5 More Top Tips for Company of Heroes 2 in 2020

[@KorpiklaaniLordi]

Just to ad to your shift command weapon capture part, if you get suppressed before capturing weapon, your squad will retreat immediately, since weapons can't be captured while being suppressed

[@AgentHorst]

This should also be true then for capturing points, right?

[@KorpiklaaniLordi]

@@AgentHorst no, just for capturing team weapons, slot weapons like BAR etc. can be picked up while suppressed you also cant capture/enter wehicle while suppressed, so be carefull as US with front line repairs... Hence this, it is good idea to guard uncaptured team weapons with MGs, so enemy cant't get them before you can capture/destroy them :) Smoke is good "counter" to this and also semi-protects your low squad retreating after capture

[@Recker1125]

@@AgentHorst for points it will be too but after pinned

[@GoodOlKuro]

also you don't need to click the menu icon. hitting r also works

[@AgentHorst]

@@KorpiklaaniLordi Thanks for the explanation!

[@中华民国万岁-c4g]

I never knew the shift command existed lol, that is going to help me so much.

[@mers1er515]

I accidentally found this command out of habbit from years of playing Age Of Empires 😁

[@benasmalmiga8953]

@@mers1er515 or starcraft, can't imagine the game without the command.

[@GhostTruck67]

I'm 35 years old and have played rts since C&C when I was a kid. Never knew this for this game, or that queue commands existed in games. Either games and people in general don't make this important knowledge common or I need to pay more attention 😅

[@enginkurtez7381]

This guide has useful tips and tricks for rts in general to be exact shift command always do the shift command

[@Recker1125]

Btw. The exit building is extremely powerful in city maps with smg units. I used it with sturm pio closing distance EXTREMELY quickly go into house out the other way. It was so powerful to deal with

[@Smo1k]

Buildings, entering them from one side and exiting on the other, is a tremendous way for cheap infantry to tie down expensive vehicles :)

[@lordwaleane5397]

Very nice tips. Another tips is for infantry you can throw smoke first at space between you and enemy, so the enemy stops firing at you, then you throw grenade. Works marvelously. Also tank can deploy smoke so you cant get hit during retreating or reverse.

[@maximilianroithner7323]

I played this game for 1600h now and honestly didn't know these tips except the firing ground one haha!

[@ex-PARROT]

A very useful video, well made and put together. A great example of 'attack ground' vs the Stuka!

[@dudtheman]

Thanks for the tips Hans my buddy's and I have been playing coh2 a ton and watching your vids has helped my game by leaps and bounds so huge thank you. I've really enjoyed your content keep up the best work

[@pedrovictormelo6783]

You can also use shift command in the map, its more faster then visualizing the point on your screen

[@Baerinho]

i used to play SC:BW and WC3 ALOT, barely touched a RTS since, but since i discovered COH2 a few days ago i wanna get better, and this is exactly what i was looking for. You are quite a good teacher, i jsut need to get to a point where i am not toally overwhlemed by all thats happening so these become 2nd nature.

[@tazzioboca]

OH MY GOD I NEEDED THIS SO MUCH. I've lost count how many times my mg got out of the building from the wrong door and got wiped and stolen by the enemy. Thank you Hans-senpai!!! S2

[@loveyuiz]

When encountering conscript and penal, always kill the conscript first that way the penal cannot be merged by conscripts

[@MrAerohank]

It's better to kill the penals first. Their DPS is higher so every second of not having 6 man penals is losing some of their DPS.

[@AloneAngus]

@@MrAerohank thats wrong. Vet 0 penals are much harder to kill than cons. Also if you kill penals , your opponent can simply merge cons with penals. Logical thing should get rid of cons first then deal with penals.

[@MrAerohank]

@@AloneAngus Conscripts merging with other units do not get the new units target size. They get better weapons, but each model keeps being just as easy to kill. So at vet0 it's better to kill the penals first so they lose DPS from down time before merge/swapping weapons during merge.

[@lordwaleane5397]

@@MrAerohank can ask Hans to make separate video about this issue.

[@helpinghelper4151]

>anime girl profile pic >bad advice Yeah that fits

[@conormadigan7829]

It might be worth explaining how to retreat a weapons crew quickly upon exiting a building. If you don’t highlight the squad and retreat quickly enough you need to wait for them to set up before retreating which can be fatal.

[@lawrence9561]

Is there shift retreat after tab right click?

[@conormadigan7829]

@@lawrence9561 i dont think the retreat icon appears until they exit, but ill check that now...

