Profile of Casparitus

if you tech they cost the same but if you don't they will cost like ~20% more resources, making it good to tech in the long run, but not necessary if you really don't want to.

Yeah maybe that's an idea. Personally I just think it sounds unnecessary complex for no real advantage. Can't see how it add any more depth to gameplay than simply putting tier reqs?

No way to tell if it's really "worth" it without memorizing a table or something. "Hmm, how many IS-2s must I build for it to be economically viable for me to tech?" Not to mention trying to figure out how far away your opponent is to another tiger etc. Basically only the most dug in players will actually have a clue of what they are doing and what to expect.

How can you nerf call ins equally when some factions hardly even use them?

What's the problem? Are factions fundamentally unbalanced with commanders bringing them closer to balance? That is a pretty extreme type of asymmetrical balance. "Hmm, this unit from T4 is over-performing, let's add a commander that has a unit to counter it."

Do you have any insight on how they approach balance? If that's the way we don't have to discuss balance since it will never be achieved. I'm confident PQ would realize what monster of a system that would be to balance.

If I had to try to balance all this, I would probably forget about commanders and make the base units balanced to begin with. If need be I'd make all call-ins completely useless (add one million fuel cost) and focus on balancing tiers first before moving over to "optional" units.

I Think you are thinking this the wrong way - the soviets should not be punished by resticting them to one call-in or making the call-in unlocked by basebuildings. Instead make the core-units so good that a call-in is made on strategic decision instead of a must.

http://www.coh2.org/topic/24647/would-a-swap-between-t3476-and-t3485-be-good-for-the-game

Agreed, simply making them more expensive and require a higher amount of CPs would help, but I still don't find it as attractive as tying it to tiers.

Wouldn't the call-ins being tied to tech hurt Soviets and Ost a lot? It cost a lot to tech up as those factions

If nothing else is changed of course but I don't think that is the point here.

680mp and 120 munitions to counter an M20. Sweet.


Ops sorry, didn't see you wrote "or".

Why does everyone has such a problem playing with underpowered stuff? Why play shit that is OP? Wheres the fun in that? A lot of people claim that they don't play OP units but how come no one ever plays Ostheer 1v1 anymore? Such a coincidence that they have the worst win/loss ratio in 1v1, and people not playing them..

*edit: Sorry, didnt even adress OP!
I think it's a great idea. Just the type of thing that makes CoH so much fun. Not really useful obviously, but that 1/1000 games where you find good use for it, it's going to be epic and your opponent will claim that it's "cheesy". ;j