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Thread: Relic is Streaming, also multiplayer partisans19 Sep 2013, 21:45 PM Jump back to quoted post19 Sep 2013, 21:37 PMNoun We made an error during the Stream and put up a graphic showing off the 1941 ToW Commanders that were being added free into multiplayer. Here is the updated image. Apologies. Updated: Here is a link to a larger version of this: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7311/9825693584_b98656d6c0_o.png Aww, i got it up there in the title and everything. Now I just look stupid. BTW, shock army looks brutal. PPSH, Shock troops, and heavy mortar. Damn! In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Relic is Streaming, also multiplayer partisans19 Sep 2013, 21:11 PM The commanders will also be free as well as the new maps, but you need to buy TOW. Edit: sorry if I'm misleading, but you will have the commanders and maps regardless whether you buy the TOW. I believe they come out the 24th. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Relic is Streaming, also multiplayer partisans19 Sep 2013, 21:08 PM Jump back to quoted post19 Sep 2013, 21:06 PMundostrescuatro TOW commanders. No watch when they show the commanders. He spacifically states that they were available in TOW but will now be in multiplayer. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Relic is Streaming, also multiplayer partisans19 Sep 2013, 21:07 PM Looks like KV-2 will also be making an appearance in TOW. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Relic is Streaming, also multiplayer partisans19 Sep 2013, 20:28 PM stream Currently live, new maps, commanders, And TOW soon. Partisans available in one of the new commanders. Edit: Sorry no partisans. Relic made a mistake and posted the wrong commanders. Refer to Noun's post below for the actual commanders. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: What if ???19 Sep 2013, 19:53 PM I doubt there will be a desert campaign expansion, because those factions can't fight alongside the ones we already have. I highly doubt a M3 Lee will do much against Tigers. Maybe TOW but defenetly not multiplayer factions. They seem to have three choices. 1. Branch out into the Pacific with USA and Japan, 2. Battle of the bulge with USA and new german faction, or 3. Stay in the Eastern front with new USSR faction and new German faction. In: Lobby
Thread: What if ???17 Sep 2013, 23:53 PM For anyone curious the Japanese first faought Russia in 1939, at the Battles of Khalkin Gol and Lake Khasan, in Japanese occupied Manchuria - the Japanese got totally defeated. It was these battles that persuaded the Japanese to concentrate their efforts South towards Indochina (Vietnam), the Philippines and Hawaii. They next fought from August 1945 to September 1945 - some 1.5 million men invaded Manchuria and the Japanese Kurile islands and Sakhalin. In: Lobby
Thread: What if ???17 Sep 2013, 23:48 PM The japanese did have a few conflicts with the russians both before and by the end of WW2. Though they were small. I would very much prefer to have the big three on both sides, then multiple german factions again. USA, Brits, USSR vs Germany, Japan, and Italy would be way more fun then everyone vs germany. In: Lobby
Thread: Artillery units16 Sep 2013, 22:10 PM Seems like the German one is better except that it doesn't have the accurate shot ability of the Russian one. I think the problem gets overlooked since these units don't get used much. The cool down on the soviet arty should probably be reduced a bit In: COH2 Balance
Thread: SU-85; The Thread15 Sep 2013, 21:08 PM Jump back to quoted post14 Sep 2013, 14:00 PMHawk I think the problem is really less with the SU-85 itself than the complete lack of balance and options for the Soviets when it comes to armor. The Germans have two excellent non-doctrinal options in the P4 and Panther. The P4 is extremely balanced vs both armor and infantry and the Panther is excellent anti-armor and decent enough against inf. They both have fantastic speed and durability. Then you have the Tiger and Elephant call ins. These are backed by pgrens with shreks which are fantastic AT in and of themselves and resistant to all but shock troops. Grens faust is much more reliable at damaging soviet engines than the AT nade is against anything over T3 for Germans. The buffed T34/76 is a decent unit until the Germans start building the mass of armor that inevitably happens in 2v2 or above. It lacks the punch or durability to stand and fight and the grens and pgrens make it suicide to try flanking maneuvers most of the time. The T34/85 is slightly better, but it's over priced given its stats and the cost of the SU-85 and T34/76 currently. Cost not withstanding is still doesn't stand up to even a P4 head to head. The IS-2 is in what, two docs? Extremely situational and you force the player to chose one of those two docs to deal with any German armor? The ZiS is decent AT, but it's relatively easy to de-crew or destroy mid to late game when the armor train starts rolling especially with AT nades having much less of an effect. That leaves the Su-85 as the only viable unit to actually combat the German heavier armor (I don't know how the Panther can be called a 'medium' tank...) Soviet players know it and lean on it or they lose. Without it a Soviet team/player WILL get rolled by a wall of German armor if the game goes past a certain time unless you've completely dominated. In my experience I also haven't seen the SU-85 be very effective vs. infantry or AT crews. You might get some lucky shots, but I would never leave my 85 to battle infantry the way I would a P4. It might be different if the Soviets could actually outnumber the Germans with their inferior armor, but with the current cost/pop cap it's not really possible to do that. If the soviets could actually build T34/85s this wouldn't be as much of a problem. the t34/76s just don't scale well enough into the late and will be picked off one by one due to their low survivability. In: COH2 Balance