Profile of Euan

Yeah I dunno, I think if you park your car next to several men with submachineguns who don't like you very much, you shouldn't expect it to stay in one piece for very long

It's a good question. Most of the call-ins in this game have gradually been changed to being built at various buildings, or at least put on a cool-down timer.

Personally I didn't like this much, because the call-in gives flavour and the whole point of a commander ability is that it actually does give you a bonus, that is to say, it performs something better than you would be able to do so without the commander.

On the other hand it seems weird to have a few things remaining as call-ins while almost everything else is base-built.

Agree that while op raises a good point (despite the clickbaity title), there's nothing wrong with listening to players from all levels and game modes in general, to help create a fun successful game for everyone.

On the other hand I'm not against some basic requirement to post on the balance section. For example, linked playercard, perhaps showing at least 10 games played in all factions. This at least cuts out the useless rants from the people who only play one faction and don't have even a basic idea what things are like from the other side.

If you don't fit this requirement, you'll just see a standard disclaimer directing you to the strategy forum.

About the skill level, I know you all rank +100 players dont care about blobs because you dont suffer them and even less in 1v1. But many discussions have circled around factions spamming infantry and blobbing and i figured out how imbalanced in skill level it is, to perform vs to stop it. I though it deserved a good discussion, if you want to tag me with :L2P: im fine with it, but i made a solid point of the game and this kind of problems tend to kill a game over time IMO. Top level players should not reject new players into the game.

No that's a very fair point, there should be at least some attempt to balance over various game modes and skill ranges, and it's important to discuss, of course it's very difficult to do

It's also just my personal opinion that while I love CoH2, there are way too many "tweaks" to units; gun a on unit b performs c% differently against unit d in situation e. It makes it pretty impossible to get a handle on things without deep numerical research into the patch notes for the last 5 years, which is a bit silly and not user-friendly. The aura mechanic, as long as it had a proper UI indicator, is probably the most understandable and realistic way to implement anti-blobbing this without making this issue worse.

On the other hand, concentration of force is a basic and valid military tactic. I don't say "L2P" to anyone cuz it's kind of dismissive but one of the fun parts of CoH2 is gradually learning how to overcome things and thus getting to a higher level. Cheesy tactics can be annoying but it's even more fun when you finally manage to counter them and the person you're beating rage quits cuz of it

From Allied perspective, how can me and my friend deal with Panzer Grenadiers / Grenadier or Volksgrenadier blobs (we are at rank 2000). The Allied MGs don't suppress all the units like the MG-42 does.

Right, but you can just click on each squad in turn to suppress them (if you right click on the ground by mistake, you'll pack the MG up, so use the hotkey for attack move which won't do that). In general of course you have to be a bit smarter where you set it up, or use another unit to extend the vision range, or have some other squad nearby to come deal with any squad that gets through without having to retreat the MG - nothing in CoH2 is a 100% guaranteed counter to anything else, but 60% of the time it works every time