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Jump back to quoted post1 Oct 2014, 23:43 PMFlyingsmonster

I made a thread a few months back about how the Forward HQ was in a broken state in team games.

I thought I would post another example on how most maps allow this ability to be used and abused by a Soviet player into giving them a very quick win.

The Mortar Halftrack is not a reliable counter, as some buildings take too long to burn down, and the shots can often miss the building completely.

The Stuka IS a viable counter, but by the time it comes out in team games, it is often too late to help out your team.

Changes that must be made in order to balance this ability in my opinion;

1) It can only be set up in allied controlled / connected territory.
2) It needs to be pushed up to 1 CP at least, 1CP already comes fast and it will prevent the Soviets from just rushing up to the first, crucial building and setting it up instantly.
3) You should be able to decapture a forward HQ, but it will take a fair amount of time to do so (30-45 seconds perhaps) That way, if the soviets have to retreat you can decap their HQ to make it useless instead of forcing you to use munitions to destroy it.

I often see this strategy, and the people that use it can even admit it themselves it's cheap and not balanced. Please, don't give me the excuse that "Oh well there's nothing else good about that commander so why change it!" It's still a broken ability that needs to be looked at by Relic.

For example, take this replay I just got out of:

http://www.coh2.org/replay/24907/forward-hq-is-still-broken.

What are your opinions on this? I believe it is something that definitely requires a little bit of attention. It is very prominent on 3v3 and 4v4 games.