Profile of CODGUY

The game just doesn't seem to run all that smoothly. Maybe it's me but I get way higher resource utilization with CoH3 than CoH2 and this leads to lots of dropped games, freezing.

I cannot stand the way games end in CoH3.

Positives:

Towing weapons and infantry riding on tanks is nice.

Better light vehicle play.

Halftrack and truck support units work much better in CoH3.

Balance is far better than CoH2, especially for the Allies. CoH2 only had Soviets as a viable Allied faction by the last patch.

One of the problems with CoH across multiple games is that they have this mechanic where one faction is supposed to get good starting (mainline) infantry that get upgraded weaponry later and the other gets two different tiers of infantry, and basic (mainline) infantry and an elite infantry. And that elite infantry will dominate the opponent's upgraded mainline infantry.

CoH2 pretty much did away with this when they made it to where 3 Gren sqauds were slaughtering any number of US Riflemen regardless of the much more expensive cost and upgrades for Riflemen.

CoH3 isn't there yet. One reason why Riflemen are used less is due to Rangers.

Often when, I play as Ostheer against USF my enemy do Pathfinders and M8 Scott, it was instantly destroy my lines and that ends game becouse, I lose more of my units.

In advance thanks for help!

You see Pathfinders because Riflemen aren't a viable infantry unit but USF is forced to use them with every other doctrine except Airborne. Despite being extremely costly with their initial purchase price, side techs, and munitions heavy upgrades, they are usually outclassed by Grenadiers and often Volksgrenadiers. 3 Grens will kill any number of Riflemen.

But I digress. The key tools to counter Airborne are there, use smoke from mortars and a sniper. Plus any armored vehicles as a no-rifleman build means no snare.

As we begin the transition to CoH3 I'm going to take a parting shot at some of the things that most annoy me in this game in it's current state that I hope not to see in CoH3:

Short range infantry are mostly useless because the "long range" infantry really aren't that bad close range either. I'm not sure that's 100% a bad thing except for the fact that the Allied factions don't have good long range infantry with the one exception being USF Paratroopers. I would have counted UKF Infantry Sections before they were nerfed to hell.

T0 HMG42s never should have been a thing. Really I don't think any faction should have been deploying HMGs T0 but this one was the worst because it was the best HMG in the game and making it available right off the bat was a hurr-durr move. It's worse now when you combine the superior preformance of Grenadier squads and the Pioneer sight range.

For some reason every other German infantry unit both for OKW and OST had to have a vehicle snare. This wouldn't annoy me if Ailled units had them but basically only Riflemen for USF had them and UKF had none until the Royal Engineer rework. Even doctrinal units didn't have hardly any snare options.

Panzer tactician never should have been a thing. It was perhaps the best example of a "get out of jail-free" card. Annyoing as it was, had it been limited to one or maybe two doctrines it wouldn't be as bad but it's on several and one comes with a Tiger tank. Already heavily armored units don't need that crap. I suppose you could try to make the same argument for the Churchill but that's one unit only and it was extremely slow.

Now for the Allies.

That Soviet 120 mortar is a bunch of crap. There is no reason why a crewed indirect fire weapon like that should be able to retreat with single model.

7 man Conscripts were over the top and were part of the reason Grenadiers were buffed creating problems elsewhere. This was unnecessary, it would have been better to give them a similar upgrade to Grens like a DP28 MG or a 3 SVT rifle upgrade similar to Panzerfusilers.

Lastly just random changes I hated:

I really hated the pop increases for units accross the board. This lead to smaller armies and just reduced the fun game play. This goes for both Axis & Allies.

Brits got overnerfed, basically everyone even admits it. So this leads me to my final thought; I don't know if it's because most players preferred German factions due to their cool looking infantry and cool heavy armor or if it was because there were only 2 German factions vs 3 Allied factions, or if it was because of balance issues in larger 3v3 and 4v4 game modes, but 1v1 Axis factions usually had the advantage and this is especially true with the western allied factions at this stage in the game's life cycle.

You have to swarm early with Grenadiers and MG42s. USF opening game sucks and it is easy to counter. Find the choke points and cut them off with MGs. The Pathfinder + Paratrooper + Jackson combo is tough to beat, in fact it's probably the only really viable strat for USF. The weakness is the early game. Paratroopers are a 3 CP unit so that gives you an early window to exploit. If they build Riflemen just counter with Grens and HMG42s, Riflemen do pretty poorly against those units and if they make Riflemen that's less Paratroopers they can call in.