Profile of Nailirie

I was just wondering if the map was changed as of some recent patch; I noticed its now named Eindhoven Country with the D. Any idea if its just the title fixed or if its a newer version?

Can't wait for the patch, seems great. It is just good that the alpha changes will be implemented in several patches, so they can fine tune the changes they release earlier in the 2nd patch.

As a side note it seems that no patch will ever make the forums happy. If relic did exactly what they'd want there would still probably be rioting.

All that indirect fire would be lovely yet pretty unlikely I guess. Seems pretty cool, just wondering if making vehicle timing rely mostly on manpower would allow you to ignore map control for the most part. Like that Panther would be coming out even if you are cut off from your fuel all the time.

Because EVERY RTS HAS "BLOBBING". Look at starcraft 2. blobbing.

You simply lack the tools to counter blobs effectively. As Mackie stated, MGs are unreliable since sometimes they supress with their first volley, sometimes they don't, sometimes they start reloading as soon as they see your opponent, sometimes the MG gunner gets shot instantly. And you are right, Arty is unreliable aswell. Again, too much RNG involved in here.

As stated above, the counter tools to a huge infantry blob are too unreliable to be used consistently. Surely well placed demos etc can punish the blobs, but thats not very dynamic and limited to one faction (non-doc). The biggest difference when comparing to SC2 is that in SC (the mechanics are quite a lot less complicated, granted) you can easily punish unmicroed "blobs". In CoH2 you might need a single shell from a T34 or Tiger to drop several entities at once, or you can have a Katyusha barrage that does less than the previous example. HE explosives still can somewhat reliably counter all sorts of blobs most of time, and a buff to them would just cause single squads to get wiped continuously. Not very rewarding either.

Slightly OT: I know this is not a topic on how to solve blobbing, but what I would like to see is MGs getting a slight cost increase and a dramatic increase in performance. I also believe that units shooting from a cover should be more accurate. Example: Oorahing over red cover to hug the grens in green cover and only losing 0-2 models in the process is wrong in my opinion.

I don't think rifle grenades are that much harder to notice than normal ones, unless shot from out of sight. Sure, you need to be around your troops to notice it, but that goes for other grenades too. Dodge a few riflenades and your opponent has delayed his LMGs or Schrecks by a good time.