Profile of thefonz

Ok, I only run into this sucker occasionally but I have some serious grips.

One, instant deployment. Not the worst thing ever, but it really bugs me that I can be fighting a guy and Oh BTW I have a base here now and get a huge bonus and can reinforce.

Two, no way to decap it like in CoH1. The last guy I fought using this just rushed a very forward building right away and set up a FHQ. We forced him off, but no one could do shit about the HQ eventually I was hitting it with a LeHG but that didn't really do shit. In the mean time he had mounted 1-2 counter attacks that were an utter bitch because of the FHQ bonus. (I don't recall if he gets the bonus when the territory is decaped or cut off, but I did do that when I could. Cap zone for that territory was favorable to him and the building was more in my end.)

Three, fucking unkillable squads around the FHQ. Between the bonus and the ability to reinforce his squads are an utter bitch to force off. I had a squad of vet 2 fussilers go after a 3 man con squad. He ad just popped another (his third or fourth for the match) FHQ. Here's how his con squad faired.

3 man - 2 man - 1 man - (1 fuss lost now 4/6) - 2 man - 1 man - 2 man - 1 man - 2 man - (1 fuss lost now 3/6) - 1 man - 2 man - 1 man - 2 man - (1 fuss lost now 2/6) - molotov (fuss retreat)

True, there was a little good micro. He ran from my fuss, I chased. We ended up on opposite sides of green cover. I was trying to time a grenade to wipe the squad after it reinforced again when he got the molly off and I had to run.

Wish I had saved the replay to demonstrate and see what I could have done differently but I just launched another game instead.

Killing those 2-3 FHQs cost my ally about 200 mun. He was able to do it relatively cheaply since he had the doctrinal mortar HT and firebombed them. Not sure what we would have needed to do if he didn't as my LeHG was clearly not getting the job done.

I went for a Luchs because I figured I could just park it outside an FHQ and watch it vet up like a boss. That worked to a degree, but I got greedy and went in for a squad wipe and ate an AT nade. Then a Jackson showed up. My fussilers got an AT nade off to slow the Jackson but it was too late and the Jackson gobbled up the Luchs.

In retrospect, maybe I should have teched for a walking stucka but I was trying to push for a KT. We had done a decent job at first on my side, but the enemy crushed our other flank 4v4 and was holding a steady drain against our VPs all game. They even got deep enough to cut off fuel once or twice.

Map was... uhh, the one with the river straight horizontal, east kinda swampy, west has a decent town. Center VP on small muddy island. Fuel right next to main base, so yea, they cut deeply from the east flank.

To be fair, my grip is clearly influenced by how that game went. Still, those damn FHQs are a total bitch early on.

TL;DR: IMO ADD THE ABILITY TO DECAP A FHQ. If you need to adjust the cost lower to balance it, I agree. Right now, careless FHQ placement is impossible to punish until mid game or later.

Extraordinarily well thought out. You must have spent considerable time on this. I hope the devs take this into consideration.

The adjustments to Pripyat are key. I miss that map, but it was broken.

I can't spare the time at work to read your details for each map but in the words of McArthur, I shall return!

I have a slightly different implementation suggestion.

Face the turret the same way you currently face team weapons (click and drag). To indicate you are turret facing rather than moving the tank, hold ctrl or shift or something. This would be easy, fast, and give a finer grain of control than a toggle button or something.

Clever! To flesh out the details does a move or any other order force the turret to reset? The turret must maintain a facing if we want this to work offensively.

I think this would be pretty tricky to use effectively and would probably end up being more of a hindrance than any help (forget to reset orientation).

Well, the first implementation I offered is just click a button to cycle directions. Pretty basic, maybe even slightly more problematic than the latter because to get to the starting direction again (front) you need to click 1-3 times to cycle past the other positions depending on what direction you set.

The second, it's identical to toggling hold-fire, but with one additional click. Toggle on -> click to set facing (the extra click) -> toggle off.

In either case, forgetting is on you IMO. It's no different than forgetting a squad/vehicle in a bad position and losing it. If this is a a big issue for someone it's not like they are required to use it. This just raises the amount of micro you can use to get the most out of your units.

I'm sure I'm not the OKW player who's wondered why raketens kept magically appearing at my T1 buildings rally point.

1. Select Volks squad to reinforce (accidentally and unknowingly select the T1 building).
2. Spam the R key to reinforce.
3. Wonder what's taking so long for them to reinforce.
4. Wait another 30 seconds.
5. Notice three raketens standing around with nothing to shoot at.

Damn man that blows.

Also, you be floating a lot of MP.