[@Smo1k]

@@conormadigan7829 When I select one unit in a building and exit only that, I have to reselect it to get the full complement of orders: I've got the unit outside, but it's got the inside building set of commands, only they're greyed out. Also, shift-right click after an exit command while on pause makes the unit do nothing: No "Exit and go over here" or anything of the sort :/

[@ryanrobinson8682]

Damn I've been wondering about facing MG's for a while and didn't know about attack ground and through a hedge. That's amazing. Such epic tips

[@ianblake8450]

I’ve just gotten into CoH2 after having it for years, this video was godsend. Shift commands is amazing. Also you narrate like you’re at a dog race track and I love it :)

[@SpaceMissile]

gotta move fast in an RTS, and that means talking fast. ha

[@richardma8591]

Thanks for helping Hans But seriously thanks appreciate the guides!

[@SpaceMissile]

the "attack ground" tips are nice. definitely upped my game there, thanks.

[@thamor4746]

I don't remember needing to use tab to control what side they come out, just right click with mouse the move command to mg in building and they will exit on closest exit to where you commanded them to move...

[@Heart0rHead]

The attack ground part was interesting, didn't know it will act like that.

[@istvanszoke381]

This will highly improve my gameplay!

[@arcturus64]

Thanks for the tips! Quick question: Does the protection from sandbags Stack? What I mean is if you do two rows of sandbags, is your infantry better protected against supression for instance since there are more obstacles in the way? Or does it only count the first line and the second doesn't affect anything? Not that anyone in comp would do that but I was just wondering.

[@OrangeJuice-ib9mu]

no it only provides the equivalent of green cover cover doesnt stack

[@Smo1k]

Cover doesn't stack against small arms fire, and a double stack is actually worse if a tank or AT gun fires at it (rather than at the unit behind it) because the cannon tag lets it destroy objects one tile away from the hit, and the infantry takes damage from being next to a destroyed object, in effect increasing the range of the hard attacker by a tile.

[@chains84]

Coronachan has given me a lot of time at home, and I've managed to save some money for a new rig. But miners fucked up the prices and gaming laptops are waay underpowered. So I'll save up the money until prices are acceptable. So now I'm stuck with an 8 year old Lenovo Z410 laptop which can only run older games and I'm very happy with COH franchise. Just finished Ardennes Assault and learning to be a better player. Thanks Hans.

[@WAtheAnum]

you might should have add for tip 4, attack ground is also a good thing if you wanna destroy bridges so that you keep the enemy off from flanking you a side you dont want to or leave the enemy to repair it.

[@edgarovsepian5988]

Honestly with the bridge buffs destroying bridges takes legit ages and is usually not an option

[@WAtheAnum]

@@edgarovsepian5988 that actually depends with which units you bomb it *and* is still an opinion...

[@Ashmole3]

Been playing for a long time. I always knew how to do the exit building in COH1 but not in 2. Thanks

[@Smo1k]

An important note on shift-commands: It doesn't work with vehicles that you want to path with reverse move, nor with infantry you want to exit a building and shift-do stuff. In the first case, the tank just forgets that you gave it an order to reverse around the hot zone and reverses directly to the last point; in the second case, the infantry forgets the exit order and does nothing at all. Also, it doesn't work with orders following attack ground. Obvious, really: The ground doesn't get killed, so that order never finishes. Which is too bad if you want to send one mortar shell exactly *here* , then one *here* , then *here* and so on, raining boominess on moving targets :/

[@Danny-Do-It]

Great vid mate! im 100 hours into pvp and didnt know you could exit buildings like that :D

[@patriot4048]

These are very helpful. 👍

[@peacemaker2199]

Please keep making these you are the best!

[@PrimeNPC]

I never knew you could queue retreats, that is actually a great tip!

[@OfficialSpartanGames]

I love this kind of stuff

[@lukass8626]

Great Video, I just got into playing CoH2 and this helped a lot!

[@TaYpworm]

Thanks from a noob! Please keep the tips coming!

[@pimhakkens1415]

This guy nows everything

[@thespfgirl]

Always bringing the hits! Thank you

[@sotos2684]

Very useful tips

[@Shaolink]

Really great tip videos!

[@cameronmorris112]

Hey man. Been loving your content. Long time RTS fan with CoH on top of course. Just wondering why no mention of control groups? Maybe I just wasn't paying attention. Great way to help newer people get an easy micro advantage while they learn the game as the control group mechanics are identical in most RTS.

[@darrenprong2632]

Hey hans, very helpful overall. Just wondering though, how do you use WASD in CoH2? I remember back in CoH1 days you needed a third party script to be able to rebind keys. Is that what you had to do?

