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Thread: How come Axis infantry get all the snares?20 Jul 2019, 22:16 PM Jump back to quoted post20 Jul 2019, 19:55 PMachpawel Well, I play all factions and have best stats as USF. I'm not ost fanboy by any means. I have a feeling that ost is underpowered. It was designed as a faction that was supposed to be on the defensive at the beginning of the game. Later it was supposed to make a comeback with heavy tanks. Allied players, in posts similar to this one, demanded stronger and more versatile unjts. And they were largely successful. Ost got neglected, unlike OKW, and imho is underperforming. Of course best players can make it work but it is so much less forgiving and you really have to be on your toes all the time. Snares are a good example here. Allied players, I assume, not playing ost keep asking for more snares even though they have more of them on more survivable units. The author of this post apparently forgot that they can equip at weapons on various squads. It's just incredible. The demanding buffs and nerfs has gone both ways throughout the games live span. Its not really and axis or allies exclusive thing. But allies did struggle late game far more then axis struggled early game for a long time imo. Versatility and utillity dont mean anything if you cant take or deal (enough) damage. I really disliked beat axis before x minute or auto loose fase of the game. Esp when okw was released. Imo ost is not struggeling atm. The doctrines and buffs did their job. To my knowlidge allies dont have more snares. They are implemented diferently across the factions. Ow with the grass is greener comment i also meant the author of this post. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: How come Axis infantry get all the snares?20 Jul 2019, 18:12 PM Jump back to quoted post20 Jul 2019, 18:01 PMachpawel It'a all true. My feeling is still that ost should get satchels with the advent of really heavy allied tanks so the game is even more balanced. Allies can get snare with hand held at. Wich is overall less effective but more flexibel as a counter messure. Ost has far more effective hand held at. But only available on 1 unit. And their dedicated at units the pak and stug have a snare. They have the strongest at mine. Okw is the only faction with t0 at gun. And have non doc cloaking on their at units. And can move at better speeds while cloaked with vet. Further more, ost had the ostwind buffed the pgrenz where buffed. Booating their ai and light at. Pgrens dont need and do not deserve another buff. With al due respect. To me this seems like the gras is greener on the other side of the fence situation. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: How come Axis infantry get all the snares?20 Jul 2019, 17:06 PM Jump back to quoted post20 Jul 2019, 13:06 PMachpawel Not only cant you push them but also you can't close on them which means you will need more time to inflict dmg. Penals need time to do damage with the ptrs as well. Its not instant alpha damage afteral. Meaning they will take more fire in the process. Again without the satchel they are the easiest to push around. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: How come Axis infantry get all the snares?20 Jul 2019, 11:48 AM Jump back to quoted post20 Jul 2019, 11:38 AMachpawel I'm not pushing for it. I just feel that if some players complain that axis have all the snares they should be aware it's not that nice for ostheer especially. Still, I don't agree that it's easy to push at penals. You basically can't let them close. They are especially dangerous to stugs and pz4. Yoy can pretty easily, thought it is risky, chase pzgrens to their base and wipe them. Their alpha dmg won't help if there is no gren around. They get wiped too easily for their cost. Now because of the satchel you cant push them. Before even a 222 pushed them around. The ptrs was a downgrade before the atsatchel was added. It has a very short range for that reason. It can as you said be used to finish of or severly cripple already snared armour. