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That's 12:30 EST, by the way.

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blackmain

I am both shocked and amazed...

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Namebot

I am afraid they are never going to fix the balance of this wonderfully designed game.

Tempus

The new patch has at least nerfed PE somewhat.

Problem I see is how strong infantry is against medium to heavy armor vehicles. Tanks are just about useless at this point.

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FROM THE TACTICAL GAMER PRIMER.
3) Support game play in a near-simulation environment. Where the focus of play would not be solely on doing what it takes to win, but doing so utilizing real-world combat strategy and tactics rather than leveraging exploits provided to players by the design of the game engine.

Morganan

Nah, as brits you simply wont beat a decent player without getting at the very least a Cromwell or a churchill out..

The Pv4 for the PE has been changed to be a ranger-killer.
The StuH is basically a guaranteed kill of 1-3 infantryman every shot it fires near one.
The M8 kills any PE vehicle in a 1v1 fight short of a Pv4.

NorCalRoach

I can't get the auto patch to work. arrrgggg...it's downloaded but when it prompts me to exit out of the game for the patch to run, it just closes instead of running the patch program.

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Tempus

You need to run the patch manually. Find it in your MyDocuments/blablahblah/COHwhatever/Patches folder.

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-- Suits are what you wear when doing things you shouldn’t want to do anyway.

FROM THE TACTICAL GAMER PRIMER.
3) Support game play in a near-simulation environment. Where the focus of play would not be solely on doing what it takes to win, but doing so utilizing real-world combat strategy and tactics rather than leveraging exploits provided to players by the design of the game engine.

NorCalRoach

Good advice. I was able to patch it with no issue manually. Looks like a lot of tweaks have been made. Time to unlearn what I thought I knew about the game again.

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bobik

The new patch fixed the PE problem pretty well but commandos are still waaaaaay too good.

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IMI-50AE

bobik, the commandos are SUPPPOSED to be good. They're commandos for crying out loud!

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playing off the TG server feels like we're playing 2142 on easy mode~Fehmart

I'm going to close my eyes until it's over~Experiment, commenting on my driving

"Get it up quickly and beat it hard."~Jonan
I don't get a bonus DVD? My life has lost all meaning.~Zoopy_T

Evo<^|SiNz|^>

They're the most expensive infantry unit in the game and they have no AT ability fer cryin' out loud (OK, C4 doesn't count)! They had better rip some **** up!

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bobik

Yeah, but they practically replace tommies and they're so cheap to reinforce.

And once they DO get shrecks they become practically the best AT infantry in the game.

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IMI-50AE

Sure, but they don't get AT standard. If you let your AT infantry get torn up by these guys, well, I don't know how sorry I'll be that your tanks are getting owned now. I guess this means the Gren-schrek blob isn't good for everything, eh?

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playing off the TG server feels like we're playing 2142 on easy mode~Fehmart

I'm going to close my eyes until it's over~Experiment, commenting on my driving

"Get it up quickly and beat it hard."~Jonan
I don't get a bonus DVD? My life has lost all meaning.~Zoopy_T

Morganan

The main issues with commandos are the crush they can achieve when calling in the glider, their stupid-low reinforcement cost, and the smoke/demo combo. They are a bigger issue vs. the Wehr then PE, as their Stens only do 2/3's damage vs. the PE, but full damage vs. the Wehr. Remember, a commando costs less to reinforce then a pioneer, that's far from "balanced".

As for the armor, that's a "depends on the matchup" thing. Unless you are playing a bad opponent, you wont win either side of the Brit vs. pe matchup without getting vehicles on the field. Then the Stug rush as Wehr vs. Brits which is equally as devestating. We wont even discuss how powerful the StuH/Pe Pv4 is vs. infantry...

You can't just make armor/vehicles and hope to win, but you sure as hell wont win without a few vehicles unless you play as american.

Evo<^|SiNz|^>

Updated 12/27 with a couple new Brit and PE guides and cleaned up bad and outdated/irrelevant strategy links.

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He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
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