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I just don't understand why people are so opposed to giving Tommies a snare.

Yes, they're the best mainline infantry in the game - but they also require, by FAR the most investment.

Out of the gate they're extremely expensive, they're horrible at flanking because of their atrocious accuracy on the move, and as Firesparks has pointed out you have to spend precious fuel AND 90 munis to keep them competitive with Grenadiers as the game progresses. Yet Grenadier faust, unlike every other infantry-based hard snare in the game, isn't gated by tech/time.

Did people forget how much OKW struggled against light vehicles back in the day because of this exact lack of snare?

The ONLY reliable snare UKF has is on a research based light vehicle that isn't particularly durable or effective against infantry, AND that snare isn't pseduo-permanent like faust/AT nade/etc.

If you don't want to give Tommies snare, at least give it to sappers in some form. But I don't think that'd be enough. They're already too busy repairing/planting mines/sweeping mid/late game.

Another overlooked problem between UKF and other factions is their inability to terraform the map early game. Not being able to lay wire to deny important green cover/flanking routes is brutal for a faction that relies on engaging in cover and (preferably) at max range at all times.

Furthermore, tying snare to the grenade tech, UKF players will still have to invest EVEN MORE into Tommies to even let them snare in the first place.

Sometimes I just don't even... at the risk of sounding frustrated by people's logic let me lay it out the way it sounds:

1) Hey we know UKF is objectively the weakest 1v1 faction in the game.

2) Dang, they really struggle at actually killing tanks and can get flanked more easily than any other faction because EVERY other faction has a mainline infantry based snare to punish over-extensions.

3) Should we add a snare to UKF? Nope.

Edit: Even if Tommies get a snare, the faction is still going to struggle against HMGs, snipers, and have arguably the weakest assortment of tanks to choose from. Centaur is passable, but a shadow of what it used to be. Cromwell is probably the weakest overall medium in the game and the Firefly is slow, expensive, has an atrocious rate of fire, and requires a huge munitions investment to keep up with other TDs. Comets are hardly worth the cost. Churchills are nice, but difficult to get to in a 1v1. Probably their strongest tank these days though.

hence "soft" snare.

the point is really how an actual snare would make all those functionally obsolete.

Soviet has button and the satchel snare, but AT nades don't make those obsolete. You won't always have an infantry unit in range and in the place you need the snare. Even more so with Brits given the inability to have as many sections running around as Cons.

Same with Ost and target weak point.

Same with USF and Stuart.

When was the last time you have seen IS-2 used by anyone?
Do people even remember how it looks?

You're much more likely to see high armor axis vehicle then allied one(unless you count KV-1 here as well as that's pretty decent one).

https://www.coh2.org/replay/81049/playing-okw-against-sov-increases-blood-pressure

Armored Assault is one of the most popular Sov commanders currently.

IS2 is used a lot, probably saw play in GCS last weekend but I didn't watch every game.

It would be interesting to hear from the actual players that played the Brits last weekend or played against them. However, they always seem to avoid these threads like the plague.

Perhaps create a thread especially for them?

At risk of sounding like an elitist douche... most top players feel like they're wasting their time explaining issues in detail when rank 1,000 fanboys come and tell you why you're wrong because some numbers on a spreadsheet theoretically MIGHT make their argument valid. But theory and practice don't always line up.

The biggest issue Brits have at the moment, in my opinion, are their difficulty in killing tanks (lack of snare) and difficulty in doslodging HMGs/pushing into green cover (lack of indirect fire).

Fix those two, and you'd probably have a decent enough faction even with current stats on units. If you buff other things instead of fixing inherent game mechanic flaws, you're going to go back to a gimmicky UKF crutching on overpowered stuff like Cromwell spam, Centaurs wiping like crazy, Land Mattress erasing armies, Commandos 1 shotting anything they come within 10 yards of, etc.

Buff Royal Artillery Valentine and reduce commander points to make it soft counter to Luchs / 222 , and an annoyance to medium Armour anyone?

I mean... isn't the AEC a hard counter to Luchs / 222 and an annoyance to medium armor?

I'd rather see the Valentine being a light vehicle capable of killing infantry decently well (ayyy it can crush tho!), and the rest of that commander to not suck.