Profile of ZombiFrancis

I think what this unit always needed is the HP buff. The whole vehicle has such a short lifetime, without the HP it has now, no one would ever bother to build it.

It needed a buff for sure, especially from the 200 health it once had, which I think was put to 240 before 320. (Although I don't remember if the 240 health was just a mod I made.) I still think the ideal situation would be 280 health and more halftrack-like armor.

The reason I felt it needed armor is because despite the size of its health pool, it could never avoid being damaged. And currently, everything is still a threat to a 222, it just has more time to take damage. Armor would mean the 222 has a chance of avoiding damage at long(er) ranges, which I find important in an ostensibly scouting vehicle.

Kubel is not a hard counter... flanking is not a hard counter either...

Snipers, Indirect fire (like mortars, ZiS barrage), or smoke are the hard counters. Light vehicles for reasonable price (with teching) can function as a hard counter, especially if they deal proper damage like flamethrowers do.

OKW has NONE of these. Honestly if someone doesnt see the problem here, must be fully biased. USF had smoke nades, yet they received a T0 turbo-mortar WITH SMOKE, despite the fact it single-handedly made the PackHowi totally redundant. Not to mention they have doctrinal solutions like mortarHT and clowncars.

I won't disagree that the differences between EFA and WFA are obvious and problematic. USF mortar I still think is still a pretty 'wut' decision.

That said, the best thing OKW can do is really get a truck out and up ASAP for incendiary nades. Everything beforehand is stalling. And even then the incendiaries are to force one to pack up and move so you have more room to maneuver, not kill it outright.

Don't expect to hold territory as OKW like you would as OST. Cap what you can, slow down those maxims as best you can from taking territory. All you need is to get one Sturmpio in a good position to kill, if not steal, the Soviet advantage.

Soviet earlygame is a house of cards. They are rushing for their Quad or T70 just as much as you are for a Luchs. If the T70 or Quad comes out before you can get out a Luchs, skip it and go for a Puma to waste away their fuel usage.

Use the Puma to dive on maxims and drop smoke. (I recommend T2 truck first against Soviets. Soviets aren't static enough for early LieGs, even considering maxim spam.) But at the same time the indirect fire and barrage on some maps is all you can manage if resources are inaccessible.

It's almost as if the faction design of CoH1's Wehrmacht was utterly superior...

Anyway, the 222 never needed 320 health.

I would much rather see it exchange 40 (or even 80) health for more armor, something to the effect of the 251 halftrack.

Giving the 2mm munitions upgrade back would be nice, and (sorta) side steps the MG bug until the 2mm is upgraded, not to mention putting weight on the resource Ostheer is usually starved for: munis.

It's almost kinda jarring how much AI power is lost with the 2mm. It's MG without the 2mm turret is surprisingly powerful.

Hey if a bren carrier can punish an aggressive mg42, a kubel can punish a maxim.

Although I agree the proper 'counter' is to cap with the kubel where there aren't maxims. The fact that it caps and can't be suppressed is very useful for okw.

Its like saying su 85 does not excell in AT role cause a 222 can solo it.

Losing a KT to a t34-76 is like a darwin award 100%

To be fair it was only possible due to the mine.

But thas the thing though, the su85, like the stug and jo4 have that critical unturreted weakness. The stug gets away with it at vet 1 because of its ability, but the point is those unturreted tank destroyers don't excel at killing tanks like say a Jackson firefly or panther.

But the su85 can self spot which really helps. But anyway I find that the kt, like the su85 is best used defensively because of their inability to chase anything down or rotate without compromising itself or its position.