Profile of van Voort

Yes I can see your damaged unit thank you

Stop driving right up next to me so my engineers have to move and break the repair they are working on

Also, stop driving over the campfires I keep building to stop them freezing to death while they work

This just means your repair will have to wait longer

Or are you just doing this to be perverted?

Winter Driver
Recrew and fully repair a Panzer IV tank during the Cold Weather challenge


I was lukcy enough to pick up 2 PIVs during a game at General Level, however I was only able to repair 1

I did not get the acheivement

Well, these may become more popular post patch as there will be fewer early tanks.

Also given that the FHT has been bumped back, putting a Pioneer with a flamer in a 250 is a subsitute

It is still too early to say, but here is your chance to predict who we are going to see more of in the meta and who less of in this patch

My picks:

Soviets:

Biggest Winner:

Defensive Commander

Having been hit with the nerf bat when his callins got pushed back to 2CP, now he has a point again. Being able to build T1 and call in to replace T2 didn't matter much when T3/4 came so fast

I'm not saying he's good now, only that I expect to see him more now post-patch


2nd Biggest Winner:

Urban Defence

Gets the 45s to allow AT with a T1 build and with a longer infantry game the Foward HQ will be more useful

Another commander we never used to see that we may again.


Honourable mention:

Soviet Industry

Higher fuel costs for teching means she may see a come back, but she is not exactly unpopular now


Biggest Loser:

Shock Army

See below for comments on shocks in general, however this guy lacks any call in tanks and the PPSH is no longer a nobrainer



Biggest Overall Loser:

Anything with shocks, given that you are not suppossed to be able to kill anything simply by forming 3 shock squads into a blob and running straight ahead anymore



Biggest overall winner:

Any Guards doctrine, especially Guards Motor, which was not exactly unpopular before



Darkhorse pic:

Anti Infantry

With terrain, flanking and cover more important intel will be crucial

We also predict that call ins will be important, especially the KV8

There is only one Soviet Commander with Recon and a call in, and it's a KV8

Following on from:

http://www.coh2.org/topic/14441/uses-for-mechanised-groups

Where we attempt to find uses for the units no one seems to love, or writes off.

Not all of the below qualify as that so, some are just really hard


Right now the Top 10 rarest bulletin achivements are:


1 BLITZKRIEG Deploy 50 Mechanized Assault Groups and 50 Mechanized Grenadier Groups.

2 Size Doesn't Matter
Kill 5 Tigers with M-42 AT gun

3 Rapid Fire Anti-Tank
Destroy 20 vehicles with DShK Heavy Machine Guns

4 Someone Needs to Man those Guns!
Deploy 200 Osttruppen squads.

5 SURPRISE!
Destroy 20 vehicles with Partisan Tank Hunters

6 They're Coming Out of the Woodwork!
Deploy 50 Partisan LMG Squads, 50 Partisan SMG Squads and 50 Partisan Rifle Squads

7 BOOM!
Kill 100 vehicles with B4 howitzers

8 We're Going to Need a Bigger Gun
Get 100 kills using a KV2.

9 Makeshift Artillery
Kill 200 infantry with STUG III E assault gun

10 Assault Grenadiers
Kill 50 enemies with a single Assault Grenadier Squad