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Thread: USF Mortar Halftrack meta31 Mar 2018, 16:24 PM Jump back to quoted post31 Mar 2018, 16:15 PMSweetrollNearTheDoor sniped the Mortar HT is a doctrine unit limited to 1(?) USF doctrine, the one explicitly described as the artillery specialist. doctrine are suppose to offer the faction option and strength not otherwise available to the faction, and in this case, a 80m range mortar. (and mortar in general, before the ill conceived mortar team) In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: USF Mortar Halftrack meta31 Mar 2018, 16:01 PM Jump back to quoted post31 Mar 2018, 15:01 PMEsxile You have to be realistic, the problem is definitively not the USF mortar HT but mortars, all of them. the old soviet 82mm mortar was fine, before the flare change turned it into one of the best scout in the game. personally I think autofire should be nerfed across the board with longer reload. Barrage ability should be left alone. Lastly, the introduction of the tech tree USF mortar was a serious mistake. The USF didn't need a mortar early game and their mid-late game artillery is served by the pack howitzer. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Performance and cost efficiency of massed SU76s vs SU8530 Mar 2018, 23:17 PM Jump back to quoted post27 Mar 2018, 11:13 AMLago Their range needs to come down to normal tank destroyer levels (pretty much all TDs have 50 range except the SU-76 which for some reason has 60) and their penetration needs to come down such that they're less effective than their weight in SU-85s versus a heavy tank. wat stug is the only TD to not have 60 range. The su-76 just need lower pen. down to about 120/140/160 Jump back to quoted post28 Mar 2018, 16:06 PMKatitof Well, we all know how popular the unit was when it couldn't stand up to weakest med armor. It was a meme unit before. back then it only had 320 hp. since then they were buffed to 400 HP. a cheap 400 HP with 60 range is immensely useful. It shouldn't have high enough penetration to threaten heavy tank. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: pzgren should be wehr's dedicated tank hunters29 Mar 2018, 05:03 AM Jump back to quoted post28 Mar 2018, 11:23 AMKatitof But I am going to say it again - People expect shrecks to replace ATGs, not to support them and that is not going to happen. This is just a completely nonsensical statement. is the stuart, Aec, bazooka, PIAT, PTRS, and the T70 all replacement for the 57mm/zis? You have long range range atw (ATG) supported by a short range atw (inf atw/vehicle). That's how it works. Faust + atg alone is not longer sufficient. The wehr need either the puma or a better designed tank hunter. Jump back to quoted post29 Mar 2018, 03:31 AMthedarkarmadillo This is going to blow your mind storm but... Nobody is forcing you to spend 120mu to "invalidate a squad you bought" its called a CHOICE. Do you want 240 damage worth of hip fire laser guided AT guaranteed to pen each and every single allied stock medium or do you want an AI squad? Nobody is puting a gun to your head. Save the munitions and instead lay 2. Anti tank mines that will OHK the enemy light tanks and have 40% saved towards the next one. except the allies is quite literally putting a cannon to the head of the axis. Saying that it's a choice is idiotic when it's a choice between death or life. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: What to do with the KT?28 Mar 2018, 05:49 AM Jump back to quoted post26 Mar 2018, 17:58 PMmiragefla The thing honestly just likely needs a slight price reduction, adjustment to AOE so it does more damage on the outer edge but less in the center -its OHK radius is still pretty large- and allowing its veterancy to actually come in and be more worthwhile. if the intent was to decrease the KT's lethality, its 240 damage should have been nerfed. The KT's dps was just insanely high combined with a high alpha. High alpha, slow reload, average-poor accuracy is really more of an IS-2 trait. (but then it's a functional unit right now) In: COH2 Balance
Thread: pzgren should be wehr's dedicated tank hunters28 Mar 2018, 05:45 AM Jump back to quoted post27 Mar 2018, 12:33 PMKatitof Insane compared to what? Soviets? Because that is the only faction in game that does not have 20 non doctrinal ways to burn muni through upgrades. So is OKW with more expensive Upgrades, USF and UKF with less effective Upgrades, but ability to get 2 per squad for twice the cost. I will blow your mind with it, but ost does not have it any worse then other factions and only soviets have it better because they lack non doctrinal Upgrades and muni dumps. Ost can not afford anything when they Need to pay 60 mun per squad, but USF magically affords to pay 120 mun per squad + use abilities + offmaps. Mmmmkay. the pressure to upgrade is significantly less on the USF, while the UKF typically go for squad upgrade. While you will want to buy upgrade for your rifleman eventually, they can actually put it off until significantly later. By comparsion, the wehr their weaker infantry have a significantly greater need to upgrade. the panzergrenadier +schreck upgrade just doesn't mesh. The USF typically only need one squad with double bazooka, and usually that's the captain by default. The possibility of using Rear echolen for anti-tank duty is a great convenient. The UKF does a similar by having Sapper + PIAT. The PTRS on the penal is just enough to fight off the weaker axis light vehicle (now that the Luch got nerfed), while sacrificing less firepower on a cheaper unit. spending 340 mp on an "elite" anti-infantry to convert it to anti-tank unit just doesn't work. Jump back to quoted post27 Mar 2018, 15:53 PMSussenka Wouldn't it be a good idea to make pgrens able to put away their shrecks the same way sturmpios do with sweepers? Costing 340mp and 120muni I think it'd be nice to not make your squad useless vs infantry. being able to swap on the field would be insanely powerful and render the disadvantage moot. restricting it to HQ sector seems like it would be over complicating the matter. