Profile of Rosbone

NOTES:
- I am not a great player.
- I am not a strategist.
- Commanders are currently being changed, so this will all be wrong soon.

1: That makes sense. So for 4v4s, things like recon planes, supply-boosting trucks, artillery and airdrops are useful perhaps?

Yes. Low level 4v4 games can be won by two things arty and vehicle repair. So I use arty commanders or commanders that will repair your vehicles. Vehicles deal damage well but can be fragile. Push, inflict damage, gain veterency, repair. Do not over extend them and lose them.

2: That did occur to me, since as I mention above my choices are/were limited, but looking at things like penal accuracy enhancements would indicate to an opponent I was going T1 rather than T2. Is it still generally worth it or is the information far more valuable than the boosts?

We need a strategist view here.

3: That's useful to know. Are there any commanders/factions you'd recommend starting 4v4 so I'm not too harsh a drain on my allies?

Team games usually rely on team mate support. Which will not exist until you are level 12 or so.

OKW
FORTIFICATIONS - Best stand alone commander for 4v4. OKW is very strong for about 2 minutes then they can get pushed out of territory. Emplacements are a bad investment but can help you hold territory until your team can help you. You lack recon but have artillery.

SOV
SOVIET COMBINED ARMS ARMY - Guards, Recon, Howie etc all in one commander.
ARMORED ASSAULT TACTICS - If the match does not appear to turn into an arty fight I will go this for vehicle repair. Its real strength is letting your team know what the enemy is making. So the earlier you select it the better.

WEHR
JOINT OPERATIONS DOCTRINE - recon and artillery.

USF
INFANTRY COMPANY - There is no other choice for stand alone support. Priest is very good.

BRIT
ADVANCED EMPLACEMENT REGIMENT - If you make emplacements this is the only way to go. You will get rekt hard late game so do not over invest in emplacements(they are easily destroyed late game).
MOBILE ASSAULT REGIMENT - Lots of good stuff here.

Excuse me but you cry that you lose all games as Allies in 4v4 yet you are here claiming Allies are easy mode? Not sure how this makes any sense.

I said during NA times, all allied players are children and will drop after the 1st or 2nd engagement. Assuming they do not crash on load. Which is about 30% of the time. Therefore most NA time allied players lack late game skills. So if you get a game where they stay in the game they will lose it badly after 20-30 minutes in. I have had 100s of games that loses players in the first 10 minutes. And 100s more that we have over 400 VPs but lose anyway to axis that have well under 100 VPs. These are just statistics. Not my personal opinion.

C'mon Bvckdream I thought you were better than this

Please, u can spam volks like soviets can spam conscripts (except volks actually scale without a commander as more than meatshield utility while getting all of their utility also for free!

Volks slightly better than cons.

Not to forget Maxim doesnt suppress anymore and neither does vickers.

I disagree. They do suppress.

And Volks still have the oh-so-balanced napalm nade that dispatches any MG from the field.

You mean the "oh excuse me sir would you mind moving your MG away from this spot. TY" grenade. Most people let the MG sit there in flames until a model drops then just move it 3 meters and it is safe again to keep suppressing.

Puma > AEC

Yes, but making a puma usually means you lose in team games.

Wasnt a topic made about brits anyway but soviets

I was saying the OKW is a joke in team games.

And I did not want to get to far in but:
- Brit AT gun never misses, rapes your puma.
- Centaur rapes your Inf before they can faust.
- Centaur erases your Raketen which misses 2/3 of its shots, if it even gets one off.
- Brit has best MG in game. Its called a bofor. Dirt cheap and damages tanks.

On a narrow 4v4 map one soviet player can erase 2-3 OKW players no problem. 2-maxims, 2-mortars, 2-Zis. A-move across map.

Any update yet?

THE STRUGGLE
This map does a good job of balancing buildings without physically mirroring them. The building layout seems to possibly favor the south as far as distance to important buildings. But the north building group seems stronger and would favor the north a little. So there is a lot of subtle balancing going on. Mostly done with sight blockers to the key points around the buildings. Which is my next point: there are enough sight blockers around that the buildings are not strong enough to want to camp in them. They are too easy to flank and do not cover enough terrain to be worth camping in. In 2v2s, the strong cutoffs force most of the game play around the center of the map. It will be very interesting to see how flanks work when more players are on the map.

POSSIBLE SMALL CHANGES:

1. As a player, when I see long hedgerows like these I am not sure if there is barbwire fencing inside of the hedges. So it is not obvious that I can walk thru these lines. Could leave little gaps here and there as visual cues to players that they can cross these hedges. The barb wire exists in other places on the map and is usually easily visible (good job).


2. The mirrored buildings on the edges of the maps are not balanced. I would remove this hedge sight blocker. In 2v2 these buildings probably do not see much play. But in 3v3 they may become important MG strongholds to guard artillery pieces.


3. I think the minimap shows a building here (YELLOW BOX).


As I keep saying, I cant wait to play this in 3v3

Downloaded and ran it in COH2. Looks good!

I will give a better check later.