Profile of ZombiFrancis

So that's it. God damn. I should've known.

When I was testing out mod tools I realized that reinforced units were not imparting the kinds of goofy things I was testing out and I could not for the life of me figure out how to fix it. I eventually gave up and trashed a mod I was building because I was convinced I was doing things wrong.

Ah that's hilarious.

Uh, the classic factions for CoH2 are Soviets and Ostheer. You also realize that USF and vCoH Americans are nothing alike in terms of gameplay and design, right?

Although I have to say, matches between only the vanilla factions are actually still pretty fun.

Walking Stuka is like, the worst unit for fighting emplacements, incidentally.

Heavy artillery is terrible against emplacements. You need the light artillery barrages from the LeiG and only the LeiG.

As a side note, I noticed while doing these that one the loading screen tips also still states quite explicitly that side armour exists in this game, which it definitely doesn't.

It doesn't, but Relic finds it sufficient to say that the chance to hit front or rear armor when shooting from the side counts as side armor.

Panzerwerfers are great against groups of team weapons, especially those ATGs that blob up and a-move.

That said, if I am trying to use a Panzerwerfer to specifically kill a single MG crew covering an approach or a single pak in a field, they actually aren't that reliable unless they pull up silly close.

When my opponent's entire force is all in one screen width, all crammed together, I can inflict a ton of damage though. Conversely, if my opponents spread their units out further out than a single rocket's blast, then it can be a considerable challenge killing and keeping those team weapons decrewed. Even two panzerwerfers struggle to wipe squads when the targets are mobile and/or spread out.

If anything, their ability to outright destroy team weapons might need to be looked at, because outright obliterating the ATGs can be all I need to make a final push. That's probably the most broken thing about panzerwerfers. That, and the reduction in cooldowns could probably be tweaked a bit, as they can start rapid firing barrages with vet, well beyond any allied player's ability to reinforce.

I think the pak howie is probably the only unit that might routinely struggle to survive against it, mostly because it decrews itself way early. At best, that's a pak howie issue, not a panzerwerfer.

Also, IIRC, the katyusha always overshoots its target slightly, so for best results you place the far edge of the AoE on your target, not the center of it. This may have easily changed though, I haven't specifically tested it in a long time. But that might explain the variation in perceived effectiveness.