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Thread: Germans are bad10 Jan 2014, 00:13 AM Jump back to quoted post9 Jan 2014, 23:24 PMVonMecha This a joke? It can't fight off infantry.It CAN only beat a t34, assuming it Hardee irst shots. Rarely does any tank other then a t34 need to circle strafe a Stug 3. In ordr to get any use out of it it needs a vet 1 ability. Which for a tank that is already weak sauce is not a given. Oh poor little you all you have is an Su 85... whatever shall you do. I know, sit back and see and tank snipe everything then hit reverse when in trouble. Are you suggesting that an SU85 can fight off infantry?? Also why woukd you not circle strafe a stug? Taking pointless damage doesnt really seem like a sound strat unless you like repairing vehicles. I'm not saying that there is an issue with the SU85's AT ability, all I'm getting at is that it is harder to use assault guns properly than it is to use real tanks. Also just because a stug3 is harder to use than the slightly more expensive p4 doesn't mean that the stug itself needs to be buffed. A stug3 in the hands of a good player does surprisingly well against enemy tanks and can be a viable AT option when there are not enough resources available to tech to panthers. If stugs were buffed like a lot of people want them to be (either by making them better or by lowering the cost significantly) it could produce a balance issue rather than fixing anything. However along the same lines I don't quite understand why its hitbox was adjusted ... That seemed like a silly and unnecessary move unless I'm missing something which I very well could be. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Veterancy guide9 Jan 2014, 23:22 PM Thanks for putting this together in one place wuff! In: Lobby
Thread: reliable way to deal with pgrens9 Jan 2014, 23:21 PM The easy answer of course is shocks at least as far as infantry is concerned, but what if a different tree is selected? I find the best hope I have at that point is snipers, and occasionally penals can do OK especially with some lucky flame kills. But it feels like I have extreme trouble surpressing them with even well placed maxims (sadly I can't guarantee that I'll get my hands on an mg42 cause those do ok ), and cons naturally don't stand a chance. The problem gets compounded when the elite troops doc is picked by the axis and I have to deal with vet 3 pgrens immediately. Any suggestions or did I more or less sum it up? It seems like this is almost the same issue I had with knighrs cross terminators back in vCoH. In: Red Army Strategies
Thread: Germans are bad9 Jan 2014, 23:04 PM Jump back to quoted post4 Jan 2014, 23:27 PMThunderhun Sorry GeGermans , the germans just suck through the whole game. They can't do much in early game except getting a sniper and draining mp. Also ppshs, cheap soviet mines, 1 CP call-ins and the squad wipe wreck the germans. Late game soviets still have the upper hand due to call-ins and super ultra usefull commanders; oh you have a heavy tank, let just ram it. np for me. Same with cons spam into ppshs; powerfull and cheap. And pls don't tell me that upgraded grens kill cons with ppshs, 240 mp+10-20 ammo vs 240 mp+60 ammo just to counter 1 squad is a joke. Stug III G, just useless without vet, a P4 does 100x times better. It needs to be looked at. And the worst; the ammo cost for the germans is way too expensive. Even without a doctrine (most of them are ammo heavy) they still starve for ammo. My opinion is from 1v1 battles, 2v2s are fine if there isn't any bs commander around. All the stugIII are bad comments are honestly a sign of how spoiled Germans are when it comes to tank battles in coh2. Stugs are more powerful AT than panzers but are harder to use due to the nature of assault guns but Germans don't "need" to use them because panzers panthers and tigers do very well AT wise. Soviets have had to use assault guns (or at guns) since release if they want to have any hopes of reliably killing a German tank and as such people that play Soviets have learned how to deal with it. Do you think its any less annoying for an su85 to get circle strafed by a panther or panzer than it is for a stug to get the same treatment from a t34? Actually the stug is probably better off since its cheaper In: COH2 Balance