Profile of FriedRise

Great attitude and welcome to the game!

If I might add, another great way to learn is to learn from the best through watching them play. Check out the CoH2 twitch stream to see how people play the game. Most of them are high level players and you get to see what they see, what their opponents are doing, and what they do to counter that. You'll see their build order, how they position their units, their tactics, and what they do to win (or lose). If they're playing team games, most of them have a mic and will talk to each other so you can see the teamwork aspect of the game.

http://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Company%20of%20Heroes%202

The new patch requires a different way of using the clown car now. It'll take some getting used to because you can't rush in and expect to come out of it alive, but I'll bite.

Before the patch when snipers can garrison the car, you would always keep it at range so you don't get fausted. I guess it's the same concept here. Use range and let its machine gun add that extra firepower to tip the engagement in your favor. If gren decides to rush in for a faust, then he's out of cover and puts himself at an extreme disadvantage. The car is also fast enough that you can bounce around from one engagement to another.

At vet 2 they gain +30% accuracy and sight. At vet 3 another +20% accuracy and some mobility enhancements. I think I read somewhere that +50% accuracy directly translates to +50% DPS(?). That's pretty good, especially since german infantry generally has less armor now.

I've only tried this in a few games and it does take a ton of babysitting. I've kited and wiped whole grenadier squads who got overly confident and decided to rush in. That said, I do think the price should be a little less since the unit is obsolete once german gets 222 / paks / shreks, which is very common nowadays.

New map?:

Looks like Rails at a rainy night.

I'm generally OK with the removal of stars since they don't actually tell you anything about your skill level. Too often in my experience that opponents would surrender right away because their team has less total collective stars than yours, even though I discovered later that we were all evenly matched rank-wise. Sure it gives you an easy win, but you then have to spend another 5-10 minutes searching for another game.

But I agree with others here that there needs to be something to indicate players skill levels... ELO or ladder rank would be perfect. We should have a different method of tracking single player vs multiplayer progress, as the two are vastly different. You can be compstomping expert AI for 200 hours and lose your first online game vs a real player.

I think the price for the single T34/85 call-in is reasonable for the fact that you don't have to spend resources to build T3. The 9CP is a little late though - it's only 1CP shy of Ostheer getting a Tiger. So in an even match you'll most likely need to go T4 to get some proper AT.

The first T34/76s cost 555MP + 175FU (cost of T3 + tank). The first T34/85 costs 360MP + 130FU. Even 2 T34/85s would still cost less than fielding 2 T34/76s. You get a better all-around tank several minutes later for less price, but one can argue that by the time your first T34/85 hits the field, you could've had 2-3 T34/76s already.