http://www.coh2.org/replay/46894/vs-double-1919
If your opponent has enough ammo to deck out his riflemen with double 1919 and somehow still has enough ammo for smoke nades then you might have been outplayed.
Not quite, Ostheer can have 200+ munitions but still auto-lose because they can only buy 1 LMG per unit. |
Some of the high altitude planes like the Paratrooper planes do have a model, but it's literally the size of a finger. It's very very tiny, but in-game it will appear on the minimap with loud airplane sounds.
Best advice I could give you is to use the prop tool and just highlight sections of the map, read down the entity list until you spot the culprit, and try to zero in on it until you find it. |
For general use, Panzergrenadiers are better. Stormtroopers mostly just only good for ambushes with their munitions ability. Which is silly because they're also quiet expensive to just leave sitting around. |
Same with the infrared Stg44, or the Firefly with tulip rockets. Only a few been built, but they are still in the game.
There's a difference between only a few built, and never built.
The ostwind in scavenge, should of been a wirbelwind. Kugelblitz (while cool) came too late in war. I could see them trying to stick it in spec ops doctrine. Other than that, no.
Agreed with the Wirbelwind, hell the Wirbelwind should have been Ostheer's primary AA Tank, if only because the Mobelwagen cannot be used in an offensive role as AA tanks are in CoH2.
I don't think we should be too worried about call ins being very rare in real life. Not many king Tigers were made or used in combat either but here they are.
Over 400 were made, there were more King Tiger's than there were Comet Tanks. |
Let's not modify their MP income. It's probably better to give the trucks some cost for their medics, pioneers, and flak cannons to give them a sink to spend some MP and fuel into.
Modifying MP would also be especially punishing early game where the lower reinforcement of Volks would mean nothing when you can't get enough MP to reinforce.
Historically their manpower shortages were made up for with their high number of automatic weapons. In-game this might not work as well though because such weapons are already expensive and impractical. The closest thing we have to Volksgrenadiers would be Assault Grenadiers > Panzergrenadiers, but this just does not work in-game as we can see even in OKW's own Sturmpioneers. |
Well one problem is that the Flakpanzer Coelian was never produced, at the end of the war they had only a wooden mock-up and a couple turrets with no hull. |
So when I started my first mod, I added all of Ostheer's vehicles. Daunted by the StuG III's horribly messy source file and unsure if I was going to get anywhere, I decided to reduce compile times by removing all but the StuG III, and test my work only on that unit. Now that I have a much better handle on what I'm doing, I would like to add other vehicles as I complete them. I just completed the SdKfz 251 Half-Track and would like to check it in-game. But now I have a question: Is it possible to add vehicles to an existing mod, or do I have to remake it completely?
Side Questions:
1. The Panzer IV and Panther do not appear listed as one of Ostheer's units. Am I meant to select the OKW versions because they use the same model?
2. I notice there are layers for normal maps and bump maps, is there anything I need to do with these or are they just leftovers? |
that is your own mistake. You can order them to repair and then jump back in with queue order like capping points.
It's annoying though, you have to shift click on the tank for repair, wait one second for the repair icon to change to the recrew icon, then shift click again. It would be better if vehicle crews auto-repaired and auto-entered so you don't have to waste time queuing up orders. |
They could make a call-in unit of "Veterans" in the same vein as Obersoldaten, equipped with higher damage M1 Garands, the Paratooper Frag, AT Rifle Grenade, and Smoke Grenades. |
Your "arguments" absolutely ridiculous.
Why can't you people accept reality, that the T-34-85 wasn't the mainstay of Soviet Forces in 1943. Google it right now, you'll find out you are wrong. It was introduced into front line service in early 1944 and didn't begin to outnumber the T-34/76 until mid-1944. |