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: How come Axis infantry get all the snares?20 Jul 2019, 11:28 AM Jump back to quoted post20 Jul 2019, 10:35 AMachpawel True. However, when a vehicle does get snared it is a perfectly valid option to finish it off with a satchel/satchels. Happens on high level play too. Also satchels and snares on an at weapon holding squads eliminate certain possiblities of engaging them. It is sometimes a good idea to force an at squad out of cover or just try to crush it with a vehicle. You can do it against shrecked pzgrens or pios but can't do it against, for example, ptrs penals. In my opinion some snare should be given to pzgrens after they equip shrecks because too often they get crushed or just killed by a closely approaching vehicle (dmg close on vehicles is simply higher). Sometimes good players just circle pzgens not allowing them to shoot. A but too cheesy for me. Pgrens with shrecks have high alpha damage and fire their first shot very fast. Pushing them around is more risky then when penal didnt have the at satchal. Ptrs penals where the easiest to push around by far, because the aim time is longer for the first shot and their alpha damage is pretty low. Ost has 3 snares non doc. Pfausts plus twp on the pak and stug3, both of wich are pure at units. The teller also can work pretty effective in slowing down armour. So imo pgrens defenitly do not need or are justified to have a snare after going shrecks. Because of the above. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Pls give Pgrens and Assgrens their medkit back16 Jul 2019, 14:03 PM Jump back to quoted post16 Jul 2019, 11:40 AMaerafield Because a 10mun mine capable of wiping an entire squad was not OP at all It could only do that with models clipping within eachother. It was used to punish elite callin inf coming from emptpy world buildings. Those bunched up the first seconds like crazy. Other then that it could almost never ever do that. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: So are they really nerfing the Churchill Tank?14 Jul 2019, 09:46 AM Jump back to quoted post14 Jul 2019, 04:44 AMmrgame2 What? Jp4 pen is still worse than churchill mediocre armor.. Even panther doesnt 100% pen at max range... Jp4 - 15 pop Churchill - 16pop Panther - 18pop Hence the problem with churchill. Instead of nerf chuchill tank somewhat, i always advocate panther armor buff and moving accuracy buff, on vet. It makes scaling better and serves purpose not just against churchills but late game. A expensive tank like panther, should do better against all allies med tanks. The 90/99 armor is a joke. For axis the panther is their solution for dealing with heavy armour next to their doctrinal heavy td,s. They can also solo all non doc medium tanks. The stug and jagdpz4 are there for medium armour just like the su76 is for soviets. They are not supposed to be a solid and cheap answer to late game heavy tanks. The churchill is still a heavy tank. In: Lobby
Thread: Target Waek Point: Streamline or Rename11 Jul 2019, 10:00 AM The movement block should never return imo. That part made it op. Slowing movement and stunning the turret is fine. This way the target has a chance to escape even with follow up at. Before that was not possible. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Allies Late Game Armor10 Jul 2019, 09:59 AM Focus sight reduced speed, severely reduces sight to the firing cone. And the ablity has a cooldown. As said it has enough meaningfull drawbacks to keep balanced. Having other units spot for it is still generaly better. As for target weakpoint. I rarely see it used anymore since it doesnt stun lock anymore ( wich is bs that it could before ) maybe i am missing it but it seems it a undesiarable ability now that its no longer so strong/op. In: Lobby
Thread: Machine Guns6 Jul 2019, 17:01 PM Jump back to quoted post6 Jul 2019, 15:07 PMthedarkarmadillo The thing is, it suppresses well enough if massed. Part of it too is that cons are not worth supporting/being support. Would you rather a con squad who can't scale until you fully tech and will lose helplessly against the enemy units costing the same or another MG that can support your existing MG for only 40mp more? They deal enough damage that a pair of then has far more to offer than a maxim and a con squad ever could. Bump the maxim up to 300mp and make it do its job a little bit and drop cons to 220 and you might see the occasional con support squad but nobody wants cons as support RN because cons are not support. Indeed it only does its job in pairs. That alone makes it unbelievable that it costs 260mp and requires tech. If one needs double the units to do the same or slightly better as the enemy counter part it should be that much cheaper. The maxim has no double role to compensate for it sucking at its job. The deathloop overkills the 160mp bonus. Buffing it and putting the cost at 300 or so is worth testing indeed. I am of the opnion cons are not bad but just cost to much for what they bring to the table. Their 7th man should be tied t3 imo or as a side tech at t3 and cons become cheaper out of the gate. 220 mp should suffice. In: COH2 Balance