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Thread: vs double MG42 & mortar halftracks7 Oct 2013, 20:20 PM A M3 with guards should be able to take out the mortar halftrack quickly. Then use the M3 to flank the HMGs. The Su-85 is only good against armor. If you want to assault a defensive position, a Katyusha or even a Su-76 is better. The Pak is immobile and the Panzerschrecks have lower range than the Su-85 so you normally should not lose it to this combination. If you are losing your snipers to rifle grenades, you are using them wrong. They have much longer range and you should move them often enough (and pay lots of attention to them) anyways to protect them from the mortar HT and flanking units. I have to agree with computerheat, a replay would be very useful In: Red Army Strategies
Thread: KV-1 pop cost looks wrong?7 Oct 2013, 19:35 PM Probably the old pop cap from before that one patch in which they changed all the vehicle costs and popcap. They probably didn't change it back then because it wasn't available in the game. In: COH2 Bugs
Thread: Ostruppen seriously7 Oct 2013, 19:03 PM Jump back to quoted post7 Oct 2013, 18:52 PMpigsoup just had a 2v2 with both germans using the ostruppen on road to kharkov. amazing how they could pump out 4 ostruppens each plus mgs and pgranadiers. not to mention halftracks and scoutcars. so i thought "they cant possibly get p4 on time for my t34. nope. this build apparently dont hinder them from getting p4 early. whenever i face germans who know how to use ostruppen, i feel pretty powerless. The low manpower cost leaves lots of room for other units (like MG42) or fuel caches (hence the fast P4 and the fast T2 strategy). On topic, I think they should start out with a ~20-30 second cooldown at the beginning of the match, so if you choose them directly, you have to wait a little before you can call in the first ones. This offsets their lack of a build time and makes them flood the map slightly later. If you'd pick the commander after that time, that initial cooldown would already be decayed. Maybe that cooldown could also just be applied to the ability of picking any commander instead. As in having to wait those 20-30 seconds before being able to choose any commander. The cooldown between call-ins should also be longer. I also think a longer cooldown between call-ins would be appropriate. Maybe make the cooldown decrease when you have gained a few CPs if this is possible ingame. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Ostruppen seriously7 Oct 2013, 16:18 PM Jump back to quoted post7 Oct 2013, 16:14 PMCruzz So in effect you are telling us that if people put them more into cover they'd be even more op than they appear to be now? It means that not each of the men receives the accuracy increase even if the squad has the (+) symbol. To get the symbol it is enough for one/few men to be in cover but cover is often not big enough for all 6 men to receive it properly. Thus, yes, if people could put them into cover correctly (pretty hard because of unit AI/formation), they'd be stronger compared to 2-4 of them currently receiving the bonus and the others not receiving it. This makes bunkers, houses with many windows and long/big sections of cover (e.g. walls in Semois centre) pretty good for them. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Ostruppen seriously7 Oct 2013, 16:13 PM Jump back to quoted post7 Oct 2013, 15:53 PMStefanHaines Note that the bonus accuracy on this unit applies on an individual entity basis, the graphics do not clearly reflect this. That's interesting. Thanks! Can you please also tell us something about suppression vs. units in cover? We had a discussion about that in a recent HMG42 thread. How does cover (per entity or squad-wide?) work for suppression (e.g. 0.5 modifier for HMG42 vs. units in light cover)? Because suppression seems pretty inconsistent when there are lots of small light cover spots (bushes, craters) around. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Panzer 4 needs an anti infantry buff7 Oct 2013, 15:18 PM I don't think the P4 needs an AI buff. If anything, it could be made slightly more consistent (fewer full misses but also fewer very good hits) but to achieve this, you'd have to change so many values that it'll just end up broken one way or another. So I don't see this coming either way. This at least means the Ostwind has a niche (which it lacked for a long time because of the overall meta). In: COH2 Balance
Thread: P-IV command tank recrew6 Oct 2013, 21:05 PM The command tank's short cannon is better vs. infantry (fires faster, larger AoE, smaller scatter) and the Panzer 4's long 75 mm gun is better vs. tanks (higher damage, much higher penetration). Don't use the command tank against anything larger than a T70 (and don't expect it to kill that one before it can flee). https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApmrrrPr20ncdEpuSHcxNko1VGVFYjczYXpFZWhqOHc#gid=5 In: COH2 Bugs
Thread: Guards grenades vs MG42 in building? no damage5 Oct 2013, 12:36 PM If it happens to your this consistently, there is a good chance you are aiming the grenades wrong. As far a I know, the damage done by the grenades also depends on the position of the infantry in the house. If you are throwing it to the wrong position, its chance to deal very little damage is higher of course. A replay would really help so we could see if this is the case. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Very few cost effective counters to upgraded Grens3 Oct 2013, 21:40 PM Jump back to quoted post3 Oct 2013, 21:17 PMCon! The problem with penals is accuracy at far distances they will only hit and do damage 17% of the time, this doesn't even take into effect cover modifiers which are likely to be used by both sides at range. Conscripts in comparison have 16% and grens unupgraded have 35% change. They all do 16 damage greans having a DPS: 1.0294 at far range and penals a DPS: 1.4924. the extra DPS is basicly equal to the more likley pen chance of grens, add in lmgs and rifle nades and at best you can say a penal is equal to only maybe slighty better then a gren at range. Oh yeah, right. Even the numbers copied by Nullist (I guess from the DPS spreadsheet) show that. This does seem rather odd to be honest because the SVTs really are long range rifles. Looking purely at the DPS figures, conscripts and penals seem to do roughly 25% of their short range DPS at far range and LMG42 seems to do 36%. for the Kar98K this seems to be 27%. Even the officer's Luger and the Mosins of Guards seem to follow roughly the same rules. I really wonder why the LMG42 is that effective at long range. Edit: Only other one out seems to be the DP LMG of guards, at 31.4%, so not as abnormal. I wonder how the vehicle MGs compare to that... In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Very few cost effective counters to upgraded Grens3 Oct 2013, 19:35 PM Nooo, don't try to move the penals, especially not toward the LMG42 =( Get into cover and shoot from there... if you really must close the distance, do it with some conscripts. This is what I meant: People are focusing too much on their flame thrower and satchel throw and then they get ripped to shreds In: COH2 Balance