Profile of BeltFedWombat

1. Readjust infantry AT to give some sort of parity across factions, not just Axis

2. A *big* commander cull / overhaul... less is more sometimes MOAR (look at vCoH). I like commander variety but the dead ones need a shake up.

3. A design solution that limits heavy tanks and increases 'the dance' of the early-mid game.

To be fair, we asked for '3' and in the March Deployment last year we got it. CoH2 needs another refresh akin to that patch in terms of a tactical step-change.

Edit -

Allowing players to have an Ardennes Assault-style commander interface, with in-depth unit customization and tweaks for competitive games would be all sorts of awesome. It needs re-working, of course, but intelligence bulletins could segue into the custom options for each commander. Basically, you make your own commander from a suite of agreed sub-commanders and bulletins.

EXAMPLE

I have a template for a commander I'll name '2 v 2 WEHR' In that I'll buy upgrades from my intel bulletins that make my gren MGs cheaper and increases mortar damage and health. Then I drop in my Blitz Assault commander. That allows me to select one or two of those commander abilities (up to six agreed mix and match) so I go for smoke and tiger.

How do you segue North Africa factions with the existing ones?

The tech base and relative power of units is drastically different.

This is why I think Brits are next, although a very late war 'Assault on Berlin' faction for the Russkis would be awesome.

I am totally not intrested in Italy and dont understand why someone would be.

I'm not that interested in the Winter War in Finland but I totally dig why others might be. Duh.

Italy = the only significant pre D-Day Allied campaign (Far East notwithstanding, yeah there's North Afrika but I see that as contiguous with the Italian campaign TBH).

Multinational forces. German paras - Green Devils. Free Polish infantry along with Indians and ANZAC troops. Massive US army.

Iconic battles (Anzio / Cassino / Gothic Line) and diverse operational scenarios (beach landings, mountain warfare, airborne assaults, rolling advances along river valleys).

Epic static and mobile defence on the behalf of the Germans, led by an *air force* officer.

Politiking among the general staff and one of the most vainglorious US generals of all time (Mark Clarke).

Seems pretty obvious why it might be interesting.

The one unit that would make USF the One True Faction and break the game completely would be a sniper. Sorry, O/T

1. They should simply have given OKW a durable HMG half-track as a suppression platform, not the Iron Storm death-ray on wheels. I loved the PE MG halfie and the Wehr version that let you load a MG team into it.

2. My current take-down for this unit is a multi-directional attack with infantry, usually 1 cons and 2 penals. Drop satchel charge. Retreat. The bug-out time on the halfie is slower than the fuse on the charge.

Boom.

I've destroyed the half track every time. Once it was abandoned / recoverable but only once. RNG.