Profile of dasheepeh

You brought up Jager Light Infantry in your complaints about OKW units and Commanders. I asked if they (JLI) have snares or any AT abilities, I was later told they do not. That is how it relates to your question.

i neither complained about okw units and commanders nor brought up jaegers.

airborne paths are better without bars, but IRs are better since you can actually put 2 bars without worrying so much while the airborne is a piñata with 2 bars.

and the scoped garand does 16 damage and M1 does 10 damage.

why do you think that vanilla airborne pathfinders are better than airborne barfinders? just because aiborne barfinders have a quite high chance of dropping their bars?

i will piss myself when they announce coh3

A combination of abusive meta (OP Penals, OP Light vehicles) made it impossible/unattractive to utilise the rest of the assets of T1 (Sniper/M3A1). With the changes T1 should feel less like a "Company of Penals".

Penal satchel is meant as a stop-gag solution for lights that try to circlestrafe your Zis gun. In the late-game you can combine the satchel with button.

For PTRS, you are supposed to use the fact that they have a high drop chance on Penals. That way you -might- be able to reclaim Penals for late-game use (after you used their PTRS to go through the early-game), pass their PTRS over to Conscripts.

Try to think of how you would adapt in the new meta.

I still don't see much sense in using soviet snipers or m3's. In fact, the penal changes made the use of these units even more unlikely to me.

Penal satchel as a "stop-gag" solution for lights circlestrafing my Zis guns? What's the point in turning an ability into even more situational cheese (especially with required T2 in this case), with a slow and interruptible throw against pacey lights? And no oorah? The stickiness is a nice thing, but not enough to justify that.

So I'm supposed to use my PTRS for a brief time, only to let them drop (again, it's just cheese when you need to drop your squad upgrade) and then be left with another infantry unit that doesn't scale alongside conscripts?

What exactly do these changes bring apart from short-lived PTRS use (in all honesty, I'd rather use guards for their PTRS and DP + button combo, including usable nades), and ultimately increased dependence on elite anti-inf infantry, and thus commanders, as well as more situational cheese?

Oh wait, did I forget the completely unnecessary pop cap increase?


I know that I only have criticised your suggestions, but because I still lack any reasonable ideas for reliable and effective PTRS penal use, I remain with the opinion that the change may sound nice upon a first look, but doesn't work in practice, hence not being of benefit to proper balance.

Can anyone explain why nerfing penals as hard as this, reducing received accuracy as well as removing flamethrowers AND oorah, whilst only giving them PTRS (which make them hardly usable against both infantry and tanks by the midgame) and sticky satchels (with a slow and easily interruptible throw), is a great change? (and increased popcap cost to top it off)

T1 may be completely worthless now...PTRS alone don't and can't make up for it

In general, this patch seems like a nerf fest, for the worse..