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Due to popular demand (that is, one person asking), I guess I'll post this. Both sides camping out for doctrinal vehicles, may the better cheesy call in win.

Also an exhibit in our series of: why the Tiger needs a nerf.

@cruzz, mortars don't heat seek nor do they predict movement. They simply take the target at its current location and randomly position their shell within the scattered radius. The mortar shell doesn't at any point home in on its target, its purely random when it hits or misses.

Really? I find that a bit hard to believe. Whenever a mortar autofires at a unit that was already moving it tends to seem like the round will be centered around where the unit is rather than where it was when the mortar played the firing animation. I guess I'm just suffering from confirmation bias (or the point of time where the target is a bit after the firing animation so it ends up seeming like the mortars are leading their targets a bit even though game logic wise that's not actually happening) with this though.

When are you going to actually fix the bulletins instead of making them increase scatter?

This could be applied to the maxium as well, except with a narrow arc.

It could...except because the maxim arc is so narrow, any two units in it you can instantly switch targets and suppress both (and then get riflenaded if they're grens, but you know, atleast the maxim did something to both). With the mg42 the traverse is slow enough that so as long as your units are not right next to each other you can just run through because the mg42 can only suppress one at best. And while the maxim has the setup speed to reposition to a flank against things approaching from outside the arc, the mg42 doesn't

The way I see it, maxim requires a decent amount of microing, having weak control without it but medium (against grens) to high (everything else) with micro. The MG42 does not offer you the chance to micro it, in exchange for slightly better "setup and forget" performance. But the setup and forget type of use doesn't really fit well with the current coh2 meta.

Previous to the 25th patch you could find them in the open. More than likely as a group of 4 moving with attack move, 2 Shreks and 2 G43's. PG's now are supposed to be used as flanking units with Mid range DPS. PQ posted this. I like the idea of Grens and PG's having different roles rather than PG's being better at everything and replacing Gren's late game.

They NEVER replaced grens. There were a couple of abusers at one point (hi major) that tried to make PG spam work, and it never did. They were easy as hell to counter, always. The only "replacement" effect I ever saw was people making shrek blobs lategame, and this still happens because it wasn't based on their armor in any way, it was based purely on the awesomeness of the shrek, and that has not changed one bit.

Sounds great. Different units, different roles. Doesn't fit your play style? Don't build em!

It's a one trick pony with a trick done by cheaper command bunkers as well. Tanks are so lethal now, anything that costs fuel that delays your own tanks needs to have a pretty good reason to do that. The german halftrack generally doesn't.

It's at a good spot right now. I'm not complaining. If it was reverted to pre-patch levels the Germans would have a Scout car and Flame HT to battle with. The fuel costs of a T70 and SU75 have both gone up with the recent patch. Don't down play the advantage the Flame H/T has timing wise.

The fuel cost of them went up and the fuel cost of the building went down. Also the M5's and M3's armor penetration got increased quite a lot, they deal with a flameht extremely easy (even without the quad upgrade, that thing just shreds the 251 in a few seconds though).

I do not believe that the flameht has ANY kind of advantage timing wise now, and nor has anyone seemed to believe it has it either as I've yet to see anyone try make one against me. Or me against them, even the few times I've made a halftrack for riegels. Too much risk for too little gain.

Without eyes the unit can't fire on anything. Range 100 does not give it a line of sight of 100. I've seen a ISU downed with three Pumas driving circles around it. Use a couple tanks, one to distract the gun and the other to go around. It's no King Tiger v1.

3 Pumas win against an IS2 or Tiger as well, I'm not sure this is the comparison you want to make You don't actually even need three, two with stun rounds win this fight.

