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Thread: Over 300 signed up for OCF...13 Sep 2015, 21:31 PM Time to re-think tourney infrastructure, eh Ami? In: Lobby
Thread: Error loading replay13 Sep 2015, 21:23 PM It's only on Arnhem Outpost etc. from the UK expansion. I just had the most frantic game....my opponent spammed AT like I've never seen. Wanted to review what actually happened...and bummer! Gr.... In: COH2 Bugs
Thread: P4 against the brits13 Sep 2015, 19:19 PM Jump back to quoted post9 Sep 2015, 05:43 AMTheGentlemenTroll Churchills? Spam stugs Comets? Spam stugs Cromwells? Stugs + panzerfaust Stugs are literally the downfall of British tanks, support them and micro them well and you will win tank duels. Yes and no. Better than P4 no doubt. But you still cannot count on a Stug to defeat any British tank (except the Valentine) 1 on 1. So you need a pair or a bunch. And it's quite a mess to micro. So easy to circle for the brit if there are any significant obstacles on the map. There always seems to be SOMETHING that makes the backing-up Stug decide to stop and go slowly rotating instead. Bang! You're dead, mate. Haw-haw! In: Ostheer Strategies
Thread: How to counter UKF Bofors?13 Sep 2015, 19:15 PM Jump back to quoted post10 Sep 2015, 15:47 PMLemontree Maybe it's just rng but I have no luck with the half track mortar, I find it highly effective vs mortar pits but on bofors, I must have done about 4 inc barrage + attack ground and the thing was still fine. I find the best thing to do is force brace on the bofors and then just rush it with flamers. Did you use the incendiary round? It does a much better job. In fact all kinds of flames work better than standard fire. In: Ostheer Strategies
Thread: Pak40 to T1 - it's needed.12 Sep 2015, 15:35 PM No, but there is a small problem against the brits all right. It would just unbalance the game completely for the USF imo if Ost had access to a pak right off he bat. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Some thoughts about cover-glue and map design11 Sep 2015, 18:01 PM Way back, it used to be a real nuisance to have infantry take cover. Sometimes you could click from morning to night came, and your infantry standing next to a wall or a bush would still be out of cover. Somewhere along the line - can't remember if that was with COH2 or a later patch to it - this was changed so that infantry would sort of snap to cover in the proximity. This undoubtedly increased the playability of the game by removing a tedious, irrelevant micro task. However, I find that in a number of situations, this mechanism is counter productive. Thep roblem is, that on some maps, a number of capturepoints have cover close to them, but just a tiny bit outside of the capturing circle. It means that a unit ordered to capture at the fringe of a circle (which as I suppose everyone knows, there's a point in), it will sometimes be sucked out to the nearby cover and be barely out of the capture circle. As a result, sometimes I find my units losing time idling when thought I had told them to go capture. This is mildly irritating. I don't know if the actual problem is the infantrys' propensity to snap to cover. Or if it is a map-design problem. I assume that it could - in principle - be solved easily by just observing a certain minimum distance when cover is placed outside a capture circle. However, I also realise that such a change would require a lot of maps to be edited. So in fact maybe a change in the game parameters would be a more feasible solution. My guess is it would only require a very small change. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Early counters to UC flamer?10 Sep 2015, 17:02 PM Jump back to quoted post10 Sep 2015, 14:53 PMjesulin What's the point of building a MG42 vs UKF? Not useful. You have to wait for the exactly moment to faust it. If you dont lose manpower (playing with a Sniper is impossible in that situation) you will be able to develop a fast 222. Here's a confession: Unfortunately my micro or attention span - whatever gets overloaded first - does not allow sniper as a safe tool. He usually pays for himself, but he also usually dies in the one second I'm not paying attention :/ Anyway, the MG's not useful?? Well, it's the only thing that can stop the tommies afaik. It doesn't kill any, but at least it supresses them. ANd that's when grens and pios can at last do some real paying back. But I get your point, and in all fairness, I can say that I tried your build order out, and it does generally work out better. However, fausting the BC still requires specially, beneficial circumstances. You sort of have to lure it into a trap where you can flank it. Even that takes time and will cost you the evaporation of a few grenadiers. It won't work against better players. In that case there's only the 222, but that measn you have no map control untill you have tech'ed and build that much....quite a long time. I dislike it when a faction (of any kind) can have bring a unit on the field that dictates what the opponent has to do and does it for a long time. Just as it was previously with the Elite Tiger. Btw.: Funny replay.Nothing beats the fuzzy feeling when you counter-snipe an opponent. In: Ostheer Strategies
Thread: Is the AVRE OP or do I just think it's OP because...10 Sep 2015, 12:37 PM Jump back to quoted post10 Sep 2015, 11:55 AMAchtAchter The problem with the churchills is the immense health pool for a rather low price. 1600 is too much. 1400 is too much either. I don't get why units, although the cost less than 200 fuel get this immense health pool. The amount of resources you need to counter it is too high and takes too much popcap compared what the churchills cost and take for popcap. My thoughts exactly. I also think it should have a longer reload. Its shot is actually sort of avoidable - once you know its rythm for reload, but it's too hard to get into position with the counters before it obliterates everything next shot. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Early counters to UC flamer?10 Sep 2015, 09:45 AM Jump back to quoted post10 Sep 2015, 09:08 AMjesulin Hey SgtBulldog! Get a sniper and then 3x T1 Units. You push your enemy with your sniper and also you use your grens to try to faust your enemy bren carrier. UKF players usually do this strat versus OST: They are waiting for a mistake, playing so defensive and also trying to build up a Boofors! Thanks. I tried something like this (the first 4 builds). The brits I played did not play it defensively, though. Whenever my mg and one or two grens are located, that's where the UC flamer is instantly rushed forward - supported by 1 or two tommies. With good reason, because it works. I think the tricky part is not the build order, but the how-to with grens. You see I can't get in range to faust fast enough because of the damned range of that flame. And the UC can just back off a bit if I try to close in. You wouldn't happen to have a replay that shows this? PS: the sniper is not as good an idea anylonger, now that the UC sniper detection has been improved. In: Ostheer Strategies
Thread: Early counters to UC flamer?10 Sep 2015, 08:30 AM Jump back to quoted post10 Sep 2015, 07:13 AMCookiezNcreem just get like 3-4 222s and instawin vs brits m8 3 to 4??? Are you serious? I'd be happy if I could get 1 in time. The problem here is the flamer UC arrives first. I get pushed off map control if I don't have a counter at the same time. And perhaps I should have specified that this is mainly a 1v1 problem. Hence teller mines are not really an option unless you want to go w/o lmg or shrek for a long time. I'm not so worried about Bofors any more. It's this wrecking of the early game that is a problem. In: Ostheer Strategies