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Thread: Give Mechanized's Surplus to Off-Meta Commanders10 Aug 2020, 17:22 PM USF's commander pool is somewhat skewed. Some of its commanders are a bit bare, whereas some have so many commander abilities crammed into them that some become redunant. Mechanized is the prime example of the latter. It's got two clown cars (WC51 and M3) and two premium medium tanks (75mm Sherman Bulldozer and 76mm Sherman). That's a lot of overlap in role, and the commander would work just fine with one of each. On the other hand, there are plenty of off-meta USF commanders that could do with a premium medium or a support halftrack. Rifle Company could do with the M3, and the defensive Infantry Company would definitely appreciate the slow but hardy 75mm Bulldozer. What do you think? Is it worthwhile moving Mechanized's redundant abilities to commanders that could do with a buff? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: If you made the 76mm Sherman a stock USF unit?10 Aug 2020, 16:10 PM Jump back to quoted post9 Aug 2020, 23:23 PMCODGUY What if you could unlock it from the Barracks after teching to both LT and CPT and unlocking their respective vehicle techs skipping Major but giving you an alternate tech path? Then everyone would do that. Lnt + Cpt is faster than either to Major, so you'd be able to rush out the M4C very quickly. Then you'd just keep building M4Cs: they get to a Panther-killing critical mass pretty quickly. What is worth considering is stripping the abilities Mechanized doesn't need out of Mechanized, and distributing them to other commanders that need some love. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: SU-85 and SU-767 Aug 2020, 20:34 PM Jump back to quoted post7 Aug 2020, 19:31 PMKatitof For it to be used widely again or even be considered as a choice it would have to be more then weak-ass expensive ZiS-3 on tracks and I can't see that kind of rework happening to it. Pretty much, yeah. The unit's fine on paper, but there's no point in the game any more where there's not a better option. Nobody'll get it as an artillery tractor when you can just use the ZiS you're probably building anyway. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: SU-85 and SU-767 Aug 2020, 18:43 PM Jump back to quoted post5 Aug 2020, 20:42 PMKatitof T-70 got 45 penetration. It can't even scratch anything larger then Luchs and even Luchs takes ages to kill and its utterly roflstomped by puma. Its PTRS on tracks in terms of AT. But that's the thing: the largest thing around at that point in the game is the Luchs. Throw the fact that the SU-76 doesn't counter the Puma on top of that, and you've got very little reason to slow your tech for it. Once you get to the medium tank phase, you build the SU-85 instead. Given the choice between a dedicated tank destroyer that can deal with the whole enemy lineup and a dedicated tank destroyer that can't, why would you pick the SU-76? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: SU-85 and SU-765 Aug 2020, 19:59 PM If it swapped out its barrage for an indirect fire mode (like the StuG-E) it might be able to reclaim its 'Defensive T-70' niche. But the only other way I can think of it make the SU-76 relevant is to cripple the T-70's AT. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Is the WC 51 overperforming ? 5 Aug 2020, 19:50 PM The WC51 should lose artillery and Mark Target. It's an excellent early game unit that doesn't need these incongruous abilities bolted onto it in the name of 'late game relevance.' In: COH2 Balance
Thread: SU-85 and SU-763 Aug 2020, 15:34 PM I've heard somebody say that SU76 used to be OP. I haven't played the game when it came out so I don't know but that's how I see the SU76. It used to have a weaker barrage, but no cost for it. It was well-balanced for 1v1, and sometimes people would go for it instead of the T-70. However, in teamgames you could spam the things. The SU-76 blob could take on most enemy vehicles with sheer volume of fire, and the stacked barrage would annihilate any infantry AT sent in to deal with them. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Centaur16 Jul 2020, 18:34 PM The Centaur is much better against infantry than the Cromwell. It's a good unit that'd be very powerful in any other faction. If the AEC had a similar penetration profile to the Puma, UKF would have the mobile AT to support the Centaur. If UKF had a mortar, it'd be able to go for team weapon builds without getting hard countered and support the Centaur with 6-pounders. It's a good unit hamstrung by being in an incomplete faction. In: Lobby
Thread: Panzer IV Command Tank Rework Idea11 Jul 2020, 16:22 PM I'd just give it its old aura back but exclude allies from the effects. The problem is power, not design. Adding complexity to the aura mechanics isn't worthwhile when all that complexity is concealed from the player. The Command Panther is not a model to follow: it's barely ever used as a command vehicle because barely anyone understands what it does. Single, straightforward and simple effects like the CP4's 20% damage reduction are by far and away the best way to do auras in a game like this. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Delete the Schwerer gun from the game2 Jul 2020, 16:34 PM In contrast if OKW goes fast BGHQ and then rushes the Schwerer to their proximate cutoff and fuel, you literally have no means of countering it, save maybe royal arty UKF that can buy an AT gun and pay 100 muni for a proper barrage. Anti-tank guns outrange it. The SPHQ's not a very fun unit to deal with, but it's pretty straightforward to counter if you use the right tools. In: COH2 Balance