Thread: KV-25 Aug 2015, 10:06 AM
It was also a shitty breakthrough tank because the giant turret made it super easy to see and just as easy to shoot. There's a reason the ISU-152 was made! |
I'd also personally would like to see the Soviet Lend-lease sherman in the very least moved the same way the T-34/85 moved.
I don't think it's necessary. The 'super' medium tanks got moved, but this one is pretty standard. It's got Sherman durability and better AT performance than a Panzer IV. |
Thread: KV-24 Aug 2015, 21:07 PM
With the recent SU changes, this doctrine is doing completly opposite thing and it disallows you to make more tanks, especially T34/76.
Floating fuel, without any MP to make tanks.
This has been the core problem with this doctrine for a long time now. Maybe instead of messing with your resources, it should discount all tanks by a certain amount. |
It's also worth noting that US Doctrine didn't account for "Heavy Tanks" at the time so the designation officially didn't exist. M26 is closer to the Tiger in terms of Firepower, Armor and Mobility. Howver Just like the Panther its largely a case of interpretation and semantics.
Also worth noting the Tiger in CoH2 has exaggerated durability compared to real-life, it only had about 40mm more armour than a Panzer IV Model H. Realistically a T-34/85 or Easy Eight would be able to consistently penetrate it frontally at closer ranges. Not that the Tiger wasn't good, it aged fairly well for a Heavy Tank from 1942, just not as well as CoH2's portrayal.
Does anyone still has the leaked pics? Or is it NDA'd?
Because the pictures were taken in the Alpha and feature units that do not exist in the retail game files., they fall under NDA. |
im talking about T0 all they can do is just spam pogues and riflemen, no MGs not even a jeep
That's not unusual for T0, the main difference is that their T1 / T2 come later rather than immediately. |
nevertheless USF need to be reworked as well as adding new units because they are lacking in the variety department unlike the other 4 factions
You really have an obsession with USF, huh?
USF doesn't really lack anything except Rocket Artillery, because Relic didn't add the Xylophone for some reason.
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Buff the Sturmpanzer or reduce his cost, move the Panzerwerfer back to T3 (then the 'rocket artillery' voiceover will finally be correct).
As Ostheer T4 has no allied equivalent, it is a luxury tier where unnecessary but highly potent units can be purchased. |
Once again, history may not be used to fully balance the game, but there has to be a limit to how much artistic licence can be used. Otherwise, it becomes Company of Placeholders as someone called it earlier.
Artistic license is already used in quite a few ways, if you complain that the SU-76 is too effective, why not the identical ZiS-3 AT Gun? What about the Puma using a 50mm gun that can penetrate Shermans and T-34's? Why can the two-man crew T-70 rotate the gun, fire the MG, and reload at the same time? Etc.
And if you want to argue realism, the SU-76 is the second most common armoured vehicle behind the T-34 Tank, so by that logic we should see a lot of them. |
But overall, I thought it was a great improvement, yet I still do not understand why the mortar could not be mobile...unless somebody with influence has a love for the original thing. Equally, the 17 pounder is almost an anachronism in the Army now and I can see no good reason why it was retained.
Seeing as they're also bringing back the Pershing and Calliope, I'm just guessing Relic is nostalgic and wants to make the Americans and Brits like CoH1 for some reason. I don't like it, and I hope they don't go overboard... |
Valiant assault is 100 munis, +1 speed and +25% accuracy for 60 seconds on all infantry. Compare to ostheer tac assault 40 munis, +1 speed to infantry for 20 seconds.
Are you sure the +25% accuracy triggers properly? I tested Valiant Assault at least a dozen times and didn't see any tangible difference. Volksgrenadiers fighting Conscripts seemed to fight the same whether or not it was triggered, and the results were pretty consistent. |