Profile of van Voort

Let me just go spam and see if it is possible to die out of happiness

Relic don't dare touch that shit for atleast a week.

Your shit will be safe

I have it good authority that Relic do not go into the woods

Thank you Cynthia, I will cross-post:

I will mostly talk about the Soviets, as I feel OKH are in a good place right now



1. Is there something that you feel is lacking from the COH2 Vanilla army that you usually play?

2. Is there something WFA armies have that you’d like to see COH2 Vanilla armies gain in the game?



For both:

Forward Retreat Points

Would be nice to see for Ostheer and Sovs, not necessarily as core but as doctrinal ability.

As noted it would enable Urban Defence to scale into something else; and an interesting ability to add to the Artillery Field Officer


Non-doctrinal Heavy Tanks

Though to be honest, I would prefer if this was fixed by making the KT doctrinal rather than the other way around

Infantry that are customisable and scalable

US infantry have this, Soviets don't and conscripts become outmatched in the later game


3. Do you have a specific wish list for your army?

You need to decide what you want the Soviets to be and make them that.

If their core is not supposed to be viable by itself and supplemented by commander choice then you need to fix those commanders that offer no late game call ins because they are implicitly useless

If their core is supposed to be usable and commanders are just supplemental, then their core units had better be good and you need to address the call in meta.


Right now we have call in meta + useless commanders which is the worst of both worlds


Right now Ostheer are a 4 Seasons Pizza, they have almost everything you need without having to chose a commander but there are lots of extra toppings to chose from if you want


Soviets you get a pizza base and you can have cheese or tomato; and if you want more you need to order it as an extra topping but only a few of these are any good so most of the menu is useless


Because I am enjoying this metaphor:

OKW are a rich but expensive deep-pan with all the toppings

USF are like discovering they forgot your entrée and they compensate by giving you all-you-can-eat appetisers

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I understand that the original concept for the Soviets was that they should only have 50% of their core buildings up so that their teching did not mirror OKH.

That should no longer be a concern given that WFA forces tech even more differently, so I think Soviet tech should be opened up to help make core builds more viable


4. Is there something you struggle with the most?

OKW late game in teams is absurd


5. Do you have any specific examples you’d like to share? (Something like ‘I have a hard time dealing with ‘X’ thing, I think it would be easier if I had ‘Y’ thing)

Nerf caches so OKW cannot benefit from them, this will not affect 1v1 at all but make a big balance to team games

You might not need to do anything else

So, after part I there was a clear preference for the Sturmpioneers, getting twice as many votes as anyone else.

http://www.coh2.org/post/update/post_id/227861


Now, we move onto infantry and I shall explain how this structure works because it cannot be looked at in isolation.


There will be three parts to this that will get voted on in order:


Core Infantry

Elite Infantry

Weapon Unlock


Core Infantry will be chosen from all infantry available from 1st building, immediate call in or CP1.

Elite Infantry will be all infantry available from CP1 or later, 1st or 2nd buildings

So some units will be in both lists

Units will have all abilities and upgrades available to the unit (eg Grenadier LMGs)

Upgrades that must be unlocked before purchase (eg: Molotovs, BARs) will be on the third list and will be available to all infantry in the faction but only one can make the final selection.

This means for example that conscripts, should they be voted in, will have access to only one upgrade so will only be able to have Molotovs or ATGrenades not both


Hope that is clear and that I have not forgotten anyone on that list

I like raketens; but then I don't use them as main line at.

I stick them in buildings to protect trucks from armour push or screen flanks; there they are self-microing and usually not the target everything is going to be shooting at.

In the last resort they are expendable too.



It's not like OKW is otherwise lacking in AT options

Hmm, interesting idea that deserves a considered response