Profile of Spinflight

Avatar Area

Offline Unknown SteamID unknown
Posts: 680

General Information


Thread: Re-crewing vehicles....5 Jan 2016, 08:12 AM Yeah I've since seen abandoned vehicles and managed to recrew them. That part was definitely noobyness. Must have been a wreck though I have no idea why it didn't allow me to salvage it... Used these recovery engineers quite successfully the other night, didn't realise you got manpower from them or reasonable amounts of fuel. I guess the extra 30 manpower might pay for itself after all. It does rather make the bog standard unsupported KT a pleasure to see on the battlefield. Thank you all. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: What is new in 2016 in Company of heroes 2 ?4 Jan 2016, 11:38 AM Being able to trade warspoils would be great... Would help players to tailor their army composition to how they play and might bring a bit more diversity into unit composition. Hell say no-one uses AECs or 222s, if they could trade warspoils they don't use they might tailor their game around them if they could trade for these buffs cheaply. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Garrisons in emplacements..4 Jan 2016, 06:04 AM Ahhh... Thank you for that. Excellent guide. I just tested the various emplacements, none would accept an HMG, though all accept sniper, IS or Sappers. Rather disappointingly the UC wouldn't accept an HMG either. Meant to test whether the command vehicle buff worked on emplacements too, and whether it stacks with the garrison bonus. My opponent didn't seem to fancy sending waves of infantry at it though... Sniper in an emplacement was interesting, particularly with the bofors as it increased the sight range out to the maximum range for the bofors ( 45m without vet). Then again the bofors doesn't really struggle with light armour or infantry rushes. Infantry section with the base howitzer upgrade in a mortar pit too, both for sight range ( not sure if the mortar pit even has a sight range) and the possibility of defending it. Seems the pit has a largeish minimum range so when something gets close you have to brace. With a section inside those annoying Luchs or whatnot might have to deal with Piats (if they are kind enough to stay still) and I'm guessing the IS could pop out for a quick fag and throw one of their impressively short ranged smoke canisters to call in 25pder fires. Frankly the only use I can think of for this 'ability'. Sniper in a mortar pit is looking favourite to me. Also an upgraded UC directly behind seems very effective, the vickers on the UC has a longer range than it's sightline so it seems top suppress most infantry before they reach the minimum range of the mortars. Another thing I noticed by accident was that the 6pdr gives green cover to troops directly behind it. Not garrisoned per se but might be useful on open maps. You can even squeeze an HMG in behind. Pak creep with base howitzer fire on the advance anyone? Do the garrison continue to fire when the various pits are braced? Also are they considered to be in the equivalent of a trench for rate of fire bonusses and cover? In: UKF Strategies
Thread: Greatest UKF Strat for 2v2+3 Jan 2016, 21:14 PM Even I've got a few wins with this, I don't use your exact build order but then again I'm a very low level player. A few points I've noticed, the command vehicle seems to seriously buff infantry as well as tanks. I think ATGs seem to fire faster too. I usually upgrade a UC to wasp and keep it back a bit. Three to four IS, one of which builds caches and acts as a reserve, the three IS cap their way to VPs then trench ( sandbags may well be better, hadn't thought of that). I then pick a VP to defend based on how much pressure the opponent is applying, though generally favour the middle one if at all possible. Early game the UC trots around and helps out against infantry rushes or garrisoned 42s. Bolster squad and save munitions for the air drop. Once I get that that crew with sappers, reinforce sappers, crew machinegun, reinforce sapper again. MG goes to the trench on the VP I've decided to defend with ATG slightly back whilst the IS goes forward to cap. Spare sappers build a mortar pit ideally covering 2 VPs with MG flank protection and the ATG partly covering. I then build a couple of AECs, they're pretty fragile but with the command UC seem to provide quite a potent force against capping or harassing infantry. I try to keep them behind my lines and use as fire support, often around the middle VP ( gun on them seems to do a good impression of a Cromwells, though much less AI damage). The mortar pit seems to be a honey trap, especially for OKW with blobbed shreks or ISGs. If they try armour I've beaten