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Thread: 100 kill sniper. 360 blitzkrieg no scope.8 Oct 2013, 17:25 PM It's "F" on standard hotkeys. I guess it's doable, just that it's way easier to countersnipe by simply hitting un-hold fire hotkey than by hitting the ability hotkey and then manually clicking the target. Personally, I'll probably take my chances with standard BOs and only get a sniper once I've seen T2. It's much safer that way and at that point you're more likely to have some spare resources for a sniper without compromising your mainline infantry presence anyway. Certainly beats pgrens when the opponent is spamming maxims and/or shock troops. I might change my mind though if I see a good player manage to reliably handle sniper wars as germans In: Replays
Thread: 100 kill sniper. 360 blitzkrieg no scope.7 Oct 2013, 21:20 PM I did know that. Sadly, never quite managed to target the ability and still have the time to actually take the shot. Most soviet players aren't careless enough to let their snipers get exposed for that long. Especially when they know there's a german sniper around. In: Replays
Thread: 100 kill sniper. 360 blitzkrieg no scope.6 Oct 2013, 14:57 PM After watching those 3 games you posted, kudos for trying out units that aren't very popular in the current meta - german snipers, command tanks, stugs, s-minefields, panzerwerfers. Of those, snipers and panzerwerfers really did work very well for you. The rest - not so much. Especially command tanks were pretty much wasted resources, as they died without making any impact at all. Stugs did ok, but I still believe it's worth paying 40MP/20F extra to get a PIV instead. As for german snipers, they're potentially awesome. The main reason why they're not used is the fact that soviet snipers counter them so hard. In each of those 3 games your opponent went T2. In one case he did it even after he already knew you got a sniper which is quite perplexing since soviet T2 is all about setup teams, so he played right up your alley. Whenever I tried to make some use of an early german sniper I got a soviet sniper team in my face. Sometimes inside a scout car to boot. Assuming remotely similar level of skill between the players, soviets will always win in sniper wars. Even if you're the first to spot enemy snipers and take a shot, the surviving soviet sniper counternipes you immediately. You did prove that a german sniper is a decent reaction to soviet T2 though, so thanks for that. Gonna try it out. In: Replays
Thread: This game sucks.2 Oct 2013, 16:36 PM Jump back to quoted post2 Oct 2013, 01:40 AMundostrescuatro proof of concept the NKVD Disruption Tactics sucks. un upgraded conscripts loose to everything German. what to do? blob against them? big mistake. did you think about using penal battalions? huge manpower drainage. snipers. i have always bad luck with snipers stupid storm(bad luck), sigh. this game was slow. stupid and too simple to be interesting, no big plays, no special moves, just plain unit vs unit combat. hence the name. choosing this commander is dropping your advantage to the enemy. Unupgraded conscripts are indeed not an option, so if you choose a doctrine that has neither shock troops nor PPsHs, you have 3 options: 1. Rely on snipers to do the killing and only use conscripts as meatshields. 2. Go early T2 and get 2-3 maxims to back up the conscripts and settle engagements in your favor. 3. Use penals as main frontline infantry. This is perfectly viable provided you don't attempt to reinforce them - if you do, they'll indeed drain your manpower. Instead, merge them with conscripts and reinforce those. It takes a bit of extra micro to do so, but otherwise you lose nothing as the basic model for penals has the same stats as the one for conscripts and they do receive better rifles after merging. I'd say between those 3, there's enough options to make NKVD tactics legit. It might take a little training to figure out which one works for you. Don't judge it based on just a few games. In: Replays
Thread: dafuq Ił-2 attacks?24 Sep 2013, 19:56 PM It's potentially strong alright. The problem about it is that it's unpredictable. Sometimes it will annihilate a squad right away and keep doing it every single pass. Other times the opponent might ignore it completely and all it will do is kill a guy here and there. Either way, it's still perfectly dodgeable if the opponent retreats in time. Of course, forcing a retreat has a value of it's own, but you can typically produce the same result with any kind of red smoke, including those that cost half the munitions cost of Il-2. I don't see how it's any surprise that ignoring a 240 munitions off-map results in dead squads. It would be kinda useless if it didn't, wouldn't it? In: Replays
Thread: 20 tanks in a 1v1 nailbiter24 Sep 2013, 17:34 PM Now, that explains it all. You might prevail against Tigers or Panzers eventually, wife's a completely different story. No counter against that, no matter what tier you are. In: Replays
Thread: 20 tanks in a 1v1 nailbiter23 Sep 2013, 17:01 PM One thing you don't want to see in CoH2 is your brand new Tiger that was supposed to give you decisive advantage, run into a T34 while on a frozen lake and sink right after taking the first shot. Painful as it might be, this led to very entertaining hour long nailbiter involving: 8 T34s 4 SU85s 5 Panzer IVs 3 Tigers Countless AT guns Several bombing runs (both soviet and german) Vet 3 Panzergrens vs Vet 3 Shock troops Quite a dramatic finale due to victory points getting to below 50 Enjoy In: Replays