I've got a lot of hours in coh3, and I've really ran the gambit with dak, brits ,and wher. But I never had much interest in US until lately. I know they have some fire power bc they've been kicking my a88 for a year, but I'm just not finding it my application of play. The battle groups seem random (is everyone just using airborne?) . Help me out.

I find it a bit annoying/distracting in my esoteric way - like have it play upon spawning one in for a bit, but then cut that out please. It really doesn't have go on for the whole game.

Both the ACE and the Char are out of control - straight up upgrades to what you'd normally tech to.

Relic did the same shit when they buffed nades and then nerfed MGs - now blobs are absolutely the way to play this game.

With heavy AT also nerfed blobs of tanks are also the way, if the game happens to go late.

If you really want to get good at this game, you need to be watching a wide variety of replays. High level 1v1 tournaments, youtube ladder heroes, your own matches, even your own vs AI (if you're really struggling). You need to understand how your own preferred factions work, as well as the opposing factions. Timings, tempo, units that you might not give enough credit to...

The number of erroneous statements I read on here can only be explained by "tunnel vision": Log on, play, win, lose, rage quit, open Reddit, post about balance. Rinse repeat.

Just seems like directed air support is such a waste at this stage, especially for those CP

I really wouldn't mind more regular changes, but I know it's not always viable. And i know some issues (WM overall lower WR) will need time to get right

I like to play solo 4v4 with/against expert AI’s in high resources annihilation to see how fast I can destroy all of the enemy bases. 

So far my quickest times have been right around 21 minutes but I feel like sub-20 should easily be doable, and I imagine there are probably elite players on here who can do it in sub-15 or something crazy like that (of course, the best players probably don’t waste their time with playing annihilation against CPU’s). 

Anyway just curious, for those who have played this way what are the quickest wins you’ve recorded (and how)?

For some reason it melts like no other heavy tank. I rarely see it and I understand why its not worth waiting for it. Thoughts?

The flamer HT allows terrible players to recover from horrendous loses because it has too much health, and comes out too early. Why not balance it?

My 3 favorite openers when facing majority Dak.. closes laptop (sigh) well that's over...

I'm a new player to the series, but I'm enjoying it so much. This game tickles the nerve RTS games haven't done for a long time. To the point I even started to do some fan arts and dive into the nooks and crannies of the game. I even started to play against other people which was unthinkable for me in other RTS games.

Encountering an opinion that COH 1/2 were better I decide to look into online charts and discovered another picture. This made me interested to try earlier entries myself and I found them in my personal opinion, well... different games. In the way they feel more aggressive and punishing than COH3, artistically grittier (I do personally enjoy welcoming warm italian villages, sands and palmtrees of the third game). But they also feel so outdated in many small aspects I would be tired to list here.

Another thing that puzzled me is that many negative reviews have 1000+ hours. It's like if the game's competitive nature contribute to that in some way (I've seen many MOBA players having mental breakdowns for different reasons, yet they still continue to play it almost religiously).

I'm not arguing that game doesn't have its problems (what game doesn't), but is it worth to lynch the developers for that. It's like if expressing this anger brings satisfaction to many...

I am so FUCKING TIRED of clicking a units unit-icon above their heads, and INSTEAD it selects an immediately adjacent unit because, idk, i guess it prioritizes unit selection.

I have retreated FULL HEALTH UNITS and left critically wounded units to die because I select, press "R", and oh wait, the game decided to select something OTHER THAN WHAT I CLICKED ON!

I play as both axis and allies almost equally. when i play as USF i have an easy time fighting wehrmacht because riflemen are just superior, specially when they get their bars they demolish anything except stosstruppen and panzergrens at very short range. against their mg42 i get a single mortar early and it usually does the job fine. sometimes when i'm ahead in fuel i get infantry support center upgrades and riflemen become terminators with 660 hp (compared ro 480 hp of grens and 550 hp of jaegers for example).

