Profile of LoopDloop

If there's something to be changed/added on Paratroopers, is either the ability to reinforce ANYWHERE on the map or give them default fire-up ability to avoid suppression, similar to CoH1 paratroopers. Otherwise, if you just add some kind of demolition charges, they will be able to do their job slightly better. They are designed to disorient the enemy.

I think coh1 style fire up would be blatantly op on Thompson paras tbh. Even normal sprint would be stretching it a bit.

Do paras have smoke? I don't recall but if they don't that would be a nice addition and add more variance from the now smokeless rifles.

No and that was one of my suggestions. It’d be cool, and I don’t see how it’d be that imbalanced. Would mostly add utility and not make them even more abnormally good at their intended role of wiping retreating squads, but would add a little more synergy with other units IMO.

Not asking them not to get snared; it's the range of the faust combined with the fact that it seems to guarantee an engine crit. Also, I play at low resolution to ensure faster gameplay... as far as I can tell there's no animation that the faust is coming up, is this correct?

The animation is 5 guys running toward your UC lmao.

And it does guarantee engine damage the UC.

No offense, but this is definitely an l2p issue. I use the UC all the time and have never thought it was bs or anything on the rare occasion it gets fausted. The UC has decent acceleration and a long range so there’s no reason it should get snared that often if you’re paying attention.

high dps bazooka? what a silly

bazooka dmg is just 80, do you know?

penetration is likes dumbass and mostly cant do dmg to tank evne low dmg

flank is not always answer

flank is about 3 times difficult than just defending

3bazooka for ranger is most moron play in coh2

Paratroopers do 100 damage with their bazookas and have higher penetration. They also have an ambush camouflage bonus that usually bugs but is supposed to make them do more damage and have more penetration.

Edit: Also, disclaimer: the game I played against a certain banned user referenced in this thread was more or less a meme build. I only had 1 rifle and two REs to open with in the interest of trying to go airborne callin heavy later (which doesn’t work for obvious reasons lol). So if I could avoid being told to l2p that’d be great. I’m ranked decently at 250ish for 1v1s with usf and 116 or something with Brit 1v1s.

Maybe don’t let your UC get snared?

Also it has way more armor than the clown car or kubelwagen or dodge so it’s not exactly “fragile”. It does get insta killed by pgrens with schrecks but that’s not a big deal as they come much later anyway.

But seriously the thing’s practically invincible for like the first 5-6 minutes as long as you’re not being kinda dumb and they don’t get an early rak.

A shame the Hammer specialisation in game isn't as effective as the Hammer we seem to have on the forums XD

Lol +1

On that topic, the other day I was thinking that it’d be cool if the gammon bomb (on infantry sections) would stick to tanks. IIRC it doesn’t actually engine damage, but stuns for a bit (don’t remember if it just stops movement of the tank like the AEC or disabled weapons too). It’d make hammed a bit more appealing and give some actual function to it other than comet, as anvil is picked both for Churchills and the airburst shells, while the only driving force behind picking hammer is really the comet.. Heavy engineers are nice too, but IMO are on the same level of usefulness as FoW vehicle tracking (as in nice to have but not something that plays a part in dictating which specialization one chooses). It’d also lend some more nice synergy and mobile aggression thematic to hammer to the brits, which I think is fine because they would still be the only faction without snares on mainline infantry. Snares on sappers are great, but inherently less powerful and ubiquitous than snares on tougher and highly prevalent (in terms of actual numbers of squads) mainline infantry of other factions. I think that’s balanced though, since brits will have all those other abilities that mess with tanks (treadshot, sniper crit, tulips sort of). It’s actually a perfect compromise IMO for sappers to have snares.