Profile of PanzerGeneralForever

Redball fo dayz

The problem I have with the 120mm is the combination of the following characteristics:

1. Large range- makes them very had to counter opposed to other indirect fire.

2. 6 men squad with 1 needed to retreat- makes it more difficult to counter due to very high survivability

3. It's relatively cheap cost- no tech, no fuel, 400mp instant call in (rarely need to be replaced) and easily spammable. Unlike mortar half tracks, this has no teaching fuel penalty and comes with call in medium tanks.

4. It's lack of required micro to deal extreme damage to your opponent- you don't need to find bunched up enemies, you don't need to use 30 munitions for a dodge able rifle nade, you don't even need to use barrage button. Simply have it behind and shot blocker and micro the rest of your army while then enemy gets bombs rained down on them.

5. It's squad wipe potential- with the perks listed above comes the high potential to inflict huge loses on EVERY INFANTRY BASED UNIT THEY HAVE. Ostheer mortar and soviet mortar is good against static units like support weapons. 120mm often wipes core mobile infantry as well. This is partially because most axis units deal their DPS when stationary which makes them very prone to 120mm wipe machine.

6. It's placement in the game- comes at 2 CPs which means there won't be any stock hard counters around to truly counter and wipe it. Comes in one of the best commanders in the game (Guard Motor Coordination tactics) which gives you 2 ,380MP 130 fuel medium tanks with AT capabilities close to the panther tank and anti infantry capabilities close to the P4, and armor between that of a panther and P4. No tech. You can play the entire match without building t1 or t2.

These combined perks makes the 120mm mortar unbalanced.
All hard counters to this thing require fuel and come too late ( Stuka, MHT, tanks, Stuka dive bomb).

Crazy game where we get pushed back to our base and even lose some buildings but we still manage to pull through.
a sneaky Vet 222 that takes out a Katusha which was epic.
M10 Wolverine tanks are very nasty crushing machines!

OST commanders were SPEARHEAD, CAS
Soviet commander was Soviet Industry
USFs Commander was Armor Company

Enjoy!

PS:
Some games have "Infantry formation options". I wish we had that in CoH, so you can simply order the squad to change their formation (V, line, Crystal, etc.). Hell, even simple infantry spacing modes can be great (And as far as I know, it's easy to implement and Cruzz did that). Just a simple button to let you change the spacing a bit (tight or spread).

I like this idea alot but it would change so much of the game. It would buff all infantry and nerf all tanks that arent tank destroyers. It buff ostheer the most because they have the biggest problem with squad wipes. Demos and soviet mines wouldnt wipe as often, IS2 would be even more ineffective verse infantry, Pgrens would be super scary to any allied tanks that don't have a high ROF. It would also make grenades fair less useful because most players would have their infantry in spread formation so nades and mortars wouldn't wipe the whole squad.

Not really necessary. Those weapons already need to be stopped to fire. I don't really see the need to punish them further in this way.

agreed.