Profile of VindicareX

It's fine now. It basically denies any tank coming in range and now you're complaining one of the few designed counters for this, artillery and indirect fire, is decrewing/damaging it? I build pak 43's frequently since the majority of soviet players will spam either SU-85s or T34s. Having just 1 pak 43 gives your infantry free roam to conduct anti infantry operations (which should be numerous at this point since you went for a pak 43 doctrine).

It has long range to keep it away from enemy fire, very good damage to effectively kill tanks, and easily re-crewable since it will usually sit behind your front lines (or just at them). What you're asking is to make this gun nearly unkillable except from the most well-executed flanks and powerful bombing runs.

After being mercilessly beaten by mass conscript/soviet industry tank rush in 2v2 a few times by this duo, we end up facing off on Semoskiy, and what carnage ensued.

It's basically a brutal fight to stick units on VP points and seeing how long they can last. Watch as the entire center becomes a smoldering crater of ash as we try to push the Reds out of German territory.

Very nice match. GG.

None of these changes address the inherent problems of the new commanders: T70 timings and Tiger Ace all-inns.

Let's say the building time with soviet industry reduce to lower levels. It doesn't matter. If it it didn't reduce building time, T70s would still come out the same time (give or take 20 seconds). Why? Because all that really matter is the fuel income. So instead of your engineers running around capping and then building, they will simply sit in the base and build from the get-go so by the time you have enough fuel for the t70, you have finished t3. It, quite definitively, has no counters. The t70 can do almost no damage as CieZ pointed out, even if he killed off infantry at the same rate as an Su-85 (slowly), it will still force you off nonetheless, which means no map control, which means no fuel for you, which means you have no counters to tanks (pak 43's are a sub-par counter and will never touch a t70 and will be easily overrun by the horde of tanks soon to come. All this considering you managed to get t2 with manpower this far...).

the Tiger Ace, while less of a problem in my opinion, still poses a design flaw. The entire gameplay centers around armies slowly building up and trying to cause enough damage over time to eventually build an advantage (or if the game is close, to bitterly fight for a long time over the Victory Points). The tiger ace defies this: even if you have even armies it will completely shift the tide of battle. If you somehow make it to 7, or 8, CPs, cahnces are the game is a pretty close one (or you at least have some form of an army defending the line). With a Tiger Ace, all you really need is some marginal support for it to start being useful.
It's basically an All-in unit, you will either win or lose with it (whereas other strategies require you to build up units with resources to execute such aggressive all-in pushes). I think adding some extra abilities and make it have comparable health and damage to the Tiger, and make it cost resources (no zero income mechanic), will fix it. Add abilities like crew shock or extra range or something. Don't just make it a super tiger. This way it can still provide a vital role to your army without breaking the game's flow.

GG. He forfeited after the first game.

G1:http://www.coh2.org/file/3018/adadis-v-vindicarex.rec

Let's get a GG