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I have to agree with Wehrwolf that the fact that CE content has 'run-out' just short of the new commanders is a little disappointing - i like some here watched the stream and left with the impression that these were my 5 final commanders, and I was fairly happy with that. Technically I have been given another - rehashes of the ones I have of which maybe 1-2 are a useful remix of those abilites.

The original THQ CE cost me £70 which I happily I happily bought as I felt I owed Relic for 6 years of COH play in exchange for about £50 of game and expansions. The basic COH2 game was available a few weeks after launch for as little as £20 so this is a significant premium and I thought that apart from helping the developer launch the game (and survive) it would shield me from DLC shenanigans for a reasonable window.

I did of course get other value - copies of COH1 (my third copy perhaps- ALL of my friends own this £10 game) a copy of DOW2 - my only exclusive as a THQ CE pre-order - a game I already have.

Skins - yes lots of them but I can only use one at once! and whilst nice to have the set I probably would never actually buy all of them separately (I bought the CE to not have to care about this)

so for me apart from a few skins I wont use much and handful more commander 're-mixes' there is little to show for the £30 extra I paid.

I fully accept that I will need to and should put more money into this game to support it post launch and I would be happy to do so but two aspects of this have 'grated' on me a little

1) The new commanders released the same day as my final "free" content but which I don't get - couldn't they at least have had the decency to release a bit later so it was clear that I wouldn't and it didn't seem quite so nakedly cynical

2) Whilst I have been quite forgiving on this I have a slight sense that I haven't had all the original stuff i paid for and now they are asking me to cough up some more cash. Still no sign of proper leaderboards, input lag and game connections COULD be better, Replays system might be a little updated perhaps to justify the AAA+ price tag of £70?


I expect I will buy the new commanders and continue to buy stuff that comes out but I will feel a little less of that purchasing 'glow' than I might have done. Couldn't we at least have a modest discount bundle for the whole set as suggested elsewhere - I know they are 33% till october but that just feels like the salesman in your living room saying "buy today sir - I can only give you this offer the once"

First, I'm pretty sure he's not aiming at the camera.

Second, a person is much bigger than a camera, especially if the person is standing up and charging at the MG42.

By the way, good job bringing a biased Hollywood movie as a reference into a balance discussion about a competitive multiplayer game. How very erudite of you.

Sorry I feel responsible for this having brought up real life infantry charges on mg's - can we get back on topic.

The bulletin unlocks about level 43 I think. I believe as someone else mentioned that a reworking of Bulletins is being considered. Perhaps in this case the base mg should have between 5-10% added the the bulletin nerfed or 're-worked' whatever that might involve. It does seem quite harsh to punish new players trying to use a staple unit such as this. Most other bulletins are much more marginal in their effect on gameplay

It is also a stupid tactic as proven countless times by the British soldiers that were ordered to charge head-on into German Maxims in WWI.

This "strategy" has no place in a game like Company of Heroes. Players should be punished for stupidly charging troops into MGs (in both factions) rather than just waltzing through the firing arc and grenading the gunner.

Well providing you pay for it in casualties on the way it is fine. better of course to spread the blob out so the mg has to switch.

COH is obviously a game and so not really meant to be totally accurate but the stupid tactic of charging head on into enemy mg's was used time and time again as pre-tank and without lucky/overwhelming pre charge artillery and mortar fire as it was the only way to do it. btw you do prepare your mg positions don't you with green cover, wire and interlocking fields of fire over open ground? This is what caused the massacre of WW1 soldiers not a lone exposed mg.

So far, this is my (newbie)experience playing 2v2 as germans: I do quite well early game. Then I gradually lose the advantage. In t3 I get a pz4. Going ostwind seems like suicide, since I have access to so little reliable AT. The pak sucks big time. Screcks cost 120 munitions. A lone soviet medium tank will crush my ostwind. So pz4 it is. Now I try to maneuvre so I can use my tank to my advantage. I can't get close to hardly any soviet infantry, because their heat-seeking AT granade destroys my engine and renders my tank a sitting duck to SU-85s. Their 120mm mortars destroys my fortified positions as well as static units (mgs, etc. of course I can reposition them, and I constantly do, but the mortar has a huge range and it is difficult for me to "out-mortar" them). If I try to push to take out their mortar positions, my tanks get damaged by a SU-85 shot from out of nowhere and I have to retreat it to save it.

You could try overrunning their positions with panzer grenadiers. If they have no well microed snipers and you keep moving to avoid mortars then their best counter is t34. Hold the p4 back to deal with these or get 1-2 shrek squads.

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