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UnrealAlex
02-17-08, 04:49 AM
God, this game is amazing :D
You can have SO much fun with strategies. Here's a story of my epic battle:

I was on the mission where you had to capture a heavily fortified Town Hall in one of the small towns in France, shortly after the D-Day landing. So I have my 2 mortar teams put down a constant barage from the south, while my stealthed snipers provide recon on the area. While all this is going on, I move my infantry squads, armed with anti tank and machine guns, around the town hall to attack it from the north. Knowing well enough that a counter-attack will be imminent, as I move my infantry I have them lay down mines and build fortifications on the crucial intersections of the roads. Finally I move my infantry in and quickly take out the remaining troops in the town hall with little casualties. Success, but not for long.
I get intel that a panzer division is 10 minutes away from my location. I've got no tanks. The panzer division will be coming from the north, and the only way to get to the town from the north is through the three bridges. So I fortify each bridge with mines, barb wire, machine gun placements. Don't have any tanks, so I put about 1 37mm anti tank artillery gun, a squad or 2 armed with salvaged Panzershrecks or other AT weapons, along with a machine gun at every bridge. The division arrives. My mines kill about 5-10 tanks until they reach the bridges. Pure chaos ensures. My MG placements and MG squads make mincemeat out of german infantry while my AT artillery and squads take our german armor, which consists of Stug tanks and half-tracks. Everything is going alright, until my defenses begin taking artillery fire. Oh god, one bridge gets completly wiped out, and the other two are taking heavy fire too. I try to get more AT as soon as possible, but it's no use. They begin overrunning the town hall because they finally realized to focus on one bridge rather than spreading thin...so I have to fall back to the church in the south. I have my snipers cover my retreat. Finally, artillery becomes available to me. With one artillery, I take out 2 Stug's and a half-track. Back at the church, I set up a good defense while the germans are busy killing my snipers (those brave souls saved the lives of many allies). I quickly put up a sniper and a couple of MG's in the church. Mortar team behind the church. 3 AT artillery field guns and about 3 squads of AT infantry with 3 men each, plenty to take out any tank. So I'm sitting there wiping the germans out cause they're only attacking with like 1-2 tanks each wave, doin pretty well...and after about 3 minutes the Allied Armor arrives and everyone is like "Yey the armor is here", as if we were losing :confused: so then we push the germans back and epic win. I killed like 250+ Nazis, killed about 30 tanks..lost probably around 40 men total. Granted it was on normal difficulty, and the germans weren't very smart lol ( I get creamed in multiplayer)

Red_LightRanger
02-18-08, 02:43 PM
Ahh that was a fun mission to do . I remember I got creamed on the first time, so I decided to lay mines around the outside of the city before they started their attack lol. COH is definitely more about strategy which is why i like playing with the airborne team. They are much faster than the tank general and you can deploy them anywhere. Multiplayer sucked for me at the beginning because i was always trying to make a huge army and steamroll the enemy which took forever and never worked. It seems to me the faster you took land and kept the enemy on their toes the better off you would be.

KillrBuckeye
02-18-08, 02:57 PM
It is definitely a fun game. The mission you describe is pretty fun; however, it is basically scripted. No matter what you do to reinforce the bridge locations, the German artillery will obliterate your units and force you to retreat. If you play the mission again it will unfold in exactly the same way.

I got CoH:Opposing Fronts for Xmas, but I haven't installed it yet because I'm hooked on COD4 multiplayer.

Red_LightRanger
02-18-08, 04:21 PM
Ya i totally agree, but it kinda makes the game feel like your in a movie like saving private ryan etc.
take a break from cod lol. I was wondering how well opposing fronts is.

UnrealAlex
02-18-08, 04:45 PM
I was in the beta, it's pretty fun. I'm feeling like playing some WW2 fps now lol, going to go buy Airborne tomorrow.

Twigglish
02-18-08, 06:47 PM
I was in the beta, it's pretty fun. I'm feeling like playing some WW2 fps now lol, going to go buy Airborne tomorrow.

Not worth it, dont buy it

UnrealAlex
02-18-08, 07:11 PM
Not worth it, dont buy it
Bah really? Why? Maybe I'll try a Brothers in Arms game then.

lordkosc
02-18-08, 07:35 PM
COH is good , I am in the new multiplayer balance beta!

Alien1099
02-19-08, 09:30 AM
Company of Heroes is great. It's even funner playing it online once you understand the game mechanics and get a feel for the units.

