Profile of James Hale

KV-1s are awesome and I highly encourage you to use them at least one in every half a dozen games. They are fun to use, can take a real beating and are very cost effective.

They also make the first set of Russian ToW missions much easier than they are otherwise.

If only we had a commander with KV-1s and T-34/85s...

My son and I

That is absolutely wonderful.

Yeah, it's basically the same ability that Bren gunners had in OF.

and what the fuck is with mines

seriously relic get your act together and make s-mines 1 quadrant for 25 munis

They'd be pretty useless, and work out as horrendously expensive compared to Soviet AP mines (which should be at least 10 munitions IMO)

For 80 munitions you get a dozen (?) mine quadrants, which is actually pretty awesome. The trick is to make sure you have two Pioneer squads when laying them.

I just posted this over on the official forum:

http://community.companyofheroes.com/forum/company-of-heroes-2/wishlist/15641-let-s-discuss-ideas-for-new-free-community-commanders

First of all, let me preface this by saying it's my idea, and not at all something affiliated with Relic. But hopefully we can change that, as I think it's a decent one.

I know a lot of you guys have expressed (often valid) disappointment at Relic's lack of community interaction in the past, and so I have come up with the fairly unoriginal idea of trying to get some community-designed commanders together. It's all in the link, but the basic rule is that these would contain vanilla-ish stuff (i.e. no brand new vehicle models) and so wouldn't put people off buying DLC commanders.

The general idea is that we get as many people as possible to contribute, and perhaps then Relic will pick up the idea. They've done it in the past (with the added expense of having to fly people out to Vancouver...) with the two Defensive commanders, so I thought there may be a possibility of doing another pair that had been designed by the CoH2 community at large. How we do it is the devil in the details, but it could be with polls or just general discussion - whatever.

In theory this would be very cheap for Relic to do, and it would have the net benefit of demonstrating that they listen to the community and are happy to take part in more community-based stuff, like they did with vCoH.

What do you guys think? Reckon we could drum up some support over here at COH2.org?