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All good comments, but there is nothing a good team can't beat !

The fear those units inspire are important, too important to remove it.
IN 4vs4, ISU or JP alone won't give you victory, but a good team will.

I change my mind about those 2 units after watching a lot of high ranking matches. Those units are important yes, but they don't win the match. it's bold innovative moves, good timing and team play that bring victory.

I remember a match where Bartonpl bait,flank and killed an ISU-152, what a brilliant move!

This is a hard game to learn and master, especially for Allies, so to succeed, we must put some sweet into it. For the satisfaction it bring, it's worth the investment.

The more i learn it, the more i find that COH2 is a great game.

Thanks.

That's is something a good programmer can manage to get into the game and the balance won't be worst then now. It'just more options and counter-options.

With this, cookies cutter builds will won't last forever, just the time someone find the counter that build.

And Relic will still be able sell more commanders...

Thanks for the reply.

I'm and was a big fan of COHO and Vcoh, i really liked their versatility in regard to fielding an army and deepness of strategies.

So i propose something i find rather easy to implement in COH2, that would greatly improve that aspect of the game and would open more way to counter the enemy teching choice. Balance would be more fluid as players discover more way to combine theirs commanders.

So instead of choosing only one commander to lead your army, you would rather choose a commander in chief, a commander in second and a junior officer.

-You would still only have to work with only a maximum of 5 commander's abilities.
-The command's abilities must still be chosen as before from the lowers cp to the highest one.
-You can choose your abilities at anytime you want, but not necessarily all at the same time.

Your 5 commander's abilities can be a mix taken from :

-Any abilities from your commander in chief;
-Any abilities from the first 3 of you commander in second;
-The first ability from you junior officer;

An example of command's abilities choice :
The * mean the ability can be chosen and (*) is the chosen ability.

Festung Armor Doctrine : (The commander in chief )

*-1CP – Panzer Tactician;
*-3CP – Hull Down;
*-4CP – Pak43 Emplacement;
(*)-4CP – Command Tank; ----» (Fourth ability choice)
(*)-6CP – Railway Artillery Support; ----» (Fifth ability choice)

Festung Support Doctrine : (The commander in second)

*-1CP – SdKfz 250/7 Mortar Halftrack;
(*)-2CP – Smoke Bombs; ----» (Second ability choice)
(*)-3CP – Relief Infantry; ----» (Third ability choice)
4CP – LeFH 18 Artillery;
6CP – Sector Artillery;

Jaeger Infantry Doctrine : (The junior officer)

(*)-1CP – Ambush Camouflage; ----» (First ability choice)
2CP – Jaeger Light Infantry;
3CP – Tactical Movement;
4CP – Light Artillery Barrage;
6CP – Stuka Close Air Support;

For me, that would be a huge improvement and i think that would bring some veterans players for Vcoh into the game.

I understand that having more options mean more difficulty to balance, but having more options give a players more creative ways to counter his enemy. (The balance would be more fluid)

Feel free to comment or suggest improvements.

I will add more explanations to the post if needed.

Thanks you.

Well as i said previously, the factions now, aren't that far apart in term of balance. (Stukas and Obers are still a bit OP)

The performance improvements + the new grouping/cover system added a lot of help to the allies micro intensive units, so they perform a bit better now.

The Us faction still need some need cmdrs to add play variety and the Soviets still need some love in regard of the Su-85, so they can rely more on those instead of only call-in.(AKA ISU-152, IS2 or T34/85)

In 4vs4 or 3vs3 and surly 2vs2 having good partners matter more then the factions balance as it is now. Having said that i must precise that the Allies are still somehow harder to play the Axis, so they are harder to come by especially if you play those mode alone with random teammates.

It's time to play folk, the game is better the ever.

Thanks

This is easily the most powerful support unit of the game, the best investment there is. It can kill many time its cost in unit wiped.

But, instead of overnerfing it the usual way, i would only increase its firing sound and slowdown its rocket by 20%, so mobile units can get a better chance to get away. Slow and static units would still be wiped as usual.

Thanks