Profile of Drones200

Ok, sent. Remind me tomorrow night.

accepted, better be humble and show respect from hence on.

I will definetely remind you

im only looking to do 2v2 so we either que up same time, find others to fill in shoes
or create a custom match n wait for randoms to join in

i dont mind quein up same time until we are paired up to make it "fair", luckily we get competent teammates

I dont do 1v1

What people don't understand is how to apply first principles thinking and analysis.

On a per-unit basis, the game is granular.

That means that at any given moment, one unit is fighting one other unit, even if the engagement as a whole features several units.

You CANNOT jack up the cost of a unit and claim it's balanced if it's the kind of unit that requires two other units to defeat.

Again, in a game like Starcraft, maybe that's decent logic, where you literally attack-move blobs of your entire existing army together.

But in a tactical RTS like CoH2, where you should use units to cap, build structures, lay mines, flank, etc., units -- especially baseline infantry units -- must all be threatening to one another in different ways on a one-to-one basis.

This is, by the way, part of why the Western Fronts factions are, to this very day, power creeped compared to Eastern Front factions, with the exception of Penals, since they were the crutch given to Soviets to fight OKW effectively -- except Ostheer wasn't given such a crutch.

Just so it's clear I'm bot biased: before DBP, Volks raped Conscripts without Conscripts having ANY chance, because Volks are from WFA, despite how low Volks' damage is compared to USF and UKF infantry. Don't know if that's changed since DBP, and I don't exactly have much chance to find out, since all any Soviets ever use are Penals.

I keep saying this, and I'll repeat it: the measure of unit balance is THREAT, not cost.

Every single Ostheer baseline squad screams in terror and runs at sight of Penals, USF Riflemen, and UKF Infantry Sections, while Allied squads can and do weather a ton of punishment from Axis forces (OKW included, since Volks don't deal damage), which is really what decides the outcome of all engagements except if the Axis player manages to pull off the most hardcore flank possible or instawipe a squad with a nade or something.

Axis baseline infantry doesn't pose a THREAT to any Allied units, ever. As long as this remains the case, and as long as people keep arguing in terms of cost and other math, instead of evident, observable performance, nothing's going to be properly balanced.

Storm Elite it is refreshing to see someone that gets this game and understands the problem Penal represents.

To the guy also stating I am losing valuable time to cap map by building penal building and then building 3 penals clearly has not tried it himself. I proved this live on stream talking to the chat, it really is no time wasted and w.e the enemy capped I can uncap and take back with zero loss in time or effort, what use is capping when you will lose initial engagement and therefor all the "capping" you just did. Also I question his knowledge of this strat since he is grossly overestimating the time loss not going conscipts instead of penals. The enemy has never capped more then 1 or 2 points near his base before my first batch of penals is out, by then the 2nd follows, eng is capping and when I beat the enemy back thatz it.

The game is not balanced at all current state, the satches too are EXTREMELY powerful against buildings and any mg inside of it. I can clear a house mg no problem with 2 penals, hell just 1. At best the german can hold fuel for 10 seconds while i get the 40 munitions, i cap around him, without mg he cannot fight me since his inf will lose every engagement 1v1, even 1v2 but by then i should have 3 penals out on the field, demolishing him.

Anyway coming at the mg from 2 different angles is enough, 3? is gg, either he leaves the house or this happens



https://clips.twitch.tv/TardyCogentBananaBigBrother


The poor osteer infantry could do nothing against penals, notice I won easily with a 4 man squad against 2 volks while the other 2 flank mg, came in and just forced the gg. No coming back from that



Not a good time to be german

https://clips.twitch.tv/DeadOriginalHamDoritosChip EZ Soviet Penal Win

https://clips.twitch.tv/HonestAbstemiousPuppyTF2John ez soviet pENAL WIN 2

https://clips.twitch.tv/DeadOriginalHamDoritosChip ez soviet penal win 3

https://clips.twitch.tv/MiniatureAggressiveTurnipDatBoi ez soviet penal win 4

https://clips.twitch.tv/SmoothOpenSpaghettiDogFace ez soviet penal win 5 IN A 1V2 I end GAME WITH 64K DMG



https://clips.twitch.tv/SplendidFrozenAsparagusRalpherZ ez penal win 6 nothing but penals and guards again, ez victory


https://clips.twitch.tv/FunnyFrailKiwiRiPepperonis ez penal win 7 nothing but penals and guards again




so 7 wins 4 losses 2 of those first 2 losses were my first game off the bat, i ltierally did not know what to build since I have not played soviet in ages, the ones you guys love to cherry pick and clip
I know when you want to believe something, you desperately cling to w.e "evidence" that conforms to your bias.
You post a clip that says nothing about penal being bad but me just taking a nade to the face because I was still warming up and playing sloppy, like how is that even relevant to what I am saying?
ANy unit even in the game should die to a rifle nade to the face but THATS ON YOU to micro manage.
The point of this thread is to show just how with basic micromanaging i.e evading nades
you win every encounter


the other 2 losses were extremely close, enemy won with 32 vp late game after rocket barrages and forgetful retreats 45 mins in made a sloppy defeat. Again though I am playing with randoms in my team, is roulette

The 4th loss my partner BendTheKnee intentionally threw the game and we actually caught that live on stream. I have half a mind of reporting him for griefing, I dominated the middle and right, his side he just literally stood back with mg's at base and never capped his points, almost intentionally.
I was then grouped with that guy 3 times in a row forcing me to quit the game before it started so I could get partnered with someone else

chat on stream could not believe the automatching in this game either lol

3 times same player, had to wait a few mins for a different partner.



Soo yeah should I keep playing and winning with that strat that doesnt work or isnt incredibly powerful?

I was destroying infantry from both german factions at any point in the game even late game their inf was worthless, coupled with my mortar, nades and tanks backing up penals and guards, they coulnt man

they have to work twice as hard

Nah but please continue

I just streamed for 8 hours and I wone very soviet game with the exclusion of 2, my first 2 games which I was just warming up, playing soviet for the first time.

Some real trolls here, in fact I even won a 1v2 lmaoo

the haters, : )

No idea where that guy got the figure that I lost 4 games, the third game I lost I had it won, mind you I am playing 2v2 with randoms even on my team.

That game was lost with the enemy at 34 vp, misplays at the late game in dealing with their KT and just unfortunate rockets hit my ally to the face


Even if they are "noob" which they werent, its laughagable how I won with just those units against 2 players.

Believe what you want homies, Ill keep ranking wins live on stream


I streamed for 8 hours and you say I played 5 games?


Why do you spread fake news?

The only losses I had were just misplays on my part you would know if you were watching instead of talking out of your ass, I still beat the enemy back and had map control with nothing but penals.


All the answers these other people are providing are false in the face of the evidence, I DONT NEED TO BUILD NOTHING BUT PENALS AND GUARDS TO WIN


Oh and tanks n ofcourse OP mortar

I will post clips and replay of my current match that I just decimated enemy with nothing but penals and guards.

It was insane how much dmg satchels did, insane to a tank

half health off a p4, dead in tracks, second satchel? GG tank

enemy acuses me of cheating

gg

dont let these boys fool ya

they just cherry picking