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Thread: Brace needs a serious nerf.2 Sep 2015, 18:19 PM Jump back to quoted post2 Sep 2015, 17:32 PMFlyingsmonster It's hilarious how upset some people are in this thread that I simply am suggesting that a very useful ability have a cooldown timer, like you know, every other ability in the game. It makes no sense that you can have an indefinite brace. It needs to have a cooldown timer so that there is a RISK to using it, not just benefits. I don't see how anyone could possibly argue against this. 1 minute cooldown for an ability that lasts 30 seconds is completely reasonable. Except that a braced emplacement is doing nothing but eating up manpower and population cap. Think of a perpetually braced Brit emplacement the same way you would if you stuck a Panther in your base and just left it there -- It was expensive to build and could be doing something useful, but it's not. The difference is that a Panther idling safely in base can fight back if something comes after it, a braced structure (once any defenders are cleared) is demo-charge/flamethrower fodder. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: SU-85; The Thread6 Aug 2013, 18:09 PM Jump back to quoted post6 Aug 2013, 10:41 AMCrells AT grenads do nominal damage, please try killing a P4 with just AT nades and see how it works. button does no damage to tanks. ZiS-3 has to be stationary and only works in a difensive manner but it is a viable AT option. Ram also nullifies the the T34 and with only a 20 fuel difrence you will not have more 34s than P4s for more than a min. The t34 85 is over 200 fuel investment making it a "im already winning" button and is doctrinal, the penertration on the 85 is actually lower than the P4 i bleive which throws your argument out the window, the Su-76 has a really bad gun for taking out armour at medium tank status or higher and it made out of paper. At means anti TANK so light vehicles do not count and with that the t70, ISU 152 and IS2 are inthe same boat as elephant, bombing runs have a CD and hte howitzer comes too late AND it too inacrutate to be relied upon. Soviet Anti Tank options are ZIS3 and SU85 everything else are support units for them. T-34/85 tanks penetrate the front armor of a Panther reliably while costing less, per tank. Where in my post did I state that you could only use one ability/type of AT per tank? Obviously I was trying to show that the Soviets have a lot of options at AT, and if used together, they could handle any German armor on the field, without the use of the SU-85. It's not that hard to button a P4, hit it with an AT grenade, and finish it off with the ZiS. But, I guess that's too much work for the soviet players that have become too lazy/spoiled by the one-unit-to-counter-all-armor SU-85. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: @ Relic - please take a look at panther6 Aug 2013, 17:58 PM Jump back to quoted post6 Aug 2013, 15:47 PMpanzerjager2 The panther right now is super worthless indeed .... for the price of the teching up + heavy panzer company + a single panther, I could have brought out 2 panzer IV's which would do a way better job against the su85. Panther is USELESS against any infantry (on par with german scout car) and just average as an anti tank unit. What incentive is there to even build the panther now ? My suggestion is to buff the Panthers range to 60 to equal the su85 and make its main gun a bit stronger against infantry. This would solve all the problems with su85's while still maintaing balance (of course with a slight reduction of su85 reverse speed to encourage flanking) SU-85 shells have the possibility of bouncing off a Panther's front armor. If the SU-85 is supported by infantry, the Panther is the only German tank that has a chance of destroying the SU, even with a damaged engine. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: SU-85; The Thread6 Aug 2013, 09:21 AM 25 munition GP mines and AT grenades. 40 munition button (doctrinal). ZiS-3 - effective against armor and can barrage against infantry. T-34/76 with ram nullifying ANY Axis armor. T-34/85 (doctrinal) with ram AND a gun that penetrates the front armor of any Axis vehicle. SU-76 with decent penetration but bad damage and low health\armor. The T-70 that rapes any light vehicle and snipes infantry. ISU-152. And IS-2 (Admittedly, a shitty tank because of it's cost/speed/penetration). Let's not forget abilities like bombing runs and the 152mm howitzer. All of these options are available to the Soviet player, yet the ONLY one you see EVERY game is the SU-85. Not because the other options don't work, but because the other options take a certain amount of skill and carry some amount of risk. Why bother with that when you can spam a relatively cheap, non-doctrinal unit that can frontally engage any other non-doctrinal (and most doctrinal) axis units with impunity and requires minimal support to be effective? A brain-dead hamster can micro an SU-85. Countering one requires skill. Countering more than one requires an Elefant. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: @ Relic - please take a look at panther6 Aug 2013, 08:49 AM Relic should just ditch the T-34/85 doctrine ability and take ram off of all T-34s. Give the T-34 a global 85mm upgun ability like the Americans had for their shermans, and decrease the penetration on the soviet 85mm vehicle guns. No way should killing a Panther or Tiger be as simple as firing at its front armor. Upgunned T-34s would have the Anti-armor capabilities to take down Axis armor (with less AI ability), if properly microed and supported (no homing missile ramming) and countering them would take similar support and micro. