Profile of ZombiFrancis

I'd rather the LT and Captain be a 1 man squad that has to merge into an existing riflesquad to make a 6 man officer squad.

You know, the Brits were rather weak in CoH1 for 1v1s. There were a few very viable and obvious strategies to shut them down. If a Wehrmacht player really wanted to they could take the necessary steps and prevent the Brits from ever gaining any sort of advantage, they could. (For instance, elite armor made British infantry blind. Piospam v Brits especially before the final patch was nonsense.)

It was in 2v2s where Brits had an ally and their super resource income stacked that they got truly out of hand. Especially with how well Brits with Americans (and PE with Wehrmacht) synergized. Like WFA, the Opposing Fronts armies were designed around lacking core/support units, like snipers, mortars, flamethrowers, and HMGs. When these factions were teamed up with a vanilla faction, their shortcomings almost completely disappeared. (Like how OKW benefits from Ostheer OPs and MG42 support, or how Americans benefitted from territory lockdown and resource bonuses from the British trucks.)

OKW is only designed to play against USF in the same way that Brits were only designed to play against PE. US v PE was kinda gimmicky but as long as people played by a few house rules, (PE could literally do nothing to eliminate snipers effectively.) it could be a good and fun match.

USF v Ostheer is very similar in CoH2: If the Americans don't obviously just overwhelm the Ostheer early on, and if the Ostheer doesn't obviously slam down its heavy tank advantage late game, there can be a good, fun, midgame.

OKW is just the Nazi Brits and they bring with them all the pitfalls of CoH1.

I miss Wehrmacht having an AI puma in their T3. The Ostwind's just too expensive and too fragile to be such an all-in choice. Upgunning the puma to have the AT capabilities was then the soft/desperate counter to armor. The Ostwind has no options for any kind of enemy armor.

But then there's the upgunned 222 that is in T2 that apparently is trying to fill that role, but has to remain weak enough to be justified.

Trying to theorize how to balance CoH2's factions feels is such a hamstrung exercise. CoH1 did so much right that it's hard for CoH2 to be different AND superior (or even equitable) at the same time.

I never have found KTs to be a huge problem in their own right.

What's always bothered me is that Sturmpioneers seem to be able to bring an almost dead KT to full health extremely quickly.

One KT effectively acts like 3 or 4 KTs over time because of how much punishment it can absorb and readily bounce back from.

I feel like it takes longer to repair a Jackson than a KT given the units that have to do the repairing.

Personally, I feel that with the way CoH2 was advertised, what was ultimately delivered, and how it's been developed since, has had much to do with THQs demise.

The game that Relic was developing under THQ was ultimately not the game that was released under SEGA. Many of the advertised features of the game that people ostensibly pre-ordered the game for (side armor anyone?) were not and have never been, realized. Mud tech, for instance, took months to make it into the game, despite being an advertised (or at least much talked about) feature.

It's for this reason I've always felt that this NDA was here for a reason. People had already spent money on the unfinished game that SEGA was acquiring. There could've been some serious legal ramifications if SEGA didn't play their cards right (which they did) to insulate themselves from the fallout of acquiring the franchise and the changes in CoH2's development.

Many other games would have never even been released. We were actually rather lucky that CoH2 ever saw the light of day.