Profile of Gbpirate

I think volley fire is fine. If you use it in cover, especially heavy cover, or a building, you are fine if there isn't overwhelming firepower coming in. Using volley fire out of cover is stupid unless if you're trying to hit a pio squad charging at you.
If there's a sturmpio in your face, if you're not in cover, if your RE is out of position, don't use volleyfire. Retreat or reposition.

I'm still a proponent of the Early/Mid War and the Late War factions.

I.e., Coh2 launches with 1942/43 German and Soviet factions and the time period factions can't play against each other.

Each faction would have a similar basic structure, but some weapons and tanks would be different. There could be similar commanders as well, but also completely different ones.


This would've let coh2 expand on the Eastern Front (with a Finnish or a Finnish/German faction) and conceivably cover each area in Europe; N. Africa, Italy, 1944/45 France/Belgium/Netherlands/Germany.

also more $$$$$ for them. This would make balance more complicated, though.

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Don't rely on you memories of last year. Mobility is bad. Reload is very long. Penetration is very unreliable against Panthers and better. It can't spot for itself (unlike the Elefant with spotting scopes) and is incredible inaccurate. Oh, yeah and the switch shell, how much time did it take? I think about 11 or 9 seconds if i´m not mistaken.

I can't remember how much ISU has been changed but here's a little bit of a throwback Friday: https://youtu.be/S_6GDuNetaY?t=22m19s

I read a book called "The Last Full Measure: How Soldiers Die in Battle" and in that book, which traces warfare from ancient times (through the Iliad) to modern day. In the WWII section, there was one frightening statistic: 50% of all casualties were caused by indirect fire.

I believe that artillery is an integral part of coh. That being said, I think heavy artillery (anything larger than 155mm) shouldn't be build-able in game, but used as call-ins (like most artillery pieces are).

I think one thing that would be interesting to do would be, in the original factions, to swap the rocket artillery with the emplacements and put the rocket artillery into commanders. The rocket artillery is much more effective than traditional artillery simply because a player is able to instantly saturate an area with rockets, while traditional artillery is more about area denial or destroying fortifications.

I think every faction should get some sort of field howitzer and/or mortar and the overall effectiveness of them should be reduced (at least in terms of accuracy; German mortar sniping moving infantry is absurd).

Another note about artillery is the craters; heavy call in artillery (240mm, railway) should create huge craters with heavy cover.

indirect fire should play a big role in games, but with the current popcap system, adding more diverse artillery options would only serve to allow players to specialize in an area in large team games, and force players in smaller game modes to choose wisely.

In general, Artillery should be more accessible but also restricted both in terms of popcap and accuracy while still maintaining effective damage.

If there is some magic set of numbers Relic could come up with for these units that would minimize insta-wipes of lone squads in heavy cover yet allow artillery to accurately hit blobs, that would be an amazing step forward in strategy.

I feel like the LeiG and Pack Howitzer would be better fit for the direct-fire artillery role. The ranged attack could then be buffed significantly but limited to the barrage ability.

They had that. That was a huge talking point for Relic when they were building hype for WFA. And the M8 Scott could fire directly as well. It was deemed OP though. I guess because you couldn't see the shell coming in? I'm not sure.

I think it would be great if every faction got a field artillery piece. The Wehrmacht had several of differing calibers, I think the largest being 155mm. The leig is based off of a French design, anyway. I don't know if the British had any tiny artillery but they did have a 37mm gun from WW1 but I don't think they would've used that in Europe.