As for the other point, why on earth would the soviet player not have other units to scout with? Hell all he really needs for scouting is atguns and spamming Tracking, or spam tripwires, or use a T70 in scout mode, or just walk around with your conscripts. Flanking with tanks is also actually fairly impossible against anyone paying attention, because you can still see all terrain deformation and hear sounds through the fog of war so you always have a reasonable guess as to where vehicles are. But let's assume you do get a flank on it...then what? Any flanking force of remotely similar value to the ISU152 you can have in 1vs1 short of a Tiger is going to get completely destroyed by two atguns and the ISU. And I wouldn't bet on the Tiger even with 1/10 odds.

Risk and reward. The damage output of sector artillery is staggering. If we are going to give it additional chances of hits, the damage should be reduced. Having an army completely wiped out for 200 munitions is meh.

I'd like to give it A chance to hit. A chance. Even if it came at a cost of reduced damage that would be fine with me, because right now no decent player is ever going to get hit once by this ability, and it isn't even a deterrent for entering the territory, it's only a deterrent for fighting in it because you can't stand still for too long. To top it all off it's even a huge double edged sword because the german player is completely unable to chase any units in it, and has to move his own units away if the soviet player rushes in.

stopped reading, huge german fanboy that wants an Iwinbutton when hes being attacked

Thanks, I'll put that up on the wall next to my previous title of "Hardest Soviet Fanboy".

Adding a couple of extra points shamelessly stolen from others or which I forgot in original:

Riegel Mines: trigger on M3s
Counter-Barrage: Reduce scatter angle and scatter distance by 25% compared to normal barrage. Give same range as normal barrage.
Remanning team weapons: Weapons get remanned with the minimum crew count (1 for 120mm, 2 for anything else).
Show team weapon health bar on crewed weapon teams.

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• Add an accuracy multiplication to HMG fire for each model in its (direct) cone of fire. HMGs should punish blobbing more severely. If more models are in the cone of fire the MG should hit (deal damage) more often as there are more targets that can be hit. One squad can seek cover behind a ridge but not four at once, there are bound to be casualties. Especially if there is no or negative cover.

The HMG42 already has this as far as I understand. Maxim and the Douche don't.

- When the MG of either factions is retreating, if the gunner is killed the MG is automatically given to another member while the squad keeps retreating (like in COH1) instead of having the squad stop and one member going to get the MG, which usually causes every single member of the MG crew to die in the attempt to grab the MG.

While I generally agree with this, there's one elephant in the room before it can actually be implemented: Maxim spam. As I'm already trying to get them to not get riflenade cleared nearly as easily, letting them run away far better might cause a big balance issue because germans are largely dependant on munitions for countering them early game.

I don't agree with reducing Tiger's AOE radius. It's fuel cost has been increased and it's finally worth getting in competitive games.

It is out ranged by Soviet AT tanks and is supposed to close in with its health, but is so slow and gets AT naded all the time. It can't be a long range killer or a break the line tank -- it's just in limbo as a damage soaker right now. Nerfing its AI ability doesn't make sense.

Have you tried using a Tiger this patch? Or had one against you? Compared to the IS2, which fires 30% slower, has 25% less health, and faces weaker AT abilities (though the armor value largely compensates for this part), the Tiger has pretty much equal squad wiping capability while fighting against the larger soviet squads. I don't know how you're managing to get at-naded so easily with your tigers because I can pretty much rely on my Tiger alone to twoshot any conscript squad that tries to get in close, it's only mines that are a danger and for that you have your pretty much mandatory sweeper army this patch anyway because of how the aoe on soviet mines keeps oneshotting infantry squads now.

This is in sharp contrast to the previous patches where the Tiger was clearly the more AT focused of the Tiger/IS2 matchup. This also leaves Panthers very little point in existing in 1vs1, though this is nothing new. The Tiger fills the exact same AT role while providing insane AI on top of that. Ram is also mostly gone now, so the old cheese counter to Tigers no longer exists, making it very difficult to deal with one on more closed quarters maps where ATGuns have a hard time getting firing lines without coming into range of the Tiger as well.

On a theoretical level if I wanted to optimize play as germans this patch in 1vs1, I'd never tech beyond T2, always just wait out for tigers. They're that good, against any situation you'll see in 1vs1.