Profile of van Voort

I was building 2 of the things before it was cool

Now I'm using 3

Hello

I did Commander Survivor for USF and OKW

http://www.coh2.org/topic/24543/commander-survivor--season-finale


I would like to do it for OKH and Sov, but I'd like people to be able to select more than one option in the early rounds.


Is that going to be possible?

I will take issue with my friend the wombat about nerfing fuel income in 4v4

That's not going to get the 1v1 and 2v2 crowd playing 4v4; instead it is most likely to upset existing 4v4 players.

One of the reasons people play 4v4 because they like seeing heavy units on the field in usable numbers


The problem with that is not that people are spamming heavy tanks, or that they are able to have more than one:

The problem is that OKW have really good late game units, this means that they can make efficient use of the pop cap and are not bleeding fuel or manpower to replace them.


OKH v Sov is and was fine.


Both have viable late game options if it turns into a slugfest and the game goes that long:

IS2, ISU-152, T34-85 v Tiger, Elephant, Panther


OKW have very strong, very durable mega units - and in team games they will go long enough to get them out, especially with caches and lots of salvage. The K-T, strongest tank in the game, isn't even doctrinal*

Worse to fight them you are reliant on:

Off map call in

Artillery (very map dependent, done it on Ettlebruck, not anywhere else)

Swarming them with inferior units



The problem with swarming them, is that is no such thing as a drawn battle for the allies. You HAVE to win.

You fight a KT with 5 T34s and you take it to 40% damage and lose 3 of yours.

You just lost MP, Fuel and Vet you won't get back and all you have achieved is to give Vet to him and driven him off the map for a bit


So you should try to stay in the fight and kill him, even if you win this might mean you lose 4 out of 5 tanks and you are not much better off than before because you have nothing left to exploit.

Or you lose all your tanks, and he is only damaged which means you are screwed.


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I don't really want OKW to be nerfed late game, I would like the others to be more competitive against them


That might not be possible though.


That said, I really think the K-T should be a capstone 16CP call in for Elite Armoured and not available to everyone in every game.

Make the elite IV-J the standard non-doc tank.

How much did the US even use mines during WW2? Most of the time they were pushing the Germans back and not vice versa.

Strategically you'd be right, tactically though you'd dig in and defend what you take because there is a lot of back and forth and Germans stressed immediate counterattack.

Also, the WAllies were very well provided with motor transport so could carry plenty of defensive equipment.


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The USF get their historic disadvantages in armour and TD doctrine, but don't get much of their advantages:

Air support

Artillery

Logistics

Welcome back everybody

Our first episode saw Recon Support and Elite Armoured decisively given the pink slip

Our second a near majority for Mechanised and a slightly tighter contest for Fortifications


http://www.coh2.org/topic/24248/commander-survivor--episode-ii


We need to vote one more commander off of each team to decide who is left on the roster.

As before it doesn't matter why, if they are too good, too bad, or you just think the avatar sucks but feel free to post your reasons