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Thread: Lemon's 2v2 USF 20 Aug 2015, 01:01 AM Jump back to quoted post16 Aug 2015, 00:56 AMLemonJuice How to play USF in the current patch in 2v2s (Random, or otherwise) TL;DR Preferred Commanders: Infantry Rifle Company Build Order 1: Rifleman Rifleman + Fighting Pit Rifleman Lieutenant .50cal HMG/Ambulance Captain Stuart/AT gun HMG/AT gun/Pack Howitzer as necessary Major Jacksons as necessary Feel free to ask me any questions. Why no Airborne? If you don't have any pathfinders, do you do anything to scout before attacking? I'm probably not playing the way that I should but it seems like I bleed a lot more mp when I don't have something that gives me greater vision. I could get a scout car but they rarely seem to pay for themselves and their mines are expensive for something that is more likely to be found by someone's mine detector than their armor. In: US Forces Strategies
Thread: Opinions of Penal battalion20 Aug 2015, 00:45 AM "Real soldiers are busy, you must do this." Penals used to be useful when some OKW had huge reduced accuracy bonuses and before the nerf to them firing from clown cars. They're still somewhat okay, but they work well in late game unless vet 3. I used to use them a lot but usually go T2 and skip T1 unless I think I need a sniper. In: Red Army Strategies
Thread: ML-20 and barraging the enemy base need a nerf. 31 Jul 2015, 00:54 AM Jump back to quoted post28 Jul 2015, 22:09 PMcomm_ash Best fix for howitzers would be a multi-phased approach, similar to what I saw lemon come up with earlier. 1) Buff Howitzer HP to not be killed by a single offmap. 2) Howitzers gain reduced range ~175. 3) Howitzers cannot be built in base. This would give howitzers a trade off (offensive positioning to attack enemies, or defensive positiong to synergize with defenses), as well as reduce the shooting into base problem. It would also make Howitzers ALOT easier for OKW to counter. I like the earlier suggestion about decreasing popcap and cost - cost from 600 to 320 (cut build time in half) popcap from 15 to 8 shells from 8+2 to 3 +1 can have 2 max (maybe 3) maybe cut range some, but certainly leave it longer than walking stuka (do something similar with OST) This would nerf it a decent amount, without making it the next B4, and make it so that the stuka dive bomb is less effective (bigger muni sink) at countering it. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Relic wants your vote about blizzards30 Jul 2015, 06:05 AM Jump back to quoted post30 Jul 2015, 05:38 AMJohnnyB I love realism. The more realism is reflected in a game, the more I will like the game. Who whines about blizzards should have to learn to deal with them because, for the hundreth time, COH2 should not be based just on APM. Player skill should be tested also around strategies and knowledge on when to attack and when to stay put. Player should learn how to adapt his strategy depending on map. And so on. That is why while I admit that deep snow, blizzards, mud, ice, etc, are annoying features, I also think that a player should be prepared for such conditions. In life, you can't chose the moment when it's most convenient for you that certain things happen, you will have to adapt in order to progress and survive. So learn to adapt. Then if you want realism, make all Soviet units immune to blizzard instead of the OKW (who serverd on the western front) and make most Soviet units immune to deep snow, instead of Sturmpios. In: Lobby
Thread: USF - A few more design errors 30 Jul 2015, 06:00 AM Jump back to quoted post29 Jul 2015, 14:16 PMOrionHunter88 HOLY CRAP THE IGNORANCE OF GERMAN FANBOIS There were ONLY 44 OSTWINDS ever built. ONLY 91 ELEPHANTs ever built ONLY 88 JAGDTIGERs ever built. ONLY 19 STURMTIGERs ever built. STG44 infarred scopes were extremely rare. ALL OF THESE AFVs/TECHNOLOGY mentioned had generally horrible service records. Elepehant and Jagd broke down all the time and were usually abandoned without ever even fighting. A handful of those TDs knocked out a few tanks and that was it. German airpower on the western front was NON existant yet "Whermacht" has the most airpower in the game. Sherman Jumbo saw QUITE BIT of service and had rather heavy armor capable of bouncing 75mm and even the occasional 88 (as reported). IT DOES NOT MATTER. AT ALL. WHAT