REMEMBER YOUR TRAINING AND YOU WILL COME BACK ALIVE!

Hey Chaps, I was thinking about CoH and although we sometimes play like a team (like when the computer boxes us together) we could be more effective I think. My main idea on this has been the adopting of certain roles by each player. What I really want to try out with this set role way of playing is having one player focus exclusively on artillery. On the bigger maps this may necessitate 2 fairly central bases to cover the ground required, but with the artillery upgrade this shouldn’t be a problem. If one player could build about 3 howitzers per base with a large field of effective fire with the other 2 players calling in for fire missions I think it would be pretty epic. Defending these bases would be difficult if left up to the artillery player alone though, therefore it may be worthwhile having a defender player in this set role scenario.

The Defender play would set up effective defences at bases and at any strategic points. Base defences crafted well make the enemy pay many times the cost of the defences themselves, therefore I believe having these 2 players ‘dug in’ will provide significant advantages. Also there won’t be constant falling back or building up men at base and sending them out. Indeed, it should be our focus to always have our men out at our key locations and never lingering or building up at a production base.

All this not only frees up the third player to attack with impunity and massive force, but also provides a staging area to build up at, strike from and retreat to (if we choose our artillery base locations with care).

I know we’ve conquered Normal Normal Hard computer force with relative ease before, but I propose we give this a trial run with such an enemy. If we win in under 30 mins I suggest we’re on the right track.

Also I think we should each adopt a colour marker, the ones that say: ‘attack here’ ‘capture here’ etc. That way we know who’s sending the signal.

I know this suggests having 2+ active groups on the map and this has disadvantages for us, I often find anything I’m not looking at gets trashed. However having 2 different active zones is probably a price we’ll have to play in any case.

This is dogma and this isn’t the only tactic I have in mind, but I think it would be cool to try it out.