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I agree that too much emphasis on 1v1 balance when the vast majority of players play 4v4's and team games is a mistake. It leads to units like the Brummbar which is insanely strong in team games, and compare it to the Scott. All of the risks of Wehrmacht tech swapping (losing snares, Mortars, medium tank pressure) are completely negated in team games and allows for rushing out and spamming PGrens and stuff like Brummbars without any of the downsides. Allies seem to only win 4v4's against good players with cheese like ISU/KV2 and filthy Rocket Arty wipes. It's like everything Axis has is better and easier to use in 4v4, but it gets nuked easily by Calliopes/Katys. Even though Axis is so much easier, I don't enjoy playing them in team games because I don't like facing cheese.

On top of Axis getting every crucial tool non-doctrinally. Coh2 also has some really bizarre things to favour Axis in low skill level team games. Why is it that the heavily armoured Axis tanks which fight against weaker allied anti-tank are the ones that get the Blitzkrieg ability, or the insta-pop smoke cannisters while USF have the long delay targeted smoke. Also Wehrmacht are the only faction who get dedicated anti-tank mines that change games. (ignoring M20). Also only the Soviet Machine guns death loop.

I wish I could find the video of the old KT before it's armor was nerfed when I think it was Paula just drove a KT frontally into 3 AT guns on Semoisky Summer and just decrewed all of them lol. Such balance.

This one? It was 4 Ziss Guns, not 3.



I don't have the actual clip, just a few seconds I used in that video.

Cool, lots of great changes! Lots of things I had the same idea in for my mod.

People that dont know "what it accomplishes" dont remember how good COH was when the maps mattered because sandbags werent literally everywhere you look.

Not only did Coh2 remove the decision making between capturing a point and fighting in combat (Especially with support weapons), but Sandbag spam on mainlines also removed the decision between taking optimal cover and capturing a point. Without getting bogged down in the specific faction balance, I think it's pretty clear the current implementation of mass spam sandbags while capturing points is not good for the game. The build time increase was nice and prevents the spam in the early game capping of neutral strat points but doesn't really effect more important points with longer cap times or when an enemy point is being decaptured and captured.

Putting Sandbags only on Engineer type units would see sandbags less prevalent and create a lot more tactical depth around cover and capturing. Sandbags were accessible in Coh1 but they couldn't be spammed while capturing points so they were much less used and more tactical. Mass sandbag spam also makes Flamethrowers too important.

I think it is because CoH 2 has a monopoly in RTS atm.

This is so untrue. The player bases of Age of Empires 2, StarCraft 2, Warcraft 3, and probably StarCraft: Brood War all dwarf that of Company of Heroes 2.

I think Coh2's popularity is there isn't another RTS that delivers the same excitement and fast-paced gameplay without being as challenging and mechanically demanding as the above games. The WW2 setting and nice presentation helps too.