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Thread: Heavy Royal Engineering upgrade19 Oct 2015, 23:21 PM Jump back to quoted post19 Oct 2015, 21:25 PMAppleseed It is more like cost to compensate it only have 3 tires instead of 4. No, it isn't. It unlocks one expensive unit for purchase (Either a 500/185 comet or a 540/150 churchill). It's there to offer tech diversity since everyone else has far more options about how they choose to tech and you choose between supergrenades + super speed or heavy engineers. Heavy Engineers are good, but if you had to pay munitions for the upgrade it would be much less appealing to go Anvil spec. It's not comparable to a Tier 4 at all. At the end of the day, there's a billion ways to counter a strict anti-infantry unit in that stage of the game. Yeah, they're really good against other infantry in a shoot out, but that's about it. They're vulnerable to tanks, indirect fire, grenades or even suppression since they can't move fast enough to flank machine gun teams. They're a defensive unit in a defensive specialization on a defensive unit. 200/50 is already a pretty hefty cost for what it gives. That's more than half the cost of a centaur or almost half of a Cromwell, which could have a much bigger impact. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: British Churchill CAP?19 Oct 2015, 20:04 PM Axis heavy tanks have much bigger guns on them. The Churchill is a heavily armoured Cromwell. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Heavy Royal Engineering upgrade19 Oct 2015, 19:36 PM Jump back to quoted post19 Oct 2015, 09:32 AMAchtAchter It definitely needs to cost something. It's a FREE upgrade that dramatically increases their combat power making them win against far more expensive squads. The excuse that they can't dodge nades is a pretty bad one, as it means you opponent has to invest munitions into every engagement just to win fights against a 210 mp unit. In addition it speeds up their repair speed - also for free. This helps them to outrepair their opponents in late game tank engagements. By saving a lot of munitions as a brit player you can easily afford yourself to invest all of your munitions into OP offmap strikes. It's not free: They pay 200/50 for it in tier 3. Are we also going to bitch about war speed being free too? Just think of it as sappers becoming a new unit with the purchase of anvil. The only reason it has to be upgraded on a squad basis is because of how Relic's shit works. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: OH recent buffs. Justification?19 Oct 2015, 19:02 PM Jump back to quoted post19 Oct 2015, 10:40 AMEsxile And what? You want the 221 being natural counter to 2x more expensive vehicles? 221 counter HTs or T70 while costing peanuts? It's not exactly a hard counter to the t70. It can kill it, but the t70 stands a much better chance of killing it before it kills the T70. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: OH recent buffs. Justification?19 Oct 2015, 16:50 PM Jump back to quoted post19 Oct 2015, 09:10 AMAchtAchter While I partly agree on team games (3vs3+), this assumption doesn't work out in 1vs1 games as all the ladders are separated, hence the ladder with the most players should've the highest winning rate, as we have most players competing there. Yet this is not the case and balance problems in 1vs1 amplify in team games, that's why 2vs2 is in even a worse state. In 1vs1 you just wait longer to get a proper ranked opponent as allies, it doesn't mean you get more noobs to bash - rather less. My point is thus. If you're assuming top 150 represents high level play and using faction win rates of those players as an indicator of balance, you need to control for games played. If we assume axis and allies both have an equal chance of playing someone in a lower skill bracket, then allies playing double the games means allies are playing double the games against lesser skilled opponents. This means that allies get more "easy" wins than Germans do and thus have a higher winrate. The stat no longer represents balance at high level play. The only way to fix this is to simply include the majority of the community and get a overall faction winrate but this won't represent high level play but will give an accurate idea of how the factions stack up in the game mode or to filter games that are outside the arbitrary high skill bracket. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: OH recent buffs. Justification?19 Oct 2015, 07:36 AM Jump back to quoted post18 Oct 2015, 18:11 PMAchtAchter Coh2chart.com says different. I really wouldn't put much stock in it. Axis Games played: 984 Allied Games played: 1851 Allied winrate is higher because allies are playing more games and thus the chance of playing against players outside the top 150 is far more likely. There's two ways to do this properly: Expand the bracket to 1000-1500 instead of just top 150. Only include games played between players in the top 150. (Probably not a large enough sample size if you do this though, and it's not possible without being Reric.) In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Heavy Royal Engineering upgrade19 Oct 2015, 04:19 AM It slows them down significantly. It's fine as free imo. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Axis incendiary grenades19 Oct 2015, 02:07 AM Yeah flames are getting nerfed next patch. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Anyone having any success with OKW vs ANYthing?18 Oct 2015, 22:24 PM Jump back to quoted post18 Oct 2015, 22:00 PMskyshark I normally go mechanized against Soviet or USF but battle group against UKF. Thanks to sniper and resistance to suppression both kubel and flak track are less helpful against UKF. Two sturmpios can be risky in terms of man power... Not so much now that their reinforce cost has been reduced, but they tend to drop models quickly unless the enemy is suppressed. Yeah that's why I like the synergy with kubel/flack halftrack. It makes pios extremely scary for them. Also good on maps with lots of flanking opportunities. Less so on something like Angoville though. It also means twice as much mining and sweeping, which is always good too. In: OKW Strategies
Thread: Anyone having any success with OKW vs ANYthing?18 Oct 2015, 20:32 PM Yeah now that I think on it I can't think of playing any matches as OKW vs Brits. Only soc and American. Matchmaking gods don't want me to I guess. I would still get a kubel I think though. In: OKW Strategies