Profile of donofsandiego

Okay, after doing some testing, here's what I found:

Emplacements now seem to have weapon health A La CoH2, though there's seemingly no way for the player to see it.

If an emplacement is decrewed in any way, even simple small arms fire, it will lose a certain amount of its max health when it decrews.

The Flak 38, for example, will now decrew and leave an abandoned weapon at half health. If the enemy was to recrew this Flak 38, the new crew will only have half health. If it is then decrewed again without recieving any repairs, it will leave an abandoned teamweapon at seemingly 0 health, and a few gunshots will finish it off.

The axis player can counteract this by repairing the weapon after recrewing it, and it will also "reset" the abandoned weapon's health. (E.g. repairing the half health flak 38 to full, the emplacement will abandon at half health as before.)

OK, so let me get this straight, you and Garrett want to add hundreds of pop in support of these emplacements,

Last I checked, a fallshirmpio squad and a halftrack isn't anywhere near "hundreds of pop". Also, just so we're on the same page, I play 4v4, so let's just be sure we're talking about the same size gamemode here.

Upgraded it's 40 munitions, add in a dive bomb run for 100 total if you really want to be sure.

Add in a dive bomb run for whatever you want. Unlike the strafing run, they come from the long side of the map always because you can't aim it. It's AA bait. You'll never get off a P47 bombing run past the 10 minute mark maximum.

Also, you do realize these callins share a cooldown, right? You don't get to strafe + dive bomb for a super duper kill everything plane run. You'd need a US teammate who is also gimping themselves by not getting Mechanized support to do this.

These emplacements are broken, and they're a bitch to play against, if it was up to me they would be an 8-man towed version of the ones we can recruit from structures, but I don't feel like you're being open to tactical ideas that people are sharing.

You're completely missing the point. I *play* US. I am *telling* you what happens in an actual game. The strafing run *cannot* be shot down on the edge of the map. That's its one big strength, and I pointed that out. Past that, you're gimping your late game by locking out Sherman 76es, and your strafing run is obsoleted by Flak 36es, which simply don't die to a double sortie strafe, and are accurate enough to shoot down a P47 bombing run before it even reaches them.

I'm not being close-minded, I tried all that shit in the multiplayer tech test AND here in the live version. It just can't do its job anywhere other than the edges of the map.

And then what? You destroyed one emplacement, congrats. In the meanwhile, your VPs are ticking down, the enemy is just about to get the Tiger, you have no upgraded Shermans, incredibly bad infantry and no arty. You are still fucked.

The only thing I take issue with is the "incredibly bad infantry" part of this statement. Vet 1 riflemen get the suppression ability, so US' infantry is a bit better than most would think, at least in 4v4. The enemy wipes the floor with them without it, though.

And this becomes absolutely obsolete when they have multiple of these emplacements. Your plan will not even reach the edge of the map.

Depends on how close to the edge of the map it is.

good luck fighting 3v3 or 4v4 late game

?? Only if the enemy is getting straight Tigers and Panthers.

God help the axis if they aren't able to stop you from hitting critical mass with Sherman 76 HE shells horde. US mid game is the weakest, not late game.

USF late game "indirect fire" (RE: killing blobs) is sherman HE rounds and even canister shot can kill support weapons if you're rich enough to tech it + use it. Try it. Trust me, they're very good.