COH2 FPV Guards make Soviets easy mode

Company of Heroes 2 First Person View Game Soviet Combined Arms vs OKW Special Operations on Crossroads
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[@tau-5samsara990]

These thumbnails are getting better after every upload

[@tightropegaming]

I sometimes try to make them the best COH2 memes that happen to be thumbnails.

[@GeeNo_]

@@tightropegaming Speaking of, is this a hint that a super hard tank hunter tactics FPV is on the horizon? Minus the B4 for :( reasons of course, I want to see some sick AT con barrages :D

[@christophersowdon5013]

33:56 "yup, didn't get away with that one didya?" Boom. Satisfying after all the previous escapes.

[@tazzioboca]

These thumbnails truly are works of art.

[@Evilstealer404]

Maybe i'm just an average player, but it was surprising to see Guards not using their blind ability on a base diving Panther. Or Guards ignoring their lay down ability too. And it is so satisfying to see T-34-76 on a field doing good. Always rooting for them for some reason. :D

[@Sukesa92]

I was wondering too when I saw that But maybe he avoided the ability on purpose to save his T-34 hoping the ennemy would just escape. Also he didn't have the firepower to finish the Panther

[@yankeesix1335]

3476 are like the underdogs of the game, and people do tend to love such a cost-efficient underdog

[@strafniki1080]

I am the same

[@nanananabatman7056]

also laying down has a cooldown, not the best to be on the floor when a ober blob sprints into you. The button costs a lot, and he was low on muni so prioritizing mines instead of the ability won him the game

[@arthuryou7976]

This is an awesome example of how mines can win games! though not directly, i’d say your mines helped win the game by doing a lot of damage esp. with that panzer 4/70. Great game tightrope!

[@memphis3009]

Well played! I've played against happy to help a few times myself. Loves his sturmpio & ober or fallschirm spam, never goes for grens, also weirdly agressive with his panthers loves to drive them into infantry

[@araulius2132]

the thumbnail made me laugh out loud. How dare you make me feel joy.

[@technicianxp]

Imagine any squad except Obers being able to pull off that kind of stuff - very wp TR

[@aziouss2863]

Snipers... they are worse. they shouldn't be in this fucking game honestly.

[@what8080]

@Ryan Vetter I also do think that the US and OKW should just get their snipers, its honestly ridiculous that they don't have it as a unit.

[@ozisponas1593]

@@what8080 okw have semi snipers in terms of panzerfusiliers after g34 upg they kinda have a chance to snipe but USA is just cucked on that

[@minmean3016]

@@ozisponas1593 what are you talking about? do you know the g43 panzerfuzilier get is a close quarter weapon? at least use jeager light as an example, and let me tell you it’s still not a guarantee kill

[@spinosaurusiii7027]

@@ozisponas1593 JLI have the chance to snipe, not Füsis and so do Pathfinders so both OKW and USF have semi snipers, which are quite often more useful, in my opinion

[@eeros2654]

Thanks again to providing premium COH2 coverage!

[@HiroTeaShi]

Watching POVs make me realize that I can never get good at this game. I'm super slow and I tilt off the face of the earth when things go wrong. You have amazing mental. Keep it up

[@chrisjie2127]

Most people are slow at this game. What these top level players do is very very rare.

[@VerkingKerng]

It just takes practice. If you keep trying you can only get better.

[@schmidbag]

gg thanks for the upload tightrope!

[@risaldar6925]

The intro was amazing

[@rmartin987]

God, Guards make everything so easy especially if you go Penals. A good button and you can satchel a tank easy as hell with out the PTRS upgrade. They should have buffed Airborne/Assault guards or toned down Guards to make them more attractive. GG

[@anhnguyenhoang210]

They're fine as is. Airborne guard exchanges AT capability for superior anti-infantry while assault guard can get double zook later and both their commanders are better for 1v1 and 2v2 than normal guard's commanders.

[@rmartin987]

@@anhnguyenhoang210 I think your confused, Guard Motor is the literal 1v1 best option. The one with the KV1 was the best option before the patch nerfed them. Guards have massively better Vet than Airborne Guards which is why they can compete despite being down 1 LMG. Also you forgot to take into account mark target which is found in several Guards commanders. Assault Guards have no way to close the distance for SMG damage and while their AT damage is superior they lack a snare which is what makes Guards so potent. They synergize with PTRS Penals/Conscript snare+merge/mark target/ISU 152/T3485 and can destroy green cover while fighting unit which also makes it better option than the other Guards. EDIT: To clarify about KV1, they used to have MED tank health but inherent damage reduction which meant they had heavy tank Health. Against OST it was oppressive since P4 was useless and Stug wasn't the most reliable. And with double engi meta it would be ready to fight fairly quickly.

