Profile of Durendal

Americans and their stick ball. Hockey #1

"Panzer Leader" the memoirs of Heinz Guderian (the man largely responsible for the modernization of German armour pre-war) are quite a good read. It follows the early stages of german annexation through the war

I'm going to start working on a tool like this once finals are finished(~27 of april), apart from giving stats it'll have a few cool other features Thanks wooof for posting the link to that article it's going to be extremely helpful to me

unless the "expansion" messes with the game as much as OF/ToV did with vCoH the game could be pretty good by the end of the year.

to be fair most people compare CoH2 to vCoH complaining that its not as good as vCoH. If anything, realistically, people should hope that it 'only' causes as much turbulence as OF/ToV did. The way most people talk, expecting it to be ahead of that curve is just wishful thinking. Maybe im just an hopeless optomist lol, but I think it'll bring some much needed diversity to the game and despite being dragged along kicking and screaming, once(if) CoH3 comes out people will have the same gripes about it not being CoH2. That being said you're absolutely right, OF/ToV might not have been fixed within the first year of release.(I wasn't actively playing the game at this time so i honestly can't say) But hopefully there's some things that relic learned from those launches that they can bring to this release. At the end of the day they cant and wont make everyone happy that's just a fact of life, but these changes definitely seem to be in the right direction(in my opinion) and with some tweaking will make the game better overall.

tl dr;
i basically agree but there's some issues in the argument id rather highlight for clarity.

I played only 2 games with germans since patch, both easy win, no fun.
So I played soviets, like 30+ games now, all 1v1. Went from rank ~30 to 100 in a hopeless losing streak, winning only when I met really different skill players.
But I'm finally slowly understanding how soviets have to be played now, and am climbing the ladder again.

Use cover, don't charge, etc etc, this has been said again again.
But I'll give you other things I noticed.
1. You will need ammo, way more than before. Plant mines and demos as soon as you can. Use oorah to charge or escape an engagement.
Do not hesitate to build an ammo cache if you can afford it.
2. Flamers are your friends. They will stop pio/pgren charge and make them crawl instead of charging you, and they also deal more damage vs units in cover (if I'm not mistaking).
3. Pio are overestimated. Sure, they will win 1v1 vs cons if they are close, but if they have to close in while cons focus them, they will lose. So, stay calm, do not charge them, and you should be fine.
4. Counter to german scout car => mines. Plant mines. I know, I said it yet, but I'll say it again, plant fucking mines everywhere.
5. You'll have to lose to learn new soviets, deal with it. Forget your so beautiful winning streak and stats, play, lose, and learn from it. Then you'll start to win.

+1 for positive useful and constructive feedback