Profile of Omega_Warrior

ML20 was able to make "escape way out" in side of a turret of KT. And I mean it. Perfect penetration. Of course it was not front armor but arty is not shooting front, rather top.
Here ml or le arę useless against tanks.

Artillery had the highest amount of kills in the entire war, and was effective against both tanks and artillery alike. The fact that it's relegated to such niche use in COH2 is criminal.

So I've been thinking recently about Heavy artillery and why they aren't used more. They are all pretty good vs infantry blobs and and defensive emplacements and what not, but these aren't usually the biggest threats in the late game when these units are available. Tanks are!

The only heavy artillery that actually seems to be commonly used right now is the B4, and I believe the primary reason for this is because while not only dangerous to infantry, and emplacements, they are able to do significant damage to tanks.

The ML-20, priest, and lefh 18 on the other hand are almost insignificant threats to armor. Obviously this has a lot to do with most armor being mobile and despite having higher damage potential then the B-4 all the other heavy artillery have scatter and do that damage over a longer time. This means that unless your opponent is a complete idiot, you will probably only hit them once, twice if you get lucky. This means that even well aimed barrages will do around 200 damage, 400 damage if lucky. They also will not be firing for a long time after.

Many team games players have probably incountered the infamous tiger/KT and Elephant/JT combos, which are usually nearly impossible to deal with. Theoretically these slow heavy beast should be vulnerable to artillery. But in their current state you would be hard pressed to do any significant amount of damage to them. Opening up late game options, especially a counter to Heavies that the allies can rely on would greatly help the state of the late game.

What I think could be done is to give these heavy artillery units(minus the B4) a 25-50% damage modifier vs tanks so that even a few hits would do a good amount of damage to tanks if they manage to actually hit them. This would allow them to actually be a significant threat to armor without making them too strong against other elements of the game.

On a slightly different note, I also believe making artillery unbuildable (or disabling their abilities in the case of the priest) inside of base sectors would allow the devs to better buff artillery in general, without having to worry about such stron weapons being unherassable.

Oh come on! not only does Company of Heroes have less money to thow around then DOTA. Pathfinding is also much more complicated with multiple entities within units, but also vehicles which act completely different pathfinding as well. Plus all that cover and trees on the field that makes things difficult as well.

The two are completely different games and there's more to it then just throwing more people at it.

Americans have enough indirect fire units, it's just that half of them are of questionable performance (namely mortar halftrack and pack howitzer).

As for the stuart, I'd trade the gimmicky abilities for better base stats so it could snipe infantry time to time and maybe even circle strafe pIVs in the best of circumstances.

USF has plenty of indirect-fire units, but lacks a non-doctrinal barrage unit. Instead they have the pack and M8 which both are designed for attrition, not destroying heavy defensive positions and blobs. Not all indirect units are the same.

As for the stuart, I guess I'm the only one that likes this thing. I just had a match where I got it to vet 3 and it was pretty sweet. It's stun ability is actually good for protecting M36s and have used it successfully as such many times.

It's engine killing ability is pretty niche though and I wouldn't recommend using it unless your enemy can't really deal with the stuart because it has bigger problems. I did use it to effect once when I pincered a Tiger that was trying to run from my jacksons and managed to kill it which was pretty sweet.

If it needs a buff, I think it could use some more health so it can survive one more hit. Getting two shotted by everything makes it very hard to use. Maybe a tad bit more Rof as well.

Stormpios are fine. When compared with the 280mp assault engis, of the same role, that they outclass, it's should be obvious why they cost as much as they do.