Profile of Dullahan

yeah but it's still an auto win on the first engagement for IS/spios against RET/CE/pios and that is what i don't like. there's no contest there because IS/spios cost so much more than the other starting units. i know that they (brits at least, not sure where OKW stand at the moment with starting MP) pay for it by having it deducted from the starting mp but it still makes a difference on that first engagement. that first engagement isn't as crucial in 1v1 as it is in team games but in team games it can basically decide the game in the first 30 seconds, literally the first order given.

tl;dr: there's an inherent imbalance with some factions getting a sub 200mp unit as a starter and other getting a ~~300 mp unit to start.

The thing about sturms/IS is that they are very positional units. Tommies who aren't in cover at the right moment will get chewed up by pioneers who manage to close the distance before the tommies can get in position. Spios caught at range will take serious losses closing the distance and if there's any negative cover between you and them they will just lose.

Pioneers are seriously good against UKF early game if you engage properly. Sniper + pioneer buddy makes it really tough for individual IS to accomplish much.

I do like that fighting these units has a bit of nuance, personally. I think tommy reinforce should really go back up though.

Some more experimenting with the forward HQ and light AT guns.

Messing around with this a bit.

You only read half of my words. The AEC was buffed because it was a dead end tech unit. It literally did nothing besides counter light tanks (anything weaker than a puma). Once its role was complete, it was useless, because of its buggy vet 1 and inability to kite.

Except it's not and the AEC is perfectly capable of damaging medium tanks. It's no different than the Puma in that regard. It won't 1v1 them, but it's not useless either.

It was also good for harassment: kill base defenses, kill base buildings (med bunkers etc) and caches, which forces your opponent to go deal with it. It was a good command tank vehicle since it had good vision. It was always a very good unit.

And Dullahan, no I don't think throwing Relic under the bus is correct. They wanted to change OKW, they couldn't do it all at once, and in the meantime Brits were also hamstrung so they needed a bit of work. The intermediate time period does have some teething issues but these will be resolved. The community rightly spotted an issue, Brit snipers could hard counter Ost scout cars, making them to difficult to deal with and forcing sniper v sniper duels. This was altered which left a gap in the Brit tech tree which they are working to fill, but we had a huge winter break in between. Cool your jets, the community is not some big evil beast that always causes problems with the game. We have actually identified multiple issues (aka forcing Soviet faction redesign) and found numerous bugs, and yes, occasionally gotten it wrong, but the good the community does far outweighs the bad.

They changed OKW to the communities specifications. Literally word for word one of the stupid threads on here. They weren't half done changing it, they just didn't think anything fucking through. The original design was well thought out, it just wasn't meta. Everyone spams infantry, so when they spammed volksgrenadiers they lost miserably. Oh lets buff volksgrenadiers, ruin the tech structure and yay now spamming volksgrenadiers is viable! Community is happy as can be, but good god is it boring to play now.

Brit sniper soft countered the 222. The stun takes several seconds to wind up, which is more than enough time for the 222 to kill the sniper if it gets close. You just couldn't try and bumrush him from max range when he was ready to stun you, you had to flank. It had nuance. If you brought infantry with your 222 then you could reveal the sniper and shoot him with them to stop him from killing the 222 even.



I enjoyed the game far more when it first came out and the community didn't have a say in anything.
Removing blizzards sucked, fucking with VP pacing sucked, fucking with tech pacing sucked. The community wanted Coh1, and now they've pretty much got it. The Eastern Front was abandoned and the game was slowed way way down.

The game is now an infantry spam fest (4-5 conscripts/riflemen/grenadiers/volks/tommies) followed by shock vehicle (T70/stuart/Luchs/AEC) followed by AT gun grand battery of no micro (both AT guns literally sitting on top of each other) followed by heavy tank call in. And if we're really, really lucky someone will build a machine gun and afk it in a house somewhere.

Does anyone remember why the aec was buffed? It was buffed because ukf had no true counter to the luchs, and because the aec was a dead end tech unit. If you return the aec to its old stats, we go right back to the old patch issues for brits. If you delay the aec, you pretty much kill okw vs. Ukf.

The AEC was only buffed against infantry. It was already a really solid anti-vehicle unit.

It never needed to be good against infantry.

Adjusting its cost will be the full retard move though you are correct.

Just slightly reduce the AoE again (not back to what it was, but maybe about half the increase) so it isn't turbomurder against infantry and it'll be fine.

Really, the nerfs to brit sniper are the reason they are so desperate for a snare. Not only did it have critical shot vet 0, but it had a passive chance of a temporary snare. They SHOULD have nerfed the sniper against infantry instead by increasing its aim time and making it more of an anti-tank unit.

Once again Relic demonstrates that they should A. Not listen to this community and B. their original faction design is almost always superior to everything they change later on.