Profile of PhosphorusPheonix

Jump back to quoted post14 Nov 2020, 03:21 AMJibberJabberJobber

MG: Reposition it each time its location has been revealed, especially if it's unsupported and open to getting flanked. A good player doesn't walk into the same MG position twice.

Mortar: Keep it as close to the frontline as you can get away with and its value goes up allot cause of reduced scatter. Besides that, use smoke barrages constantly, it's tactically very useful against team weapons (much more so than normal rounds). HE barrage should be reserved against unmoveable targets or units in the fog of war, otherwise it's better to keep it on autofire in my experience. You want consistent damage with a mortar to win fights, not try to go for wipes.

AT guns:

• Don't attack move further than your own frontline or before you know it your AT guns will be walking into enemy territory once no vehicles are in sight anymore.
  
• You want 2 AT guns once medium tanks start arriving, if you can afford it. You go from needing 4 volleys to kill a medium to needing 2 volleys.
  
• If a single AT gun gets flanked by a vehicle, you want to be reversing while rotating instead of just rotating, it's faster and less predictable.
  
• If 2 grouped AT guns get flanked by a vehicle, you want to move your AT guns apart from each other so the enemy vehicle gets shot by one of your AT guns while trying to kill the other.
  
• I find multiple AT guns work best if they're all facing the same direction instead of each covering a different direction. However, they should be seperated slightly if you suspect rocket artillery or powerful off-maps like fragmentation run or cluster bombs.
  
• Ideally you want to keep your AT guns close to your vehicles, especially if the vehicles provide sight like a T70 or 222. AT guns shouldn't be acting on their own, but act as force multipliers for your vehicles. The best way to improve AT gun coordination is to play 1v1/2v2 Soviets and going T70 with double ZiS gun. The T70 is vulnerable without the ZiS guns and the ZiS guns are vulnerable without the T70, but together they're almost unstoppable, even against something like a P4.
  
• Use the abilities on your AT guns frequently, they're all very good. Especially TWP for the Pak40, Barrage for the ZiS-3 and Take Aim and Sabot rounds for the M-1, but the others also.
  

Jump back to quoted post15 Nov 2020, 04:49 AMGiaA

Ohh you've opened pandoras box now

1. Theoretical knowledge (no need for exact stats but exavtly the kind of info youre inquiring about), good basis for improvement but only a minor paet of being good at the game

2. Intuition (what feels right to you ingame needs to actually be the right thing to do), by far the biggest part of being good at the game, can only be improved by practicing, coh2 is extremely reactive so situations almost never repeat, thats why you need to be able to analyze a given situation and react accordingly on the spot with very limited time, theres no concious decision making process most of the time so you can't improve this by watching replays

3. Mechanical execution

Goes hand in hand with 2. Use as many hptkeys as possible (use autohotkey if needed), use tactical map, ideally use control groups (but not too many)

To answer your question: you get good by practicing for the most part, but you also wanna mix in some reflection about the way you're playing (watching replays of your own or others, watching streams, learning about stats, thinking about and memorizing build orders etc.)

Jump back to quoted post14 Nov 2020, 18:52 PMCreativeName

As you said, it depends alot on the situation/ matchup and also game mode.

In 1v1 you should NEVER build a cache unless youre floating huge amounts of manpower and/or are popcapped.
Generally speaking a additional mg or infantry squad is what you want when you are already ahead to keep up the pressure.

Basically the same in 2v2 but you could make a argument for an early fuel cache to speed up your first tank but usually id advice to field more troops.

I guess in 3v3/4v4 a fuel or muni cache is the correct choice but dont quote me on that, i dont play those modes alot.

Keep in mind to spend you manpower to counter your opponents composition and playstyle, against a more campy player you might want a mortar/sniper instead of more mgs/infantry for example.

Jump back to quoted post14 Nov 2020, 02:08 AMJibberJabberJobber

For most small arms it's correct, on this site you can check cover modifiers for any weapon: https://coh2.serealia.ca/



Yellow and green cover get negated within 10 range, but NOT garrison cover.

It's important to note that 'negated' cover at close range will turn into neutral cover and not just stop existing. So if opponent made a sandbag made on a red cover road, he won't suddenly be getting a red cover penalty once you've closed in on the opposite side.



Tank shells against infantry mostly rely on scatter, not on accuracy, so it won't help much.

Infantry models have a target size around 1, while vehicles have a target size between 15 and 26. This target size gets multiplied with the accuracy value of a gun at a certain range. Because tanks have low accuracy compared to small arms, they only have around 2 to 8% chance to directly snipe a model (if it doesn't, it becomes a scatter shot). With yellow cover you'd reduce this small snipe chance by halve.

You could make a case for using yellow cover against vehicles with shitty AoE that rely on sniping to kill models. Think of the Puma, AEC, Stug and similar AT vehicles.




Let's say each model does 16 damage and has 80 hp:

- You have 1 model that does 16 damage and has 80/0.5 = 160 effective hp cause of yellow cover.
- Opponent has 2 models that do 2x16 = 32 damage and has has 2x80 = 160 hp.

You're still at a disadvantage cause your opponent can dish out more damage. However, while you might not be able to win, you might be able to drop one of his models before you have to retreat with some luck.