Anti-tank guns must have hold fire ability again

In the current stage of the game you are not able to use hold-fire on anti-tank weaponary. This has several issues which reduce the overall effectiveness of anti-tank guns in general, primarily stemming from the fact they immediately give away their position the moment an infantry unit comes into their firing arc. I find this more prevalent when playing as Ostheer. Generally players lead in with infantry, hence once they see that ATG round fire they know not to commit the vehicle in that path direction. This is a prime concern especially when your opponent is not able to physically see the pak due to MG42 suppression and other German infantry. This generally results in a retreat or vehicles coming forward which the German player should be rewarded by getting 1-2 ATG shots off.

The lack of hold fire makes ATG's extremely easy to counter by artillery and other forms of indirect fire, since you know exactly where they are. I shouldn't be force to move an ATG because it shot a single shot at infantry.

Having no hold fire also reduces the capability of units being able to effectively sync all their damage in the space of 1-2 seconds, offering the great potentially to rapidly destroy an enemy vehicles. In CoH1 with hold fire you could time your Pak shot, shrecks and fausts all to hit at the one time which will do massive amounts of damage very quickly but CoH2 severely reduces that opportunity.

I think this is a relatively simple fix that would make dealing with opponents mid-late game vehicles that bit easier. It also will increase the risk factor in the game for someone utilizing vehicles! CoH2 lacks risks!

I think so.

That would be great feature to have, code is already there couse camo at guns have disable fire option.

Ya. Maybe it is easy. If they want to change.

Hold Fire for all units pls! Tanks too!

Yes this should happen for ATGs + tanks especially.

Hold Fire for all units pls! Tanks too!

That would be even better

What about paks not shooting at inf?

A "only shoot tanks" button would be even better but I'd also take a simple hold fire button.

I absolutely agree.

100% agree

Play tutorial Stephennnn, that's all what i have to say MVGame

+1 I definitely agree. I have also posted on this in the past saying elite infantry should also have the ability, especially Guards Infantry due to their specific light AT role, but Shock Troops and Panzergrenadiers also deserve the ability to fully utilize true-sight and hide behind buildings waiting for units to pass.

Really, ALL units should have hold-fire.

Imo they should just have cloak shot for paks, just like in vcoh which only reveals itself and fires on vehicles.

No reason not to give every unit hold fire.

Hold fire for every unit please..

Right now there's a huge problem with AI idiocy autofiring and giving away your flank the moment they run past an observation post. How are we supposed to apply strategy and 'take advantage of truvision' when units are doing stupid things?

Hold fire for every unit please..

Right now there's a huge problem with AI idiocy autofiring and giving away your flank the moment they run past an observation post. How are we supposed to apply strategy and 'take advantage of truvision' when units are doing stupid things?

Play Men of War MVGame.

Play Men of War MVGame.

Not sure what you're getting at ... you do know Dawn of War 1, you know that one game made by Relic which Company of Heroes is based off, had a regular Move order that didn't involve attacking?

this would solve so many issues right now just adding this to the game and adds more possibilities making for more entertaining games.

now i just have to face my atg in a direction where is no enemy infantry, usually my base. And when i hear vehicle have to flip it. But sometimes it isn´t still enough, because atg´s soldiers with rifles shoot at close enemy infantry.