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Thread: Top 30 ish 2v2, long GG with climactic final battle3 Apr 2018, 21:52 PM Pretty nice game with lots of medium + heavy armour and a climactic final battle to decide the end game In: Replays
Thread: No Point to Schwerer Flak anymore?31 Mar 2018, 17:46 PM Jump back to quoted post31 Mar 2018, 16:51 PMStorm Elite First, the cost argument is utterly wrong. Cost doesn't matter. At any given moment in time throughout the entire match, any one infantry unit is fighting one enemy unit. That's the first principles rundown of the game's mechanics. Which means you cannot allow units like the current absurd Penal squads exactly because they have the upper hand against absolutely all other infantry squads, which means the Soviet player, regardless of their cost, will 100% of the time force away at least one enemy squad with a Penal squad, without ever, under any circumstances, being able to be forced off early themselves. As for Volks, they are objectively bad, just like the 222 for Ostheer. Volks DO NOT DEAL DAMAGE until you upgrade them with STGs, and that actually reduces their long range damage, which destroys their intended "cover fighters at range" role in order to give them something to make them have some chance against hordes of SMG-wielding enemy infantry (hint: not a good chance). Baseline infantry performance is the MOST important factor to consider when comparing squads, and a squad like Volks that deals no damage at all ranges with their rifles is an utter farce. The advantage they, like the other Western Fronts faction, receive in their beefy five-man squads capable of rushing through open fields into enemy fire and surviving, thus ignoring the game's core cover and TrueSight systems, is completely negated by their lack of damage output. If you'll recall, Volks' rifle damage was buffed a long while ago. Why was it buffed? Because they were dealing NO DAMAGE. And they STILL don't deal any damage because they weren't buffed enough. This is easily observable. Go watch ten, twenty, thirty of the latest Propagandacasts or any other cast with OKW present in the matches, and observe the early game without Volks' STGs. It's absurdly obvious. Your argument about cost is a bit insane. Cost is a HUGE factor in how balanced a unit is. A soviet player cannot match you 1 for 1 with penals early game, and mid/late game you should not be relying on 1v1'ing infantry squads to win engagements. Supporting units will decide those engagements (or should) more than the base infantry squads performance. Why not use your superior numbers and superior engineer unit to overcome penal squads, and force him to take undesirable engagements early, which you can do reliably because if he goes penals he should also be struggling for capping power early game. In these engagements you will find your volks trading well. And "trading well" factors in the cost of the squad initially and the cost of reinforcing models. Trade well consistently and it will inevitably translate to map control. Claiming cost is irrelevant is insane in any strategy game. What are you asking for? That volks win 1v1 versus every other infantry unit? They already do win 1v1 depending on the engagement, the engagement is actually the overwhelmingly deciding factor on what squad wins already, and this is as it should be. I'm not sure you know what you are talking about really, stgs upgrade dps at all ranges. Volks dps is fine, OKW is one of the two factions i play, i use volks all the time. Their DPS is fine. What decides the fight is the engagement, who walks into who, who has what cover, how many squads are present in the early game. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: No Point to Schwerer Flak anymore?31 Mar 2018, 11:00 AM Jump back to quoted post30 Mar 2018, 00:00 AMjagd wölfe ... Volks are coverfighter that are at any stage undergunned. They can hardly keep a midgame offensive. By the time rifle get bar sturm are the facto too squishy to be a threat, this is why noone is actually building sturm squad other than early one even post patch. ... Look I linked my playercard, I don't agree with you. There does seem to be a general consensus out there that volks are bad, when it simply isn't true. In the early game they are on par with any other infantry out there, for their cost. You can afford to get more of them than most other factions can afford to get their stock infantry so you can create a numbers advantage. You also get sturm support, a unit which is massively effective in the right engagements, practice getting them into the right engagements and you will find them very effective at all stages of the game. Just because you don't need or want more than 1 doesn't make them a bad unit. This all translates to a VERY strong early game. Late game with vet and upgrades volks do fine dps at all ranges, have good survivability, and have very little bleed, as well as passive healing, faust and flame nade. They are honestly one of the best stock infantry units in the game. Additionally, late game, they should be getting support from mg's, tanks, elite infantry, LEIGS / whatever to overcome the superior (when loaded with expensive upgrades and costing more to reinforce) allied infantry. No issues there. Anyway, regarding flak HQ, its fine. There is a location on every map where you can place your flak HQ that means for mortars or AT guns to be in range, said mortars or AT guns have to be suicidally far forward, while at the same time the flak HQ covers either a cuttoff, a deep flank route or a key resource point. That is true of every map. Put your flak HQ there and get free area denial in your back lines. If they run at guns and mortars into range to damage your flak HQ, you lost the game for other reasons or you punish them because they had to move vulnerable units too far up the field. An offmap wont kill it without damage from another source. The flak HQ also gives you a place to run to to save yourself from a diving light vehicle, and it also gives you free AA capabilities. Its fine as is. In: COH2 Balance