HAPPENED IN 1944-45. RELIC CHOSE TO DESIGN THIS GAME REGARDLESS OF THOSE UNIT PERFORMANCE/QUANTITY. IF STURMTIGER/ELEPHANT/OSTWIND/JAGDTIGER CAN MAKE IT. SHERMAN JUMBO CAN DEFINATLEY MAKE IT and SO CAN PERSHING. CAPSLOCK isn't your friend. Any message you had just gets lost in the rage. There is a weird dynamic here with Axis fanboys and Relic. Historical arguments are only applied against Soviets or USF. When anyone brings up historical arguments against Axis, the reply will always be that the intention of the game is to be competitive, not be a simulation. IMO, adding a Pershing wouldn't really fix any problems. The problem primarily is in the strange design of OKW with the fuel and muni penalty, five levels of vet, and units that are buffed to compensate for the penalty. Lastly, the JT, KT, Elefant, and SturmTiger are the units that cause problems in larger team games. I'd much prefer that the popcap on those be increased to around 40 so that they don't dominate games and players have to make some trade-offs to get those units. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: M24 Chaffee30 Jul 2015, 05:36 AM Jump back to quoted post30 Jul 2015, 03:22 AMThe Big Red 1 the only rts games that i can think of that had the M24 Chaffee were RUSE and the Men of War series i think from the looks of it the Chaffee has made very few appearances in most if not many WW2 games excluding World of Tanks but it would be nice to see the Chaffee in there as a call-in aside from that with the brits coming into the fray relic might want to rethink that decision It might work as a call-in, but unless it's characteristics were greatly distorted, it would be just a slightly faster light tank that couldn't stand up to a PIV - something similar to an upgunned Puma. I don't think it would help balance anything out. In: Lobby
Thread: Relic wants your vote about blizzards30 Jul 2015, 05:26 AM I think blizzards are great. They help recreate the great German winter offensive of 1941, when many thousands of Soviets succumbed to the cold and Germans had no problem moving in the deep snow (unlike the Russians who had obviously never experienced harsh winters before then). Blizzards are almost as good at the total air superiority that the Luftwaffe (CAS) enjoyed in the final days of WWII. /endsarcasm I don't really believe that anyone at Relic is a closet neo-Nazi, but the way that Canada's Relic distorts history almost makes me feel good about US public schools............. In: Lobby
Thread: Broken balance USF vs OST24 Jul 2015, 14:01 PM Jump back to quoted post24 Jul 2015, 11:41 AMRollo No you're right, I've not played USF at all this patch http://www.coh2.org/replay/37174/new-patch-double-usf-vs-double-wehr My bad, I missed where you played a 2v2. Since this thread was primarily about 1v1's, why don't you play an additional 28 (double your current number) of 1v1's and tell us how it's done. If that's too many, maybe just play an additional 10. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Broken balance USF vs OST24 Jul 2015, 04:57 AM Jump back to quoted post24 Jul 2015, 04:13 AMcomm_ash It was sarcasm I know, but your post was the best lead-in to expose Rollo. Rollo often talks about how USF is just fine, how he uses some tactic, and any complaints are just a l2p issue. Awesome talk for someone who is 0-5 in large team games as USF. (and yes, I know your record is much better than his) In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Broken balance USF vs OST24 Jul 2015, 02:28 AM Jump back to quoted post23 Jul 2015, 15:24 PMcomm_ash You must be amazing at this game! You should become a mentor and teach all of us how to play USF in 1s and 2s! You can sign up here: http://www.coh2.org/topic/36123/mentor-program-2015--mentor-sign-ups Before getting excited about that, you should check Rollo's player card. His USF win/loss is 21/7, but it hasn't changed since the first time I checked it some months ago, meaning that he hasn't played USF 1v1 this patch, and probably not last patch. He played 5 total 3v3's and 4v4's as USF and won exactly zero (0) of the five games. Looking at his overall win/loss, it's pretty good so I have no doubt he's a good player. However, given that he has no ranked games as USF since the new patch came out, he's probably giving you excellent advice on how to comp-stomp. In: COH2 Balance