Profile of Dullahan

Now the sniper is the one redeeming unit the Wehrmacht has vs Americans. However, the fact that it costs 360 MP means I either delay a pak gun for when the deathmachine AA Halftrack comes out ~ 7 min, or forgo the sniper to get the pak out on time. The sniper also needs to have constant defense - grenadier screening with faust and MGs to stop rifle rushes - further cementing the role of defending a small piece of territory. Now this strategy might not be the end of the wold, but half of the maps make a defense strategy very hard to pull off and only a couple actually favor it.

What I do is build my barracks and then build Sniper first thing. This gets him on the field for the decisive initial engagement (usually 1 gren + 1 sniper vs 1 riflemen) and allows him to force retreats. You have to screen, but it can be very effective for pushing your opponent off the map early on.

Soviet t1 doesn't have hard AT - the building is purely for anti infantry and utility. The same should be for Americans - where the lieut, car, and MG can provide light AT but mostly provide anti infantry support. It shouldn't be a tier in which you can counter anything the germans can get.

They have AT grenades for stalling, doctrinal guard rifles and penal battalion satchel charges which while tricky to land is still an option in a crutch. You also have to consider that they were designed around Wehrmacht t2, which doesn't really have excessively dangerous vehicles that really demanded AT guns. They also have the option of mines, which americans don't really have (Unless we're counting those crappy doctrinal mines?".

So that's 2 hard counters (ATG, mines), 1 doctrinal counter and then 1 soft counter (Satchel) versus America's Bazookas (hard counter) and M20 Mine (hard counter). Ignoring that an m20 mine cost just as much munitions as an ATG and satchel charge (which is pretty much a guaranteed vehicle kill, much like the mine.)

The m20 crew does have the ability to chase awkwardly I'll grant you that, but that's risky as fuck. Maybe fixing riflemen snare is really all that's needed, since bazookas are quite potent.


I think I'd rather see the halftrack nerfed than traded with the howie. I do think the current meta of practically forcing Wehr into a fast pak is really shitty, but I'd atleast rather see small tweaks first before massive changes.

Try using a sniper in the Wehr vs American match up, I find that it completely changes the early game dynamic in favour of Wehr.

Anyway I'm iffy about adjusting any sort of infantry at this point. Grenadiers seem competent, for being 40 mp cheaper than Rifles. When you use grenadiers in more of a support role, they tend to do just fine. Trying to go a 3x or 4x gren build against US is just stupid.

Changing riflemen affects the entire game for that faction, although I'd be a-okay with riflemen nerfs if it meant that Rear Echelon Squads and Assault Engineers became more viable. Still, I'm not yet convinced that they're too strong.


As for the halftrack I think you have to be very careful about moving it into t3 because then the only AT option USF has if they go Lieutenant tech is Bazookas. Maybe if you fix their vet 1 vehicle snare this won't be an issue, but I'd be very careful about going crazy on nerfs and changes at this point.


I think you'd be better off toning down the suppression and anti-infantry damage. Bring it more in line with the soviet AA halftrack. Maybe fuck around with it's rotation speeds and acceleration, so it's far less maneuverable and more risky to deploy anywhere near AT.

Anyway using nades with 30% less munitions isnt that easy. Perfect example last game every nade I threw was dodged. You sir either

Please stop looking at it as "30% less resources". All of the faction's expenses are designed around their income. (Performance of their units and having increased levels of vet which greatly rewards unit preservation) They have less munitions sinks than other factions, and ways to supplement that income transferred resources.


Learn to throw nades properly. It's an art, I'll admit. Against a blob, you really shouldn't be missing grenades.

I play every faction at a high level of play. (Top 100)
Come at me bro.

Or they do know the counters use them and are really bored with the meta and want it to be discouraged. Along the lines of what Elbe day and turning point did to infantry combat.

The meta changes when people curbstomp it so well that it doesn't work anymore.

So uh, clearly not.

There's not even really a metagame at this point yet anyway. Everyone is still doing boring shit like halftrack rushing and no one has even gleaned the surface of the new factions yet.

If I wanted to play a Zombie Survival game with hordes of undead running at me I have other games for that. The human wave tactic is just boring to beat. I would like to just be able to END that play hard. As it stands you CAN end it hard if you get lucky but most times you gotta retreat then blob back and punish the skilless players lack of micro etc etc etc.

Learn to use grenades, then you can dominate blobs and not retreat. Seriously, if you know how to use your abilities blobs are worthless and cost your opponent way more resources.

By the time that you get to real artillery, blobs have already won the game for your opponent. Mortars / infantry support guns cannot stop a blob. They best you can hope for is for a mortar to kill a few troops before they swarm over you and squadwipe all your units.

CoH2 is the most forgiving RTS game there ever was. You literally could not cap anything and it will still take 15 minutes for you to lose.

Proper support weapon usage will definitely stop blobs. If he's rushing you with a blob of squads, a single machine gun will stop them in their tracks. Then they're fodder for any of your other units, including your mortar.


All these suggestions for anti-blob auras are ridiculously "scrubby". It's akin to when in a fighting game people complain about repeatedly being thrown. It's an anti-competitive attitude, where instead of improving your own play to beat a strategy you're instead calling for the developers to gimp it so people stop doing it.

Anyone want to play a 1v1 and try their darndest to blob against me and see how it works out for them?


I think you guys are failing to realize that artillery is already more accurate against blobs. It's called more surface area of the bombardment zone being full of juicy meatbags. Adding an aura to discourage blobbing is just stupid. I don't care if CoH1 did it, it was stupid then too.