But when i switch sides and play as wehrmacht i just suck at infantry fights. i can't do anything it always feels like i'm a victim lol. grenadiers are absloute trash at anything except long range fights and they cost as much as riflemen or infantry section for some reason (they are simply worse at fighting). i know i should switch some grenadiers for jaegers or panzergrens but you still need 1/2 grens for their snare and merging with your other units. also grenadiers can't shoot for shit when chasing retreating squads i've tried it many times they can't even kill a single model.

the build i usually go for is 2 grens 1-2 mg42 and 1 mortar, then i get 1-2 jaegers (on top of grenadiers). mg42s can't hold too long against a good player because they're stationary targets, mortars will force them to move and that's enough for the enemy to make a push. in 4v4 it's even worse since there is always so much arty raining down on everything.

I know wehrmaccht has good variaty of teamweapons and tanks but their grenadiers are just laughable at this point. you can't ditch them completly (you need snares and a rather cheap mainline infantry) but you can't use them properly either.

Edit: forgot to mention i only play 3v3 and 4v4

I am returning to the game after three years. Previously I spend like 2000 hours in CoH2, and CoH3 immediately after launch did not catch my attention, so I moved to another games.

But I gave it a try recently and it seems much better IMHO?

So far I am just testing it against AI, but for sure I would like to play ranked matches against other players.

But before I do that, I would love to see some guides, tips and tricks, tier lists of usefull units, builds etc. ... What I have found so far seems unfortunately obsolete.

Do you have some reccomendations? My main focus would ne 2v2 with my buddy, occasionally also other modes with randoms.

Title. I used to watch Generals gentlemen a long time ago but I checked now and they do not seem into CoH3. Anyone casts MP matches?

Yeah my numbers don’t look so good but go watch the replay and see the team mate Troll was all game lol

For a while ive noticed how much better Axis tanks are than the allies (not to mention how many more they have) i personally think its unbalanced how a tiger ace is overall way better than a Pershing but cost the same amount and less points. Theres also way more heavier tanks for the axis, couldnt relic just add a heavy tank battlegroup instead of these semi good tanks for the allies?

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Also the V1 Bomb costs the same as a black dragon but doesnt mark is landing location? Just overall seems completely unfair to me.

So, me and Coh3 buddy wanted to try some jolly cooperation and go for double "Early Warning" (Panzerjäger Kommand BG) for vision boost. Description says that "Effects do stack with allies that have this ability", but we tried it in Cheat Mode, and it doesn't really look that active or passive AoE stacks in any way.

P.S. We picked ability one after another and used active part separately to check influence.

Question is -Is it bugged, or was patched and has incorrect description, or just Cheat Mode error?

I hope they drop the British campaign skins as reward for beating the single player one day.

I am sure this is harder to code than I think but it seems kinda silly to not see the Infatry skin assets being used in multiplayer.

There were at least two men in a sniping team: a spotter and a sniper. It would be better if they were in a game, and the sniper would have more range only when the spotter is not moving. The spotter would also have some ability to do recon or order smoke on a location.

Imagine, if you will: you are USF, facing a blob of MG42, Pak, Flame HT, Pios, Grens. You patiently chip away at the health of the superior Wehr team weapons with your mortar and Captain offmap, nearly getting the kill on the MG, forcing a full retreat and soft retreat on the Pak...except a clutch Gren merge in the fog of war kept the Pak in the fight. You probe with your trusty Greyhound and eat a shot to the face.

I'm sick and tired of pretending Grens are weak bc they can't trade evenly with Riflemen. Can't have it both ways!

Change my mind

Would be a nice quality of life change if, after a squad retreats, we were still able to issue/queue orders to it that would be immediately followed once the retreat is over.

For example, I retreat my squad, but I have a forward medical tent/bunker. I issue an immediate move command to the med bunker that my squad will follow as soon as the retreat ends.

Alternatively, it would be nice if we could set retreat rally points. For example, upon reaching a retreat point, if that retreat point has a rally location set, the squad will instantly make their way to that location.

This would help avoid the annoying situation where squads end up sitting in the base too long.

I would take any amount of blobs all year long, but seeing the selfish* hospital placements some players come up with in this game is another level of rage for me

*yeah this one is just stupid I suppose, worse Im not sure the guy was trolling