Profile of Bulgakov

You know what is entertaining?
Watching rifle blob retreat with ST chasing them with Benny Hill theme in the background.
Talk about blob counter, fear factor is enough
If only propaganda arty was that effective

If you knew what kind of player you were talking to (Budwise) and how much better he understands RTS, you would ask more questions instead of bringing up two completely different subjects to derail the discussion. "rifle blob retreat qith ST chasing" - how is that connected to anything?

You could learn from Budwise, most people here could. Instead you throw in your sarcastic and worthless biased opinion in defiance of everyone who even slightly disagrees.

Moderators!!! Where are ye? Moderate me too if needs be, just please curb the activity of trolls and flamebaiters!!!

Demos are fine the way they are. 90 muni isn't cheap,even less so if you wanna pull the ol' demo/mine combo, and Axis don't need anything else to stack the deck in their favor. As someone has already said, sorry if your shrek/ LMG blobs are getting destroyed by demos; maybe learn a more balanced approach to combat, instead of attack moving your blob ?

I hate blobs too. People aren't complaining that it destroys blobs. It's that it can auto-delete single units too and with great ease. Two clicks.

90 muni is quite expensive but it's a cheap exchange for 250-400 manpower + upgrade (shrek/lmg).

If it was only destroying blobs, I wouldn't mind it so much. But it removes units one by one all through the game. The only way to avoid it is to lead every attack with a minesweeper, to harass every point with a minesweeper. To do that you have to wait for them to get to the field. So you lose territory which means more munis for more demos.

If both sides had demo, the game would become less dynamic with people waiting for sweepers so they can make attacks. If neither side had them the game would be much better.

There are several threads on this with some very high level players calling for its removal and no high level players saying "it's fine". I just wish the less experienced players with a lower understanding of CoH2 and RTS would look to what the top players are saying instead of defending it on the basis of "it makes me feel good when I blow up squads with demo, therefore it's good". or "Axis has OP-Soldaten so we need demos"

Together with non doc weapon upgrades for soviets and heavy tanks for USF?

Every army lacks something.
If you believe one aspect to be unfair because X army doesn't have it, then no reason exists why other armies can't have what X army have and they don't.

I agree with you here. Assymetry isn't all bad.


Still let's look at OPs main point, that Demos are no fun due to their one-shot wipe factor. Does any army need that? I don't think they do. There are many other options that could be put in the gam to stop blobs, this one is the most damaging to the game's enjoyability.

I think all demo should be on a charger, I see no reason why any army should have the ability to delete squads with such a simple item. It's also a great cover-denier and territory-denier as you can't use any building without fear of losing a squad and you have to wait for your sweepers to arrive before you can harass.

Yeah, definitely feels good.

...but it would be very nice if things were rebalanced such that early-game wasn't just Rifles and T1 wasn't "Cheese your enemy hard so your armour won't arrive later than theirs which you need with your lack of AT". Though the latter part is probably a separate problem that would easily be fixed by making Zookas not feel like a huge waste of your munitions.

Yeah, I agree. A more diverse, slightly downpowered T1 in exchange for better rewards at higher tiers.


American teching is the best in the game (possibly joint best with OKW) as you don't need to tech to it or retreat a unit to build it, and you get a new infantry unit as soon as it unlocks.

But it's true that most of the units it unlocks aren't strong enough or glamorous.

Oorah does not give suppression immunity. Oorahing from max range vs mg with pionieer support for vision is just stupid. If you place your mg wrong it is only your fault.

Hi, you must have a good imagination because I didn't say Oorah gives suppression immunity. The only person who has even brought that up is you.


I didn't say anything pioneer support either. Thank you for your creative response but it would be best to reply to what has been said, not what you think has been said.



Back to topic: I agree, rifle nades can be too effective against Maxims when the models are bunched up. If they are not bunched up, the grenade will not wipe the squad and the gunner will be replaced fast enough to keep the grenadiers suppressed. There are two possible solutions:

1) Ask Relic to make a patch to stop models bunching up.
2) Make sure you spread out the models when you position the MG. I find that Holding the mouse button and dragging it back from the position you chose helps. You can see the dots appear where the guys will go.


As for the range issue, there is a downside to the R-nades long range - you can't use it in close quarters. That is where the molotov is superior.