Profile of ZombiFrancis

I didn't know about this on Langres, but I know that there are a lot of maps that have a fair bit of offmap that new units can maneuver around. I usually notice it because units on the offmap can't be issued anything but move orders. This usually results in having an annoying delay between my engis/pios and repairing because I'm waiting for them to cross the line onto the game map.

I'm curious if the south side has any similar routes.

Where's the "I don't use CoH2.org" option?

Bulletins that change the functionality of units are just asking for heinously imbalanced/lopsided matchups.

Already not having a good loadout of commanders can significantly impact your ability to play a match. Players can be crippled before the game even starts when choices made out of game can impact the match-up ingame. By and large these sorts of things can really put a damper on any sense of competition.

I mean, CoHO was chock full of ridiculously oddities and good lord that was the furthest thing from a competitive game environment. Sure it was fun, but it certainly wasn't competitively interesting.

There are zero infantry in the game that don't have AI. Not sure how getting AT on your infantry means there's no AI.

Unless you mean spamming ATGs means you won't have a strong infantry force. True, but spamming anything that's not infantry means that you won't have as much infantry. Gimping yourself army composition-wise is, in fact, gimping yourself.

Do you mean one player having two snipers or both players going sniper first? I will assume it is just one player, but if both players rush a sniper, then they both went t1 and you won't be fighting maxims, mortars, or ATGs for a while. There will just be conscripts, engies, snipers, scout cars, and penals. So: make grenadiers.

If there's an OKW player, get a kubel. Early snipers rarely have much support and kubels are actually pretty good at getting kills. Soviet snipers only have 48 health so they drop really quick. Plus you can chase.

If you are both Ostheer players, you're going to be out of luck for a strong counter. Your best bet is to either play extremely aggressive with your grens and just try to close the distance to get a few shots off. Killing one of the team members at least sets back their manpower more than reducing a squad of conscripts down to 1.

Otherwise you can try to play defensively and lay some AI mines at choke points/shrubs. (You can cancel after one of the four areas has been built to save munis/time.) But I don't find this to be that successful against strong players.

The main thing you want to do is try and capitalize on the intense time and manpower the soviets have invested in t1 units. Since the Soviet Snipers don't recloak quickly and have to stick two entities in cover to achieve it, it can be rather easy to ambush them. Plus they have a REALLY long aim time so after their first volley you have some time to advance and try and push them off.

But if both players are working in tandem, then you have to coordinate a flank with your teammate and still try to capitalize on the lack of manpower the sniper's ally will have versus the combined army of you and yours.

If they are maxim spamming into buildings while double snipers run around, I don't have much advice for you. All my attempts to handle them never are effective enough and cripple me before the impending Quads. In which case if you can make it to 3 CPs, the ostruppen from Mobile Defense (Puma Doc) are actually pretty good roundabout counters to snipers. They're just too weak and numerous to make snipers effective.