Profile of van Voort

Thank you,

If I took pics for that I could show you, but basically:


Upgrade all the fighting positions ASAP and put RELs in all of them

Cover any gaps with the HMG

Try to wire off and channel their advance (maybe some tank traps too but be careful with them)

Go for the Easy advance cut off with enough force to kill the enemy quickly, but still try and fight only one enemy squad at a time

Get 3 or so 57mm ATG but don't send them forward until you have to and keep them on Vehicles Only (It appears they will shoot through and destroy your fighting positions so you don't want them firing unless unnecessarily)

Get a second line of fighting positions up just in front of the trenches and know when to fall back to it

Heal your RELS and repair your fighting positions whenever possible

After Easy arrive your first positions will probably be becoming damaged and untenable, so you can drop back to the second line of positions; at that point you are basically going to be contributing suppression, rifle grenades and AT - Easy will be taking the casualties.

DOGs artillery is cheap and good, save the munitions and use if against the tanks when they come

Note that the AI never retreats when suppressed and pinned here, they will stay and die and it's just a matter of time. So fighting positions are an excellent way to fight without costing any company strength

And perhaps most important:

There is no save here; you do have a Pause button, use it



Depending on what the side mission is, it should be doable with the One Sherman you can get + Rifles; only exception to that is, as you found out the damaged tank. That might be a time when it is worth buying zooks (the only time I would on this mission) and/or trying some combination of:

Zooks + Sherman + Artillery + Major Artillery

I thnik Luchs and T70 should be treated as Light Tank or something like that. Don;t You think?

I will also be surprised if anyone votes for them

And why those two but not the Stuart (I'm drawing somewhat arbitrary lines, so I have no expectation people will agree with them, all I can do is explain my reasoning)

Puma's took the Light Vehicle slot, with only 35% of the vote but still twice as much as anyone else


http://www.coh2.org/topic/25090/fantasy-faction-i-builder-units

http://www.coh2.org/topic/25222/fantasy-faction-ii-core-infantry

http://www.coh2.org/topic/25382/fantasy-faction-iii-elite-infantry

http://www.coh2.org/topic/25584/fantasy-faction-iv-elite-infantry

http://www.coh2.org/topic/25935/fantasy-faction-v-machine-guns

http://www.coh2.org/topic/26653/fantasy-faction-vi-indirect-fire

http://www.coh2.org/topic/26896/fantasy-faction-vii-direct-fire-artillery

http://www.coh2.org/topic/27497/fantasy-faction-viii-light-vehicles



Builder Unit: Sturmpioneers OKW 58%

Core Infantry: Grenadiers Ostheer 32%

Elite Infantry: Obersoldaten OKW 28%

Unlockable Upgrade: IR STG 44 OKW 47%

Machine Gun: MG42 Ostheer 50%

Indirect Fire: 120mm Soviet 50%

Direct Fire: PaK-40 Ostheer 67%

Light Vehicle: Puma OKW 35%



Faction now looks like this:


T0: Sturmpioneers

T1: Grenadiers, MG42

T2: PAK 40, Puma

T4: Obersoldaten

CP2: 120mm Mortar

CP3: IR STG


We are unable to build caches, but Grenadiers can build bunkers and Sturms can salvage

Tech structure will be similar to OKH, but costs will not necessarily be the same

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I am skipping over Light Tank here and will come back to it later.

There has been recently some unrelated work on "Tank Destroyers" albeit in a different sense to the one I shall use

Instead I shall go straight to medium tank.

What will be the bread and butter armour unit?

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This is again somewhat arbitrary, but I've taken the base as the lightest vehicles that did not make it into the last poll (Luchs, T-70, Stuart) and capped it out at the Panther.

If the Panther gets in, then the KV-1 should too despite nominally being a Heavy; and I have included things like the KV-8 and Brummbar because they don't count up with the heavies

Pure Tank destroyers with no AI are not in here

I honestly think the best opportunity for a diverse range of German allies has passed us. The Ostheer should have had several auxiliary support commanders representing Italians, Hungarians, Slovaks and Romanians on the Eastern Front.

That would honestly be the best way to do it, as Commanders rather than stand alone faction


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The only significant faction that has cutting edge stuff in the 1944-5 meta would be the UK and Commonwealth - they would merit a faction by themselves

Most of the other interesting options (France, Poland) had their development stopped in 1939 to 40 so their equipment is not going to be competitive in 1944-5.


You either provide a "historic option" covering 1939-41 (but that would lack most the "iconic" WW2 stuff (No Tigers, No Shermans)

Or

You extrapolate what the French Army would have looked like given another 4 years development and shamelessly buff their units better than what the design engine strictly says they should be like.

"Not playing the way I want them to"


Which is why I voted no