Profile of FestiveLongJohns

That video was freaking great! Well done guys, this is looking good.

i can see how you arrived at that conclusion but i disagree

You've played less than 60 automatch games in total. This forum doesn't need anymore completely uninformed balance whine threads from players that simply don't have enough experience in the game to pass judgement on Relic.

At this point I can only assume you're trolling

I'm on the fence about the ML-20. On the one hand it has made a number of previously worthless commanders interesting, and on the other it has reintroduced the frustrating base rape arty mechanic. I love that commanders that haven't seen the light of day for almost 2 years are starting to see some time in the spotlight, but there aren't many viable counters aside from the recon run/offmap arty combo, and counter picking commanders will never be an interesting form of strategy in coh2, so that should be avoided at all costs.

I think a decent solution could be to make howitzers unable to be built within the base sector, and unable to barrage the opponents base sector. Bear with me. This would obviously make the howie a huge liability and would be a significant nerf to it's effectiveness.

In exchange for the drastic reduction in effectiveness, the howie would need a pretty huge manpower reduction. I think 400 manpower could be interesting, with a 10 minute cooldown so that once destroyed there is a grace period to keep it from simply being rebuilt and to reward the risk taken by the opposing player to destroy it.

This would allow opponents of the ML-20 more options in terms of commanders, as a more vulnerable howie wouldn't require a commander counter pick with off map arty, and would also free up OKW to deal with it in a more direct manner, as they lack off map arty options to deal with howies set up in the back of the base sector.

It also could offer players an opportunity to set traps to bait their opponent into taking out the howie, which could lead to some interesting cat and mouse games with mines/vehicles/ AT traps.

Seems a lot more interesting to me than the current meta: Does he have a howie commander? > Pick commander with some form of off map arty or get base raped into submission, or make an unreasonably risky and easy to counter push into his base sector to take it out.

That was awesome, well played.

Okay, here's the summary of the match you two played earlier.

When reading your opponent, things to look for:

1. Resource income (how much fuel have you had compared to your opponent)
2. Tech timings.
3. Commander choice.
4. Squad wipes.