Profile of Gbpirate

Nice dude, of course we can be friends

Plexy, you inspired me to become good at PE. I went from a casual piece of garbage level 5 to a level 10. Then gave up because I still wasn't amazing. Now I play CoH2.

I'm watching the Twitch video now. It honestly looks really cool. Although I do understand people not wanting to fork over $40 for single player only stuff.
Is it just me, or was there some sexual tension in the video?

The performance of riflemen compared to other early infantry is the reason.

Riflemen being 280 mp and the best vanilla, core infantry, has nothing to do with the 280 mp MG.
If my MG is going to be 280 mp I want 6 men on it like the soviet maxim.

Some very interesting points made... having different unit stats is probably the best way, but it is so much work.
I don't play 4v4 or 3v3 often. Sometimes when I'm bored and don't want to be as stressed, I play with big teams.
It is less micro; if you lose a gren squad at ten minutes it's not that big of a deal.

I think the biggest issue in 1v1 is call-ins/heavy tanks. A big part of 4v4 imbalance is the same thing.
I think halving the fuel income of all factions would be beneficial to balance. Not sure how OKW would do with that...maybe strategic points should give one less fuel and/or fuel cache bonuses would not apply to okw players? Also, cutting off resources to players should be easier. If two players are cut off from the map, but if the other two players in the other base sector are connected to territory, the two 'cut off' players still receive resources.
These are all my ideas/brainstorming. I'm not saying they would all work, but they could all be altered slightly to improve balance.

There's not much that can be done with automatching...It seems to be working fine on 1v1, so I assume it works fine with 4v4, but, there are eight players instead of two. Your best chance is to play during the hours of the day (or night) when CoH2 has the most players online.

I like playing 4v4/3v3. It's fun, not as stressful, and awesome at times (awesome in the sense of instilling fear... when railway artillery obliterates clumped infantry). It's fun to see so many units on the field and there's always action somewhere to watch or to help your friends out.
It's incredibly rewarding to flank the south of La Gleize with three Shermans, driving west to east, to catch a Jagdtiger in the ass

This thread could easily apply to other fast vehicles attempting to flank/get behind your vehicle.
I played a game many months ago on Langreskaya. My opponent went soviet industry and eventually made about 9 T34s in total. I had three grens, a Pak, a P4, and a Stug.
The game ending push came with six T34s. This was back in the day when ram was a good way to kill any medium vehicle.
I used my fausts, and the stun ability on the Stug/Pak gun to prevent rams. I slowly destroyed each one by one (although it was overall rather fast). With six T34 wrecks (and three others from before) on the east side of Langreskaya, my opponent quit.

Always back up your vehicles with infantry and Pak guns. Use your muni abilities to either save your own vehicles, or to ensure the destruction of enemy vehicles.

Tellers are cheaper now but still do engine damage. Use them on roads, on your flank, anywhere.

Whenever I'm playing as the US against Ostheer, I always try to get in close with my rifle squads when fighting grens. That being said, use cover to your advantage when fighting rifles. If your gren is in green cover at full health, and the rifle squad is in yellow cover, I would hope to the RNG gods that your grens win. If your opponent wants to engage at close range, make him run over a road or open ground - I do the same against sturmpios and it's super effective.

In the first five or ten minutes, if you find yourself in a 1v1, gren vs. rifle, try your best. Don't lose your squad, but try to kill 1-2 models and/or get the squad's health down low.

I like going 3-4 grens, then double MGs. (Gren Gren MG Gren MG) Sometimes I'll get a mortar instead of one of the MG42s, but often times I just get the mortar HT.
Sometimes, I get a sniper instead of the second MG. Well microed snipers, even in urban maps like Semoskiy, can do some good work. Don't underestimate the stun round. I used it for the first time against an airborne squad. I took out the last three men with one shot. Fucking awesome.
In that particular game, my sniper had 45 kills the last time I checked. He got gibbed by a zook from the Captain squad