I'm surprised to see so many votes on conscript support tactics being bad. I mean, sure, in this patch it's bad because conscripts are bad at the moment. But before that it was an amazing doctrine.
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I love this 'mander. Because I like T34s and I like playing TigerRam2. When conscripts didn't suck, I could have like 4-5 T34s constantly being repaired by my con hordes, and drop the firebomb thingy on defended positions. It was good.
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This patch did a great deal to promote successful combined arms strategies and unit diversity.
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As Groucho Marx said, I would not join any club that would have me as a member. In any case, I'm not a top tier player and would not expect an invite.
Just irritated and fed up with the crapola. I'd rather just read good posts from smart players and sifting through the posts from all the IIBovineSSDivision types is getting thoroughly tiresome. I do read the community forums on occasion and a lot of the same garbage posters are now here as well, that's all.
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These forums are getting to be as unreadable as the official forums.
I apologize for the inherent snob factor, but I wonder if you might consider creating a balance section that requires a 1v1 or 2v2 rank of 200 or above to post.
I know, rank does not always equate to skill, but it's all we have to work with. You could create a tourney quarter-finalists section for all I care, just some place where there's less gibberish being posted which would be read-only for everyone else and I know the opinions expressed will be backed up by skill+experience. This might also get other skilled players posting, there seem to be quite a few who just don't want to waste their time on the forums arguing with idiots.
It would also help Relic by filtering the feedback. There's clearly too much for them to pay attention to at this point.
I understand there is some hidden forum here that's invite only, but I think it would be more helpful for such a forum to be read-only by the masses.
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It's funny how the more they try to make the game interesting, the more they turn it into a noob RTS. You can't fight the underlying resource and popcap system.
As a former player (Dave I think) said once: COH2 - for noobs, by noobs. |
This:
I broke my jaw once, I had to drink this stuff and various purees for months. I much preferred this over pureed vegetables  .
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Cruzz is right, this crap meta has more to do with lack of decent Soviet infantry AT options and the vulnerability of SU-85s.
I think both factions should have some sort of teching cost for them though, this will promote more interesting play. There is precedent for this in COH - PE's Panther call-in required a number of different techs researched and final research at headquarters.
The requirements should differ by faction, if Sov tanks become too powerful at AT in the Western armies patch, then they might not need to differ by much.
But right now, as boring as it is, Sov T3 and T4 are only barely viable with this teching cost.
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I post my replays if they are interesting. This is an example of a very simple, but very powerful Soviet strat that will probably be more difficult to counter once a grenadier nerf hits.
I am simply interested in tactical discussion of how best to counter it. If anyone is interested in playing this vs me, I'd love to try some alternative builds against it.
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Eh, I dunno, incendiary and lots of troops to take a Pak43. Should have made sniper though.
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No one posts replays with this guy, so I thought I would share.
As I know he's really good I pulled out all the BS, G43+LMG, went straight to T4 to fight the KV8...I know, right, straight to T4 in 1v1? Yeah, in this meta if you go Elite Troops you're going to have to vs KV8 because the Tiger Ace won't hit the field in time to save you - stug spam might be a good alternative.
I suicided the Tiger Ace because I knew I needed the res back for more panthers and reinforce, but failed to defend my fuel. And needed more Teller mines, I tried to lure him into one but he didn't take the bait. KV8 and IS2 started wiping my infantry. I feel like I did well enough against the shocks, and did wipe some cons.
Though as in most high level games the MG loss was also very costly.
I hate this meta. They really need to have some teching cost associated with super tanks.
Hope this replay helps you beat him! He does seem to conspam a lot, so an earlier MG will probably help as opposed to infinite gren.
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