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Thread: WEHRMACHT=RUBBISH13 Mar 2015, 09:03 AM Jump back to quoted post13 Mar 2015, 08:58 AMAlexzandvar My answer is Pak40's and good micro, with an Elefant for seasoning. If I went Oustruppen your little medium tank squad would get annihilated because the minute you got close to me you would be hit by 6 fausts and then finished off with a Pak gun. Volks? I'll just split my squads and alpha each tank as it enters my line of sight, then shove a Panther right up your ass because you don't have anything to deal with it. With Ostheer you can get units sure, but your using combined arms and the same units every game because that is literally all you have. You have no elite infantry, no higher caliber mortar, no call in mediums worth a shit. And 222/sniper? Pthhh good joke. EDIT: 6 through the whole game? What is one lone T34 or two T34's going to do? Angrily shake their fists at my Paks/tellers/Oustruppen? I'm done. You think that someone will strike like a brianless stragith into paks? I could also say that Panther will go down farily quickly when strike my T34s but that's not gonna happen cause no one will move Panther alone like no one will strike with T34 straight into fog without knowing what's there. And 2 T34 can deal with a Panther when someone overrun Panther into trap. PS You do realize than 90%+ cases (tes rest are cases when Sierra or Jaigen agrees with you so...) no one agrees with you? So now you have to answer yourself. Is this community wrong or it is something with you? In: Scrap Yard
Thread: WEHRMACHT=RUBBISH13 Mar 2015, 08:49 AM Jump back to quoted post13 Mar 2015, 08:16 AMAlexzandvar It's not a matter of micro, but your PIV's are going to get raped HARD when facing Jacksons and IS2/T34/85s. You need the Elefant to break up enemy armor units like the ISU and IS2 because your dinky little PIV's aren't going to do shit to his 122mm gun and 375 frontal armor IS2. 6 T34's are overwhelming, but fuck if your ever going to get that in anything lower than 4's, and if can micro their heavies your T34's are going to be sitting in the scrap heap. Soviets have a buttload of variation in what toys/strats they have to play with that are viable, so what if you don't have an AT gun in t1? If your doing call in trickery go t1 - t2 and wait for support. Or just go t2 and get support weapons that you back up with cons/shocks, get a guard or two sometimes to deal with OKW light vehicles. You can break away from the meta, but someone who knows how to counter you will pistol whip you with better micro and unit choice. And that's what I was talking about. Jackson/IS2/ISU/T3485? Only Elephant. That's your answer, and it's very good answer but ont the only one. Pak43+Pz4, Pz4 +Paks40, Pz4+JU strike can do the job as well but such counter is not braindead like Elephant. Such counter is micro intensive but still very good. 6 through whole game, but still in 1v1 Im able to get 4 at once so 6 in 4v4 is not something uncommon. You still dont understand what flexibility means. It means that no matter what, I have units to adapt to situation. For example, if go T2+T3 you cant adapt to situation when sniper is needed. If you spam Grens, but then you need MG, minute later mortar, then 222 and go back for sniper and you can all of this, that's flexibility. In: Scrap Yard
Thread: Plane crash is fine, but 20-30 crashes?!13 Mar 2015, 08:08 AM Jump back to quoted post13 Mar 2015, 01:45 AMKisiel I've counted 17 crashes on both sides (well, it was 15-2). Scott, AA and Ambulance died to dive bombs. Crashes killed Major and ZiS gun. Axis on the other hand lost two volks squads (to IŁ-2) and support gun. It was kinda ridiculous how one of the axis players was hoarding 1000 ammo and just calling planes the moment they went off cooldown. I guess that's the new meta of this doctrine in team games. No matter how and when, just spam planes and count for plane crash. In: Replays
Thread: WEHRMACHT=RUBBISH13 Mar 2015, 08:03 AM Jump back to quoted post13 Mar 2015, 00:16 AMAlexzandvar OKW and USF are both 1 trick wonders with a tiny bit of variation here and there. Ostheer has SOME options with call in meta trickery but they are still stuck with just grens. Soviets get 2 starting infantry units (3 if you count the sniper) that are viable, then you have elite infantry on top of that. Then you have the call in tanks which vary commander to commander. Getting tech is not mandatory because you have everything you need in T0 and T2 plus a elite unit from your commander to get by till call in fun times. The shear amount of variation between the units is fun for me, getting 4 Volks or 6 Rifleman because I can't make anything else isn't. Nor is sitting and twiddling my thumbs as Ostheer because I'm being MP drained like crazy. Commander choice liberates you, it doesn't bind you. When your commanders effectively do nothing but give you utility than your play style remains mostly the same no matter what commander you pick. Really the most interesting combo Iv found is Sturmtiger + Command Panther so my Sturmtiger can sight for itself. EDIT: Just noticed you legit actually said Panzer IV spam, holy fuck my sides have entered low orbit. PLEASE spam PIV's against my IS2's/ISU's and Jacksons. And have fun with that teching for Panther