Profile of Ulaire Minya

I had a crazy idea when sitting around staring at the ceiling at work that the USF weapon rack pickups would add abilities to the units that pick them up, somewhat justifying their mediocrity. Implementing this would require stripping RE's of volley fire.

1. BAR would grant units the "Suppressing Fire" ability and the time until suppressed would depend on the amount of BAR's on the squad.

2. The Bazooka would grant the "Fire White Phosphorous Rocket" ability (yes, they existed). This would fire one or two rockets (depending on the amount of 'zooks in the squad). It would provide a nondoctrinal pseudo-flamethrower/building clearer/static weapon team disruptor to a faction that badly needs some more diversity.

3. The 1919 would provide the same suppressing fire/slow ability that paratroopers have as defensive stance is generally agreed to be too good.

Note that all of these would require munitions, thus hopefully balancing them somewhat while allowing usf to fight infantry battles without the massive reliance on vehicles.

Let me know if I'm completely crazy or not.

If you ask me, snipers are a cancer upon this game. They're more balanced since the dark days of CoH 1, but still obnoxious as hell and mostly dependent on the skill of the player.
Frankly, the biggest issue stems from the lack of stock units that can counter snipers. In CoH 1 US had a jeep and sniper, Wehr a motorbike and sniper, Brits a "snipe" ability on recon sections and PE had kettenkrad stealth reveal/T1 scout cars.
Now we've got M3/sniper for Soviets, Sniper/maybe 222 for Wehr, Stuart as teh only really viable counter for USF because the M20 will get fausted to shit and OKW has the kubel...kind of. Sure the WFA have doctrinal PF/Jager counters, but it's kind of bullshit how both of them will bleed so heavily against snipers while completely impotent.

The liberator about a U.S. Officer in an infantry regiment which travelled further than any other and was the first into dachau. It's excellent as a soldiers account but also helped me flesh out details of Anzio and the campaign in southern France which broader accounts have failed to do for me. It's also an extraordinary story if survival and very readable and entertaining to boot. Written by Alex kershaw.


For large scale analysis Absolute War about soviet/axis war was fascinating focusing on the ideological nature of the eastern front battle and how the two powers handled it. I know Quinn Duffy drew on this heavily - it includes the account of a t34 ram destroying a tiger and has a lot of detail on the stuff that our Russian friends found so objectionable due to their referencing in game.

What the Russian population found objectionable (and with good reason) is that fact that the campaign focuses on all the negative aspects of the Red Army while calling itself Company of Heroes.
Contrast that with the campaigns in the original game and even Ardennes Assault. Not a singe mention of anything but heroism.

Every faction has +25% more received accuracy on weapon crews. Now actually when you recrew something it no longer gets that and takes the received accuracy stats of the squad that crews it.

I am very much of the opinion it's a dumb mechanic on MG's.

Agreed.

t0 mortar, and possibly buff Re's to be like 180 mp ostruppen.