Profile of Bulgakov

The patch notes may say its lethality is retained, but it really isn't. Last match I played the Kat was the same old joke as it was a while ago. It tickles infantry at best.

Hm, if that's true, that's not so good. It should have some killing power.


What about vs tanks? Is it any use there now?

+1

I got two flack trucks in the middle of Kharkov last night plus spam of schreck volks+obers.

Seriously, what other thing can I do besides spamming Katys and let them rain death from above?

At least AT guns should realliably kill that building, but they do few damage and Flak Truck has more LoS than them. Should I be forced to take a recon doctrine to safely shoot it? Maybe downtech to T1 for making a sniper spotter? That's BS.

I agree it shouldn't be a super-hard structure that people can park anywhere and not worry about. But there are already ways to kil it that you didn't mention and so I'd like to suggest them.

1: Mortar / Mortar smoke + demo charge from several penals. This is very strong and your number one bet. Walk in without taking damage, drop the charges, run.

2: SU85 with sight ability

3: snipers have flares to sight for AT

4: Jackson



The further in-field he parks his truck, the easier this will be for you.

Yea.... because soviets have used propaganda to destroy tigers.
Why they have made anything heavier then T34 in the first place if propaganda was such a good anti tank weapon?

Katitof.

A: Stop using sarcasm when talking to people. You sound like the Simpsons' Comic Book Guy. Just say it straight. "Bulgakov, I think you are wrong because A B C". The way you speak antagonises people. Even when disagreeing, it is possible to do it in a way that the other person can accept your opinion without a fight. What you do now is turn things into a zero-sum argument.

B: I never said they used Propaganda to defeat tanks. How did you draw this conclusion...?

C: My point was that Soviet documents may not be relied upon as totally objective depending on who was supposed to see those documents.

Hello Guys,

Please decrease the Anti Air efficiency of OKW T4
Because it is too strong against:

* Thunderbolt
* Lend Lease Air (Fuel) drop
- The Lend Lease commander builds on the Fuel drop because the Sherman is the main Tank there and it couldnt be that this Advantage will be destroyed easy by the Truck.

And why does the German Fraction has an Big Artillery Advantage? I think the Game is designed of the year 1944.

Why German Artillery can be used in Enemy's Territory and Allied Artillery only in sightable Doctrine?
And why are the German Artillery Strikes cheaper than the Allied pendants if the US had more Artillery than the Germans?

And why Russians had NO NO NO Artillery Strike?? It was THE Artillery Fraction
See this (Russian-German1.) (German-US2.) Battles for Examples:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kursk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Berlin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge

And dont bring the Argue: "It needs to be balanced, it can't be realistic and balanced at all"

Yeah, then answer me, why:

* Mg42 is the strongest and has the highest radius and can bring down light vehicles?
* German Tanks the strongest?
* German infantry very strong and with very good technology? (Stg44, infrared, and and and)

I am not a US-Fanboy
And i am German as myself (U see it in my Bad english Knowledge), lol.

You made a good point about lend-lease fuel. Does anyone know, is it posible to drop it in a place so it takes a different path away from the OKW truck? Or is it just imposible?

BUT:

Why German Artillery can be used in Enemy's Territory and Allied Artillery only in sightable Doctrine?

That's not true. Soviet and American artillery can also be dropped on enemy territory and bases.
The only artillery that can be dropped without LoS is OKW's breakthrough artillery.

And why Russians had NO NO NO Artillery Strike??

Soviets have the most and the best artillery pieces in the game. Check your doctrines. They also have bombing runs, which can destroy the heaviest German tanks.



I should say that "balance" doesn't mean both armies have identical units. It means That for every strength, there is a weakness.

* Mg42 is the strongest and has the highest radius and can bring down light vehicles?

A Maxim will beat an MG42 in a fight.
A maxim has a quicker set-up/pack-up time.
A Maxim has 6-men crew, not 4. It is harder to handle with a sniper.
So yes, it has a smaler cone but it has more power and is harder to flank.

* German infantry very strong and with very good technology? (Stg44, infrared, and and and)

Soviets have the second strongest infantry in the game - shock troopers. Only Obersoldaten can be considered better and even they can be beaten by shocks with use of smoke and grenades.



Honestly, I think if you try to play 20 games as the Germans, you will see some of the strengths of the Allied forces and some new weaknesses of the Germans.

Balance is quite good right now. But it will always seem imbalanced if you play an imbalanced number of games with one side.

ISU-152 is in team games (3v3/4v4) the unit that gives us the most trouble. Infantry becomes completely pointless while the ISU-152 stays on the battlefield, and if the ISU-152 is supported by Anti-Tank guns or team mate tanks, it is nearly impossible to just go and flank it with tanks (some maps don't even allow proper flanking). Since it also has a lot of health and good armor from the front, you cannot destroy it quickly.

Basically like Jagdtiger and Elefant in that regard, but with the difference that against those you just can send your tanks away and still keep your infantry in the play until you are ready to tackle it, while with the ISU you have to either be able to take it down very quickly or lose map control.

Enemies can also place mines, and since you cannot move your infantry on the battlefield you cannot even use a minesweeper to clear them. If your tanks drive over the mines when attempting an attack on the ISU, you have basically lost the game at that stage, since you are not going to get to that ISU and lose those tanks and are now completely in the disadvantage.

I am not suggesting any balance changes for the units because I don't know what I would change if I were to take a change, but that is how the situation feels to me in those game modes.

This. All this.


Take away its squad-wipe power and then either its anti-inf pwning or its anti-tank penetration/damage. After this reduce the MP cost to reflect its new lower performance. Voila, fun returns to CoH.


Oh and change the maps so flanking is more feasible.

And change soviet mines so they're either more expensive (to reflect the double ability of giving engine damage and high inf damage) or only perform one role (like the whermacht 2 types of mines. 30 munis for a mine that does everything is wrong.