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Thread: Resource manipulation as the primary catalyst of imbalance24 Nov 2014, 10:29 AM Jump back to quoted post24 Nov 2014, 09:18 AMSvalbard SD It's already quite hard to carry out a flanking game due to so many units filling up maps in team games. Reducing map size would be just disastrous for meaningful tactical game. Plus noting that caches can be destroyed is a backwards way of dealing with the huge issue that was outlined in the original post. Destroying it is called counterplay. Letting your opponent be unmolested in his strategy is going to make you lose, regardless of what it is. It's like if your opponent builds an artillery gun. You don't sit there and get bombarded: you get off your ass and you kill it. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Blobbing24 Nov 2014, 09:00 AM Jump back to quoted post24 Nov 2014, 08:29 AMJohnnyB I don't know if blobs are so easy to punish. It's a pretty effective strategy. And anyway: OKW Blob > any other blob. It requires some modicum of coordination to execute, but when you can do it it's easy. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Win-Ratio 29.10. - 21.11.2014 + Other Fun Stats24 Nov 2014, 08:25 AM I think people need to consider that more people are playing OKW and USA because they are newer. In the "Games Played" section both those factions have nearly 10,000 more games played each than Sov/Wehr. In my experience with RTS games, it takes years for a metagame to really stabilize. WF has been out for a little while now, but not long enough for the new factions to stop having that new car smell and for people to really understand the nuance of playing/fighting them with the old ones. (imo) In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Schwerer Panzer Headquarters24 Nov 2014, 03:43 AM I usually do a Captain/AT gun push in the mid game if I can. M8A1 and Priest are also amazing at killing it indirectly. In: US Forces Strategies
Thread: Resource manipulation as the primary catalyst of imbalance24 Nov 2014, 02:24 AM Jump back to quoted post24 Nov 2014, 00:26 AMSvalbard SD As already noted by me on the previous page, each player in a team spending 200 MP to secure their side of the map with caches is a minuscule expenditure that places them in no disadvantage at all. You can see this in every team game. The opponent can get flamers to quickly and efficiently destroy the caches. Obviously in team games where map control is pointless you're going to see distant strat points get a cache for zero risk. But that's an issue of map design being too big. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Getting Back Into It24 Nov 2014, 02:23 AM Been playing CoH2 again after a bit of a hiatus. Been toying around with some tactics. In: Replays
Thread: Resource manipulation as the primary catalyst of imbalance23 Nov 2014, 22:32 PM Boosting your resources doesn't increase your unit purchasing of teching power all that much. You're still beholden to 3 factors: Manpower, Teching times and unit build times. If you divert manpower for extra fuel to try and build that heavy tank sooner, you will be beaten by a player who opts to spend his resources capturing the map and building AT weaponry. In 3v3/4v4 this may be more of an issue since map control is fucking irrelevant in those game modes and it's much easier to have one player focus on caches or whatever while everyone else fights. You also have to consider that they can be destroyed, which is what any good player should be trying to do. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Blobbing23 Nov 2014, 19:53 PM People have complained about blobbing in every RTS I've ever played. Just use aoe and suppression. The tools are there, if they're not working you aren't using them properly. Combine artillery with suppression and you will win every engagement vs blobbing. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Ambulance speed23 Nov 2014, 19:48 PM I'm okay with small tweaks for sure. Also ambulance can totally cap faster, if you drive him down the road to a distance point. Which is risky as all hell. Also you don't have to leave it in your base at all. on maps like semoisiky you can use it in forward positions sinply by keepng a building ir hedge between them and your ambulance. You can also use it slightly behind your troops so they can pull away from an engagement temporarily to heal up then return to the fray. There's a lot of options to use it aggressively, and losing it is still cheap to replace. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Ambulance speed23 Nov 2014, 18:20 PM Jump back to quoted post23 Nov 2014, 05:26 AMVaz you've got one foot in both camps here now. Your saying it should require micromanagement and you should have to start leaving before the opponent overruns you, but then you say what makes it interesting is that it's fragile and can't get away. What is it? If a 222 suddenly arrives where you are reinforcing, you just lost ambulance. PanzerIV shows up, lost ambulance. Tiger shows up, lost ambulance. Falls come out the building behind you, even if you rip them up, your going to lose that ambulance. The way it is right now, it's very exploitable. Yes I know trading 400mp for a 250/10 unit is not a smart trade, but if timed right it puts USF over the slippery slope. Even with good scouting it is a challenge to get the ambulance out of harms way and micro tends to be trumped by how much of the battlefield you can see. Yes, I suppose if you have no other the units for a PzIV or whatever to shoot/not drive headlong into because of AT, it might catch your ambulance. Do you not use true sight to hide your ambulance or something? I'm saying that slow acceleration = start driving sooner. That isn't having a foot in both camps. In: COH2 Balance