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Thread: Sniper Balance27 Feb 2014, 01:39 AM How about we give Soviet reliable Anti vehicle unit by changing guards? They will start with their machine guns (no anti vehicle capabilities whatsoever, you got AT nade to deal with light vehicles) and T3/T4 upgrade that will give them anti tank rifles. Of course damage of these will have to be buffed to be in pair with PGrens. This would create room for light vehicles in early game, making them more viable Sniper counter and fixed somehow questionable usage of scout cars as well. Not to forget Soviets would get some AV infantry but they would have to change button ability as well I guess. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: How to counter Soviet Sniper heavy strat + Guard combo26 Feb 2014, 08:37 AM As per title. I am having troubles playing against this strategy. I am able to do fairly ok against it in 1v1 but I have not won a game when Soviet player used this opening in 2v2 after recent patch. Problem is this build is present in 85% of 2v2 games I play recently so any help would be more than welcome. I tried everything with minor success to put it mildly. Even if I manage to survive into the mid game I am usually so far behind that I am unable to win. In: Strategy Desk
Thread: Sniper Balance26 Feb 2014, 08:19 AM Jump back to quoted post26 Feb 2014, 07:01 AMMoerserKarL hmmm maybe instand vet your sniper. I've watched the mTw stream yesterday and hansi killed with the vet sniper ability two sniper squads ^^ I'm trying to hide my grens and use rifle nades. Yeah. I tried that as well. It's quite tricky because if Soviet Sniper go stealth before Vet1 shot animation ends you Sniper goes crazy and freezes forever trying to aim. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Sniper Balance26 Feb 2014, 00:56 AM I take everything I said back. 2 Sniper + Guard combo is unbeatable by anything German can ship early game. Survivability on this unit is retarded while last game I lost my Sniper to mortar shell that was meters a way. It looked like he died from wind this blast caused. I've lost every game when this combo was present. In 2v2 is even worse. I run out of options how to beat this. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Soviets Advanced Warfare Tactics Commander25 Feb 2014, 22:54 PM Jump back to quoted post25 Feb 2014, 22:41 PMpantherswag That's just plain wrong. Like period that is just wrong. If I see my opponent is going Gren-Mg-gren I know that an early flank can win the game in 2 minutes. I don't need to worry about a second MG supporting it because I know the german will not have one. I see he goes sniper first I can cap the whole map indiscriminately and win early game handily. More over, I can tell by his teching when he is going to have tanks. That allows me to delay my AT gun/AT nade upgrades until I see this. I don't need to have any premature counters. Germans conversely, don't get G43s till 3 CP, which can be after a fast T70 hits the field. I can't rely on interrogations to know what the Soviet is planning, I have to have some form of AT out or coming out as the T70 hits to counter it. And to have that timing I need to reliably predict my enemies stategy and have good game sense. With radio intercept, you do not need to have this skill. Period. I'm not saying the ability is overpowered, but you shouldn't underestimate the strength of knowing the enemies tech as it happens 100% of the time. Maybe I said it wrong. What I ment there is nothing you can ship in early game that you won't be able to conquer with standard set of units you can get from basic building. All radio really does it let you build the counter a bit earlier than usual. I never said it's a bad ability but is not OP as well. In fact German have access to far more potent equivalent that comes free with gun upgrade. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Soviets Advanced Warfare Tactics Commander25 Feb 2014, 21:58 PM Jump back to quoted post25 Feb 2014, 21:03 PMShazz I didn't say G43 interrogation is bad, but they're honestly not in the same field as far as intel goes. Radio intercept works at 00:00. It works while there's no engagement going on. It works if you lose an engagement / are driven back and don't get a chance to use interrogation. It works if a G43 model doesn't happen to be around (had to retreat, on a different front, whatever). It works all the time instead of periodically. For that matter, G43 interrogate only reliably works when you have decisively won a skirmish. You're not going to rush your G43s out of cover just because one conscript model went down without risking them getting killed or otherwise taken out of the fight. It works if you catch a lone squad way out of position and get lucky that the model gets wounded instead of dying, but that's about it. I play about 50/50 sov/ost and 1v1/2v2 and I can count the number of interrogations I've pulled off (a bit of hyperbole over so many games). EDIT: To be clear, I think both are kind of lame abilities that remove a lot of reaction, shock, and planning. Just that radio intercept is much worse. G43 would be fine with just having the interrogation removed, it's a good enough upgrade by itself. Of course they're not on the same field as Interrogation is so much better. It comes later, yes but gives you so much intel. As I said if you're unable to utilise its potential or simply forget to use it it's really your own fault and something you can work on. Radio only tells you what's being build but you can predict this yo great extend anyway as there are not so many build orders in CoH2 anyway. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Soviets Advanced Warfare Tactics Commander25 Feb 2014, 20:28 PM Jump back to quoted post25 Feb 2014, 19:57 PMShazz Pretty easily. The biggest points are: - 0cp vs 3cp - Free vs 60 muni upgrade (can be lost if squad dies but increases combat effective so comes out in the wash) - Always active vs activated ability requiring an RNG event to happen near your G43 squad that lasts a few seconds for maphack that lasts a few seconds. As has been pointed out in other threads, parts of the "maphack" part of G43 is actually available intuitively via radio intercept. If I see where your first Gren squad spawns, I have a very good idea where you're going. I can see where your mines go down so I know where you're holing up and where you hope to blunt a flank. You're paying for weapon upgrade. You get this ability as a bonus. It comes at 3CP because of the weapon upgrade. You have chance to use it after each engagement. If you don't do it it's your own fault. It shows EVERYTHING on the map for couple of seconds. You'll be able to gain this Intel after next fight as there are always some wounded models on the ground. Again if you don't it's your own fault. Lastely I can tell when my opponent is going without Radio intercept based on the map I can roughly say what's going to build seeing his initial units composition as well. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Soviets Advanced Warfare Tactics Commander25 Feb 2014, 19:03 PM I'll ask this question again. How's Radio interception consider being OP and Interrogation techniques, which is by far more potent ability, is not? Yes, you can say Interrogation is a bit harder to use but German players got only themselves to blame if they're not using it. The ability is there and it shows you litteraly everything. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Sniper Balance25 Feb 2014, 18:55 PM Don't get me wrong, I usually don't have problems playing against snipers if my opponent has equal skill and from my experience German Sniper is a beast when used correctly, that said however I lost few games recently to a cheesy Soviet Sniper spam supported by Guards and Cons and despite my tryes I couldn't do much against it. I think I should have gone for Sniper as well and cause MP bleed somewhere else but that's only a theory. I'll check it sooner or later though. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Sniper Balance25 Feb 2014, 11:19 AM It's not the Sniper damage model that's causing the problem. It's getting there with a variable counter. In: COH2 Balance