Profile of RightNow0815

Imho Blitz is okay to exist, and although keeping in mind it's incredibly hard to balance a game like CoH2, Blitz should be nerfed a little to be a good but not godlike ability. For example a slight decrease of 15-20% on all modifiers. It just doesn't look eeh professional when looking at these patch notes, jumping from one extreme to another and none of them being balanced.

Back to topic, Secure mode. It can be useful, and it saved all of our asses at least once. I have to go with drChengele here, just compare how often blitz can be used.
I think most of you agree: Capture mode while beeing able to fire is way too OP.

As far as I know there only were two crew members in the turret, while most German tanks had three. The tank commander and the gunner often had a hard time doing the job - why not helping them a bit?
Something like "Rapid Reload" could be a cool idea, which evens out Blitz a bit without making one of those two abilities useless. A small cost like 30-40 ammo sounds like a fair deal. This makes sense, making the T34 a good unit to attack, suicide, or deal solid amount of damage before the krauts take their souls to valhalla.

Hey guys, its going to get better. Played 3-1 in 3v3AT and 3-1 in 2v2AT with Soviets, allied with 1/2 USF. Your input really helped me alot.

I have one last question: I used to choose "Lend Lease" often because I really liked the Dshka, which allowed me to play with T1 instead of T2 and still field some Machineguns if needed.
Did this baby get some serious nerf? It seems like it refuses to pin anything, its just good to do light vehicles some damage - but this is a bit niche, isnt it? As far as I remember, it had supression like the maxim but with significantly better damage.

Regards.

And thanks again, guys.

I counted and I have lost 25 matches in a row - only playing soviets and USF.
I just checked my "old" ranked stats, they were 14-5 with Sov and 14-7 with usf. Just to let you know im not complete retarded (have to admit I'm not sure all the time )

There are some things that bother me:
- Stug3 E is insanely strong against Soviets and still deadly enough against USF - where is an allied counterpart to this tool? I already mentioned my thoughts on AT-weaknesses of allied infantry...
- USF cant use mines without a certain commander, yea thats because of realsim isnt it ??? Does this make sense? Or am I too dumb to find them?
- USF Armored Commander, combat pioneers can put down mines which should be good against vehicles (if the description was right). Actually they explode and refuse to do any damage at all. Neither infantry, nor vehicles (puma) nor tanks (panther) seem to take any relevant damage from them. That's cool... not.

Again, this is just my humble opinion after playing these matches - and I have to admit that I lost most of them because of MY own mistakes, personal failure and worse tactics and build orders than the enemy... still:

Early game:
Allied have some advantages, but imho they are so small that they only have a decisive influence when both players are 100% equal in terms of tactics and micro.

Mid Game:
First Problems for Allied since their infantry starts to drain manpower very quickly but it's about even now.

Late Game:
Yea, gg.

Hello there.
I have about 200h in Coh2, and most of them is singleplayer experience. I played CoH2 about 6-7 months ago for the last time. I reinstalled it to play some 2v2 matches with an old buddy from CoH1 - have to say whe played it alot, enjoyed it a lot and managed to get to the top (LVL16 most of the time).

To cut a long story short, we played 2v2 USF and SOV all the time because it seemed like everyone was on Krautaction this evening. We got WRECKED 8 times in a row. I am an above average focussed strategy games enthusiast, but I have no conclusion where to begin to learn and improve myself.

Im sure you guys have some advices for me - but please don't forget some dispassionate explanation

1. Commander choice
The commanders I used to use seem to work less effective now and nobody uses them any more... What are currently the most easy to use and probably most succesful commander choices? I've also seen some strange spams I've never imagined to face anytime - 8+ osttruppen etc.

2. What advantages does USF/SOV have against OKW/WM?
a) It seems that on some maps youre getting MG42+mine spammed and thats it because the maps consist of <4 choke points.
b) USF Tanks are still dog crap compared than the mighty tools of the germans - but still spendy.
c) I used both, first and second building with soviets and didnt find any way to beat a micro-wise equal or less skilled opponent.
d) How do USF/SOV survive lategame? One game we managed to create a lockdown and forced the enemy to retreat into their base +2-3 adjacent sectors for most of the game, but in lategame we couldnt make a good use of our higher resource income.
- How to beat lategame spams with Panzergrenadiers equiped with 1 shreck each? Panzerschrecks wreck T34s and are good enough to make a quick end to penals with flames...?
- Wehrmachts rifle nades are still highly effective even against troops with Veterancy and are almost undodgable when you have 50+ actions per minute on a large battlefield - while the allied grenades have a much higher chance to get dodged.
- Sov do not have any adaquate infantry anti tank weapon, the conscript at-nade does very little damage as far as i experienced.

3. Are there certain maps to avoid under all costs with certain factions?

4. Build order suggestions for Soviets with USF partner in 2v2

5. Do Allied Forces (in any combination) roughly have the same victory chances like Axis (any combination)?
I know this is very subjective, but I compared the Ladder statistics and it seems axis have some advantages, but this is just a quick thought. I personally hate OP-screamers, I prefer to be more dispassionate and compare, experience and do some research before judging this heavy.


Feel free to leave any help, it is well appreciated!

I think there are two viable options:

a) merge the pay2win and farm2win systems together - PROFIT.

b) leave the war spoil system unaffected, except the improvement that you get ONE GUARANTEED LOOT-ITEM for every win and the same for every second defeat.