I'm not a pro but most of the times in 1vs1 I manage to reach the mid game after a strong sturmpio opening by two measures:
-First of all, your vanilla rifleman squad is NOT supposed to beat sturmpio in 1vs1. At least not alone, this is why your first 3 squads (which usually are the RE squad and 2 rifleman squads) should move through adiacent sectors, so that they can assist each others. It is not possible to send each single squad to capture different parts of the map trying to gain early map control because they will be forced to early retreat or wiped out, and every sector you capped will be instantly re-capped by the OKW.
-At the same time, once you see that even the joint collaboration of 3 squads isn't enough (maybe because the sturmpios are backed up by a Kübelwagen) you must try to be elsewhere. OKW cannot put the same pressure in two points of the map at the same time, at least not before he places the flak truck. If you are experiencing strong resistance on one side of the map retreat & reinforce and send the squads on the other side, at least as long as you cannot get a suppressing platform (half track, 50cal or M20).
As a footnote, Rifleman vs Volks fight is all a matter of range and cover. In addition, I don't belive the sturmpio are OP: they are designed to be strong at close range, we just have to find a way to deal with it without being unconsciously allowed to not find a solution by thinking they are OP.
actually, sometimes I miss the old COH system for which US troops earned phisically the vet and Wer had to upgrade for it. (nostalgia moment OFF)
Apart from that, I think that vet 5 for OKW as compensation for less resources income it's a good compromise to keep it competitive at all game stages.
Maybe you could edit the subject a bit to be something more explanatory, e.g.: (Big) CoH Series General Feedback Poll? Now it seems a bit uninteresting. If not opened of course .
Yeah, at now the title makes me think "oh no, another balance poll!"
good job anyway
This guy on my team only build two engies, then sat back and flamed us untill he could build a katuyscha. Which he then used for TKing.
I rarely bother with idiots, but this was so obviously abusing the team concept.
As far as I understand such reporting goes to info@relic.com, but does anyone have positive proof that they take action on it?
Also: I see to my disappointment, that the chat is not included in the replay? The TKing speaks for itself, but I would have liked Relic to see the chat as well if they have any doubts.
Is there any good way to salvage the chat?
After so many years in CoH1, I find so hard to believe that there are people at this world who have huge amounts of spare hours of their life to waste in sitting in front of a monitor and ruin ohter people's fun playing as team killers.
But indeed, they exist.
Poor fellows.