Profile of Cyridius

I don't get it. What's there really to know, and what's there really to market?

It's two new factions. Yeah, it's big. But it's not a new game. Company of Heroes 2 is already out, all the marketing that can be done for this game has been done, and most of those who are going to buy this will already own this game. So marketing isn't as big of a deal.

The most marketing I've ever seen for an expansion is for DoW2: Retribution, and that was because they were transferring from GFWL to Steamworks and absolutely had to get as many people over as possible.

There's nothing that this DLC will have that we'll need to know about now. Anybody who knows Relic will know it'll be some new units for currently exiting factions, some new music, maybe a few new maps, and then the two factions. A'int much more information that needs to be given, you'd pretty much know it all from experience with Relic anyways.

And yes, you better prepare your anus for a year or so of terrible balance.

How do you possibly make use of it. It is 4 muni based call ins. You can't possibly use them all and it's probably better to use one that has maybe two strikes and other things you can make use of at the same time.

Decription is good, but it's not good enough to warrant atleast 2 unused abilities.

Decryption is more than just "good", it is amazing and arguably one of the best Commander abilities in the game.

There is a drastic difference in how you play as Soviets knowing in advance what it is your opponent is doing, how far a long he is in tech - is he going to rush out that Gren or open with a 2nd Pio?

Oh, he's building a mortar squad instead of a HMG?

Oh, he hasn't built any units in a while, he must be saving for something.

I've had cases where I'm going my traditional opening and suddenly I realize he's after building two mortars in a row and only has a pio and grenadier on the field, and then I know I should build an extra one or two conscripts so I can take advantage of his poor map presence.

Or if he has 2 HMGs on a map full of buildings I know now to invest heavily in the early game.

I can easily say Decryption is one of the best, if not THE best, Commander ability in the game, based purely on the virtues of it coming from the first second of the game. You know everything your opponent is planning and it removes literally all shock value from his units. He's got that Flamer Halftrack? Well I'm ready for it. Got a PzIV out and I'm behind in tech? Well at least I know it's out there and I can start positioning and acting with knowledge of its existence.

Yeah, Rapid Conscription is inefficient, but it's usable. Recon Plane is always good to have. Propaganda Artillery is quite useful in the current meta, I think, due to the prevailence of infantry spam from Germans, and it's not like Soviets are Muni starved. Sturmovik does suck, though.

NKVD Rifle Disruption is massively under rated imo. I use it the most out of all the Commanders(That I own). I reckon if I had Advanced Warfare or Partisan Tactics I might think differently.

Don't treat PGrens with shrecks as attacking AT, you have tanks for that.

Yes.

Shrecks in vCoH were for protection of PaKs, 88s and Marders and this haven't changed in CoH2.

And it's a total over investment. You're making your squad unable to work independently at the cost of a mild vehicle deterrent.

I don't understand why they changed it from the way it was in Closed Beta. It worked perfectly then as a good balance between cost efficiency and trade offs, with more options.

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Dunno if I'm weird or what, but even before the patch, I always had a better winrate with germans (and with 0 DLC commanders).

So did I.

Not that I dislike this patch, I'm not having a hard time as Soviets right now in 1v1, and team games have always been skewed towards Germans.