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: SU-85; The Thread5 Aug 2013, 05:47 AM Jump back to quoted post5 Aug 2013, 03:29 AMCombatMuffin I am pretty sure they know we are being vocal about it. They've noticed even the smallest of feedback, but maybe they need the SU-85 to stay that wya. It is the soviet endgame tank, after all. Kind of funny that the soviet "end game" armor comes out at the same time as Axis "mid game" units. Let's not forget that the SU-85 is non-doctrinal and shouldn't be able to wipe the floor with almost anything it enconters with minimal support. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: SU-85; The Thread4 Aug 2013, 20:19 PM The main problem with the SU-85 is the skill it takes to use and support. Because the SU-85 can engage german tanks without risking return fire, supporting the SU-85 vs german armor simply requires having a conscript squad nearby with an AT grenade or guards with button, since german tanks HAVE to close with the SU-85. The real problem is the Axis' lack of a non-doctrinal, mobile unit that can fire back at the SU at its maximum range. The answer here should be the StuG, but it's not. I think if the PanzerWerfer were moved down to Tier 3 and the StuG moved up to Tier 4 and given a range buff so that it can engage the SU at its maximum range, you'd see more mixed armor tactics from the soviets and less SU85 spam. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: How to use Su-853 Aug 2013, 19:10 PM Jump back to quoted post17 Jul 2013, 07:51 AMTKROBERTS Ah my strategy exactly 1 85 supported by two conscript squads, this is a very good strategy but incase you germans think its op you may want to check the corner of your p4's they have this crazy blitz ability that get this makes them go faster... now maybe your not smart enough to use that ability but just because you cant play doesn't mean something's overpowered. Oh! and get this the germans have these troops with these things called tank fists that do samething as at nades... I don't know if you've ever tried to get one of those sons of bitches to turn at a tank when it has been engine damaged but I don't think ive ever won a tank v tank battle if the engine was damaged. if you don't want to lose your tanks so easily don't keep plowing straight into conscript squads... that's like driving a clown car into a triple at gun battery. This is exactly the kind of half-baked, insane response I've come to expect from Soviet players when defending their precious SU-85s. Yes, Panzer IVs get blitz (so do Ostwinds, Panthers, and Tigers) but guess what... that's a veteran ability. It is not available the second the tank enters the map. The SU-85s ability to scout for itself? Not so much. Yes, Grenadiers get panzerfausts which are the equivalent of the Conscript's AT grenades but when was the last time your SU-85 had to charge an infantry-supported German tank and circle it just to stand a snowball's chance? That's right. Never. Supporting a tank that gets to sit back and snipe is an entirely different beast than supporting a tank that has to rush forward or flank. So if the SU-85 never even has to enter the Axis tank's gun range, never mind the panzerfaust range, what good are the fausts? Infantry obviously can't keep up with a rushing German tank, and they have no chance of chasing down an SU-85 and getting into faust range so the only option is to send the infantry in first but that's tricky too. Even IF the SU-85's supporting conscripts don't spot the flanking grenadiers, the grens will still (for some retarded reason I don't understand) fire their rifles at the SU-85 thus revealing their position and giving the SU-85 time to either back away or turn and shoot, possibly killing some of the infantry or, at the very least, forcing the entire squad to hug the ground for a few seconds, completely negating any chance the infantry had of getting a panzerfaust off. So, for the low, low price of 115 fuel, Soviets get armor that can scout for itself at maximum gun range, reliably (ridiculously) penetrate the frontal armor of any Axis vehicle (the 85mm on the SU-85 could only penetrate 110mm of armor at 90 degrees from 500m, not enough to ever penetrate the 120mm of 90 degree armor on a Tiger. Certainly not enough to ever penetrate the sloped frontal armor on the Panther (http://www.wwiivehicles.com/ussr/guns.asp)), can easily dictate the range of the engagement with its ridiculous acceleration and speed (both forward and reverse), and kills infantry to top it all off. How, exactly, is this not overpowered?? Meanwhile, the only reliable counter the Axis get to the SU-85 is the Ferdinand/Elefant which is a doctrinal unit, requires 5cp ((too) late game), costs 600mp and 260 fuel (more than twice the cost of the unit it counters), and is about as fast as molasses would be on the Eastern front in winter. The PaK43 could theoretically work, but it's 480mp arty bait. The long and short of it is this: It takes FAR less skill and resources to use an SU-85 than it does to counter it. Any half-brained nitwit can micro an SU-85. Meanwhile, to counter it, the German player has to get a tank into range while microing it to keep it away from the gun end of the SU-85 and the conscripts with AT grenades or the guards with button. (Button.. another ridiculous ability for the Soviets.. an LMG blinding/disabling the driver, gunner, and commander of a tank? It shouldn't do more than force the top gunner (if any) to button down inside the vehicle.) In: Red Army Strategies