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Thread: Advice on 50 cal and 240 mm?21 Feb 2015, 17:31 PM Nah, I don't think MG in a building suits the US playstyle, which is much about mobility. The MG42 is perfect for mobile support, the maxim is good, but the US just doesn't seem to have that option. However, I found that the suppression volley from the RE can somewhat fill out the missing MG. So I'm mostly gonna skip the 50 cal from now on. It's a bit of a shame for the airborne commander, though. One of his gadgets is wasted. In: US Forces Strategies
Thread: Require help as US fighting German tanks.20 Feb 2015, 16:34 PM Does the bulldozer sherman have any advantage over the standard sherman when it comes to tank battles? In: US Forces Strategies
Thread: Advice on 50 cal and 240 mm?20 Feb 2015, 16:31 PM No, ofc. not. No MG should be able to hold a sector on its own. The MG42 is close to it, but fortunately not quite a no-brainer. I'm used to deploying MGs as back up for infantry. It works fine for the other factions for example to soft retreat infantry and draw the enemy infantry into the arch of fire of an MG waiting behind. Then when they get supressed, counter with own infantry. The problem with the 50 cal is that it loses half the squad before it can supress much. So in many cases, the position still gets overrun. Come to think of it, the 50 cal seems to work pretty much as the soviet dishka (minus the AP). If the soviets didn't have any other MG, they'd also be screwed. And finally, it's ironical that one of the info texts on the loading screen is about how the 50 cal is effective against vehicles with its AP rounds. Jump back to quoted post19 Feb 2015, 19:09 PMUS3K Here's a replay where OKW had the perfect little sim-city to use it on, 2nd barrage gets some nice hits. 0 VS RANDY JIM kooh9 Dario Roob82 AA HTs + 240mm by: US3K map: Moscow Outskirts 1 - Nice replay. It seems like you get about 5 volleys per strike? (hard to be sure because they are so scattered that the area is wider than a screen). I wonder why I haven't had that work so far. In: US Forces Strategies
Thread: Advice on 50 cal and 240 mm?20 Feb 2015, 08:37 AM Jump back to quoted post19 Feb 2015, 20:46 PMParty_of_Lenin 50cal is a very good HHG, decent supression and pretty nice damage .... A single 50. ofc won't stop a blob ..... 'A very good'??? Show me the numbers because otherwise that's just opinionated. Actually I searched for the weapon stats, but failed to find them. Link, anyone? And don't get too hot on the blob thing. That's not the question here. I'd be happy if it could supress even a single squad before it loses 2 crew members. Jump back to quoted post19 Feb 2015, 23:10 PMturbotortoise my advice? skip it. if you're itching for a suppression platform in a pinch, why not give the fighting position a go? 60muni and what, 190mp? for heavy cover a decent mg and rifle nades to flush squads from cover and something to draw fire away from your squads. seems better to me. Yes, 160 mp and 60 muni for the emplacement gives you an MG that supresses much, much better. As good as the german ditto IMO. The only problem is that it's stationary and has Card board armour (unlike its german counterpart). So you really need to be prepared to sacrifice those 160 mp plus 60 ammo for that kind of solution. This is where - for every of the other factions - the HMG offers you flexibility by allowing you to deploy and redeploy which gives completely different tactical options. In: US Forces Strategies
Thread: Advice on 50 cal and 240 mm?19 Feb 2015, 18:32 PM If there are two things I have yet to see any benefit from as US, it's the 50 cal and the 240 howie. Hints and advice appreciated because I just can't seem to make them worth while at all. 50 cal: What a slow fire rate and what a reload time. On top on that it seems to supress almost nothing and certainly gets almost no kills with zero veterancy. With a 4 man crew it's a sitting duck IMO, but what do YOU do with it? 240mm howie (off-map): for 250 ammo, I'd expect something that really wrecks up things. But what I see is a whoosh-whoosh cloud which is tremendously unprecise, has a long, long delay and which does barely any damage to hard targets. And if I look at the actual impact points, it has almost no splash damage. One thing I wonder is: do I need to have the target zone under observation all the time for better effect? And for it to work at all because it seems sometimes it only fires one volley. Or none at all, but happily takes the 250 ammo off my stock. In: US Forces Strategies
Thread: MWNL Event Results, Free DLC For COH219 Feb 2015, 18:22 PM Lol. Idiots on you and fool on me... In: News
Thread: How to farm War Spoils31 Jan 2015, 17:06 PM Took me 3 hours to get the latest WS. Yet another victory-I-cant-be-arsed-WS..... In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: How to farm War Spoils30 Jan 2015, 11:44 AM Thx. I got the same victory finale several times. About he least sefull of all WS In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: How to farm War Spoils30 Jan 2015, 08:55 AM Aside from this script, can anyone briefly explain how the WS drop is supposed to work? In standard play, I mean. It's new to me that it is supposed to unlock commanders. I've played around 100 hrs manually the last month, but no commanders were unlocked. Mostly just skins. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Vehicle split pushes unit out of trench30 Jan 2015, 08:45 AM Yes I know why the infantry does this. However, COH1 had a similar problem with jeep and truck push out of green cover. And it was modified somehow to lessen the effect. So I assume the same thing could be done in COH2. In: COH2 Bugs