Profile of NigelBallsworth

The "trash" game design that caused the OP to lose about 300 ELO was a small buff to the US MG suppression. It's still not great, nor as good as the MG42, but it isn't completely worthless like it was before the patch. The OP now needs slightly bigger blobs to A-move through US mg's.

At 1600+ ELO's, four US players have a win percentage of 33%. It goes up to an average of 44% when there are Brit's in the mix.

Most of the time the TTK is really long compared to COH2. It isn't like COH2 where you could look at the other part of the map for a second and lose units. The exception to that is a couple of the off-map abilities. DAK has the COH3 versions of artillery cover, zeroing, and the stuka loiter. In 4v4's, better players will coordinate their off-maps and delete all of the units in a large area. In comparison, the US has a couple of hard hitting off-maps that will really do some damage if it takes you more than six seconds to respond to the smoke.

PS - true to Relic's form, US rifles are still overtuned so US is a good 1v1 faction.

those stats tell the tale...

I'm glad somebody said it and the team game stats don't lie. The game favors Axis in most ways and doesn't so much reward good gameplay and sound strategy as it does identifying the meme units and exploiting them. As a Allied main, I find that mistakes are harshly punished and there is almost no point in fielding a well-balanced force using good tactics. You'll get steamrolled anyway by whatever the thing is now; a million little flamethrower tanks, PG spam, MG spam, radar trucks the enable the easy bombarding of any emplacements, flakvierlings, neverending bunker walls that cost next to nothing and require more than one satchel to destroy...not to mention numerous mechanisms to cripple resource gathering from the beginning of the game. Add to that maps that lend themselves to camping and the creation of easy chokepoints, and Axis have an even easier time. To add insult to injury, these idiots have the nerve to think they're actually good. Finally, you can't quit now without being penalized even though it's very often a foregone conclusion at some point and your team refuses to surrender. And then Axis whiners have the balls to complain about Rangers. Are they strong ? They sure are. Do I love using them for that reason ? Fucking right I do. It feels good to have at least a few units that can fight back effectively. If you're complaining that you're having a hard time as Axis in team games, you must be worse than bad, as everything is stacked in your favour.

yeah, I used to get a bunch of AT rifles and that didn't work out well. Much better with Brens, even on infantry sections. For Gurkhas, I get Thompsons. Not great at first but much better vetted.

specifically wondering if coastals will be nerfed somehow. they're robbing me of any enjoyment of this game. this BG turns every team game into a tedious, mindnumbing slog that will eventually end in an Allied loss.

I was, yes, but it doesn't seem to matter. It really seems as if very early in the game they've already got a mob backed up with MGs and HTs.