I generally feel like Fight to the Death is more useful (especially with PPSH or if you opponent isn't good about switching targets). Stand Your Ground is only decent if your unit is getting charged by Ass Grens or Sturms and the extra defense negates their close range advantage. (IMO).
Yeah the abilities have potential, but require clever use. Not just a simple buff and win.
Buff defense to a squad with weapon upgrade, perticularly picked up LMG, and ability to also merge into that squad while ability active, is clearly potentially strong, when enemy would want to focus that unit normally.
You could use fight to the death when they have started focusing one unit, put it on another unit, they either have to ignore the buff to carry on focus origional target, or else switch, and let them off the hook. |
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Salvage is a extremely powerful, when you can basically delete enemy team weapons, particularly ATG which you cant just retreat to steal them quickly.
OKW is also the only faction with a none doc heavy tank. Is that a reason to give every faction king tiger equivalents.. |
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Read this thread then had some ideas:
If you get lucky enough to pick up an LMG, that's obviously a great squad to use stand your ground on, or alternatively if you have an ally who is able to equip your squad with a weapon (e.g. SVTs).
You could also merge cons into this squad with weapon upgrade and stand your ground whacked on.
You could also do this quite easily with your flamer engie. Rush him up with a few cons, stick stand your ground on it, enemy's best option is probably to try move out of flamer range, given you can't move. But everyone's natural reaction when flamer is close is to focus that unit, so it could be interesting.
Fight to the death basically speeds up engagements, same amount of increased lethality and vulnerability. So you want to use that when you would win the engagement anyway, but this will let you win it faster, and hence more chance of getting a wipe.
Also, using fight to the death will likely draw fire to the unit it's used on seen as it is both more dangerous and more vulnerable, but this is drawing fire off the officer who is also a decent combat unit and would likely be getting focused first otherwise. |
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I mainly like the m1919 when facing double Ost and dont want to constatnly bash my brains into a wall of MG42s. So ill play more passive, like Ost lol. |
Can someone explain to me why S-mine field need a goddamn sign ? It ruins the surprise effect and makes the whole thing pointless in 80% of cases, especially since a light vehicle makes a short work of it.
The whole point of minefield is to be a part of combined arms, like you place it just on an MG42s flank, so the MG covers one direction, and the mine field protects its flank. Having a sign does not hinder this role.
No sign would be way OP, its already powerful. minefield on its own, with no suppport is supposed to be easy to counter, just like a lone MG is.
Planting them on retreat paths is cheesy, and imo not an intended feature of their design. Not sure how possible it would be, but would make a lot of sense and better balance if you could only place them in controled territory. |
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ST is great. its much harder to kill than B4 thanks to armour and mobile. And it constantly forces enemy to reposition and retreat, which has huge value, just get good at canceling the shot just before it fires.
At vet 1 you can go round bullying squads without even firing it by using the grenade ability.
Obviously its great vs team weapons. As always dont just use it on its own, use it in combined arms attacks when enemy has high chance of micro overload, even if he moves the target, say a ZiS, it takes that unit out of the engagement.
Use smoke to screen it, I drop smoke in front of enemy, drive upto it and fire through, much harder to dodge as they cant see it wind up. Great vs static enemys. Even better if you have another unit to spot past the smoke. |
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Seems obvious, but howitzers or 120mm mortar. Or keep dropping flames on it, but that will need muni. |
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No way! Balancing nightmare.
There are loads of abilities which when combined would become ROFL stomp OP.
Hull Down + Scopes
Scopes + Frag bombs
Stuka Loiter + Elephant
etc etc etc.
Also I really believe its important you see your opponents commanders on load screen, you remember them (hopefully), if they call early units or abilities, if gives you a pointer what they have picked and you can counter acordingly.
If all commanders were custom, you wouldnt be able to keep tabs/remember what their options where, but also they could fill identical commanders with all the OP shit, just changing a single ability.
So they would ALWAYS have their favorite OP abilities, and just a case of picking the 5th thing they needed each match. Which again, is bad to play against from a tactical/ choice perspective.
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Welcome. Hopefully this is first sign of coh3 😛 |
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I like to have one commander with ML20, just in case OKW try aggresive truck placements in hard to attack spots. (talking 2v2 here) As you can really mess them up.
Also just having it in your roster, can be a deterant against aggresive trucks, as they know you might counter.
But I would only pick it if im pretty sure opponent hasnt taken a commander with bomb drop, otherwise its almost instant loss as soviet.
Its not worth it for barraging front line, and barraging base is too random, they can just ignore it and do a bit of repairing here and there.
B4 is better, as if you build it forward slightly, and barrage front line units it can cause havoc easily. |
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