Profile of Kurobane

120mm has had nothing but nerfs,if you can't deal with them it's a l2p issue

Agreed. I have never had an issue going against the 120mm due to its slow firing rate.

Also we shouldn't be nerfing indirect fire due to the prevalence of team weapon spam.



One of the biggest failures of COH 2 is the fact that they chose to be lazy and apply a one shoe fits all approach when it comes to unit damage.

For example Mortars usually do around 80 damage to all targets assuming it is a direct hit.

Why not instead make Mortars do 40 damage but then they do the full 80 damage vs Team Weapons (MGs/Mortars/AT Guns etc) this would allow Mortars to be made more consistent (by increasing AOE/improving scatter) while not acting as ranged snipers and 1 shotting squads from across the map while still being great at the one thing you want a mortar for...which is to counter MG spam.


They tried numerous ways to make indirect fire better (adding suppression for example) but never actually went and did the thing that would make sense because it would take an extra 5 minutes of work to add scaling based on unit type as it is very easy to do in the modding tools.

That would make the balance team screech from OPness.

Yeah for some reason it seems like USF is not allowed to have anything useful. Considering that it is only 10 less fuel than Katyusha or Panzerwerfer, I wouldn't mind paying more for the M8A1 HMC if it could actually kill half as good as either of those 2 units.

major is far harder to kill than 222 and only need vet1 to get +15.

i think it is major boost.

in the end, ost has weak sight options late game. weakest imo

This is wrong on so many levels.



First the standard/default sight is 35.


Whermacht:

Pioneers
Sniper
Scout Car
SdKfz 251/1 Half-track
Officer Units
G43 Upgrade
Spotting Scopes which allow every single one of your Vehicles to have extra sight range and with Spotting Scopes are the only faction able to hit 90 Vision range (Scout Car with Vet and Scopes)


Compare that with USF which only have :

USF:
M20
Pathfinders
Stuart is also the only light vehicle at 35 range vs 50 (it needs Vet 1 to hit 50 Sight - Something the Scout Car can do right out the gate)
Major in upcoming patch - At the Expense of losing your only way to get Forward Retreat (A HUGE Negative)
Imagine asking OKW to pick between Forward HQ and have extra sight.


USF as a whole should be the faction with the most sight options. Especially Since they are supposed to focus on being mobile and flanking (since they dont have easy access to MG early on, OKW is in the same boat).Nor do they have access to stock options for LMG forcing them to be up close. (OKW have Obers) Forcing you to always be close on top of not having non stock Artillery (which OKW also has stock as well as great sight options to allow them to actually flank)


USF should have

+15 sight on all Officer Units (LT - Captain - Major) Since they are the only officer units with Stock 35 vision

M1919A6 LMG made stock, unlocked after Major (Puts it in a similar time frame as Obers)

Stuart - Give it a Recon Ability like the T-70 so it can be useful late game as a Recon Unit


Considering that USF does not have Access to non doctrinal artillery these are changes that would help the faction get close to the 50% win ratio and make up for the lack of artillery by making it easier to flank.

Jaeger Infantry Commander

The following change is being tested to reduce the strength of Jaeger Infantry which has strong abilities at all stages of the game that can fit into most standard game plans.

Stuka Close Air Support AT Loiter changed to Stuka Close Air Support AT Strafe



They butchered the Airborne P47 strafe and now they are butchering one of the few Axis strafe abilities that are decent. It really isn't difficult to build AA units. Loiter abilities are good because they allow counter play with Anti-Air units. Strafe abilities have the issue of being too good/uncounterable (impossible to counter) on smaller maps being as how its easier to be closer to the edges of the map and making AA units rather irrelevant and adding another layer of cheese that the game doesn't need. Just add a 1-2 second delay to the ability and it should be fine (same with other loiter abilities)

gosh, why couldn't they just slap 120 degree firing arc on the dshk and tell us to use that instead

I for one would like to see the DSHK have a similar profile to the MG-42 as an Alternative. Picking a Commander with DSHK and then opening with Maxim's doesn't give you much incentive to pick up the DSHK as they are too similar in nature.

Spray and Pray bulletin was nerfed and currently only offers 1% suppression (if I remember correctly) the description was not updated.

There are also other bulletin that help with suppression.

Not sure why they didn't update the description, literally like 5 seconds of work.

Spray & Pray bulletin is next to useless yes.

4% rate of fire and double +10% veterancy bulletins is the best bulletin combo

The Double Vet Bulletins are great though im surprised it has been in the game for this long has not gotten nerfed being as they are one of the few bulletins in the game which are useful. Was hoping the bulletin system would get a full rework but that is unlikely at this point.



Anyway Maxim is a good unit but I would say is one of the few units in the game where bulletins actually matter and it needs to be used offensively. If you are camping and waiting for them to come to you like the MG-42 you are doing it wrong.

Generally speaking the best usage of Maxim (T2 Opening) is to grab as much territory as possible and quickly hit the CP points needed to call in Shocks/Guards followed by T-70 and constantly apply pressure the entire match. You have to be aggressive and use the Maxim in combination with your infantry. Most of the time people lose with Soviets because they fail to capitalize on the Mid Game Strength of the Faction.