Profile of Kurobane

100 pop cap is about perfect, it's more fun to manage a smaller army where every unit counts

I agree with you in the sense that every unit should count however Larger Popcap doesn't necessarily mean everyone will have 200 popcap. Look at USF for example. They can go over 100 pop cap and have been able too do so since they launched. Manpower and fuel would still be the limiting factor. Especially since the more units you have the less income you get and someone fielding a very large army would be very poor resource wise.

Also it would allow for better fine tuning/flexability as far as unit pop goes. Especially with Heavy Tanks. If Jadgtiger/Elephant had 50 pop cap for example it could justify them getting back some of the range that they used to have.

Some of these suggestions sound like they would end up with USF getting 2-3 REs and forcing off everything they look at until it's game over.

Yeah if Rear Echelon took no extra damage then people would just spam 4-5 Rear Echelon and spam nothing but Volley Fire, especially if the Rear Echelon had Bars it would be rather OP.

Volley Fire just needs to scale with Veterancy as it only really makes an impact early on.
(Yes its possible to make progressive scaling with abilities based on Veterancy in the Mod Tools)

Volley Fire
+40% received accuracy, -50% accuracy, +1% suppression, squad moves extra slowly
After 5 seconds of being active: +1% additional suppression, +3% additional accuracy
After 10 seconds of being active: (if the squad is still alive) +3% additional suppression, +4% additional accuracy, -87.5% cool-down



So the ability makes it so that you essentially take 40% more damage while doing 50% less damage yourself.
So a progressive Volley Fire Could look like this as an example.



Vet 0 = +40% received accuracy, -50% accuracy
Vet 1 = +30% received accuracy, -40% accuracy
Vet 2 = +20% received accuracy, -30% accuracy
Vet 3 = +10% received accuracy, -20% accuracy

This would make the ability Scale (they should add ability scaling to most abilities honestly) with Veterancy allowing it to not auto win early engagements while still being useful later on.

Other modes also exist. 1v1 resolves more around cost efficiency per unit and less around raw power. That is why the 76mm was such a dominant pick there, while barely ever being used in larger modes. E8 and Rifle Co seem to be doing well in 1v1 since the patch with it being the third most picked commander and USF win ratio being 49% (top 200) to 55% (all games).
https://coh2stats.com/stats?range=week&statsSource=all&type=1v1&race=usf&timeStamp=1624838400

I like 1v1 and play it whenever possible, however one of the best things about COH 2 is the community where often times playing well and being polite will get people to friend you on steam after a great match. Often times I log on COH 2 and get bombarded with invites so im semi-forced into multiple game modes. Sure some commanders are slightly better or worse depending on the mode but not to the extreme that USF has.



The reality is that if something is good in one mode and not used in the other then either the commander design is poor or the faction design and should be adjusted so that it can be used fairly equal in every single mode.


The goal should be to make each faction stand on its own 2 feet without the need of Commanders. If a faction needs 1 or 2 commanders to carry it in 90% of the matches then the faction itself needs work.

This is exactly why OKW was given a machine gun several years ago because it didn't matter how great certain commanders were if you were forced to pick Fortifications/Luftwaffe every single game just to be able to get the MG-34.

Give every army the basic tools, (UKF non Doc Mortar as well) each tool doesn't have to be the same but it should be an option. I would gladly pay 150 fuel for an M8 Scott that could actually destroy team weapons like the Brumbar instead of tickling them and making them move. Using the M8 Scott is like playing Whack a Mole but COH 2 version where the MG-42/Paks just move to a different spot and never disappear.

If USF Core Army was fixed then I could look at the commanders and actually have some sort of freedom like Soviets/Whermacht since those 2 factions have a complete toolkit at their disposal.

Until that gets fixed the Easy 8 (or Rifle Company) would have to either be massively overpowered to be picked over the other options(which goes back to a faction being dependent on a commander to win due to poor faction design) or be destined to just sit in a loadout looking pretty.

I USED to pick it for the sturmtiger but the HEAT shells are more attractive than can be put into words. Because of the damage increase using HEAT also increases AI of tanks, so combined with a KT.... sweet Jesus...

Heat Shells increases all damage by 30% as well as penetration by 30%. King Tiger with Heat Shells vs Infantry is actually hilarious. If you get lucky it can literally delete entire squads.