Profile of Albus

It temporarily increases the damage done to a vehicle. So use it when you're fighting something heavy like a Tiger, or if you want to get the edge in a fight that would otherwise be 50/50. Bear in mind that it only increases damage done, and not penetration (iirc), so if you're not dealing enough damage to a target because you're simply not penetrating, it won't help you.

I'm not exactly sure, but i'm pretty sure it increases incoming penetration as well as incoming damage (I've noticed K-Ts get penned from the front by T34/85s as if the K-T was a hoe getting slapped up by the pimp that is T34/85s when the K-Ts under mark target).

It increases incoming damage on the marked tank by 25% (Which is huge in an equal engagement). It gives you an almost unfair way to very easily kill extremely heavy tanks. It's a pretty sweet ability for 80 munitions.

Soviet BO vs Ostheer : Conscript, Conscript, Conscript, Molotov, Conscript, Doctrinal Infantry (Shocktroopers/Guards depending on the map) or PPSHs. If your doc has late game armour, just keep harassing with your 4 conscripts and (at least) 2 squads of doctrinal infantry until you're ready to field heavy armour. If not, spam T34s.

I see this strategy 90% of the time regardless of map or prior knowledge of your BO. Some people are a little more interesting with early T1/T2 but the safest way to play a 1v1 is generally conscripts and Guards/Shocks.

Soviet BO vs OKW : (If you're on an open map) Sniper, Scout-car, Conscript, Sniper, Guard spam, T34/85s (Barton Approved )

American BO vs Ostheer: Rifle, Rifle, Vet Rifle, Ambulance, Lieut, M20, M4A1-AAHT, Captain, (Optional) AT Guns, Ez8s (Or Standard rifle instead of Vet Rifle and Major->Jacksons/Shermans instead of Ez8s if you don't have rifle company). This strats virtually unbeatable at the moment unless you get insanely lucky with a tellar.

American BO vs OKW: Rifle, Rifle, Rifle, Ambulance, Lieut, MGs, Captain, (Optional) AT Gun(s), Major, Jackson (Or Vet Rifle instead of third rifle and Ez8s instead of Major/Jackson).

Ostheer vs Americans: Gren, Gren/MG42, Gren, Gren/MG42, T2, PaK, Pgrens, PaK. Never, ever use non-doctrinal armour against the Americans unless you actually have superior map control (Which if you can pull off against the Americans on anything other than Langres against a competent player going the standard American vs Ost BO, you deserve a medal). Generally transition into either a Tiger or, if you've gone Tiger Ace, PIVs into Tiger Ace.

Ostheer vs Sovs: I feel like this is one of the few matchups you can't really go into a game with a single, preplanned BO. There are quite a few which work equally well. Both doctrinal and non-doctrinal armour are valid choices.

I'm not even going to do an OKW BO list because there's such a variety of shit you can do which'll work.

I think OP is referring to vCOH when it was 7 years post release vs COH 2 one and a half years post release.

If you were there when vCOH was the first released, it was the buggiest, most unbalanced piece of shit you'de ever play. From the PaK39-or-whatever-the-number-was which you could attack ground the entire game which would gain damage with every shot (Meaning it could eventually one-shot Pershings if you abused attack ground enough) or the fact that the StuG-III had an eranous HP line which gave it 5000 HP instead of 500 making it literally indestructible, the game had such game breakingly ridiculous bugs. Note-It took Relic a year to fix the PaK-39 attack ground bug. It took them a good few years before all the bugs and balance issues were truly ironed out of the original. And then came the expansions...

The brits were so f**king broken when they first came out. It took THQ/Relic nearly 6 months to patch Kangaroos (Essentially a mobile, indestructible bunker you can pile all your infantry into for the lolz). The PE were soooooooo weak for the first few years they were in the game. They were balanced eventually but picking them over the Wehrmacht anywhere before 2 years post-expansion-release was like committing ladder suicide.

Also, snipers never really got patched in vCOH and absolutely fucked everything at higher levels over. The reason you couldn't go double-PE in any game ever was because of the existence of snipers. Brits also looooooooooved getting raped by Snipers.

Ostruppen are absolute garbage as of the last patch which nerfed them.

I wouldn't recommend using them at all in any scenario.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/GeForce-Graphics-Express-6008MHz-Surround/dp/B007ZO7T9E - Really nice, high end GPU which - when paired with a decent processor and RAM (Minimum you need is about 4 GB) - can run both CS:GO and COH 2 at ultra settings extremely smoothly. Very expensive however.


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Radeon-Graphics-PCI-Express-GDDR5-Dust-proof/dp/B004XANO24 - GPU I currently use. Extremely cheap (relatively speaking) graphics card although absolutely exceptional for its cost. I can run most modern games at about medium quality before lag begins to set in. COH 2 runs virtually flawlessly without any lag in all game sizes at around low quality. I can't make great use of the GPU though because I don't have an exceptional processor but it's still a pretty great GPU.