Red_LightRanger
02-19-08, 10:59 AM
what type of general do you guys usually use? Like I said the tank general is unstoppable if you can get enough oil landmarks, but it takes forever so I usually go with airborne. I also like infantry gen and making a bunch of rangers with bazookas! They can really do some damage.

Twigglish
02-19-08, 12:33 PM
what type of general do you guys usually use? Like I said the tank general is unstoppable if you can get enough oil landmarks, but it takes forever so I usually go with airborne. I also like infantry gen and making a bunch of rangers with bazookas! They can really do some damage.

Airborne all the way :D Being Airborne now, it would be like cheating on the Army if I chose anything different :P
No really though, being able to drop them in anywhere is awesome.
Then setup a good amount of howitzers for artillery 24/7. Thats game baby.

Bah really? Why? Maybe I'll try a Brothers in Arms game then.

BIA is much better, to me at least. MOH:Airborne wasnt worth the money. If you can get it cheap, then do it I suppose. Game was short, multiplayer was lacking.

Alien1099
02-19-08, 01:46 PM
what type of general do you guys usually use? Like I said the tank general is unstoppable if you can get enough oil landmarks, but it takes forever so I usually go with airborne. I also like infantry gen and making a bunch of rangers with bazookas! They can really do some damage.

I usually play Axis and go Blitzkrieg for Wehrmacht and Tank Hunter for Panzer Elite.

lordkosc
02-19-08, 08:47 PM
I usually play Axis and go Defensive for Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe for Panzer Elite.

Red_LightRanger
02-19-08, 10:08 PM
For some reason i can never play on the dark side lol. If it was battle for middle earth I had to play on either rohan or gondor. Just like coh i have to play allies for some reason.

I know that in ww2 we had the shermans which werent as powerful as the tiger tanks etc, but we had like 4 shermans for every tiger. Is the game similar? I havent used the enemy tanks but im guessing they are way more powerful.

edit:
forgot to mention pershing tank. they came a little late in the war but they are pretty cool in the game if you're the tank general.

lordkosc
02-20-08, 02:06 AM
your Pershing is insignificant to the power of the AXIS war machine, the PANTHER, JAGDPANTHER, TIGER, and KING TIGER !!!

On average , you need 2 Shermans to take on any single AXIS tank I mentioned above , 1v1 the Axis tanks will take out any American Tank.

<3 Axis Tanks

But remember , the game is about combined arms, and thats what makes it fun :)

Are you in the COH Balance Beta ? 15 patches so far! This summer when it comes out for everyone it will be EPIC. Look me up for a game!

Red_LightRanger
02-20-08, 10:02 AM
havent heard of the beta yet lol. 15 patches??? wow thats quite a lot. U have a link?

lordkosc
02-20-08, 07:52 PM
http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?t=180839

Beta File link ( it copies you entire COH directory and then patches that with the beta files , so you have the regular version of COH on and the Beta )

http://thq.vo.llnwd.net/o10/CoH/beta/COH_BALANCE_BETA_Setup.exe

T'wolves
02-22-08, 06:11 PM
For some reason i can never play on the dark side lol. If it was battle for middle earth I had to play on either rohan or gondor. Just like coh i have to play allies for some reason.

I know that in ww2 we had the shermans which werent as powerful as the tiger tanks etc, but we had like 4 shermans for every tiger. Is the game similar? I havent used the enemy tanks but im guessing they are way more powerful.

edit:
forgot to mention pershing tank. they came a little late in the war but they are pretty cool in the game if you're the tank general.

I know the Pzkpfw. V averaged 5:1 vs Shermans, and 7:1 vs the T-34. The Pzkpfw. VI E am not sure about, but I sure it is very close. The Firefly is a different story, it could actully out gun the Tiger I in some respects. Too bad the game doesn't present the Pzkpfw. VIII "Maus". A 188 ton beheamouth mounting a 75mm coaxial gun to the 128mm turreted main gun. The game is simply limited to unrealistic conditions that level the playing field in favor of the allies. If you want to experience the real power the German armor held, try Combat Missions offered by www.battlefront.com

UnrealAlex
02-22-08, 09:47 PM
your Pershing is insignificant to the power of the AXIS war machine, the PANTHER, JAGDPANTHER, TIGER, and KING TIGER !!!


You can get jagdpanthers and king tigers in CoH?

Man WW2 tanks are so awesome. I watched a documentary on the military channel, about how tiger tanks would hide in the bushes and the first three shermans it spotted were pretty much bait while the 4th sherman tried to flank it.