Profile of buttcheeksontoast

I don't see it ever outside of teamgames. It's too huge of an investment in 1v1. Yeah you might get lucky on the first shot and wipe a blob but against a good player that doesn't blob it's not that great because it fires literally once every two minute or so. The reload time is around 45s I think but the fact that it can be decrewed and stolen very easily while reloading means you have to drive it back first, yadda yadda. Also in 1v1 if you can afford the (230?) fuel into a unit that fire every two minutes, you've probably won anyhow.

To be honest regardless of buffs or nerfs, while it's fun to use and has that jaw-dropping WOW COOL factor, it really shouldn't be in this game. Squad preservation for veterancy is an integral mechanic to Coh2 and the Sturmtiger by design is a veterancy wiper. I know demo charges have been in the game since vanilla but those are more just a punish for not using a sweeper, and require forethought and planning instead of just rolling up to an area and wiping a squad or two and rolling back out.

But I think lowering the range and increasing the lethal radius/damage would be cool. It shouldn't be able to fire out of fog of war, especially past shotblockers. Instead of being a surprise wipe assassin, make it like a 'roided-up Brummbar/Crocodile/Kv-8: roll up to AT guns, blobs, whatever, and be tanky enough to facetank shots while threatening wipes. At least the 3 mentioned above give some reaction time, some breathing room to the infantry under assault. If your opponent keeps blobbing close enough to your Sturmtiger or doesn't move his support weapons out of the way when he sees it, fine, he deserves to have them all wiped. But you shouldn't lose squads to a rocket coming out of nowhere magically phasing through a house or such.

Bonus clip: I thought all hope was lost and I would lose my shiny new Sturmtiger, but then I remembered from the P-47 loiter discussion thread that the Ju87 doesn't self-spot, thankfully. https://streamable.com/snbl9

Is there a way to see exactly how far RE's can fire a rifle nades from a Fighting Position? Is the range just the same as HMG's? I know a Fighting Position in theory is a good way to deny garrisons or such but I'm never sure where exactly I should be placing it for minimal risk.

Yeah it's more of a punish for lack of micro/attention when lobbed at normal squads. Great for wiping an MG teams outside garrisons though.

Don't forget that you need to throw where the models are facing out of when using a nade to maximize your chance to kill models and clear a garrison.

However don't bother using nades on non-MG garrisoned squads, a decent player will just hop out their squad right before the nade goes off and then hop right back in before you can even try to steal the garrison, so you just wasted muni for nothing.

I really hope you're running these polls so you can improve the maps and not just reduce the already small map pool. I'd rather play some mediocre maps than shrink the pool.

My votes went slightly different than my list here, but that's purely due to personal taste. For example, there's no fixing the issue I have with Vielsalm or Steppes, which is that superheavy tank destroyers dominate it. There are just going to be certain maps that are open, and those are two of them. The maps I'm about to list have more tangible room for improvement. Again, these are not necessarily the maps I voted for- I'm just offering some critique on maps that obviously need it.

Lienne Forest: I actually really like the left and middle of Lienne Forest. However, the right side is just cancer. I hate absolutely everything about it. It's not open or close quarters enough to lend itself to fun infantry skirmishes. It's just one lane so tank fights aren't fun on it, either. Whoever takes it first usually keeps it all game, because it's so insanely difficult to dislodge MG, mortar, and emplacement spammers in the right forest. It needs to decide what kind of gameplay it lends itself to, because right now it sucks for both infantry and tank combat.

I've actually found that superheavy TD's tend to dominate more on maps like Essen or City 17 where it's more urban and it's easy to lock down any possible flank routes, all the roads will be mined, etc. They basically make any area around the middle VP inaccessible to your tanks because they can aim at areas your armor is funneled through and that's how they dominate with those superheavies. Whereas on Steppes there's a lot, lot more breathing room for Allies to make balls-deep flank with Mark Target+a bunch of mediums to take down an Elefant/Jagdtiger.'

I agree on Lienne Forest. The middle is an interesting dynamic where one side gets an awesome garrison, but later on have a disadvantage due to being blocked off by the railway. And the left is an urban fight, wrestling for control of the garrison next to the VP and surrounding garrisons. The right is just.... ugh. Especially once a Bofors or such goes down.

I feel a lot more comfortable with a t1 opener because I've practiced it plenty in 1v1, plus I just love having a scout car to rape Kubels/garrisons/any infantry without a faust. That or dropping off Penals behind a bunker, Penals chuck a satchel, hop back in.

However I feel very vulnerable to Luchs/flamer HT rush, especially since I don't have Cons with AT nades/ATG. Unless we dominated both fuels, a t70/su76 comes out too late.

So is it viable to go t1 then transition to t2 later instead of rushing for t3? Also, what about keeping a single Con squad around just to have a snare when needed?

EDIT: I posted this twice by accident... is there a way to delet post? xd