Profile of Dullahan

If you watch what proper brit sniper play is, it can be many things, either the sniper operating independently, with IS support (this is normal for all factions), or what becomes truly broken, the forked snipers. Two snipers working a decent distance from each other in parallel invalidate light vehicle play. One crits, soft retreats, the other shoots, the other comes back and shoots, and now you have a dead light vehicle.

Oh no, 720 manpower and (atleast) 35 munitions hard counters light vehicles that cost ~200 manpower and ~20 fuel give or take.

You know what will equally hard counter such vehicles? A 260 mp MG42 and a 240mp grenadier using a panzerfaust to ensnare the vehicle. (500 mp and 35 muni, quite a bit cheaper) If you assume they're in the perfect position to work together, of course. (Which is basically what you're doing with those snipers.)

It's also not immune to proper counter play from your opponent at all. Maps aren't wide open empty fields with perfect lines of sight for both your snipers. German infantry can take advantage of the fact that your snipers aren't shooting at them. They can entrap you by using the vehicle to force you to reveal your sniper. (opening you up to a counter snipe) They can use walls, hedges, buildings and other obstacles or even smoke to prevent your second sniper from being able to assist your first one. There's a lot of ways to counter double sniper from brits.

This is a classic case of "Let people learn how to fucking deal with it before you nerf it kthxbai".

It's like you guys saw an effective strategy that involved positioning your units well and using them tactically and said "Nah, there's no counterplay and this is broken OP. Reric plz fix." without even trying to think about how you could counter it.

Nice cast. Was hoping someone would do that game. Base racing is such a rare thing in CoH.

To answer your question about why I backed my Firefly up so much: I was expecting him to try and stop my Cromwell from killing his battlegroup headquarters. I wanted to get him to follow me, the plan was to retreat the Cromwell (trying to lead him over a mine or two) and then when he's overextended assault him with the firefly.

So for that reason I wanted the firefly far enough back that it wouldn't reveal itself until it was too late for him to escape. (Also far enough away that he couldn't support his kt easily)

Imo removing the 'Troop Training' removes its identity, makes the commander(Elite Troops) useless.

I agree.

I thought it was pretty well balanced, to be honest. Cost enough that if you spammed it you'd find yourself a pretty large disadvantage.

I think the easy way to tweak it would be to rework it into a later game ability (Like 8 cp): used to provide veterancy to freshly built squads. So if the german loses squads in the early-mid game, they could replace them with vet. This wouldn't fuck with veterancy pacing, would maintain the flavour of the doctrine and provide a useful tool to pushing squads over the threshold into higher veterancy or bringing fresh squads up to snuff.

I wish they'd standardize this shit. Either they all stack or none of them stack.

What it shows is just that game is much more ballanced right now than most community members believe and that huge ballance shifts, like in preview patch, are not needed, maybe even harmfull for the game.

Exactly. I play all five factions and have equal success with each of them. All the match ups are pretty well balanced.