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USF mortar is fine, aside from the poor range.

@skemshead I would suggest you play against the ost mortar before commenting on the usf mortar.

Maybe you should try playing ost and see how annoying playing against mortars is, with 4 man sqauds.

Anyone who wants to whine about usf morter sucking should go play ost and see how utterly annoying and repetitive playing against usf mortar is.

The strength of the usf mortar , aside from it being almost unkillable due to lightning pack up speed is the continual pressure it can apply. People often ignore the fact that a half health gren squad will loose any engagement and risk being wiped. Same goes for the mg. The mortar may not get the kills but it often does significant damage and either forces the opposing squad from the field or gives a flanking double bars squad a huge advantage.

Stop focusing on its weakness and instead look to its strengths.

I wouldn't have such an issue with maxims if they were a support unit only. This shit where people open with 4 maxims is just tedious in the extreme. The decision to allow t2 openings to improve game diversity just adds another layer to the balance conundrum.

The problem is, and this is a problem that is largely across the entire game, is instead of refining and balancing a select number of builds, relic and mods seem to want to provide every faction with every possible opening, build order, unit selection etc and in the process are unable to reduce the cheese and frustration or bring any true semblance of balance. Factions should have a definite playstyle like coh1 otherwise the cries to make every unit viable for every faction will never end and you cannot satisfy everyone and balance the game.

Players who want a strong mg should play ost instead of just trying to buff their own faction to simply satisfy their own selfish needs.

Anyone who pays any kind of attention to streamers these days will notice that the factions are becoming more and more alike all the time and as such the game is more dull and boring than ever.

This evenings game have been a lot better. Minimal stuttering, some command input delay but that is often standard for me with australian internet.

At one point I was working on a mod that utilized the USF tank crew mechanic for team weapons.

Mg teams, mortar teams, atg teams would be able to abandon their team weapon to retreat and preserve their vet.

Any unit would be able to crew and abandon a team weapon, but only the appropriate support team crew would get abilities or offensive vet bonuses when crewing.

So an hmg would only have AP rounds if an mg crew were manning the gun. Only mg crews would impart offensive vet to the mg (faster reload, more suppression etc.)

But a mortar team or engineer squad could man the mg in a pinch. Defensive vet for the entities would always be in effect for the squads.

I never got it working and stopped working on it over a year ago. I might give it another go though one of these days...

This is an interesting idea and something relic should really look at for coh3. Vet in coh was really integral to gameplay where as coh2 it more or less just something that accumulates as the game progresses.

Coh2 is kinda braindead tbh. As inverse would say where are the meaningful decisions ? There are none. I think aside from really giving the game some depth, it would really reward players who could preserve their units.

Having to decide between saving the crew or saving the weapon would really make the game interesting. Being able to choose vet bonuses (like coh PE) would also be really interesting....