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So your telling me, that my teammate and I both have to choose a commander soly based off of British emplacement. And I guess if he is behind an hedge or building like most of them are well that counts out the AT option doesn’t it.

Nope not really, use a tank, flame nade thru bush, FHT thru bush etc etc, many ways to force brace, even just couple mortars, in which case you probably only need one off map.

Its honestly not that difficult to do, and it sucks for them when they go down.

I think the problem woth brace is it offers a HUGE buff to defense with no real downside.

The downside is it temporarily takes the emplacement out of the fight, so you have a window to punish his supporting infantry and give him bleed that way. Or if his force is strong, pull back and wait to push with hopefully indirect fire when brace wears off. Also that its left vulnerable after brace wears off, obviously.

When you face most strong units in coh your always going to need several counters combined, so a tank needs snares, ATG, maybe mines too.. most counter problems are not one dimensional.

Given that emplacements can not move, they are very vulnerable to thought out strategical counters. You can say that it takes little micro or skill to have an emplacement locking a portion of the map down, but the skill and micro comes in defending from a well executed attack on an emplacement.

In the late game of course there are some arty strikes that will just nuke them, which is why its nice to take railway arty or zeroing arty vs brits, but before that stage it should need a combined effort to take them down.


Bonus tip: If you are barraging a damaged emplacement, place the barrages on the rear egde of it where your likely to kill any repairing engies

MHT is less effective than you think.

First off all the weapon can easily miss the shot (scatter) if you fire without vision
Second a un-braced MP will drop to around 1/3 HP even if it get a direct hit
Third a braced MP will laugh at wasting 45 munition in causing around 25% damage.

This isnt Mortar Half Track Hero... hopefully you have an army which is supporting and protecting it, providing spotting and why on earth would you waste an incendiary round if the emplacement was not just about to have brace wear off. The standard barrage is probably enough to make him brace

I know you asked for mostly Ost, but as USA you can use Rifle vet bulletin (duh!), plus extended range on grenades, so you can nade from cover often, lots of nades is easy vet.

Stealing community work, stay classy Relic, with "your" December patch.

Well maybe they could credit people who have helped, but common, the community has moaned for years about relic listening to the community, give them some credit for actually doing it, or would you rather they immplemented their own random crap or did nothing at all?

lol so many arm chair critics.

Congrats Relic, you go guys! You deserve it after the stuff with THQ.

You guys should be pleased SEGA wants to commit support to them, the people who spend their lives working hard to make games we want to play. Or would you rather they downsized them, restricted their budget and managed some kind of decline?