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Historical!
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Seriously, if you are going to defend ANY of the German Uber units then the fact that the Wehrmacht fears US ground attack is completely historical.

Personally I think the balance and faction designs are crap. I think the myth of the German war machine and the skill of German troops is also mostly myth. The Germans benefitted from being on the defensive, which drastically skews their performance.

(In the same situations, late war and completely green US forces also performed exceedingly well.)

No. I'm saying that it is more than just "ya murica kill nazhais yaeayeh". And again, you haven't watched the movie how can you even make a judgement on it?

I looked at the trailer for the movie you recommended instead of this one and it looks just as hollywood-ish if not more hollywood-ish than this one (judging by the trailer ofc, I haven't seen it).

Hollywood doesn't make pro-American movies anymore anyway. Not unless they can vilify the US in the movie. The movies made post war were much more realistic and dealt with a lot more depth even though there were propaganda'ish elements. One famous one, that was realistic for some units and not others, was the "Paramount platoon". In all Paramount pictures the platoons were a microcosm of the American melting pot, with a Brooklyn Italian or Jew, a Hispanic, Irish, German, Midwesterners, Southerners, etc.

The bridge was built in 1917 and was from the outset designed to defend against capture. (Fortified towers with MG emplacements on either end.)

But watch movies like "Twelve O'Clock High", "Battleground" (Battle of the Bulge) or "The Home Front The best Years of Our Lives" (Veterans returning from the war) and you will see a lot of depth and not a lot of Rambo. I would add "The Longest Day" as well, with acting greats from the US, Britain, France and Germany playing their own countrymen and in their own languages. And "Bridge at Remagen" though it is missing what is for us in the CoH world a key element... at the real Ludendorf bridge there were several pershings who helped change the battle. With their 90mm they were able, from one side of the river, to snipe the AA guns and MG42 emplacements on the other side of the river. This made it possible for a single company of regular infantry to succeed in an impromptu assault across its long and exposed span.

I think AA overall (not just for OKW) feels like an unfinished mechanic. It doesn't feel consistent enough nor does it feel rewarding if you actually focus on AA units. It kinda feels like something they put in but never bothered to finish establishing but thought 'yeah that's good enough'.

What someone said earlier about there being a 5% chance to actually shoot down the plane without their being any health makes so much sense. That's exactly what it feels like - imo it really shouldn't be this.

This is actually one place were what you described is pretty historically accurate.

The AA given to ground troops was pretty inadequate for the job. The range on many of the AA guns was no more than 1-2 miles at best. A gunner had to use iron sights to track and lead a plane moving at 250-350 miles per hour. If it is heading right for you the speed and deflection is less of a problem, but you are also shooting at it for a pretty short time.

The answer was to mass the amount of firepower. It wasn't one 50 cal gun that would bring down a plane, but having dozens trying to do so with the hope that some might find the target.

That said, there are other elements that are less historical. Allied ground forces were MUCH less likely to be exposed to air attack or recon than Axis ground forces. Not just were there more allied aircraft, they didn't have to spend time defending their own cities or lines and were able to keep the Luftwaffe on the defensive. It was pretty rare by 1944 that the Luftwaffe was able to play much of a role at all.

Further, the Allied planes were much better suited to ground attack. Sturmoviks and Typhoons were designed for ground attack, and the huge P47 was a heavily armored, fast, and very durable plane that turned out to be really well suited to ground attack. (One US P47 pilot, Robert Johnson, tangled with a bunch of German planes returning from an escort mission. He and his ground crew counted some 20 20mm hits to his plane and lost count of 7.62 hits when they were into the hundreds.)

Haha, actually, the chain of events was I clicked on the link from COH2.ORG

It mostly amused me because they gave me an ad for asian girls, and then cougars looking for young men, and then young woman who want an older man. They really want me to find a lady!

Maybe your mother is controlling the adds.

Or maybe you should use a "private browsing" window to view porn.

Campaigner - you are getting tips from some of the very very best.

A tip I learned from Pepsi a while ago about using Bazookas and RR airborne... If you see a vehicle try to pop the squad into a building to shoot, then pop them out opposite side of the vehicle, then back in. The AT infantry won't dance around when in the building so you can get two quick rockets off with good visibility and accuracy. Popping out protects them until you can shoot again.

(Did I get that right Pepsi?)