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Kingtiger, Jagdpanther.

The Elefant is way too clumsy compared to the former super-heavies.

I'm more curious if anyone here has actually done this. According to the Steam achievements page 0.3% of players have. Which is actually more than the number of players that have beaten Case Blue on Captain difficultly

Is that information correct? According to the page only 1 in 4 players has played a campaign mission. I can´t believe that.

I´m more interested in whoever managed to get ONE Brummbär to vet III? Never happened to me in over 400 games. And 10 is nearly impossible - must be comp stomp.

"Sturmpanzer IV Specialist
Achieve three levels of veteran status with 10 Sturmpanzer IV "Brummbärs"s and kill 40 enemies with the same Sturmpanzer IV "Brummbär"

^^

If you get so upset about someone not saying "GG" or saying it when winning, I might inform you about the latest trend: "SG" which obviously stands for shit game.

I agree with your post, very nice. Especially I want to emphasize this part:

1. Panthers cost twice as much mp as a su85 and 15 more fuel. Not including the fuel cost of the t4 upgrade and building. Panthers are not a hard counter to su85s IMO, which out range them and whose guns can penetrate frontal armor fairly reliably.

MYTH: Long ranged direct fire units are balanced

REALITY:
1. Weapon range is the single most important vehicle stat in coh2, and often with range comes weapon power per shot. The ability to shoot across the map from beyond a monitor's width of screen resolution negates any downside to move speed. This problem is not limited to the su85 alone, but the elefant is also stupidly long ranged.
2. Soviets have many long range options that feed each other, specifically snipers for AI and su85 for AT, with an su76 for fun if you want quick IDF. 120mm outranges 81mm mortars, and the precision strike ability is button to get a free kill on whatever squad is trying to cap a point or use a support weapon.

The combination of Snipers and SU-85 is annoying and a game killer. If that´s decently microed, there´s nothing a German player can do about it.

Russian Mortars also have a lot of range and if an ISU-152 appears and parks behind AT-Guns and infantry and is used defensively, the only option is an Elefant. At-guns and SU-76 are the final blow and can give Russians further long range artillery options.

The range advantage of Russians is kinda ridiculous. I´m okay with Russians having more and better artillery options, that´s what their army was about. However considering tank combat, the range of the SU-85 is an annoyance.

A Russian tank outranging a German tank is bad design imo. Just because the SU-85 has a sticker on it which says: "tank destryoer" doesn´t mean it should get super range and accuracy. What about the advantage in optics the Germans had, longer barrels on their average tanks which gave a flatter trajectory and thus better accuracy on range etc. Actually it was the Germans which tried to keep the distance in tank engagements and the Russians rushing in, trying to engage on close range. They totally flipped the roles.

I agree with the OP.

I hated the British faction in CoH1 with a passion. They were boring and didn´t fit the fluent playstyle of CoH1 at all. It always came down to dull, abusive tactics. Set up your truck at an important point (Wolfheze was an insta-win for Brits) which can´t be capped any longer, set up mortatr pit and vickers. Blob. Roo. Sit there and win. I liked to compare the British faction with cancer: Cut it out early or die - as a rush was most of the time the only chance to win.

I hope a faction this static will never ever make it into CoH2. Coh2 should stay true to the original tactics that made it a good game. Mobility, flanking and tactical placement of units (aka no blobbing or camping).