Profile of Gbpirate

10/10 recommend putting your indirect fire into position then firing...

How do you go on a 20 something loss streak if you are roughly appropriately ranked?! If u have a 50% chance of winning against an on-level opponent you have a 0.5^20=0.000000095 chance of losing 20 times in a row, except that as you lose your games your opponent will on average get worse so you should now have a more than 50% chance of winning and so that probability is even lower...

I would have accepted the argument you got unlucky a lot and got overmatched opponents queueing at bad times but then you wouldn't have lost much elo and hence many ranks for losing to the much better players so wouldn't have plummeted to 2000 which is in the bottom half of the ladder. And the fact you levelled out back to only 1500 suggests either there was something dodgy about your rank 400 or you got substantially worse (?).

I've never lost more than 5 games in a row in 1v1! And over my time playing many RTSs I've almost never gone on loss streaks on more than 4-5 games in a row.

The problem is that when you launch into a game of 1v1 of coh2, even if your elo rank is equivalent to your opponent's, you won't have a fifty percent chance to win.

As ranks fluctuate, different units come into play, different strategies, commanders, etc.

The last game I lost was when I was above rank 2,000. It was on semoskiy winter against soviet industry tactics.

Now, at that stage in the meta (about a year ago, I believe) soviet industry was almost never seen in 1v1. Or, at least, I had not encountered it in quite a while. I was on the back foot, wasn't as good as I was now. Using Gren/fausts and PaK40s to counter multiple T70s is hard. Then came the T34s and it was just unstoppable.

I've come quite a ways since then; watching ESL has helped, I think, but it was definitely a frustrating match. So much so that I remember it vividly. My opponent's infantry micro was terrible but I was so scarred into thinking that ostheer can't be aggressive and that I must maintain my little bubble of defense on semoskiy.


Anyway, you can't assume that there's a 50% chance of winning among equal players. Shit happens that you don't expect/prepare for, RNG can be unmerciful, or you can be tired af but still playing coh2 because you've got nothing better to do with your life.

Panzer IV!

Howitzers aren't used in competitive play because they're too expensive and underperform vs. Rocket artillery. As Kallipolan mentioned, rocket artillery saturates the target area.

Howitzers seem good in campy games against friends or AI where you need to smash defensive positions; they're good on those modded maps w/ popcaps of up to 300 where popcap isn't an issue.

I don't think in coh1 there were howitzers present in competitive play, although I cannot say for certain.

Krotentoten, I have to disagree with you about rocket artillery.

If a calliope can wipe two obers next to each other, then so be it. If it's the first barrage, that's some good play by the USF player. If it's fifty minutes into the game and the calliope has been around, that is the fault of the okw player.

A panzerwerfer will not kill a full health rifle squad at full range. With no sight, the scatter is huge. Even with sight, the max range scatter is huge.

When you drive up to the minimum range, the scatter is reduced. That's acceptable. The Wehr player is taking a calculated risk.

Maybe reducing pwerfer suppression or increasing its scatter would be good for balance, idk.

In competitive play, especially 1v1, on-map howtizers aren't used that often and for good reason.

OP mentioned something about howitzers being more accurate the longer their barrage lasts. That's fine and dandy and I assume you mean to account for artillery observers directing fire IRL. The game already implements that; scatter for indirect fire is reduced - on auto fire and barrage - when the target unit/area is visible to the player.

I just realized this and it makes me sad... with three of them tellers were 41.5 muni :c