[@中华民国万岁-c4g]

You can use arrow keys as well though it is annoying as hell

[@wlklsn]

@Darren Prong it's now possible to change the default key bindings to "grid" Mode. This means that every command in the top left corner will be bind to "Q", every command in the top right to "R" and so on

[@darrenprong2632]

@@wlklsn ahh ok thanks I didnt know :/

[@wlklsn]

@@darrenprong2632 no problem :)

[@UrDaddy4Real]

AUTOHOTKEYS you can use WSAD as camera controls

[@aa1944-k2r]

funny how i played COH1 many years ago (actually 10+years ago) and recently i suddenly decided to pick up COH2 full package from steam. and now i have trouble playing 4 v 4 with hard AI and I couldn't defeat them unless I turn one of the enemy down to standard difficulty....way too many armor. and 5:06 man, the details when the squad broke the glass to point the MG out...back then when this game first came out, it was unbelievable...

[@slinkerdeer]

14:09 *chuckles* Delightfully devilish Seymour That is a great idea and way funnier when it works well

[@directorscut4707]

Love to watch Hans in the morning :D

[@rocketshader2699]

thanks mate great tips. any tips for coh2 in 2023?

[@raminfooladi9156]

Hey hans , thanks a lot for the tips, they have been helping alot. but there is one thing i must ask you, WHAT do you use for moving camera around the map. im not comfortable with the existing method like clicking on the map or dragin mouse to edges, and the arrow keys makes gameplay way too slow for me . i used the autohotkeys and made my WASD for cam movement which made my response time to everything really optimal and what i liked but i couldnt do alot of the micromanagement ,which was crucial , anymore. so what do you use that you are so comfortable and yet fast enough ?

[@diego2817]

Shift commands us bugged with OKW, downtimes they shift to build sandbags and they don't do it actually only 1 member of the squad enters the point

[@MrAerohank]

This is what happens when you put down a sandbag where you cannot actually build it. It can happen when you issue the order in the fog of war. Once the squad is in range they see that they can't actually build it, and all but 1 member will stop moving.

[@diego2817]

@@MrAerohank the thing is that the game allow me build it...

[@MrAerohank]

@@diego2817 it's a bug that happens on control points where the control point only blocks the building of the sandbags once you have vision.

[@scharfschutze9400]

thank you i learn a lot's on you.. from philippines with love

[@MIApor]

If you put barbed wire one side of a cover, sometimes you still can see the green dots on that side. If you send a squad there, the game will show, that they are benefiting from the green cover. So are they actually benefitting from it, and if yes, is the protection the same as without barbed wire?

[@Combine380]

if you are talking about sandbags built by a player then yes, one barbed wire isn't enough, and the cover benefit is pretty much the same as without the wire, there is just less room for troops.

[@MIApor]

@@Combine380 thank you 😊

[@jackobrien47]

Yo Hans I know if you recrew a weapon with regular infantry they keep their health and armour but do they also maintain their offensive stats? As in would a grenadier with a rifle who is now supporting as part of an MG squad be far more effective than the weapons default crew who barely hit anything?

[@lordwaleane5397]

What i noticed is extra 3 person on MG crew or Mortar crew is dreadful than regular infantry. They get killed fast.

[@PrimeNPC]

If you take an mg with an elite unit the 3 units that transfer retain their stats, however it costs more resources to replenish elite units so I usually use enginners to cap equipment. Another tip I picked up on another video is with USF medic truck , you can disembark the medics and retreat them, then reclaim the truck with engineers and use it like normal (except you can't disembark medics as the enginners keep their stats and equipment)

[@ishamtactical]

Can we get like a route line or something like age of empires when clicking the shift command so that we know this is what the infantry will go to next?

[@Equal88]

Thank you !

[@Recker1125]

They should do something about barbed wire. It doesnot deny cover. The amount of times i had green cover right thro barbed wire

[@Combine380]

That only happens with buildable sandbags, their heavy cover area is very large, so you need atleast 2 layers of barbed wire to properly block it off. But various sources of green cover, such as rubble, vehicle wrecks, short stone walls, a type of sandbags that isn't buildable and so on will get blocked by barbed wire so infantry can't use them as cover.

[@Just4KL]

Well Hello there. I just started to play CoH 2... and really struggled the 2 mission USSR main company, when you need to protect base until everybody get out... I lost 3 games in a raw... Need to figure out how to make it through.

[@mrpotaehead]

When placing a MG in a building, it always faces a random direction. So it happens your MG won't face the enemy as it enters a building. Is there a way to fix that?

[@sa1vi]

FAIL >>>> Use the first tip, select the MG unit, order the building destination and then shift bottom + key A (face direction). Try it!

[@mrpotaehead]

@@sa1vi Thank you!

[@lordwaleane5397]

you can only change direction AFTER entering the building.

[@sa1vi]

@@mrpotaehead Using the first tip here as I said previously is not efective. As @Lord Waleane confirmed, you can only change direction AFTER entering the building. Sorry for my BIG FAIL answer.

[@Wings0fRed]

Same question. I have tried all sorts of trials and I have not found a way to control the initial direction the mg faces. As far as I can tell, you’re right, it is random. @Helping Hans - could you please confirm it’s random? Thanks for the video!