off Panthers, Elephants and all sorts with 1-2 ATGs plus the AECs. Generally with 2 VPs I'll just harrass the third whilst hunkering down whilst my fuel ticks up for Churchill, Comet or Cromwells. I think the UCs are just too fragile late game so will probably try nominating an AEC once it dies. Biggest problem I've found is with artillery, LeFH etc wreck me and it feels odd to be out gunned with artillery as the Brits. I haven't found any use for the expensive engineers, anyone know how many resources you get from a scavenged tank as mine have always died whilst trying it. And you can't build with them... 450 manpower is a big investment unless you're getting something concrete out of them. Also the forward OP I've tried a couple of times but haven't really found a good use for it. Artillery cover, do you use if offensively or defensively? Seems to be a bit indiscriminate when used up close and personal. Edit: Just noticed you added youtube replays... Prolly answers some of my questions. In: UKF Strategies
Thread: Re-crewing vehicles....3 Jan 2016, 19:44 PM Are we putting this down to noobyness then? If a tank has been decrewed then you just select unit and click on the tank to recrew it? Is there a minimum squad size needed to recrew? In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Re-crewing vehicles....3 Jan 2016, 18:41 PM It had a white health bar showing about 50% remaining. If it was a wreck I'd imagine those otherwise useless recovery sappers could have salvaged something from it. Think I've played about 10 games online so pretty nooby... Had the same issue on other vehicles too, not sure whether there is a separate hotkey or whatnot though I don't get the enter tooltip and clicking on a vehicle just sees them using it as cover. No reply to hand, though will look out for it in the future. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Re-crewing vehicles....3 Jan 2016, 16:49 PM Pardon the noobiness / possible blindness... Playing as UKF I haven't been able to recrew any vehicles... Panver V knocked out in my base so I tried RE and IS but they just used it for cover. Convinced myself that I couldn't do it so brought in some recovery sappers thinking I might be able to scavenge some resources, but that didn't work either. Gutted that i spent 450 manpower on two units who didn't appear to be able to do jack. Are you meant to use them as minesweepers or something? They can't build or lay mines and scavenging a UC wreck I didn't even notice what if anything they recovered. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Lack of anti-garrison for UKF3 Jan 2016, 16:02 PM I really miss the rifle grenades from COH.. Smoke from the mortar pit plus mills bombs works ok, but comes a bit late especially if Mg42s have been spammed. Also means keeping your mortar pit alive to vet1. Giving the base howis a smoke ability for a nominal cost might provide a solution, hopefully your infantry would would be able to throw further than their toes. Interestingly the 25pdr was, under perfect conditions ( which included known barrel wear, muzzle velocity, detailed, very recent and reliable meteorological data, perfect gun alignment to the firing line and perfect survey for both firing position and target) capable of 25 yard range increments. Very different to 25 yard accuracy of course. Hence those IS throwing a smoke marker 20 metres wouldn't even be "battery close target" or danger close in the modern tense, they would be bringing artillery fire down on themselves. You'd probably get medal or a demotion for calling in fires closer than 300yds of your own position.... In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Low Level Players as Team Mates in 2v22 Jan 2016, 13:04 PM I can hear you you know... In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Mod Builder Exception..2 Jan 2016, 00:37 AM Hello, Had it running fine, though now when I try to edit the attribs it parses the game files and then blinks a red screen. The following is in the AttributeEditorXML log file... AttributeEditorXML.exe Error: 0 : Caught an exception in main e = System.InvalidOperationException: There is an error in XML document (0, 0). ---> System.Xml.XmlException: Root element is missing. at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ThrowWithoutLineInfo(String res) at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseDocumentContent() at System.Xml.XmlReader.MoveToContent() The auto generated attrib.xml merely contains the following.. <mod guid="ebf129c1054e4df9b49c2c3916f5b490" override_locdb="True" override_instances="True"> </mod> I've tried reinstalling without luck... Don't think I changed anything from when it was running... Any ideas? In: Modding and Tools