Profile of Bulgakov

I don't need to try it though. What they're failing to understand is in COH, not every building needs to counter every other building. Not every unit needs to have 20 abilities and sub classes. If you go heavy T1 and you allow your opponent fuel to get a vehicle before you get AT you SHOULD be punished. Every tier is not a damn swiss army knife. This is not balancing this changing game mechanics to your personal taste.

This.


Going T1 gives you snipers and strong infantry, so you can take great map control early game. This should come at a cost - light vehicles are going to push you off. Choices that give good benefits should have negative consequences.

Axis light vehicles have never really been able to do this because of Guards earlier and now because of PTRS penals. PTRS may not work as well vs medium tanks but they're excellent vs 222 and Luchs.


Then compare the AT situation to Axis who now have no large squads with hand-held AT. Sturm pioneers have to sacrifice minesweepers if they want a shrek.

Allied handheld AT:
Penals 2x PTRS
Guards 2x PTRS (doc)
Conscripts PTRS (doc)
USF zookas 2x equippable on all units
UKF Piats 2x equippable on all units

Axis handheld AT
OKW Sturms only. 1x. No minesweeper.
OST Pgrens only. 2x

And it's arguably the Axis who need a light vehicle counter with the AEC, Stuart and T17 currently dominating the early-mid game because there are no light vehicles to counter them except the Puma and getting that means you'll have almost 0 AI!!!




Basically, Allies have the best early game infantry, the best early light vehicles (counter an AEC or stuart with Luchs or 222?) and their late game is not much weaker than Axis'.

Don't remove capping ability just make it like it is in DoW II: make it so a unit cannot set up if it wants to capture.

Poll edited to be more open-ended.

So if a Maxim is sitting idle, capturing and an enemy unit approaches, it stops capping, sets up and starts firing?

It would be the same situation with a tiny delay for the Maxim spammer. The maxim would push off the enemy unit, then cap in the 60 seconds it takes said unit to retreat and come back.

HMG's capping points is not good for gameplay, but a flat removal of it will punish Wehrmacht and British as they typically open with MG.

The way I did it in my (non Relic) mod was that HMG teams can not capture in combat, the moment they engage enemies the cap stops until they are out of combat.

Regardless, likely not something we'll ever see changed.

I thought about the non-combat capping ability but for Maxims with their fast set-up, it wouldn't actually change anything. They'd a-move to the sector and cap, then if attacked, just set up.


it might punish wehr and UKF a little but since they typically build only 1 MG, I don't think it would be so severe. It would, however, do a lot to remove Maxim spam from the game. Either the players takes an extra con and one less maxim or they sacrifice capping power.

but yes, it is unlikely to be changed.

Maxim spam has been nerfed a bit but still goes on. It is counterable but means multiple indirect fire units. This is pretty boring.

The constant retreats also give an unfair advantage in terms of map control and veterancy.


I think that if they were unable to cap it would slightly reduce their spammability. What do you think?

Iron Emporer +1

And I think something needs to be done about Cromwell/Comet crushing abilities. Either reduce it somehow (reduce rotate rate?) or add it to the axis tanks.

I mean... Why does the PIV not have great crush when T34, T3485, Jackson, M10, Cromwell, Comet have it. Even SU76 can crush better.