Profile of Dullahan

I find it funny how it seems like a lot of the forum vets and top players are hating on this update, while the commoners and peasants love it.

Interesting.

It's basically "Dude makes a whine post and suggest changes to the game" comprehensive list. I can't count the amount of times I've seen people suggest panzerschrecks for volks being changed and them being given a pfaust or the MG34 becoming a regular unit. (Even back when kubelwagon was a suppression unit) It's always been opposed because it would homogenize the game.


I think people are also rightfully concerned that OKW lacking handheld AT is going to push them into Puma tech. Raketen is fine defensively, but how are you supposed to chase down a stuart with just a raketen or two? People say "Well Ostheer does it" but they're forgetting Ostheer has the super buff 222 which can take on most light vehicles easily and chase down vehicles like the stuart or AEC that are damaged.

I don't like overly aggressive changes. I think any and all balance issues could have been resolved with minor tweaks circa September.

presumably the captain can buy the bazooka without needing to buy the weapon rack upgrade. 80 munitions for two bazooka is also more cost effective than the usual 50 mu/zooks.

This allow the USF to partially bypass the weapon rack cost but not the munition cost.

That's pretty dumb then, they should be encouraging using the weapon racks or AT gun, not just delaying Captain schrecks slightly. That was always the problem with the way people played USF and relying on the captain exclusively for AT. They're just going to spend the 80 munitions the second he spawns and this changes nothing. Might be fun to give him BARS now instead of bazookas though.

all is well?

funny, because 90% of the community says OKW is a shrek blob faction since the dawn.

tell me who's right

There was a reason they had such strong AT: because if you went BHQ --> Flak you didn't have resource conversion and so had to survive against medium tanks without tanks of your own.

People were playing OKW wrong, ignoring huge swathes of the units and never using resource conversion even if they built mechanized for a KT.

They got changed to fit the playstyle people wanted rather than the one they actually had and now they have zero identity as a unique faction.

pretty sure this was all done after i was gone haha but hell lets blame me for these changes too haha.

Sorry Brad if it's not your fault.

I'm pretty salty that the game balance feels like a community mod (because it is one) and not a professionally balanced game. It's like Riot games took over the balance.

You are joking, right? You will see an even worse volksblob soon.

"Hey guys OKW has 3 doctrinal elite infantry and sturmpios and obersoldaten as core units, let's make volks into great anti-infantry squads because OKW doesn't have enough of it!"

YES. This bugged me from the start. Most underrated change in the whole change log imo.

It was actually an intentional design decision that served multiple purposes.

Removing it is going to cause problems, because build times are not adjusted. What this means is that units will hit the field faster for some factions than others. America and Brits are going to be at a huge disadvantage due to their longer build times and inability to build their structures closer to the edge of their command zone. It ironically completely counteracts the build time nerfs they made to maxims last patch.

Eastern front factions benefit the most from this, because now units like grenadiers and pgrens will hit the field a good 20 seconds earlier.

Relic designed coh2 to supplement holes in faction design

The factions, in the original form (before any changes i.e soviets or OKW) didn't have holes in their arsenal, they had different tools for the job.

Commanders are supplemental, not required.

I agree mobility is the best option, but I don't understand how base diving would punish the CB player. Even if you manage to destroy his base he just needs to send some repair units back after he pushes you off. He wasn't using the buildings to produce units anyway. Meanwhile you risked hitting a mine and getting wiped, and on many maps moving around the emplacements gives up 2/3's or more of the map so its outright impossible to ignore. Having few mobile infantry does not mean he has no army. Also the CB player will be floating fuel like crazy and can get his first tanks out before or at the same time as you.

It's a matter of resources. If you spend your resources on a mobile strike force, and he builds static defenses, if you fight where there are no static defenses YOU WIN. Brit has ~1500 mp tied up in Tech buildings and emplacements if he builds T2+T3 and has a bofors, forward assembly and mortar pit.

You can straight up just kill him more often than not. Either by killing his base or preventing him from capping any territory outside the protection of his bofors.

Sappers repairing his base are sappers not repairing his emplacements.

It's the weakness of sim city. If he spreads his emplacements out more and used emplacements to supplement his core army it'd be a bit different.

Coordinated fire appears useless to me. I cannot find a way to use it. Now that people know it does nothing they don't even retreat infantry under its fire they just move them slightly.

It zones people out of an area and wrecks buildings.

It's like a regular howitzer. Very high damage per hit, but not likely to really hit anything.

With Anvil selected it's a pretty big threat to stand in though.

I've never seen anyone stand in it and not have a bad time. Most people will back off and take another approach when I use it or try to rush through it, which is the whole point of me using it.

It's cheap enough that you can put it down here and there willy nilly and it acts as a big annoyance for your opponent.