Profile of Tristan44

I am a German player and I find absolutely nothing wrong with HtD. Its so vunerable to tanks, flames, and nades. If you see somebody hit the dirt GET BACK and fire rifle nades and throw bundled nades into those "Russian Assholes". I will say when the cons have veterancy and they hit the hit near some PzGrens with no vet, they get absolutely SHREDDED!!! But remember germans, the HtD doctrine has no OP (fire across the entire map or flame entire squads in .56 millisecond) tanks. I prefer somebody going that doctrine, at least it gives me a fighting chance.

I cant speak for soviets but everytime i finally get the tiger tank out the match is over!!! ugh... 260 fuel.. damn. But just last match i got a tiger out and immediately lost it. It was the stupidest thing ever. I finally get a match where the tiger could do some real dmg and then i lost it following a stupiD SU tank destroyer into base.. lol.. dumb me.

Honestly, that review felt pretty decent. New reviewers will come out with better scores, but an 80 seems to be a very fair score for CoH 2.

Ill have to disagree with first point. Grenadiers need a bit of micro, but they ultimately defeat conscript squads 100%... In most of my games ill get 2-3 grens squad (depending on the opponent and if he is going cons spam) an mg and sometimes a sniper. If he does go quick clown car grens can faust it.. the clown car does take dmg from small arms fire but I will agree sometimes its hard to counter when its up to quick. You just MUST deny soviets any fuel while trying to protect your munitions.. its a desperate battle and I love it.

The soviet support teams are so upsetting. Its impossible to flank early. The rifle nade rarely does dmg and on certain occasions ive seen it do NO damage. If somehow you manage to kill a maxim or mortar you cant recrew since you most likely took dmg from reinforcng conscripts because it took 4mins at point blank range to kill that support team. German sniper need 5 shots... 5....to finish a support team off... so.... I mean....

Ostwind needs micro, you just got to use it on the periphery of the battle. It does wonders if you manage to keep it alive a while after it first comes out. Send it on flanking attacks and to harass sovs capping vps. Its really no good on the frontline since soviet ats and at nades and mortars...t34s.. SUs...etc will most likely destroy it. Same goes for flammenwerfer if you miraculously manage to keep it alive mid\late game.

Pak40.. yes... useless...

Germans just plain and simple need better commanders. Soviets can call in guards, shock troops, 2 t34s, and the LOLWIN kv-8. The germans can call in. Er... an elephant? (Not much good in 1v1) and a tiger. But as another poster said the soviets can then ram the tiger (or acme smash with wylie coyote) taking it out for a good period or destroying it if at guns are brought up. The ran ability is so cheesy in my opinion, kind of like many of the features in this game... but ram instantly destroying a turret AND engine!?!?!?! Make the damage congruent with the area rammed!!! Front=gun damaged...Side=tracks damaged or heavy damage to german tank... back=damaged\destroyed engine and damage to tank... At least give the rammed bastard a fighting chance..

I do understand where pingping is coming from. Especially with the doctrines and such. Its hard not to compare a sequel to the success of its predecessor. And to me vcoh was amazing even when it was imbalanced and a little screwy. I just knew playing vcoh how much potential it had, even when I played open beta. I feel somewhat the same for coh2 but I feel the basic success of vcoh did not carry over. To use fortunes car examples.... when new models come out they arent complete overhauls of what made the original design great. They are improvements to the original car while still keeping the core concepts of what the original design... anyway ill still buy coh2.. just not right away.. the unlocks and commanders etc feels so cheesy. Almost like a free to play game lol. But thats just me throwng in my 2 cents.