Profile of Firesparks

it is nice to play a german faction with infantry capable of facing the allies without being overly reliant on mg.

However, the wildly different scaling between the rifleman and volks is going to cause a headache. the rifleman with vet3 leave volks in the dust.

They have great off map arty.

The base arty is all about area denial, not necessarily killing things.

off map arty that are tied to specific doctrines. A faction can't be that overly reliant on the doctrine they pick to get access to such an important part of any army.

it get boring playing specific doctrine time after time just to get decent artillery.

what is every britbong player expecting from emplacements?

its meant to be a defensive tool and should be used like one. you cant just push the enemy of the map, build a offensive emplacements and its #GG.
on my shitty ~500 2v2 AT rank i can tell you a well placed defensive mortar can shut down alot of aggressive play into their territory.

(take the "woods crossing" or however it is called in english, place mortar infront of your base when you start north and the enemy wont be able to push your munitions and will have a hard time to cap the vp on west. and guess what? axis wont be able to do anything against that emplacement because its far behind their frontline and directly infront of their base. you cant counter it with arty (brace) too.

Brits still have no indirect fire or building clearanc
Mortar pit, Bofors indirect fire ability, wasp, croc

it's not what we expect from emplacement, it's what we expect from artillery. It's a fact that the british's main "artillery" are either the mortar emplacement, the bofor ability, or the tommies artillery.

One of the biggest responsibility of artillery is to shell enemy position. Putting the british' artillery on emplacement force the british into a defensive posture with little chance of attack.

it's irresponsible to say that the british's main indirect fire are tied to emplacement and then tell us not to use those indirect emplacement offensively. Either the british need a non-doc mobile artillery or the mortar emplacement and tommies artillery need some drastic change.

Jump back to quoted post19 Nov 2015, 02:19 AMRollo

Lol rip Anvil, pointless nerfs for zero reason
Well considering it has that awesome arty barrage as well as the Churchill and heavy engineer upgrade which is god luck when used right

70 muni to make your engineers slow as fuck

2 armor making them the same as shocks and kick ass LMGs...while still having 2 weapon slots

IS nerfs so now brits have zero effective infantry (280mp tommies getting eaten by Ostruppen and volks)
Well IS got a damage per shot reduction but a ROF increase, also imo they outperform volks and grens easily..

Churchill now costs pretty much the same as a tiger
640 Manpower, 230 fuel for a tiger, Churchill 540/180, 50 fuel difference 60 manpower, so I wouldn't call them the same, also consider you can have more then 1 Churchill on the field at once,

6 pounder the same price as a pak but with worse vet

6 pounder has better ROF I believe and has increased accuracy against vehicles, don't forgot the Zis has the same price so your point?

Base howitzers still a joke

Against OKW and turtled opponents not really.

Brits still have no AT snare '
AT squad, and this is faction designed for early game.

Commandos still cost 500mp
350 actually

Emplacements still suck
Actually still pretty beastly, just need to position them right

Brits still have no indirect fire or building clearanc
Mortar pit, Bofors indirect fire ability, wasp, croc

heavy sapper might be immune to small arms, but the lost of speed is critical. it make them vulnerable to mg, artillery, tank crush, etc. You also lose the ability to soft retreat. It's a very big combat nerf. it should really be 30 mu max.

new volks easily trash the new tommies for cost. The lee enfield's rof out of cover was increased slightly but the lost of 2 damage easily override that small amount of buff. There's also the lost of received accuracy bonus as well. going from .80 to .90 is pretty huge.

6 pounder have the same rof as the pak40.

an artillery attack that require you to get within 20 range of an enemy hardly count as artillery. It is also so painfully obvious and slow that any player can easily move out of the way. Even against the OKW the shell do too little damage to be useful. You're just draining munition and MP in an attempt to use it.

AT squad is dlc

Commandos cost 500 mp to call in, even if their reinforcement price is 35mp. The 150 mp for the glider is way too much. The call in price should really be 410mp

Static emplacement doesn't fit coh. Trying to build a mortar or bofor anywhere near the enemy front is going to get the emplacement focused down pretty quickly. Wasp are fragile while the croc is DLC.

Reducing their fuel to 0 is probably too far in the other direction. Every other faction can make some sort of teching decision within the first minute or two of the game: Brits can get t2 or upgraded squad sizes, Americans get grenades, weapon racks or an ambulance, Soviets can get t1/t2 or molotovs/AT grenades, Ostheer can choose to either get t1 or save up for a quicker battlephase 1. There's currently strategies that incorporate such decisions: brits often get early squad sizes vs ostruppen builds, americans can get early grenades sometimes, soviets can stay T0 for a bit with molotovs or tech up early for other stuff and t2 rushes with ostheer are pretty popular now that MG's are t0.

OKW doesn't have any fuel base unit(bren,ambulance), upgrades (nade, weapon rack, squad size), or buildings (wehr and sov tiers) to worry about. Everything they need for the first 5-6 minute is right there in the main hq with no fuel cost.