Profile of Mazianni

It seem you have little to no idea what a "benchmark" (not "baseline").

Claiming that "benchmark" has an advantage is like saying that a stick of 1 meter is now op because one switched to imperial and it now 39.37 inches...

Hey look, it's the guy I was talking about. Still derailing threads with petty, pointless arguments and semantics when you don't have any substance to offer, I see. This time over two almost synonymous terms.

Of course, I can humor you this once, for old time's sake. The real comparison would be you saying that a stick of 1 metric meter should in fact be longer than 40 imperial inches, because FDR and the New York bankers with the funny little hats ruined Greece - or whatever it was you used to rant about in the shout.

That would be closer to the concept of the Ostheer 'benchmark' argument over the past few years than any idea of it being used to keep other factions in measurement. Indeed - as I detailed in my post, which you likely ignored as you always do - the result of this thinking has only been the removal of Ostheer weaknesses - areas where the meaningful deviation between factions was not in Ostheer's favor. I will not repeat myself in detail as my post is right above yours and you are perfectly capable of reading it, and I will likely not respond to you again unless you decide to contribute meaningfully to the thread topic instead of behaving like this again.

Wow, a unit that was considered totally useless outside 4v4 only a few patches ago is now OP. Thanks COH2 Balance Forum.

Literally years later, I come back to this forum, and it is just the same cycle of dishonesty trying to nerf whatever the latest cheese strat is to come out and try to challenge the stale, static, long-range, open-lane combat meta.

No reasonable changes allowed, particularly because nobody maining Axis wants a quid-pro-quo balance change on their end. This time the subject of so much drama is apparently a fucking barrage ability of all things. Did people forget how to spread their units out at some point in the last few years? Is moving AT guns no longer possible?

I've never been on a site with so many babies, or so much dishonesty. Can anyone articulate, clearly, what the most pressing problem is with these units? It's been 16 fucking pages and whatever the singular issue is just gets lost in the back and forth of irrelevant "faction design" bullshit that gets brought up every other page. Were Scotts rofl-stomping Ober hordes with Pathfinder vision or something? With their barrage? How? You can just move out of the way - it's a barrage. With their auto-attack, then? Wouldn't that put the Scott in AT gun range?

How many of these Scotts are being bought? How much fuel and manpower is going into synergizing these two units with no counter-mobility potential and barely any AT ability (outside zooking up your Pathfinders, maybe.) What are Axis spending fuel and manpower on in the face of this build?

Sure, if it's really this tough for someone in a teamgame to dive one of these things, remove the skillsmoke, or gate it behind Vet 3 or something. The escape smoke canisters have been cancer in almost every form they take. I don't understand how this unit almost nobody used has suddenly somehow become a problem after so many nerfs, though. Like Soviets, USF has always crutched on HE firepower once their target_size infantry weapons stop being useful vs Axis elite infantry, but the Scott has never been particularly good at this. Is the state of the balance really so bad that people are using it instead of Sherman spam or Calliope docs?

Is this like, purely a 4v4 concern? Since when did this forum even pretend to care about 4v4 balance? Allies need practically any cheese they can get in that mode, and that's been the way of things for years.

I do think Stormtroopers' tactical advance ability cost should be reduced to the same as USF paratroopers; I think it was only higher because Stormtroopers came with STG-44s before and were thusly hilariously powerful with tactical advance.

Revert the build time nerf and either raise base penetration or change the vet 3 penetration bonus to something actually consequential. It adds a grand total of 1.5 penetration at minimum range and .5 at maximum for a total of 4.5 and 1.5 respectively. I have talked about the vet 3 penetration being basically worthless for a long time and have no idea why it hasn't been changed to an additive bonus at the very least (maybe make it a flat +2 penetration bonus for a total of 5/4/3 instead of 4.5/3/1.5)

Otherwise it's fine. It's really not a bad unit combat-wise, and its' USF's best tool against Ostheer snipers.