spam What you described has nothing to do with flexibility. Flexibility is ability to adapt to situation on the battlefield which OKW and OST do the best. End of story. T1 soviets - no AT gun. USF AT mines? No AT gun. Variation of units is just variation, not flexibility. Well, if your micro can't handle with coordination of 4 tanks at once, I feel sorry for you. But in hands of a quite good player 4 Pz4 are more deadly than Tiger or Elephant. Same for T34. I have in loadout doctrines without ISU, IS, T34/85, only T34/76 spam and guess what, it's damn deadly. It's way easier to deal with 1 huge target like IS2, than with few smaller coming from all sides. But if you can't handle IS2, ISU, T34/85, Tiger, Elephnat, Panther meta, that's your problem. I break meta very often and Im quite susscefull with this Have not use any call in in 4v2 for 2 weeks as soviets - all wins. It's all about micro rather than A-move with IS2, and my 6-8 T34/76 are always more devastating than 2 IS2s. In: Scrap Yard
Thread: 20-30 crashes?! Come on Relic!13 Mar 2015, 00:07 AM Jump back to quoted post12 Mar 2015, 23:57 PMpigsoup the whole air v. anti air might as well be non existent. for single pass airplanes, such mechanic actually doesnt exist. and apparently plane crashed add fresh uncertainty to the battlefield. this problem is exaggerated in this doctrine and from many CAS related topics that came before and pquemish's comment about airplane crashes, look like neither the commander or plane crashes are going anywhere. the game that you had will always be a possibility. #adapt Planes crashes are completly fine. If I lose something to plane crash, Im not bitching about it. It happens. But when plane hits your units every 3-4mins there is something wrong, and you have to admit it. I want something to counter recons for example. For this I need AA unit. And my AA unit is changing planes into kamikaze planes which kill stuff all the time and everywhere. And like I said, you can't adapt to something which does not have any counter. It's like if we had Super Pershing and none axis unit could penetrate it - #adapt. When planes crashes kill more stuff than players there is something really wrong and some kind of fix is needed like crits instead of damage or something like that. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: WEHRMACHT=RUBBISH12 Mar 2015, 23:53 PM Jump back to quoted post12 Mar 2015, 23:41 PMAlexzandvar I really hope this post is sarcastic. Yeah, all go call in planes with no tanks and only Ostheer infantry, this can only end well Pz4 spam, Panthers. Here you have only 2 OST players but I asure you that planes crashes killed more units than all axis players. 0 VS ~TAB~ Iron Emperor ~TAB~ Spiky ~TAB~Australian Magic ~TAB~ Laz' [OsoOndo] SaDDaM clemenzo Ottoman-AKINCI Devlish ???Og?d Plane crash is fine, but 20-30 crashes?! by: Australian Magic map: Steppes 3 - Jump back to quoted post12 Mar 2015, 23:52 PMAlexzandvar The only army in the game with flexibility is Soviets because of the commander system. You can drastically vary your play style based on what commander you chose. Soviets are the least flexible army because of commanders, not most flexible. Soviets commanders fill the gaps. You need them to stand against Axis. On the other hand, OKW does not need any commander in fact. In tiers you have everything you need, and commaders give you something extra. That's flexibility. You can make AI units and then Pak43. If you choose wrong doctrine as Soviets you are doomed, so where is this flexibility? Ostheer is flexible faction as well. You need mortar? pak? sniper? 222? No problem you will have access to all of them. You need sniper? Zis? Maxim? M3? Stop right there, you can't have everything. SO where is this flexibility? Same for USF. You must chose between AA, MG, mines and zooks, light tank and AT gun. There is no flexibility for allies. In: Scrap Yard
Thread: 20-30 crashes?! Come on Relic!12 Mar 2015, 23:52 PM Jump back to quoted post12 Mar 2015, 23:50 PMpigsoup . . CAS aint going anywhere... might as well #adapt... kappa keepo and other stupid kappas . . . No one said CAS should dissapear. It's all about crashes. Few are fine but 30? And the best part is that you are making AA to counter planes but in fact you don't counter them, you make them more deadly, so what's the point of AA units? There is nothing to adapt. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: WEHRMACHT=RUBBISH12 Mar 2015, 23:38 PM Jump back to quoted post12 Mar 2015, 23:16 PMAlexzandvar Try playing 2's, 3's or 4's with all Ostheer. 3v3 and 4v4, all Ostheer, all with CAS, kamikaze planes are going to insta kill your army. In: Scrap Yard
Thread: 100mm BS-3 AT Gun12 Mar 2015, 22:29 PM Jump back to quoted post12 Mar 2015, 20:49 PMImmoraliste Remove your signature, pls. Everyone who tries to read the forum on their phones hates you. Bye. +1 I just have some white holes which I cannot fix if there is a gif on a site. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: 20-30 crashes?! Come on Relic!12 Mar 2015, 20:48 PM Jump back to quoted post12 Mar 2015, 20:39 PMQueenRatchet123 4v4 no suprise Inb4 "4v4 is scrub mode, and should never be balanced" Sometimes you just want to relax and go for 4v4 with friends but then 30 planes strike at your units In: COH2 Gameplay