Profile of Imagelessbean

I see it is already being addressed but in team games (2v2+) this commander on some maps is straight up broken. It works sickeningly well in team games by buffing teammates units to staggering levels.

Also to address braciszek's comment, if a commander is broken on one map or only used rarely it can still be OP on that map and that is not fair for the other team.

If you play a team on Faceoff you will find that a blob of Soviet infantry will press forward as one player upgrades FHQ's. Three or four mortars at a FHQ are literally impossible to kill for Ost. How about a shock squad next to a FHQ? Or what about a couple of guards? They also get one as soon as the game starts and it is very hard to push them off the field. Meanwhile the Ost team has to keep retreating to base to reinforce and heal.

I understand this commander is not OP in 1v1, I don't see how it could be, but in team games it is ugly. I would really like to see this commander receive a build time for FHQ's or possibly prevent it from buffing allied units.

The closer we get the less we hear the more worried I get.

This.

It's fine to say a tester is having having a good time in the game, I am glad, but that does not even get close to meaning the game is balanced. Having been a tester in different games I know my impression of the game is colored by the novelty of the game as well as the promise of changes. In my mind I see the flaws but I say to myself, "Those will be addressed". When the games get released suddenly my good impression becomes a negative one as I realize those "problems" were by design.

I've played vs the ISU152 since the patch 3 or 4 times and managed to destroy it every time without elefant too. I did noticed it had been buffed, but I didn't sit and cry in game, I dealt with it.

It's simple...

1) flank with decent tank or even better, a pair.
2) come up behind it (it turns to slow to get the tanks before it's too late)
3) gg

Most times this happened, the soviet rage quit because once he lost the ISU it was gg anyway.

;-)

Certainly it is possible to do this, but against good players this is nearly impossible. One AT gun, or a mine, or a lucky conscript nade, or button, will stop the flank. Also the only tanks reliably able to defeat ISU-152 before being destroyed are the Panther and Tiger. Both of these units are too risky to send in that deep behind enemy lines.

As a result the late game in COH2 is now ISU-152 vs elephant.

In short ISU-152 is beatable, but not easily enough. It negates infantry combat and veterancy, and is very, very difficult to kill with armor (excluding elephant).

I find that I use this when I need a unit for capping and is relatively versatile latter in the game. The veterancy and the possible lmg42 lets them actually be useful when they appear.

Try it when you need to take points under fire from a ISU152. They can be lost and save you more expensive infantry as you hold the line.

Still very situational, I would rate it as a mediocre ability. Not great, but not terrible.

If you're in position where you feel like needing kat/pwerfer, then opponents army comp isn't rather well built for such quick skirsmish but he is rather entrenched with setup weapons and heavier armor.

Kind of...but not completely. If my opponent has a good mix of forces I may need a kat to take out key support teams while my other units move in. Getting it close to the target is simply not an option. Good players are always going to have a very diverse mix of support and frontline units. Frequently I maintain a detached force of 1-3 units that are capable of plugging gaps or exploiting openings rapidly. If someone moved a kat in close these are the units I would use to attack it before it could escape.

More importantly if you run into an elephant and you have no doctrinal arty (which is many commanders), no guards, and need to damage it, the kat is supposed to be able to do some damage to the elephant. In its current state it is simply impotent until vet 2, which means getting vet 2 is hard, which means you never get to use the kat as it is intended.

I was winning a 4v4 yesterday so I only built kats to play with the unit. Even with four firing simultaneously at the same infantry target, at max range they frequently failed to kill it. They did little to no damage to tanks, and were ineffective at decrewing paks. Mg42 teams often took two barrages of four kats at max range to fully decrew.