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Thread: A bit disappointed about penals9 Oct 2013, 12:21 PM Jump back to quoted post24 Sep 2013, 10:21 AMtuvok they should get reduced suppression to reflect their "suicidal assault" vocation Why do they have a suicidal assault vocation? i read extensively about WW2 and penal Squads were more likely to be doing burial detail than fighting on the front line. When they did fight they were given dangerous assignments as are all penal battalions from all nations including Germany, Britain, France and the USA. Pay in blood meant if you were wounded you would be freed not that you had to die. Its a bit like the one man with a rifle and one with ammo at Stalingrad or blocking detachment shooting retreating troops, none of this stuff ever happened outside Hollywood. Blocking detachments were invented by the Brits, Russians just copied it. I know its a game ...i just love WW2 stuff. Ignore the wiki on this. read books instead, all nations had penal units P.S 3 months was the longest anyone served in a Russian Penal Unit and they were always assigned to a Rifle company, they didn't just run off and fight the War alone. It was horrible and dangerous but then on the Russian front everything was horrible and dangerous. In: Red Army Strategies
Thread: Big tank destroyers9 Oct 2013, 10:41 AM Jump back to quoted post5 Sep 2013, 13:14 PMCardboard Tank The Elefant can´t hit anything but tanks. A supported ISU-152 is borderline OP. It can oneshot whole squads and 2 shot StuGs and Panzer IVs. Supported by SU-85 it can´t be countered. They seriously should think about giving the thing a more realistic reload time. The real ISU-152 could fire ONCE A MINUTE, not every 10 seconds. Of course it shouldn´t fire once a minute for gameplay reasons, but a shot every 10 seconds is ridiculous. -.- it was 2 rounds a minute, improved to 4 rounds a minute in 1944 with a drop breech. anyway in reality the Ferdinand wouldn't have even arrived on the battlefield without breaking down, it was a horribly unsuccessful design. I would love to see realistic load times and armour values, but to make it work you would have to have very long ranges for all weapon systems, say a simulated 1000m In: Strategy Desk
Thread: German Tank - spam 9 Oct 2013, 09:52 AM Jump back to quoted post9 Oct 2013, 09:41 AMpantherswag It does, but that's a huge investment to counter one ability, just remember that. The reinforce is dope, but still. Also, T3 alone is weak to heavy armor, but with ZiS guns back up you can pretty handily deal with anything the German player has. Remember that your T34s cost less than their P4s. If you guys are on equal fuel footing, ram him and ZiS down his P4. He'll probably kill your T34, but you won the trade by 40mp and 30 fuel which adds up. Even Tigers can be pretty much disabled with one ram from the rear. One Tiger costs more than 2 T34s, so even if you lose 2 T34s taking it out then you won the engagement. Yeah I had two AT guns backing it up, He came at me with a couple of panthers, that came out slowly this time as I was more mindful of harassing his fuel early. That one ability (strafe) rendered my whole army useless in the game I've linked to above, so I'm up for any idea that may counter it. P4's would have probably been a better idea for him. Funny thing about the game was me not doing ram properly, I click the ability and then I right clicked on the tank to ram...LOL. I think its left click isn't it? (Dead T34) I normally use SU-85 as you may have guessed. I never did kill either of his panthers but I won the game with relentlessness and harassment. Pantherswag nice to see I'm not the only older guy playing coh 2 (I'm 51) In: Red Army Strategies
Thread: German Tank - spam 9 Oct 2013, 09:06 AM yeah ..I tried a bit of tier 3 and mines last night, in a 1v1, I gotta admit it felt pretty strong, even though I was pretty rubbish with it. T34 came out very fast when I concentrated on it, so thx this is all great advice and definitely food for thought. Your right in that game that mines would have bean a great idea. seriously does the tier 3 quad deal with the strafe? Again thanks for your input. In: Red Army Strategies
Thread: German Tank - spam 8 Oct 2013, 22:48 PM thx and yes I was expecting light vehicles out, I think it made me panic a bit, so I went AT nades quickly after Molotov so I could counter any vehicles. when he got his first panther I was also at tier 4 and built an su-85 and an AT gun to counter I then got a second SU-85 and a second AT-gun. although I did lose my clown car and a conscript squad (stupidly) he had also lost two squads, I controlled the north half of the map and he had the south. I did harass the south fuel and destroyed the Opel that was capping it, but I didn't want to lose the north as rightly or wrongly I feel its easier to control than crossing to the south. then he got 4 panthers, 2 base raided etc etc but worse he was strafing all my infantry, which I suppose had as much to do with my demise as the panthers did. I accept I should have maybe controlled all of the map, but if skill level is similar it seems a tall order, I just watched it again and I cant agree with the mg as it killed one whole squad and also controlled an attack coming over the far left frozen river. The strafe rendered all my infantry useless killed the men off my At guns, after that he base raided, I was dead then so things go to crap because we are chatting and the games over, I'm trying to work out how to control both fuel points at either end of the map and still retain a fighting presence? thx though I do need a better plan on that map P.S I don't like the tier 1 play style I just read somewhere that someone did well with it so I had a quick go. I flirted with tier 3 and it just seems too weak to me, If I ram a German tank the shrek kill my t34 and they just fix whatever it was I rammed. I also tried early T70 before but it seemed to prompt an armoured response I feel tier 3 is ill equipped to handle. In: Red Army Strategies
