Profile of ZombiFrancis

1: Kind of, yeah. Some maps don't really translate well.
2: Not really.
3: Sorta. There's not a whole lot of variation in capture strategies in most maps.
4: I dunno. I do think players should be able to use allies' FRPs in some way though. (Which might resolve your issue in #2)
5: Maybe. It can be made to work, but the thing is, the more VPs, the quicker the drain. Extending the VP drain to possible 4 or 5 a tick shortens the game a great deal, especially on large maps designed to accommodate five VP points. Being pushed off the field once can be an insurmountable loss of time. It further amplifies your concerns with issue #4 as well, incidentally as a result.

I've been wishing that Relic would at least implement a real strat point and varied fuel/munitions points. The three options we have currently, not counting VPs, really cripples map design from the get go.

I mean, to enjoy the CoH1 maps as they were meant to be played I have to first make a tuning pack, and then rip and modify the maps themselves in worldbuilder. Then I sit and badger my friends to play me in custom matches.

Grenadiers need a lategame fifth man upgrade as much as conscripts need a midgame stock PPsh upgrade.

It seems like it is a mystery, because everyone keeps claiming how it is micro intensive to beat a Bofors + Mortar as if it takes so much micro for you to deal with it. You do NOT need a LeFH to deal with emplacements, you're doing it wrong if you're choosing your commander completely based upon if you're playing a against a British or not.

I have replied to you already on how to beat a Bofors a page or two back in this thread. You didn't reply to me back then either. So I will reiterate it for you.

The total cost in fuel in order to build a Bofors is 75. You need a platoon command post, research Bofors, and finally build the Bofors. The total cost in fuel in order to get the tech to build German mortars is 10. You can literally build your tech for it as soon as the game starts and have a mortar out in the first minute of the game. The British do not have access to mortars until T2, on top of it costing 400mp. It's obvious an Ostheer player against the British has a huge advantage in the early game, yes?

Despite Germans having an advantage in the early game, somehow the British manages to set up a Bofors and Mortar emplacement at a strategic position without any interference by the German player (you've already screwed up once at this point). A mortar team should be one of the first units you should buy after an MG, so when you do get pushed back, buy a second mortar team. Emplacements can't move, so once you know where the Bofors is placed you can bombard the same spot over and over again. Split your two mortars (don't stack them on top of each other like an idiot as I've seen people do), ground fire at where the emplacement is, and when the mortar emplacement shoots back you can either choose to move, or keep firing (since it takes quite a few shots to get it killed due to the lack of accuracy of the emplacement unless you're extremely unlucky). Regardless of if you choose to move or not, your other mortar team will still be firing.

I'm not disputing any of this? What are you trying to argue here? Mortar teams can indeed barrage mortar pits and bofors. Both the mortar pit and bofors can barrage back. "Extremely unlucky" is pretty much at heart of the issue here, not at all confusion on how, exactly, to micro a mortar team.

This is glossing over the fact that a British player usually builds a Bofors first (building a mortar emplacement first leaves it open to shrecks and scout cars/half tracks destroying it), and building a Bofors first means that Bofors is open to free mortar fire until the British gets 400mp to build a mortar emplacement. That is more than enough time to kill the Bofors with two mortars before a mortar emplacement is set up.

If you STILL somehow manage not to break the emplacements until they build a sim city, you pretty much deserve the loss, but even then you have a chance to win. Flank around with your units to cut off the British supply chain, or in the case of team games, stack a different side of the map and help your team. Once you get to the late game, you have access to panzerwerfers, on top of heavy tanks, and the fact that 90% of Ostheer commanders have some sort of artillery/bombing ability.

In comparison, do you know what happens to the British when they lose a strategic point? They have to set up their emplacements at a disadvantageous position for the sole purpose of trying to break the enemy position, and end up being useless afterward even if they manage to even break the German position. The British has NO other form of artillery/mortar other than an infantry section flare (which they take an hour to call in) or a Sexton which is doctrinal.

British emplacements don't require micro? Don't kid yourself. Do you honestly think the British player sits there doing nothing while your mortars bombard their emplacements? No, they actively use ground fire on your mortars (despite what people think, counter-battery reacts too slowly to be of any use, it's the player). And what are you doing while the British hold their emplacements? Is it so micro-intensive to ground fire with your mortars and issue a right click once in a while?

Your points are not inaccurate for 1v1s. But as far as what you say about team games, being forced into stacking onto one side of the map until until the late game is pretty much defaulting to having to defend your own territory, being denied the ability to harass or capture the opponents' resources. But nonetheless, like you even said, the answer is to hold out until the late game.

...And hey, having 3 or 4 players on one side of most 3v3/4v4 maps? Mortars don't have to be accurate in the least.

Heard of any of these before or too busy dwelling in your own insanity before next ban will be applied to you?

What in the nonsense are you going on about? I think you're too used to being argumentative.

Anyways, I would have to say I am more inclined to agree with Mr Smith in that it would be preferable for the British to just have a real mobile mortar team.

I think every faction should have both an mg and a mortar option that's viable and accessible, like like mainline infantry are. The interesting and individual vehicle designs and developments of the factions of WW2 offer a great deal of diversity in their own right.

But the mortar pit (another topic altogether) is really what magnifies the power of the Bofors. When the Bofors isn't dominating, it's the perfect cover for the mortar pit to dominate with its range, (and actually being two mortars.)

Although in the end, I've always thought that the British faction (or an emplacement faction) should have super cheap emplacements that are built without crews, or only work when garrisoned, as well as be steal-able. That faction would require a cheap, RE type unit too though that could scuttle or booby trap the emplacements and retreat with their veterancy.

Never liked the idea of people being hit with heavy gunfire and artillery repeatedly and not dying because they crouched down some more in a hole.

Every other faction can use that investment to move up and take the enemies territory. Emplacements can only sit there. That's the difference. Not really sure how you could miss the fact that emplacements can't move.

How often do maps allow for effectively moving 'up'. Typically, at best, you move laterally to another side of the map to take or cut off resources. On many maps, just holding a forward position with those emplacements gives 400mpish of support across all those points moving 'up' and all around.

Mortar pits and bofors don't need to move to exert influence into enemy territory and support the limited army the Brits might have at that point, and even more so in team games with whole other armies.

Pushing into the opponents' base is usually a waste of resources until the point in the game that bofors and emplacements outlived their usefulness anyway.