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Thread: How to counter heavy OKW blobs (or blobs in general)14 Oct 2018, 07:09 AM Jump back to quoted post13 Oct 2018, 17:53 PMStorm Elite Good luck losing every engagement with an HMG because you clicked on empty ground and caused the HMG squad to tear down instead of retargeting. At no point should an extremely vulnerable setup squad that requires precise positioning and actually helps enemies it suppresses take less damage require manual retargeting, where each click has a too-high-to-be-worthwhile chance of causing the team to tear down and forced to retreat or be immediately slaughtered. This happens all the time to everyone. I've murdered enemy HMG squads who accidentally tore down instead of retargeting (it was obvious the player was trying to target my squads on the opposite side of the arc from my currently suppressed squad), have had mine forced off while at full health, etc. all because of this absurd approach to suppression. The very concept of suppression fire is that you're laying down imprecise fire across whatever area you believe enemies to be in to prevent them from firing back. A machine gun crew trying to snipe a single soldier (or squad) while a dozen squads are rushing at it along open ground is idiotic both in game mechanics terms and immersion terms and every other imaginable terms. That's why I said you need to micro. Micro also includes not to do mistakes. Do you complain when you press E instead of R and you make your tank hit the ground and then turn on the spot showing its ass? If you cant micro properly, you are supposed to be punished. With MG you dont: -just right click making yourself vulnerable to packing up when you misaimed the attack -just right click into the fog of war -click outside its range with attack move, else it will also pack up Take this thread as a lesson learned. Handle MGs with attack move command and you won't accidently pack up and fuck yourself because of bad micro. Have you shot the MG3 in real life? I have and it's really quite precise even at 200 meters. Only when mounted on the gun mount, looking through the scope, handling it prone with its lever on the bottom of the mount you will engage inaccurately with a binocular spotter at 500+ meters. If you engage at 50-100 meters, you will burst at a group of perceived targets, reacquire another target (this is your attack-move shooting at a 2nd squad coming from a slightly different angle) and suppress them also. Nobody shoots 45-60° angle all over the battlefield from left to right with an MG in real life where I served. Believe it or not, even MG gunners with the MG3 take aim. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: How to counter heavy OKW blobs (or blobs in general)13 Oct 2018, 07:31 AM Jump back to quoted post13 Oct 2018, 02:34 AMStorm Elite I'm going to keep repeating this until it's implemented: Make machine gun teams work the same way as in Dawn of War II! Where the HMG squad suppresses EVERYTHING in its arc of fire because the gunner is basically constantly throwing the gun left and right across the entire arc -- why? Because that's the whole point of machine gun setup teams: to hard counter retards who blob. This isn't OKW-specific. USF create Rifleman blobs with bazookas, Soviets create Penal and Guards blobs with PTRSes, etc. And not a single blob is ever countered by machine guns because of the idiotic decision in CoH2 to make machine gun setup teams only suppress the single squad they're shooting at and maybe, once in a blue moon, a squad directly on top of that one, but absolutely none of the other 6+ squads standing perfectly still in the middle of the HMG's firing arc. It's absurd and contributes immensely to how heavily HMGs are underperforming across the board. It's EXACTLY the same in CoH2 but you need to mirco it yourself. Attack move one squad after another everytime a squad is suppressed. Rinse and repeat until 4 squads in the MG arc are suppressed. The game shouldnt play itself, micro your MGs and you have your suppression across multiple squads. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Axis artillery/Lefh overperforming11 Oct 2018, 10:07 AM OKW still has the absolute best recon in the game, so it's balanced in teamgames. If you face heavy arti spam by allies, one of the teammates should go spec ops for arti flares for the plethora of call ins to nuke the arti pieces. Especially if your recon plane gets shot down by the soviet meatgrinder before it can get to the target location. Then you wish you have arti flares In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Stormtrooper changes25 Sep 2018, 13:48 PM There is a new replay from HelpingHans of the new Storms. What people seem to forget is that you can pop them out, wipe some highly vetted squad and even if you lose them 10seconds later deep in hostile territory, the trade was still absolutely worth it. To wipe vetted units in late game where infantry is important for staying power and capping, it can tilt the game in your favor. Also often in lategame you float quite abit of manpower whereas munis are hard to come by while spamming skillplanes etc. So throwing away couple hundred overflowing manpower to wipe 80munis + vet3 is totally worth it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqm64oyy6QQ In: COH2 Balance