Thread: 100 kill sniper. 360 blitzkrieg no scope.8 Oct 2013, 19:14 PM Jump back to quoted post8 Oct 2013, 17:25 PMLiquid Rock It's "F" on standard hotkeys. I guess it's doable, just that it's way easier to countersnipe by simply hitting un-hold fire hotkey than by hitting the ability hotkey and then manually clicking the target. Personally, I'll probably take my chances with standard BOs and only get a sniper once I've seen T2. It's much safer that way and at that point you're more likely to have some spare resources for a sniper without compromising your mainline infantry presence anyway. Certainly beats pgrens when the opponent is spamming maxims and/or shock troops. I might change my mind though if I see a good player manage to reliably handle sniper wars as germans I can def feel some hostility here, give this guy a replay of the week, cheer him up a bit In: Replays
Thread: German Tank - spam 8 Oct 2013, 09:05 AM Jump back to quoted post8 Oct 2013, 08:49 AMBabaRoga You are playing team games, I guess? Get a good team, and work on your tactics. who does what (build fuel catche, get at guns, etc) Other than that, there is nothing you can do except learn to accept inevitable defeat and try to enjoy game as it is.. Due to design of armies and units, I cannot see Relic making the game balanced past 2v2 I only play 1v1, I don't lose squads (well ok not often ) but the manpower drain due to German armour makes it hard to get my own out in significant numbers. hers a replay that show cases my issues. http://www.coh2.org/replays/8969/plz-what-am-i-doing-wrong This doesn't happen every time, its just when it happens I'm always ill prepared. trust me its all fun to me, I don't take any of it seriously I do enjoy chatting about the game though. In: Red Army Strategies
Thread: German Tank - spam 7 Oct 2013, 21:57 PM I just don't seem to be able to deal with the shear volume of Axis tanks, im getting map control ok. But it often seems an endless stream of German tanks hit the field yet they don't seem to have less infantry than I do. I try to get a couple of SU85's and a couple AT guns, but often I'm not in time and the panther spam rolls in. AT nades so often fail to damage these tanks. I just wish soviets had an actual tank or at least they should remove the Rubbish like T34-85 and IS2 and give us something else in the commander tree that's useful in some way. I personally never use call-in tanks as they are about as useful as a late game clown car. In: Red Army Strategies
Thread: plz what am i doing wrong?7 Oct 2013, 20:15 PM I have no clue, simple as that In: Replays
Thread: Golradaer - NorthWestFresh, BasiloneReborn, Modezarr, JustBo7 Oct 2013, 18:05 PM Jump back to quoted post26 Jul 2013, 17:50 PMGolradaer I haven't mentored for quite a few years, so I think this will be fun. I'm Peter, 24 years old and from Arizona. I played vCoH a lot from launch to the release of OF, and not really at all after that, but CoH2 has kept my interest and I think it's moving in the right direction. I also wrote the multiplayer content in Prima's official CoH2 eGuide. In the last few months I've been playing far more team games than 1v1s, but that's been changing recently. Many of you seem to be pretty experienced players so we should have some interesting discussions. Here's what we'll do: 1. I'll first watch several replays from each of you. Please post 3-5 replays in which you lost or barely won. I want to get a feel for how you play in a variety of situations. I thought you had totally left coh as you disappeared from the scene so long ago 2. You write up a short analysis of your play overall, strengths and weaknesses. 3. I will expand on what you've written based on your games. Also, I'll point out a few things I'd like you to specifically focus on. 4. You continue to post replays in which you struggled or about which you have tactical/strategic queries along with a self-analysis of your play and I'll comment on them. This process will repeat until you have reached your desired level of play. We can and very likely will also play games and watch replays together over Mumble (on an ad hoc basis), but as replay reviews can be done asynchronously, they can keep us moving forward regardless of scheduling. Add me on Steam (Golradaer from Arizona) and feel free to message me at any time. If you guys are interested in watching replays as a group, let me know and we can set it up -- I think this could be fun. There are a lot of resources from CoH1 that are relevant, so I'll post up links to them over the next week as I search through my bookmarks. Well hello Golradaer, I remember your rifle spam back in the day, my son based his play style on yours and reached lev 16 1v1, my micro was never good enough to pull it off. In: Mentoring