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Thread: Feedback for Commander Revamppatch5 Sep 2018, 10:57 AM Jump back to quoted post5 Sep 2018, 10:38 AMTiger Baron They're a close quarter combat (CQC) unit, so they need the smoke, like Shocks. However I imagine them to be either solely an AI unit (completely outfitted with Thomsons) or have a shorter range "sticky grenade" for use as an AT snare, similar to the one in CoH, or the satchel is already that? I don't really know. I don't think they need smoke to be a CQC unit: Rangers and Thompson Paras don't and they're amongst the best. However, I do think the smoke's good for their role: they're vehicle support infantry and the ability to blind AT guns definitely helps with that. I can see the difficulty in designing Cav Rifles: make them too weak a CQC unit and they don't get used, make them too good and they'll go off to the flanks to wipe squads instead of supporting vehicles. What if they removed Combined Arms as a Commander ability and made it a passive on the Cavalry Riflemen? Have them about Assault Engineer effective on their own, but they get buffed up to Thompson Paratrooper performance with a vehicle nearby? That gives you very efficient CQC infantry but only when fighting alongside a vehicle. You also keep the highly thematic Combined Arms effect but escape the myriad balance problems of having it apply to anything. In: Lobby
Thread: Feedback for Commander Revamppatch5 Sep 2018, 10:15 AM One possible concern on the Cav Rifles: they're frontline infantry with smoke and snares. Wasn't smoke removed from Rifles because it was a problem? That, and the AT satchels current have a normal snare range on them. That's the range and damage on the AT satchel at the moment. In: Lobby
Thread: Feedback for Commander Revamppatch5 Sep 2018, 00:06 AM I think there is room to fit the M8 Greyhound in there somewhere as well lol. Mechanized as is has, WC51 Mark Target (via WC51) 155mm Artillery (via WC51) M3 Haltrack Assault Engineers (via M3 Halftrack) M3 Mortar Halftrack Cavalry Riflemen Combined Arms Withdraw and Refit 76mm Sherman That's overkill in my opinion: pretty much two commanders at once. In: Lobby
Thread: Feedback for Commander Revamppatch4 Sep 2018, 23:39 PM The new changes look pretty neat! Mechanized seems quite ability heavy now though, what with having three call-ins in one ability. Maybe shift one of its abilities to Armor to replace Elite Crews? In: Lobby
Thread: Rear Echeleons need reworking.4 Sep 2018, 17:38 PM I never use Volley Fire on the .30 cal, I give it to them for the firepower. Riflemen are flankers and therefore lack synergy with the stationary firing .30 cal, but Rear Echelons are great sticking in green cover firing away with it. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Ambulance lockdown ability? 4 Sep 2018, 16:59 PM Now that Handbrake exists I think the ambulance should probably adopt it. Have it always activate the healing aura when stationary and lock down with Handbrake. That'd make it a little easier to micro in a field support role. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Rear Echeleons need reworking.4 Sep 2018, 16:31 PM Jump back to quoted post4 Sep 2018, 15:21 PMLeOverlord At least Pios manage to kill 1-2 models from enemy squads in point blank, unlike RE who can't hit an elephant standing still in front of them Volley Fire's a trash ability but I don't think the Rear Echelon Squad is a trash unit. It's just a unit that relies on weapon upgrades to function as anything more than a slightly better Combat Engineer. Once you give them weapon upgrades they become really good units for their cost: double bazooka REs are great anti-tank troops and .30 cal REs are solid combat troops if they sit in green cover and do their thing. Being able to grab the sweeper and keep their weapon slots is also pretty neat. Relative to the rest of the USF faction I think Rear Echelons are in about the right place. If USF needs to be stronger versus other factions I'd more inclined to shift fuel from Lieutenant/Captain to Major to accelerate their first officer power spike and lessen the pain of double teching. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Rear Echeleons need reworking.4 Sep 2018, 14:20 PM Here's an idea about Rear Echelons (since Axis mains AGAIN reject every idea) Why does it matter what they say? Relic and the balance teams make the decisions. They're just as capable of ignoring the people who see balancing as a competition as the rest of us are. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Rear Echeleons need reworking.4 Sep 2018, 11:12 AM Volley Fire's one of those abilities that's trash when it doesn't work and oppressive when it does. I'd lean towards ditching it entirely and giving REs some more general utility. Untying their smoke (but not the officer smoke) from the grenade unlock's one idea. Giving them a basic rifle grenade locked behind Vet 2's another. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Feedback for Commander Revamppatch3 Sep 2018, 16:52 PM Free smoke (with a green flare) and maybe halved shell count, halved cost? In: Lobby