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Thread: Change the Sturmpioneer Heal 9 Nov 2015, 01:57 AM Jump back to quoted post8 Nov 2015, 20:47 PMAchtAchter That's the whole issue you don't seem to get. As OKW you are so bound to your battle-group headquarter that you are on cold turkey once its gone. Just because I say you should get a battlegroup eventually doesn't mean that you can't survive without it. Why wouldn't you eventually get it when the game automatically shits a halftrack onto the field for you to build one? (And it's relatively cheap and offers useful units.) I regularly go mech --> panzer --> battlegroup. Medkit strats are perfectly viable, one of the benefits to mechanized is you have significantly more munitions income than you normally do if you're micromanaging it. I think it'd be more viable if it didn't require vet, but I don't think it needs massive changes. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Rear Armour needs to be nerfed - Across the board8 Nov 2015, 18:07 PM Jump back to quoted post8 Nov 2015, 17:16 PMMuxsus There is no increased damage on rear armor shots. Looks like I'm confusing games again. Is there an increased crit chance? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Rear Armour needs to be nerfed - Across the board8 Nov 2015, 17:05 PM Flanking is rewarded. Increased damage and chance of penetration is factually true. (Also the benefit of cutting off your opponents retreat.) Suicide runs to get behind a Tiger with supporting units is not. There's all this talk about "I put in X amount of micro and my opponent didn't have to micro so hard, therefore I should have an advantage!" on these forums. You need to divorce input from tactics. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Change the Sturmpioneer Heal 8 Nov 2015, 16:56 PM Jump back to quoted post8 Nov 2015, 04:50 AMAchtAchter [Snip] Brits are a different faction. They spend 30 muni for an AoE heal that can be used anywhere, but the tradeoff is they have no other healing options and they have to run around healing with a mainline infantry squad. Sturmpio medkits are a pretty good deal compared to Ostheet medkits I would say. They're an effective stopgap if you wait to get the battlegroup headquarters until later in the game. I use it frequently. I rarely need to heal more than three squads in a short period of time. I don't think it needs any major changes. Only thing I would consider would be making it unlock with truck deployment like incendiary made rather than vet but I tend to have vet by then anyway. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Change the Sturmpioneer Heal 8 Nov 2015, 03:01 AM Medkits is fine as is. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Petition to give OKW a non-doctrinal MG7 Nov 2015, 23:50 PM Jump back to quoted post7 Nov 2015, 00:29 AMWrath Okay so you backed your kubel away.. now what? Useless after 5 minutes. Also vet 1 isn't a guarantee, so its survival shouldn't hinge on it. It's called kiting. If he just mindlessly right clicks your kubel, backing up a bit and setting up forces him to spend ~5 seconds moving it. Meanwhile, his infantry are still suppressed and being shot by your mans. The further he moves up chasing the kubel, the easier it is to flank and kill his AT gun too. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Petition to give OKW a non-doctrinal MG7 Nov 2015, 00:20 AM Jump back to quoted post7 Nov 2015, 00:05 AMWrath Kubel works great for suppression right up until the point where the enemy faction can build AT guns, and then it dies instantly. It has an ability that detects things for a reason. You can know exactly where the AT gun is positioned, and they have to move it pretty close to the front for it to shoot the kubel that is keeping its distance. It's also already really hard for things to hit while it is moving. I've dodged more than a few Zis shots or bazooka shots with a kubel wagon. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Why OKW has resource penalties - Justification?6 Nov 2015, 22:54 PM Jump back to quoted post6 Nov 2015, 21:19 PMausterlitz Neither the vaunted conversion or salvage(both of which are joke tbh) will stop the allied blob horde of doom from overrunning you. Use kubel wagons properly. Salvage your dead kubels and any scout cars they send your way. Jump back to quoted post6 Nov 2015, 21:21 PMAngryKitten465 You won't. It can't stop rifle hordes, let alone with flamers. Apart from that, what am I supposed to salvage if my opponent makes nothing but riflemen with bars and bazookas or flamethrowers? The dead or scorched bodies of my meatshield volksgrenadiers? Kubelwagons often force your opponent to spend resources on tech they otherwise wouldn't. Soviets can panic build scout cars or AT grenades, Brits can build a bren carrier, USF may pick mech doctrine or rush for an M20. So salvage their light vehicles, or your own dead kubels. (Although they really shouldn't be dying to such things.) By the time he has flamers you should have a Luchs/oversoldaten. I go mech --> Panzer --> battlegroup, only using mech to convert resources as needed until my panzer command is up. This lets me get a Luchs on the field at around the same time as a T70. Wreaks absolute havoc on USF because they are so very rarely prepared for light vehicles. I had replays but last nights patch made them disappear. I'm going to get some more and breakdown what I do. In: Lobby
Thread: Why OKW has resource penalties - Justification?6 Nov 2015, 21:15 PM Resource conversion/salvage exists for a reason. It's ultimately an advantage, if you use it properly. Go ahead and play a mod that gives OKW standard resource income and changes nothing else and see how fun that is. As for vet 4/5, I wouldn't mind if some units had their requirements tweaked but I definitely don't want it removed or made too easy. Vet 4/5 are regular occurrences in longer games just fine. If you're not building the mechanized command and using resource conversion, you are gimping yourself. Unfortunately the metagame right now is BHQ--> Panzer so that's why you feel gimped on money. Instead of homogenizing OKW, try playing a few games with proper usage of conversion and salvage. You'll notice the difference right away. In: Lobby
Thread: Relic Stream Recap6 Nov 2015, 17:38 PM Jump back to quoted post6 Nov 2015, 12:02 PMPedro_Jedi Could you be so nice and post/point some good, recent, OKW replays with different strategies? I'm strugling hard, and even making some good moves with SP and kubel, my midgame falls apart and here comes the USF rifle avalanche. Thanks in advance! I'm actually working on a bit of a replay pack and a video guide. I'm hoping to get it done this weekend. I'll shoot you a PM when I got it done. I'm not promising a perfect build or anything but I'm hoping to give people some fresh ideas. I'm incredibly tired of the scavenge doctrine metagame. In: COH2 Gameplay