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Crocodile is useless in team games since patch28 Mar 2018, 03:30 AM Jump back to quoted post28 Mar 2018, 02:36 AMthedarkarmadillo Why should it be bouncing units whos sole job is to damage armour? Being able to bounce 20% of backbone AT and STILL able to survive 8 penetrating hits is very tanky. Why should it be bouncing units whos sole job is to damage armour? Being able to bounce 20% of backbone AT and STILL able to survive 8 penetrating hits is very tanky. Health is more reliable than armour anyways. (It will ALWAYS take 9 standard damage pens to kill, you are guaranteed that PLUS a 20% chance to bounce paks, meanwhile a panther even with its imcredible armour CAN be killed in 5 shots if RNG says it will. A dice roll decides if armour works and there are tools to neutralize the advantages of armour. as you mentioned, things like the more expensive panther, or super heavy single purpose AT units (god forbid 260 fuel of AT be effective fighting a tank...) But the health is STILL there. Even with units like the pak 43 dealing 320 damage the churchill STILL takes more shots than a standard tank does vs standard AT.. And you are right, its full tech for brits which is why for 20 fuel more than an okw pays for a p4 you get 6 more armour! Well that and more than 2x the health. that logic doesn't make sense when the king tiger (375), jagdtiger (525), and the elefant(400) all exist in game, against factions whose main gun typically top out at around 220-260. Even just the tiger (290) and panther (320) have higher armor than the churchill mk 7. and it's worth noting that the tiger's 1040 hp means it take 7 shots to kill. Balance without context is just misleading. second, higher armor allow the churchill to make shrug off "mid" tier anti-tank weapon more easily. This limit the amount of units that would be a threat to the churchill. Bringing out the heavy hitter like the king tiger means german have to make consideration for those special units (like doctrine choices). That's also where smaller target size come into play. 20% to bounch a shot is a poor chance for a tank that's as slow as a King tiger. The king Tiger itself prove armor do matter. 1280 HP and 320 armor is a result of drawing from experience both using and facing axis armor. Same hp as the King tiger but with the lower armor of the panther. Considering The similarity in speed between the churchill and the king tiger, this make the churchill have similar durability as the king tiger but without the 240 damage doom cannon. How is a tank with slightly less durability than the king tiger and without the doom cannon unreasonable for the axis to face? and lastly, the churchill's current price is a result of the mega patch. It was a poor decision considering the churchill is suppose to be an end game unit. You're also ignoring the Manpower cost. This also means that the price is subject to change. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Crocodile is useless in team games since patch28 Mar 2018, 00:58 AM Jump back to quoted post27 Mar 2018, 07:23 AMthedarkarmadillo Which is fine because its there for a long time not a good time. Ya cant have a tank that can bounce some shots, take 9 penetrating hits AND melt infantry. The tech required is anvil. Its a supposed to be a wall you grind the enemy against. Its potent enough to be a threat (so as to draw fire) but not a wonderweapon that all you need to do is build an army of them (like at launch) its a part of your army filling a role. 240 armor is hardly enough for something that's suppose to be a shield. It's not high enough to reliably bounce a good deal of the weapon from the axis. It's quite literally the end cap unit for the british, it should provide an incentive for the axis to pull out their own big gun as well, not just concentrate fire from pak40 or stug. 190/240 = 79%, which is high enough to consistently penetration with some bounces. The allies penetrating weapon caps out at around 220 at max range, which against the panther is 68% chance.(220/320 armor). Even if we ignore doctrine unit (like the elephant and jagtiger), both axis have the panther and the okw have the King tiger. The panther should be enough to solo a churchill. and the churchill is also slow. It needs the durability to get out and get in. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: pzgren should be wehr's dedicated tank hunters27 Mar 2018, 03:44 AM Jump back to quoted post26 Mar 2018, 05:31 AMKatitof Show me a single 1v1 where you can rely on PTRS or PIATs only for AT. I can see zooks being able to and most certainly not against big cats. the panzergrenadier's primary role would be to hold the field against light tanks while the tanks get on the field. They don't need to be good enough to tackle medium tank by themselves (and shouldn't). The entire reason why Bazooka and PIAT on line infantry was fine is precisely because they are just okay enough. The allies definitely still need tank destroyer late game. the volks and schreck wasn't fine because they were freakish powerful. Making them acceptable would have meant hitting them with a nerf hammer, to the point where the stg44 would have been necessary as an alternative. the panzergrenadier's current design is severely outdated dating back to before even the USF release. Given the change in meta and lesson along the way the panzergrenadier should be updated. and the allies is already facing single schreck currently, from the sturmpio. volks and schreck just seems to synergize in some freakish way. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Crocodile is useless in team games since patch27 Mar 2018, 03:25 AM Jump back to quoted post26 Mar 2018, 21:34 PMthedarkarmadillo Now now children.... Katitof he provided the into you requested. The side hatch MGs are relevant as they come with the church, vet locked but included in the price. (using the figure from vipper) the firing arc of the frontal hull and the side mg doesn't overlap. It's just big enough to provide 320 degree frontal coverage. You can face the churchill to have three of those weak mg to fire on the same squad, but they will be firing on different individual soldier. The mg themselves are pretty weak to begin with. even with the front coaxial, one side, and one hull you're only putting down 11.79 dps. That's still worst than the 12.38 on just the axis coaxial and hull. the 75mm on the churchill also have a somewhat long reload time at 6.56 second. It's actually longer than the reload time on the wehr panther (6.4). and the grenade is close range, on one of the slowest unit in the entire game. You could slowly crawl up to a pak to grenade it, while eating shell the entire way. the mk7's firepower is "decent" at best, mediocre at worst. In: COH2 Balance