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IMO smoke also needs to fire faster. I often wanted to do a nice push covered by smoke but the mortar literally needs about 30 seconds until the first smoke pops out. It's mostly too late then.

I got CAS this year with MWNL and it easily became my favourite commander in 1v1 and 2v2.
Not because it is as batshit overpowered as OP wants to say but because it simply offers a playstyle I loved in vCoH that was lacking in CoH2 for so long. I speak about infantry only as Germans.

It's so annoying that it is nearly impssible atm to stay in the game without ultra heavy call ins such as KT/Tiger/IS2/Pershing (lol). Especially as Ost player it was 'Bring a Tiger or die' in EVERY SINGLE GAME.

Why? Because there is a USF blob of hell in every game facing USF. What do you want to do against it? MG42 is worthless. T3 is worthless because an Ostwind won't do anything against 3 Easy 8s and a P4 won't do much better. T4 is a joke so the single possibility to stand against USF is a Tiger in - I repeat - EVERY SINGLE GAME. It is a game of waiting and hoping that your enemy won't crush you until 11 CP.

CAS adds the possibility to stand against the blob without waiting for a heavy tank for the cost of having no tanks at all. That is the weak point. No medium or heavy armour, no tanks at all. Only T1 and T2 infantry. Panzergrens lose their AI power by upgrading to shrecks. Their Panzershreck is weaker than a OKW shreck and they die much easier because of lack of sustain. And they are your only AT with PaKs.

Recon flight is a single overflight with a very small radius. It is cheaper but it's not coming back unlike the Ostheer's other recon flights. The AT strafe is expensive and very VERY easy to dodge. It's a very small single line that does devastating damage. Everything outside that smale line won't take any damage. And unlike P47 the JU will neither chase your tanks nor even come back again.

IMO the real power of CAS comes from the AI strafe which is the main punisher against a blobbing player.
Because of the weak state of the MG42 it's the only viable chance to punish a blobbing player with the same skill at the moment.

I try to explain it shortly:

For example you are at rank 1.500.
The game will try to find players within Ranks 1.300 to 1.500.
If the game does not find a player in this area searching at the moment it will continue to look after players within Ranks 1.000 to 1.600 and so on.
AFAIK it will look for worse players slighty slower then for better ones. That means after a long time searching the chance is higher to meet a far better player than a far worse.

In addition if you have not played at least 10 games the game will include ALL players in it's search.

- Plays 4v4 autoteam as USF.
- Complains about balancing and gameplay issues.
- Here we go.

As long as it's playable as both sides I will probably play it. Atm it is possible to win as allies and as axis so it's fine.
What decreases the fun is players using cheese and abusive tactics such as truck pushing etc.