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Thread: Are they not fixing heavies?8 Feb 2020, 14:07 PM I don't think it's possible, because I haven't seen or heard of this being done in the game before. But I really feel like repairing a heavy tank should consume part of your resource income, so that even though it would be very durable and relatively easy to micro to keep alive, keeping it in the field should cost you. That way there would be something to gain from enaging and damaging a heavy tank even if you do not outright destroy it. Other nerfs (that are more likely possible) would also be good, especially ROF, turret rotation and AOE killing power versus infantry. If you have access to them, there are just no real downsides to heavy tanks, and they also create this dynamic where there is almost never a situation for the ALlies where going for the powerful Jacksons and SU-85s is not the safer choice over mediums. It also kind of feels like the Tiger I is perhaps a bit too available across a bunch of different doctrines and will nearly always make an appearance because it is just too viable (I've got some thoughts on GA, and overall I don't like it, because it's kind of overwritten most of the rest of the OKW and made other commanders rare or irrelevant). That is not to say that the Allied heavies aren't viable, the IS-2 is decently available for the Soviets, the Brits don't really have a heavy tank like the others do and the Americans have the one commander with the Pershing. Rather than making Allied heavies more available, I'd want heavies to be less of the no-brainer choice they currently are, a choice that offers great killing power versus all targets coupled with excellent survivability and a relatively low micro demand meaning you don't risk as many resources using them as you do with a comparable force of medium tanks. If something could be done about that, then we could get into a situation where TDs as well can possibly begin to be rebalanced as they also wouldn't be as much of a no-brainer choice as the heavies currently are. edit: One thing that could possibly be done with heavy tanks is to give them an HE/AT ammunition toggle, whcih switches between an anti-tank and an anti-infantry (which should also work well against light vehicles) profile, for the purpose of increasing the micro demand on using these units and not allowing them to switch seemlessly between chasing off and destroying tanks and wiping infantry squads. That way they could keep a good deal of that killing power they have versus all targets, but effectively using it requires a bit more micro, awareness and waiting out a cooldown (I think the Sherman HE/AT toggle is about 6 seconds, that'd work for heavies as well, allowing them to be caught off guard). In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Crossing in the Woods Bloodbath. 29 Jan 2018, 19:51 PM So, me and a friend played this game for the first time in a long while today, had a couple of wins, a couple of losses, this was the last battle we played today. I won't say there is any brilliant play in this replay, but it was a very hard fought thing and came pretty close to defeat for us, despite turning the match to our advantage when about 20 mins remained, though we had few victory points remaining. We won in the end by just going balls out and trying to destroy anything left before we risked losing by victory points. Exhausting and bloody. About 1,100 combined casualties, and base destruction in the end more out of desperation than anything else. In: Replays

Thread: Are they not fixing heavies?8 Feb 2020, 14:07 PM

I don't think it's possible, because I haven't seen or heard of this being done in the game before. But I really feel like repairing a heavy tank should consume part of your resource income, so that even though it would be very durable and relatively easy to micro to keep alive, keeping it in the field should cost you. That way there would be something to gain from enaging and damaging a heavy tank even if you do not outright destroy it.

Other nerfs (that are more likely possible) would also be good, especially ROF, turret rotation and AOE killing power versus infantry. If you have access to them, there are just no real downsides to heavy tanks, and they also create this dynamic where there is almost never a situation for the ALlies where going for the powerful Jacksons and SU-85s is not the safer choice over mediums.

It also kind of feels like the Tiger I is perhaps a bit too available across a bunch of different doctrines and will nearly always make an appearance because it is just too viable (I've got some thoughts on GA, and overall I don't like it, because it's kind of overwritten most of the rest of the OKW and made other commanders rare or irrelevant). That is not to say that the Allied heavies aren't viable, the IS-2 is decently available for the Soviets, the Brits don't really have a heavy tank like the others do and the Americans have the one commander with the Pershing. Rather than making Allied heavies more available, I'd want heavies to be less of the no-brainer choice they currently are, a choice that offers great killing power versus all targets coupled with excellent survivability and a relatively low micro demand meaning you don't risk as many resources using them as you do with a comparable force of medium tanks. If something could be done about that, then we could get into a situation where TDs as well can possibly begin to be rebalanced as they also wouldn't be as much of a no-brainer choice as the heavies currently are.

edit: One thing that could possibly be done with heavy tanks is to give them an HE/AT ammunition toggle, whcih switches between an anti-tank and an anti-infantry (which should also work well against light vehicles) profile, for the purpose of increasing the micro demand on using these units and not allowing them to switch seemlessly between chasing off and destroying tanks and wiping infantry squads. That way they could keep a good deal of that killing power they have versus all targets, but effectively using it requires a bit more micro, awareness and waiting out a cooldown (I think the Sherman HE/AT toggle is about 6 seconds, that'd work for heavies as well, allowing them to be caught off guard).

In: COH2 Balance

Thread: Crossing in the Woods Bloodbath. 29 Jan 2018, 19:51 PM

So, me and a friend played this game for the first time in a long while today, had a couple of wins, a couple of losses, this was the last battle we played today.

I won't say there is any brilliant play in this replay, but it was a very hard fought thing and came pretty close to defeat for us, despite turning the match to our advantage when about 20 mins remained, though we had few victory points remaining. We won in the end by just going balls out and trying to destroy anything left before we risked losing by victory points. Exhausting and bloody.

About 1,100 combined casualties, and base destruction in the end more out of desperation than anything else.

In: Replays