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Now I know this is an absolute long shot... pipedream even, but it would be really cool to see different building types in CoH. I was just watching a game, watching a RUS flame penal attack a church built out of brick. Later in the game, I saw an Ostwind attacking the same building.

I couldn't help but think that the Ostwind should do WAY more damage against a brick building than a flamethrower should. Just as any explosive in the game should do more damage against a brick structure.

My proposal is this: divide buildings/garrison cover up into different "types" with different damage resistance qualities. I think brick buildings should receive less damage from flame weapons and more damage from explosive weapons (indirect fire, tank fire, shrecks etc), while wooden buildings take that same 1.25(or 1.5, i forget) damage bonus from flames, and have a standard explosive damage received from garrisons. There are also mixed/plaster buildings. Leave those as-is.

I think this change (as unlikely as it is to be implemented), could add a lot of strategic diversity, not only to gameplay, but map-making as well. Placement of buildings would be important, not only because of the number of windows and door placement, but the material the building is made out of. It would also greatly enhance the effectiveness of brick churches which, in my opinion, should be the strongest garrisons available. They should also be placed with great care.

Again, this would require multiple new types of "garrison cover", but it could add a lot of strategic diversity to gameplay - as there wouldn't be *one* direct counter to garrisons.

I want Afrika Korps in my life very badly. The Pacific Theatre seems too far removed to be implemented in CoH currently - the US Forces would have to be reworked (or have a second US faction for the Pacific) seeing as how the US Army wasn't very involved in the Pacific Theatre. It was mainly marines with very different compositions of weaponry.

Afrika Korps with some supplemental Italian units would be perfect.

Beyond that, Africa provides an entire expansion opportunity for Relic - both singleplayer and multiplayer. The Afrika Korps can be the new faction, with either a British or AK North African SP campaign. Maybe a British African commander.

Desert maps would be really fun and quite different. Many of the established systems would transfer over really well into a desert setting. Deep sand instead of deep snow or mud, sandstorms instead of blizzards, heat exhaustion instead of freezing troops.

The Afrika Korps would be perfect as a highly mobile, midgame focused army. The late game units can be a Tiger and Flak 88, with strong, mobile infantry filling out the midgame with light and medium vehicles abound.

Please give us Afrika Corps!!!! It would be cool to have a 3rd camo slot too for desert maps D

SPOILERS

Hey everyone. I hope I'm posting this in the right section. I also posted this to Reddit, but this forum seems more active, so I'm posting it here too. To those of you who watched the first game of the ESL finals, Twister(OKW) vs Luvnest(USF), what a comeback! I've got a bit of analysis for you guys!

To sum things up, Luvnest base-pinned Twister multiple times, and Twister didn't secure any territory until the ~20min mark. Crazy game, well played by both parties. I just wanted to offer a theory as to why Luvnest couldn't finish out the fight, and a point out what I consider to be an incredibly important aspect of assaulting entrenched positions.

Luvnest was sitting on a massive advantage with a huge fuel income. He had infantry supremacy, but Twister had an unchallenged Puma harassing the front. While in this position, Luvnest made a sensible choice: he trained a Major and went for a Sherman. Versus an opponent like Jesulin, who he faced in the semis, who goes Puma heavy, I agree with the Sherman. However, Twister went infantry heavy. The Sherman may fare well versus infantry, but Twister was also able to freely produce the T1, mineral-only Racketenwerfer to zone out the Shermans.

The lynchpin in securing the late-game dominance for Luvnest was the Sherman, and I believe this was the key mistake. For a smaller fuel cost, Luvnest could have gone T3, made a Captian to soft-counter the Puma(s), spent the excess fuel on an additional AA HT and, most importantly, gotten a 75mm Howitzer. The additional AA HT paired with the Captain squad would maintain the base pin whilst the 75mm Howitzer bled manpower from Twister's squads, preventing him from utilizing the all-important infantry call-ins. The 75mm Howitzer is the lynchpin of this strategy here. Indirect fire can never be underestimated. Vet squads take hits and, with the reinforce time/cost for OKW forces, Twister's ability to move out onto the map woudl be severely crippled. Not to mention the added effect of wiping Racketenwerfer squads (along with decreasing their relevance) allowing for a later transition to Shermans.

With the way the game played out, things happened in the opposite direction. Luvnest's Shermans were zoned shreck squads and puma, while the puma was also causing manpower attrition by catching a rifleman here and there. Twister called in infantry with impunity, leveraged the subsequent veterancy, and pushed himself out to a late-game OKW victory.

I'm not here to say that I'm 100% correct. These are the best players the game has to offer, they had been playing all day and, above all else, are extremely adaptable to a variety of strategies. I'm sure this idea crossed Luvnest's mind, and I'm sure Twister wouldn't have GGd at minute 10 if Luvnest had executed it. However, I think a lot of us thought that Luvnest had that game won 1/3 of the way through, so I just wanted to give my 2 cents on how Twister was able to secure the win.
GGWP

Hey guys, first post.

I've always been a huge COH fan, but have recently converted to SC a bit. Through playing SC and, especially, coming to really enjoy the eSports side of it, I think a faster game is a more exciting game.
So I had the idea that COH should have a changeable game speed, like SC's normal, fast and faster. A faster game of COH would have a higher skill cap, shorter games overall, and more exciting games to watch.

Let me know what you guys think!