Profile of ZombiFrancis

"awesome mechanics of doctrines"

was usually for the fatherland spam with Heavy bunkers

vs

howitzer tree from infantry company to counter bunkers

Infantry company was certainly used more often than armor and especially airborne versus wehrmacht, but it's not like Terror wasn't used quite often.

Armor v blitz or terror is/was pretty common as well.

Operation unthinkable. USF v SOV all up in this.

Personally I'd recommend an STP mod tournament. I'd contribute to a winnings pot in that case for sure.

Or a 2v2 tourney using the 2v2 map contest maps if that isn't going to happen.

I have never heard an exact definition of Squad AI and exactly what it supposed to do.

Furthermore i don't exactly see the problem it tries to solve.

In short: Squad AI gives the individual entities of a squad a level of AI behaviors.

There are a number of different categories and circumstances that can trigger this AI, such as being in combat.

The way the AI works is that an entity will, for instance, search in a radius around it for cover and run for it once combat is initiated.

It can also impact how squads maneuver around objects and path, such as leap frogging rather than moving in a specific formation.

Arguably squad AI gives squads the ability to fight efficiently (and sometimes not so much) without a level of micro from the player. A player can leave a squad in combat and trust that they'll utilize cover, rather than having to manually direct them to choose a specific piece of cover. (Which typically results in a clumped up squad.) The AI often gets squads to naturally spread out.

I personally think it's a major component of what makes the CoH franchise so unique. I think at face value squad AI is more 'different' than 'better', but I do believe it gives all squad based combat much more flexibility and dynamicism, which I personally find 'better'.

I'm not really worried about it too much. If Relic doesn't at least have a grasp of how to handle the COH franchise by this point... I'm not sure what any number of surveys is gonna do. (Or who does them.)

As with most things with Brits, grens ability to fight IS has more to do with the British player than you.

IS in cover win, IS out of cover lose. Since british infantry get offensive bonuses for being in cover you must keep this in mind. IS are effective at all ranges in cover, and ineffective at all ranges out of cover.

For this reason you kind of have to throw out the notion of effective ranges against british infantry and focus on manipulating their access to cover.

Flamethrowers, indirect fire, grenades, and snipers do this rather well.

Mg42s are effective so long as they're used to prevent the IS getting into position/cover. As the late game goes on and the map fills with craters, this role doesn't scale well. (And why british infantry scale so well lategame, regardless of bolster.)