without being destroyed. If they became mobile they'd need to become fragile too or you'd create a Sim City on wheels. Mobile suppression platforms work because they're fragile: once the enemy has some AT capability they're relegated to defending the back line and deterring backcapper squads. The Schwerer HQ however can 1v1 a medium tank. This is fine at the moment because if you win an engagement against a Schwerer it's lost completely so the enemy has an incentive to place it somewhere they can defend. A mobile Schwerer can move with its army. Likewise, the only mobile FRP in the game is the Major/Ambulance pair and that works because it's made of paper: it can advance but it's got to stay far back enough that it won't see combat. To make mobile OKW HQ trucks work they'd need to not be able to advance aggressively (like the Ambulance) or not want to (like an Opel Blitz). Either way, they wouldn't be able to keep the stats and utility they have as emplacements and they certainly wouldn't be able to be made tougher. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Su-765 Feb 2018, 13:00 PM Why would stug be superior to SU76? It is superior and it's correspondingly more expensive. What about the arty ability that triggers you? The OP answered this in the very first post: their concern was that swarmed SU-76s were countering AT guns by mass barraging them. It sounds like they were trying to fight SU-76 spam by charging them from the front with StuGs and PaKs. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Recon Support I&R Pathfinders vs Airborne Pathfinders5 Feb 2018, 12:57 PM So I&R Pathfinders are better than two instant kill snipers? What if they are equipped with two M1918A2 BARs? Would that make the two instant kill snipers better since they'll have good DPS and a good chance to instant kill? Even if you kit them out with two BARs the I&R squad still has an M1 Garand (standard USF rifle) instead of a second sniper rifle. The Garand deals more damage than the sniper rifle if the sniper doesn't proc an instakill. The question you've got to ask is are there likely to be enough enemy models below 50% health simultaneously for the increased instakill potential to outweigh the DPS reduction? I don't think it makes much strategic difference though. The units fill the same role and you're unlikely to choose between Recon and Airborne based on the Pathfinders. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Recon Support I&R Pathfinders vs Airborne Pathfinders5 Feb 2018, 02:15 AM I asked the same question back during DBP's testing period. The answer I got is that Pathfinders have a pair of sniper rifles which instakill models below half health. I&R Pathfinders carry one instead of two. Here's the full post if you're interested: Jump back to quoted post15 Dec 2017, 15:56 PMMr.Smith IMO, I&R Pathfinders are a straight upgrade over Airborne pathfinders. Sure, 1 sniper rifle as opposed to 2 sniper rifles sounds worse on paper. However, in practice, the vanilla rifles have better DPS that will help knock the squad down to the required 50% health for the snipe. Also, having only 1 slot item means that Barfinders on I&R Pathfinders will probably be less likely to drop their weapons. So, if I&R Pathfinders really do turn out to be strictly better than Airborne Pathfinders, then it's worth making both versions a copy-paste of the new I&R Pathfinders. If, for whatever reason, it's decided that Airborne Pathfinders are actually more combat-capable than I&R Pathfinders, then it's probably worth keeping the two separate versions as they are currently. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Panther4 Feb 2018, 23:08 PM That also makes a lot of sense. Thanks. In: Ostheer Strategies