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Hi Guys, Got into coh2 again recently and would like to chat about control groups, how you organize and control them. i experimented with different layouts.

my usual layout is 1-3 is Inf, 6 is AT guns, 4-5 is arty

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1 - infantry
1- tanks
1- artillery
2- engineers

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1 - Mainline
2 - MG
3 - Mortar (if any)
4 - ATG + Tanks (I like to have an Antitank combat group moving together)
5 - Engies

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15 Mar 2022, 20:16 PMDonnieChan

Hi Guys, Got into coh2 again recently and would like to chat about control groups, how you organize and control them. i experimented with different layouts.

my usual layout is 1-3 is Inf, 6 is AT guns, 4-5 is arty

1 mainline inf
2 tanks
3 indirect fire
4 secondary infantry
5 engineers
6 AT guns

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I barely use them.

Mostly for artillery and high value targets like snipers.
Also in the mid game I pack all my engis into one group for easier repairs.

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1 tank/lv/snipers
2 tank
3 atg
4 arty
5 if I need it another arty or high value unit
6 engie

I use them extentivly, they are so usefull imo

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i m still thinking about how many control groups to be assigned to inf units

for easier flanks i did 1-1st rifle/Gren etc.
2-2nd etc.

however then i don't have any for vehicles left

arty and pios are a must imo

for the most time i only had tanks on control groups

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1 - Sniper/Ambush squad that needs babysitting
2 - ATG's
3-7 - Vehicles
8-0 - Artillery (i start with 0 and work my way down for arty)

I've done this since pretty much day 1 and I can't live without this layout.

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Simple but effective for me:

1-2) mainline infantry

3) most important vehicle (anti tank gun if no important vehicle is on the field)

4) pioneers except for OKW, there it's my LeIgs if I have one

But I don't think there is a "general recipe" ofc. Some people don't want to or can't play with control groups. Or they are good at using a LOT control groups at same time but personally I feel like it would get out of hand and backfire if I would use 5+ control groups

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1 - Mainline Inf.
2 - Engineers
3 - Sniper or Mortar/s
4 - Light Vehicle
5 - Best Tank

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17 Mar 2022, 01:17 AMLatch

1 - Sniper/Ambush squad that needs babysitting
2 - ATG's
3-7 - Vehicles
8-0 - Artillery (i start with 0 and work my way down for arty)

I've done this since pretty much day 1 and I can't live without this layout.

How do you reach all the way across the keyboard to 0 without looking?

"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?..The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and... the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough...We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

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On the example of the USSR:
1 - main infantry (usually two squads of Shock Troops)
2 - main tanks (usually two SU-85s)
3 - engineers
4 - support squad (usually one squad of conscripts for critical engine damage, this is all that conscripts are capable of in the late stage of the game)
9,0 - artillery support (Katyusha, ML-20)

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17 Mar 2022, 02:32 AMdonofsandiego

How do you reach all the way across the keyboard to 0 without looking?

I can touch type so its not really an issue for me.

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17 Mar 2022, 02:32 AMdonofsandiego

How do you reach all the way across the keyboard to 0 without looking?

Autohotkey.

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