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Thread: December Balance Preview9 Nov 2017, 17:58 PM Jump back to quoted post9 Nov 2017, 16:52 PMMarkedRaptor I think they are afraid of creating a tank that literally does everything. If say, the panther was really amazing at killing tanks right? But, it does some light anti infantry damage as well. If you get 2-3 panthers then the game is over. Nothing could stand up to that anymore. It's the same reason the comet got nerfed over and over again after release. Cuz the comet covered all bases. 2 panthers is 350 fuel and 3 panthers is approaching 525 fuel. Think about that level of fuel investment for a moment when considering their performance. Aa far as the old comets, their main gun at the time would kill 1-2+ models per shot at maximum (sight) range. 2 comets could wipe an ostheer squad nearly everytime they saw one through FOW. Panther mgs require facing, don't function great at range, can't be given targets, and iirc comets also eventually get to throw grenades which is great at clearing atgs. In: Lobby
Thread: December Balance Preview8 Nov 2017, 19:39 PM Also, how is making a Jackson capable of surviving 2 jt/elefant shots and more than anY thing a sturmtiger rocket not promoting such described bad/greedy play? In: Lobby
Thread: December Balance Preview8 Nov 2017, 19:03 PM Jump back to quoted post8 Nov 2017, 17:56 PMMr.Smith Only bad or greedy players will sacrifice their range advantage to chase after an OST tank and be lured to a teller mine. Flanking is bad/greedy? That's where my tellers go. n 20+ DBP games where I've used or played against the Jackson against the very best and very worst of players, I doubt I've ever seen once a case where Jackson survived with less than 160HP (which would make a case for lowering the amount of HP). You doubt? Kappa. You realize that 560 health is functionally the same as 640 when dealing with jp4s and raketens? As OST, it seemed OK that Jackson could threaten my Brummbar or Panther. However, I didn't have any choices apart from luring the Jackson in a pak TWP-ambush, and that didn't feel OK. ...because you just chose not to snare with fausts, use pgrens double schrecks, lay tellers, or utilize any stugs? It's just that the the disparity of the performance of the Jackson against OST and against OKW is too great, and lowering the HP won't fix any of it. Lowering HP to 560 won't help OST at all. However, it will make Jackson even shittier to doctrinal OKW options. Lowering to 560... you mean raise to 560. The additional hit to kill by standard shots is retained but doesn't indirectly affect ostheers non doctrinal options. The ultimatum here is that jacksons must survive two JT rounds or a direct sturmtiger rocket. That's your goal and your beef here, so please don't pass it off as anything else. In: Lobby
Thread: December Balance Preview8 Nov 2017, 16:24 PM Jump back to quoted post8 Nov 2017, 16:16 PMMr.Smith OKW will still have an easy way of dealing with the Jackson using JP4, or stealthed raketens. They have a lot of options. I just want to make sure that OST also has counter options available to them, other than "USF player failed to minesweep the area". How does increasing the jacksons health to 640 accomplish this? The proposed changes only serve to reduce ostheer options for counterplay. Putting the Jackson to 520 or 560 keeps the teller mine as a viable counterplay to the standard critical mass of stugs/paks. In: Lobby
Thread: December Balance Preview8 Nov 2017, 16:07 PM Jump back to quoted post8 Nov 2017, 15:39 PMMr.Smith It's not that big a deal. After you've eaten a teller, you have your engine damage over enemy territory (because nobody can afford to plant 50MU mines all over the place), and you're going to die anyway. It is a huge deal... You're making a gross assumption on gameplay here. The tank may die, yeah, sure. But it gets time to fire another round. It takes another round to kill that isn't going towards other advancing tanks. And of all factions, usf can hop out and superglue the engine damage if the axis forces have to pull back. I place tellers all over the place. It's one of the ways I play teamgames when I'm the sole ostheer player. But if you say it's not a huge deal, who the hell am I to disagree, eh? In: Lobby
Thread: Firefly8 Nov 2017, 15:26 PM Jump back to quoted post8 Nov 2017, 14:47 PMincognito You guys forgot su76. Better pen. tha JP4, with barrage and half the price. SU-76 shreds face. I remember a time when it was such a silly unit. But man, they can bully a brummbar. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: December Balance Preview8 Nov 2017, 15:09 PM Jump back to quoted post8 Nov 2017, 13:10 PMMr.Smith The primary faction the new Jackson overperforms against in DBP is OST. Changing Jackson HP to anything other than a full revert will probably make things even worse than they were before. In the best case, this won't change anything vs OST (stug and Panther will both require 4 shots each to kill the Jackson). Tellers? Reigels? Fausts and schrecks? Those also damage Jacksons and are affected by changes to its health. A 640 health Jackson can eat a teller and a standard round and still survive. That is huge. In: Lobby
Thread: HMG-34 in DPP 7 Nov 2017, 23:10 PM Jump back to quoted post7 Nov 2017, 21:46 PMEtherealDragon Meanwhile Vickers cries in the corner and wishes it could reliably suppress in the first burst but that's neither here nor there. You know, I wonder how functional a vickers clone would be for okw. Vickers may not suppress too well, but it is good in garrisons and it drops models rather well. Something like that might be a good role for the mg34... In: Lobby
Thread: HMG-34 in DPP 7 Nov 2017, 20:57 PM There's also the glitch where units will continue to move at full speed when suppressed until given a new command. Only then do they drop to the ground and start crawling slowly. In: Lobby
Thread: HMG-34 in DPP 7 Nov 2017, 17:04 PM My point is more about timing. But you are correct, suppression is still dealt by hmgs even with 0 accuracy. But, that said, units being shot at don't recover from suppression (as fast.) Keeping a unit suppressed is affected by RA. So more accurately, RA affects suppression recovery. It's been a bit since I tested this, though. In: Lobby