Profile of Volsky

In vCoH, micro, resource management, split second timing, infantry micro, and, did I mention infantry micro, was what won/lost games.

In CoH2, shock-based build orders, abusive strats, and rushing for elite infantry + a poorly microed tank blob is the way to victory.

Who here remembers being able to crap out ~3-4 Rangers (see: Guards) and go to town? Anyone? Best I got was 2, 3 on the outside end of a long public 4v4 derpfest.

vCoH had very nice, set parameters for units; Riflemen > Volks at short range, Riflemen ~= Volks at medium range, Riflemen < Volks at long range, with your odd RNG 'wat' thrown in. The MG42 dealt more suppression, while the .30 cal was the destroyer of worlds if it caught you in its crosshairs. Tommies ATE Panzergrenadiers alive but took MP40'd Volks and Grens up the butt. That was fun. You could soft-counter stuff with...well, soft counters.

In CoH2, I don't have that feeling. Cons = Grens at all ranges. LMG Grens > Cons. Penals > Grens. LMG Grens > Penals. PGs > anything that's not Shocks. Shocks > The rest.

P4 > T-34 (sans ram). T-34...> Scout Car?

In vCoH there were plenty of strats you could use; AND THEY WORKED. Sjceran's Importunate Strategy (SIS; 5x Rifles -> BARS + mines), WSC starts, 'Say no to Klaus' M8 rush, 4ES (4 Engies -> Sniper), or good old-fashioned 4 Rifles -> whatevs.

On the flip side, V/MG/V/MG/V/whatevs, Piospam, FHQ rush, sniper-centric builds...

In CoH2, I see no diverse or fun strats. I mostly play team games, so maybe that's where all of this comes from, but I just see cheesy strats to make a quick land grab (the importance of capping specific points is diminished because of the crap resource system), camp it, and rush tanks. Abuse terribad infantry balance (A PG can walk up to four Cons and terminate them, Shocks are bullet/shell proof, etc) and spam Panthers/SU-85s. And the issue is that you CAN spam them. I go through 6+ T-34s in games where I dgaf. I'd get 3 Shermans or P4s max and baby them, and actually care if I lost one. Right now, I just go "hmph" and wait 10 more seconds to crank out a new tank. sp4ejksdfhn

/rant off

Whoever said unit composition, have a cookie. That's the key. Find the derpiest strat (Maxim spam) and synergize it with another abusive/powerful unit/strat -> victory. Oh, and pray to the RNG gods. No skill required if you have the right unit.

My issues with BK is that it's a free "ATG? What ATG?" card that you can play to troll the hardcounter to tanks. You don't even need to have half-decent micro to DERP the nearest ATG. Can magic socks work? Yes. Will a half decent player kite them? Almost definitely. Guards? Right, I have them in my back pocket EVERY game, no matter the doctrine, hell, they spawn out of my Shock Troops asses like they're playing Battlefield. When you combine BK with Panzer-Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free-Card-ician, you end up with unkillable DERP Mark IVs and Panthers that just won't die. Overdrive was alright in vCoH because it was confined to the Cromwell, a tank with meh AT capability. When you give this shit to a Panther/Panzer IV that can troll anything, whether on legs or on treads, that's in front of it, it just gets silly. Do I have a nerf suggestion? No. But I personally don't ram anything unless it's a supertank or a Panther, and only when I have an ATG or at least two spare T-34s to back me up and actually kill whatever I rammed.

This "ermagerd, nurrrrrrrrrf" and "you're bad because you made a suggestion, kill yourself" BS is just childish. Grow up.

Make it reduce your fuel income like it did in vCoH (as did Overdrive).

vCoH's damage model craps on CoH2's. And in some of the mod--wait, no, never mind that.

FHTs only ever bother me if I'm caught without AT nades or I didn't go T2. I see no issue from getting roflstomped into the dirt because I forgot to pull up my pants, and I never had issue with flammen halftracks in vCoH.

Boosting the cost of reinforcing from HTs would just relegate them to the scrap heap. Why reinforce in the field when I can run back to base and take 15 extra seconds to get cheaper reinforcements?

IMHO, this issue just shows the iffy teching options and weedy non-doctrinal unit counts for both factions. If the Soviets had a non-doctrinal PTRS AT team and Guards were elite AI infantry (such as how people have screamed for since day 1...)

Take my +1.