Profile of ZombiFrancis

Their mistake was going for 6-8 mortar pits and 3+ bofors.

One of each can easily take care of one VP and fuel on Port of Hamburg, allowing for the team to contest the Axis VP and fuel, or at least hold the 2nd VP. An Allied Start on the right side of that map and 2 VPs and one fuel point are locked down without serious bleed or team effort on the Axis part.

But remember, this isn't about Bofors and such being uncounterable or anything of that notion. It is that the design isn't conducive to CoH2's gameplay, or at the very least, its current map design.

Given the example of Port of Hamburg, (which is a pretty small map to begin with given the number of players), when you have Bofors locking down a chunk of that you end up with a very cramped battlefield.

Six to eight players slugging it out over one VP or fuel point gets old quick, and the Bofors does the opposite of break from that kind of monotony.

There's a lot of dynamic gameplay available at CoH's core, but there's just so many things in place, emplacements among them, that unravel that quite profoundly.

The real issue here is that there aren't enough vetos and/or not enough decent maps that people want to play on.

Shift ordering tanks has been broken since launch in this respect. Virtually all meaningful positioning and maneuvering during combat occurs well within that radius. I suspect this is one of the major culprits of vehicles randomly spinning their butts mid combat: because all the reverse orders were 'completed' (skipped) and the final order(s) take over.

Especially frustrating when trying to maneuver around a shotblocker and then retreat to base. (Tank instead just stops, turns toward base, drives off.)

It's such a huge radius, but I swear it varies to the momentum and acceleration of the vehicle.

I like that straggler though. He's the only one that saves my vetted squad from being wiped from a mortar shell most of the time.

The AI responds to the player's actions. The more you do, the more the AI does. So when they're reacting to an AI that's reacting to them, they start to act kind of screwy.

Also I've noticed that only the soviets and ostheer seem to have any sort of effective AI. The WFA armies and Brits seem completely chaotic and nonsensical.

I remember in CoH1 the AI would respond to the different map pings (god I miss those) but I don't believe the irritating, repeating, high pitched ping of CoH2 does anything for the AI. But it might be worth testing.