[@freedmt]

I think its very bad that you cannot set direction of MG's fire BEFORE you get inside the building and its always random 1st time, afterwards that can cost you a lot.

[@lordwaleane5397]

I agree. Adds to the realism I guess.

[@glitchvlogs6597]

Here were my problems durong my first time playing COH1: 1. I played in a AOE Style 2. ORDER 226! HOLD YOUR GROUND (alot of dead people there) 3. I controlled 3 seperate groups at the same time, so i'm F#^£^d if all 3 were attacked. That happend often

[@richardtuck4854]

can i ask where did you get your framed pictures of company of heroes from

[@herbaciarzzkawa3730]

pretty useful

[@furb3258]

Thanks Hans

[@tonysamp3493]

TY BRO

[@jakelagace2302]

Does shift commmand work for COH1?

[@Silas-Inservio-Pax]

Yes.

[@sophiesthirdchoice4903]

Hans you sneaky devil

[@globusdiablo]

Time stamps for each tip would have been nice. :)

[@ASFAL.AdminMika]

Man i hope they either get us a company of heroes 3 or rework company of heroes 2 so that we can use more than 4gb of memory. I believe it is still in 32bit, correct me if i am wrong tho.

[@Alex_Mercer_]

Why do we need more than 4gb of ram for this game?

[@7schlafer886]

I knew all of this but im still bad hahaha

[@lemons3736]

How to point stuff in the map so I can warn my teammates?

[@ryant4646]

Guy please give me a name of this map he used in tip 4 and tip 5 ? Many thanks

[@progdrummer-nenad]

13:00 yeah if you have all the resources of the world ! :D

[@Smo1k]

Ehrm. Since when was SdKfz called something pronounced the same as StuKa? It's Sonderkraftfahrzeug, with an abbreviated german name which to the english-speaking sounds like "Zonka!" ;)

[@END30000]

I need a tip to decrease german tank pop by a lot lol

[@iheartBrittanyannb]

Does this game still have a online player base?

[@MoveUr]

hello helping hans, i have a connection issue since some timne now. the game loses connection, everything freezes for up to 7 seconds or so and then fast forward to real time. problem is i cant do shit in the time and can only see my units die in fast forward... do you have any idea how i can fix this issue? the problem seems to be the connection to relic servern. i dont know what to do. every other game is running smoothly and there is no disconnect to the router or interent connection. if someone has a fix, im keen to try something :)

[@slinkerdeer]

How about never allow German players to get late game, and early game prevent as much fuel income as possible. Axis armies strength is late game

[@lordwaleane5397]

For me soviets late game is harder once they deploy heavy tank. Even their t-34 medium tank hard to kill.

[@mrfuelchamo4527]

5 tips 1.go to toilet 2. check ur internet.3 check if ur gf is annoyed.4 check ur fingers.5 don't get kill.

[@Minidopminidopminidop3311]

there should be a tutorial in the game for this stuff...not a youtube video. if i knew all this stuff earlier i maybe would have played it much more

[@demonoverlord1381]

How do you reset the camera to the default ?

[@sercan5212]

Double click backspace.

[@mathijs]

Helping Hans and others: I noticed that Hans moves his screen without moving his mouse to the edge. How does he do that? Does anybody know?

[@中华民国万岁-c4g]

arrow keys bottom left of the keyboard

[@MatijaIlievski]

clicking the scroll wheel on the mouse and dragging around

[@mathijs]

So that's already 2 different ways to move? Does anybody know which way Hans uses?

[@MatijaIlievski]

​@@mathijs he definately uses scroll wheel click, see how fast and precise he moves it?

[@mathijs]

@@MatijaIlievski thanks. I also thought if you use arrow keys you can't use shortcut quick keys for nades, retreat etc

[@davidemazzotta2192]

Company of heroes 2 is still alive?

[@edwardanderson6048]

just learned that i can put at guns in buildings... whhhaaat

[@bcknight727]

How do you get the enemy’s in cheat mode to stay away?

[@knighttemplar4548]

There is an option to disable the AI, can also turn off auto-attack on individual units.

[@nasseranssorey9149]

Can someone upload an (8p the Rhine) map to a link outside of a steam?

[@lilithlianshi2094]

i never know anti tank weapon can enter a house

[@itherael_1]

Nice face;)) Thx for video!

[@Rulqu]

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[@juanzubillaga2517]

Para cuando un canal asi en español

[@frogsty1526]

your videos got some nice information, but they are way to long

[@slinkerdeer]

Shift command lol? I learnt that back in my Medieval 2 days... *Who* doesn't know about sch an obvious tool??

[@LasertechStudios3142]

Is it really that obvious if you haven't played a game like COH2 before? Even if you do know it exists in theory that doesn't mean you know why you should be using it.

[@roberttrain5617]

That was useless