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considering it takes longer to tech to, how large is the window without an ATG? also, i'll presume the best an opponent could muster would be 1 teller mine.

Well, a frontal attack with stuart is not the most effective and chasing a sniper can lead to losing the tank to a teller or faust/ pak combo. Snipers usually operate around a pack, teller or gren to be safe.

The most successful option takes a bit to setup but basically requires you to push on one front with all your rifles spread out so you don't get pinned and basically swarm towards the sniper. Most times when faced with such a dangerous threat the sniper will retreat. The stuart will be then come from another direction and basically meet the sniper in the base. If he retreats everything then hold off and try again.

The other option is try to position a bar squad (Lt) or para with smg in the retreat path when you push towards the sniper with the rest of your rifles. Can be tricky and often futile but your best chance to kill it is on retreat, in my experience.

Changed significantly in what way? Cons and grens relations were pretty much always balanced, as they are now.
And demos are hardly early game stuff with current cost, which did not changed since day 1.

You didn't made any rational argument here, sorry, there is nothing to reply to that would hold a real value of why demos should be changed in any way.

They were already nerfed directly and indirectly multiple times.

Hell, I could just as well ask you why gren LMGs are not separate upgrade, after all "the game have changed much" since release, it would be as valid(pointless) reasoning as yours.

Really, this is your intelligent reply.

Grens, or ost t1 is nowhere near as strong as it was upon release. What about last year when grens could just be amoved everywhere and the only real counter was Flamer m3 or sov snipers. Demos have always been justified since countering OST could be difficult, however as soviets are clearly now the strongest faction there is obviously room for adjustment.

Demos were hardly nerfed. They were near on impossible to disarm almost to the point of being broken, the changes were more of an improvement rather than a nerf.

Comparing demos to LMGs to support your argument that i provide no valid reasoning does little but reinforce the perception that you are incapable of having a reasonable discussion due to your blind support of soviets, as well as your need to condescend to every other person on this forum.

Reply as you will, but try to stop flogging the same dead horse, its as boring as sov meta.

quick question do you blob into these demo charges?

Once on on kharkov i got caught in one of the narrow gaps coming out of my base, 3 or 4 squads lost. Aside from that, i have never lost more than 1 squad to a demo in almost 2150 hours of coh2. My playstyle does not involve blobbing, but that is not the issue as I have already stated that i have no issue with it being used for blob control.

It is extremely effective against Ost early game because of the expensive tech requirements and the early manpower bleed due grens being weak on some maps early on..

I don't come across a lot of early demos, but when i do it usually means gg, and that to me seems kind of weak design..

Tier 3 Soviets should be cheaper . Read the topic starter he shows us that Tier 3 Soviets should be cheaper

I have no idea what you are talking about. The Op makes no argument for Sov Tier 3 to be cheaper nor is it obvious. In fact the entire point of his post was that P4 comes too late. If you feel there is an argument to the contrary, then state your case but posting the same post over and over is just embarrassing yourself.

Nvm t34 cost decrease to 90 fuel would be more appropriate.

Would like to see T34 manpower increased to 350 so that cons can't just be spammed and thrown away without thought. If a player goes con heavy and wants to play high risk then they should not be allowed to easily transition into T34 spam.

Also not entirely opposed to slight increase to T70 cost.

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I just started up the game to find 1800 players online, it may be the beginning of the end. I might be just a subjective opinion but the interest in the game is faultering. I dont think that the faultering interest in the game is related to balance this time. My guess its more related to the lack of new content.
Here are som stats: http://steamcharts.com/app/231430

Do you guys think that something in Relics roadmap can resurrect this soon to be dead game? Or should Relic focus on something else? Or is it just natural that Coh2s time is over?

Here is the roadmap: http://www.coh2.org/topic/32944/relic-s-roadmap

Relics roadmap won't do shit to resurrect the multiplayer because their focus is on the casual gamer and morons that like shiny things. By shiny I mean simple minded shit like big explosions and shock value units that can be A-moved for success. The thing about Coh2 is its all about abuse, about how fun it is to abuse shit. They give very little thought to what it is like to play against this crap.

The fact that the most braindead tactics ( eg callins, inf spam, blobs )dominate the game and relics reluctance to do anything about it indicates to me that they are afraid they will drive away the simpletons that are the bulk of their paying customers. They present a diplomatic front when put under question about the competive scene but jack shit is ever done. Its just we are looking into it, its a difficult problem, but we are excited. Blah, blah, blah. Just a smoke screen.

However as the game gets older more people realize that the game isn't going to evolve and the effect is the better players just abandon ship leaving just the casual scrub. I personally have been hoping ( futilely it seems ) since WFA that relic would get their act together and try and polish this game and remove some of the more abusive and cheesy aspects of the game, but it seems my wait has been in vain.

Brits will, if history is any indicator be a clusterf***, and we will be back to pre WFA. There is nothing in the road map that will change my perspective, because i want a better game NOT just more shit thrown into the mix.....