Profile of Smartie

Hi guys,
in anticipation of a new patch focusing on commander improvements (https://www.coh2.org/file/19295/pogchamp.png) I worked on some proposals for Soviets, OKW and USF.

1. General faction thoughts:
The Soviets had the most powerful artillery in the war but in CoH2 they barely have good artillery off-map abilities. Only 5! of 22 soviet commanders have an off map artillery ability: 3 have incendiary barrage, 2 AT overwatch.
Compare that to the number of 11 airstrikes and you see a huge discrepancy. Therefore I would love to see some new off map artillery abilities in some of the 2nd or 3rd tier commanders to make them more distinctive. New arty abilities could replace some of the airstrikes or the ML20.

Off map Arty ability ideas:
• ZIS Barrage: no explanation needed
• Rocket Barrage: Works like the OKW version but with Kathy rockets instead of Stuka rockets
• Breakthrough Arty: Mix of ML-20 and smoke shells
• Heavy bombardment: 3 B4 shells, Soviet equivalent to Railway artillery

All ideas are of course more or less copies of axis abilities. If you have more creative ideas, please post them I will incorporate them in the OP.

2. Commander rework ideas:
Tank Hunter tactics
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Soviet Reserve Army
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Advance Warfare
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It comes without saying that my ideas are not exhaustive. Many roads lead to Rome and there are several other underperforming and simply bad designed soviet commanders.

Please provide constructive feedback and make your own proposals here. We all have the same goal:
Make the Coh2 commander pool as good as possible.

Forgetting Rails and Metal?

NO, but only 4 maps will be removed I always block Rails and Metal...

I understand that you nerf op VSL and Osttruppen. But you should combine it with a buff for standard Grens.
Right now you are fighting the symptoms but dont cure the disease.
And it's fair to ask why Ost doctrinal units are rightfully nerfed when op allied elite infantry call-in units are still untouched.

so far using ProtonVPN has been great, prventing all lags.
I wonder what it is going to look like once the "free upgrade" ends and I get downgraded to "free"
Smartie, do you already have some experience to share?

Good to hear that it works for you! My "free" time is also over but I did not have the time to play again.
Grüße ins Frankenland aus Augsburg!

There are general issues with IPv6 in german routers, I've got Vodafone(on unitymedia infrastructure as I did upgrade once they have joined) one and I had periods where any online activity was pretty much impossible until I've changed it.

Check for package losses as well when the lags arrive as very often that is the cause of these lengthy lags, you can't feel them in CoH2 in other way then your 3 sec lag, but any other game is completely unplayable when it happens from my experience(BW area).

What I still dont understand is why I ONLY have problems with CoH2. And why my brother who lives 3 km away in Augsburg NEBER had any problems although I have the faster connection? Im talked me into believing that the big traffic at the evening might cause the problems but then my bro should have even bigger issues and none at all...
Its really frustrating. I had laggs in the past, sometimes 2-3 weeks. But now I have huge problems since November. Lets hope that something can be done in January.