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NO.

Nothing new until we balance what we have already. Adding new commanders and new factions is only making the equation more difficult to solve.

To be honest I really agree with you but the game will never be balanced my friend. There is too many variants in the strengths and weaknesses of the different factions and also luck does come into it with all the percentages. Sure there are things that could be balanced like how oped british blobs in cover are or the instant pinned status when you get howitzered but they will not do so. If they do, something else will appear imbalanced and the cycle continues.

I dont think any game will be balanced or ever can be. A new faction would just think it would be a bit nicer to see some variety on the battlefield at least.

And Crecer I agree. As it is based on the Eastern Front then there is a whole lot of West going on haha

Hey guys,

So this question always pops up whenever I play online with my friends regarding what faction would be interesting to have added to the game and also what kind of units would they probably have or expect.

So to start it off we talked a lot about the Italians, French and our most interesting was the Japanese. However, we think out of all of them the Japanese would be the most unrealistic one to add given their main fight being in the pacific theater.

I'd love to know what you guys think. I mainly know a bit about vehicles but discussions on infantry/ abilities would also be cool (Bear in mind the French early surrender and Italian switching sides ability jokes have already been made haha)

Italy: So i'm not expert on the Italians apart from the fact that they had some pretty snazzy Carcano rifles but the better armaments were imported from abroad and that their tanks were not THE BEST but they could still back a punch. Of most interest was when I researched the The Fiat tanks and the Carro Armato P40. Not much is known about them but I think there is scope for some form of implementation and balance with light and medium tanks to stand up to the British, USF and Soviets.

Japan: Was known to use tanks to coincide with their infantry as opposed to the OORAH potential of the German armour. Don't know much about the Japanese and their loadouts but I heard that they had some pretty awesome tanks that were a mix between the Soviets and the Germans which could be well played with.One of my favourites is the Chi-To Type 4 tank which looks badass or the Experimental Tank 5 which was pretty much an Elefant. Officers with katanas would be awesome to see skewering the allies.

French: I know that they had a pretty big help from the Americans and the British with their armaments and the tanks weren't the best thing in the world. Personally this is the least appealing option given how many Allied factions are already implemented. Never really was a fan of the French so my knowledge is lacking in this field and so I open the floor to you guys and see what you guys thought would be some of the stuff they might possess.

Says all self-illustrating why you could conclude;


Play them 1v1 automatch a while for sufficient matches to come up against against ranked human opponents with ½ a clue and OKW's vulnerability will immediately become apparent.

But thats the point. I don't see the OKW having any potential or being at all effective in 1v1's so I don't play them in that form of matchmaking. They are too reliant on manpower and cant churn out the infantry they need to get an advantage in the early games so any soviet or american player only has to spam blobs and your dead... OKW barely have any infantry killing potential, at least not until the late game. Being spread too thin is what kills OKW players.

At the moment i'm successfully winning 4v4 randie matches with a pretty decent setup that once played right and micromanaged well can stomp your way through any setup i've encountered so far. I know how people are complaining about the weakness of the Axis but really i'd say that just comes from people that don't know how to micromanage or fail to understand the difference in spontaneously changing from conservative defence into a steady offence.

For the early game I tend to build in this order

1x Kubel (set that as a group as Kubel's are extremely effective if microed well)
1xVolks
Medic Headquarter
1xVolks
1xRaketenwerfer
1xIFSG

From here I build according to the playstyle of the enemies and also choose which commander I need. If your teammates are good then you will reinforce each others weaknesses and perform a combined assault which completely decimates enemies early game, if done right.
This is where I see many players fail and cost the game for the Germans as they either stand idle with full squads of men or try to muscle it out with the Allied infantry head on... WHICH WON'T WORK! Once the Allies have a steady blob going then any chance of a head on assault is pretty much gone. Instead what I find is that you should take the paths that aren't used much and try to take out their support weapons before you deal with the infantry. Once the support weapons are down then you can rush in with your mechanized vehicle and clean up the blob while watching those allied douches cry all the way back to their base.

(Douchebag tactic 101: If you didnt kill a blob enough then flare to scout their regen point and bomb the living crap out of it! Once most of their veterans are gone, its smooth sailing from there)

Either way i'm having tons of fun with the OKW and i don't see what people have against them, at the moment the only form of imbalance would probably be from shock troops which are absolute assholes that refuse to die, or the Maxim that occasionally instantly suppresses. Other than that, play smart and be spontaneous and you'll be able to stand toe to toe with your average player and your occasional pro.

Also Gnaggy made a pretty good point about taking out their points or cutting off territory. Nothing is more frustrating to an allied player than having to sacrifice some manpower to retake a point and weaken their defenses (believe me, i've been in that position and it never ends well, at least against a decent German opponent)

To be honest, as nice as that would be, I don't think that they will do it. Personally it will take a hell of a lot of new optimization and coding required to be compatible with consoles in general.Too much hassle for a game that is already a few years old.

As a result I don't think that we will see a COH 2 for consoles but who knows maybe if there is a COH 3 then they will be able to do it. Either way if they do then it should be fun watching those console users squirm at the power of micro management.

So yeah dude sorry but it ain't going to happen.