[@kabyidon]

Laughed my ass off at the thumbnail, beautiful

[@XIGuyIX]

This OKW build would make me screech. And it did!

[@makarov718]

tightrope would a quad HT been viable here? as it would have shut down his blobs and been able to run down weak squads and with its range stay away from the HHAT

[@thedoctor3020]

While it’s pretty easy to dismiss bad RNG claims as a third party observer, I feel it was very much warranted this game. It felt like every other retreat OKW did was too late and should’ve ended in a wipe, only for the squad to barely get away. Props for keeping it cool as long as you did Tightrope, gg.

[@Maxcraft12]

Classic OKW Übermenschen

[@RahmatTalua]

Top tier thumbnail

[@directorscut4707]

So funny to see how the infantry runs away from the tanks :D

[@critcheese1411]

Good old Wolfenstein difficulty choosing screen

[@therevanchist2869]

I prefer using the commander that gives you access to not only guards, but the heavy mortar (85mm?) and the T34/85. Pairing the T34 with 3 - 4 squads of guards is my go-to every time i use a guard build. Great video! That OKW build is wild as well

[@preadatordetector]

The heavy mortar is 120mm. The normal mortar is either 82 or 81mm iirc.

[@karlhans6678]

heavy mortar is op, thats why i always counter pick them

[@livenreloaded]

That double sturm and kubel opening seemed pretty interesting I'll admit but I cant see how it can work since LV's need to avoid tight spaces to escape pathfinding issues and snares while sturms thrive in them for that close dps. Besides that, everytime he sends a kubel out to dps/tank, he's taking out an extra unit in the early game which is alr a total of half his army gone for repairs while you have free reign.

[@VerkingKerng]

The idea is that if you tank damage with a LV it doesn't cost you manpower but if you tank with infantry it does. Repairs cost nothing, reinforcing squads costs a lot of manpower.

[@karlhans6678]

@@VerkingKerngthe enemy could simply not focus the kubelwagen?

[@revolucionaom3895]

09:37 nice moonwalk retreat

[@sneakeeturk]

Nice game!

[@seanpurdy8230]

What’s the benefit of taking Penals rather than Conscripts?

[@Ashmole3]

@Ryan Vetter I'd avoid building more than 2, maybe 3. They're very good early game but if you go pure penals then the manpower starts to hit you later. They have good synergy with the elite troops and cons.

[@godmodegaming5157]

some ass luck on those retreating sturmpios a couple of times

[@HBon111]

This crossroads looks different..the gas has been moved around. But the thumbnail at game load-up looked like the normal one. What's going on here?

[@liarliarliar]

What is the point of the Anti Spoiler screen?

[@AkiZukiLenn]

OKW double pioneer build , what ? ? ?

[@KaiservonKrieger]

unironically works if you know what you're doing. Been using it a lot lately with the spec ops commander

[@fabio6170]

X3 penal battaglion X2 guards rifles 1 AT gun X2 t 34 1 kathyusha

[@user-wx1iv1fw3d]

You the guard make game easy, but i watching more useful was T-34, shoot panther front amor pen NP

[@Ashmole3]

Although guards are very good, I don't think that's what got you the win here. The su85 knocking out those tanks did it, otherwise you were walking on a tightrope the entire time (i'm so funny).

[@bigblackjay900]

GET OUT (Puns are crimes against humanity)

[@NathanielKrige]

Wtf is that okw build dude

[@tightropegaming]

I have lost to him using a similar build in the past. It can be surprisingly hard to stop.

[@darusblodsinn4665]

least blobby OKW player

[@aziouss2863]

Man fuck snipers the way that they can shoot and instantly retreat always pisses me off. Whenever i play OKW or USF and the opponent is component with snipers it fees like there is nothing i can do. So i kind of devolve into blobbing to even get decent manpower trades. If i split my forces i just get models picked off at a steady rate... They just make the game so much worse when there is no hard counter. If you can do anything for COH3 please convince the devs to either: A) Rework the sniper concept. B) Give all factions the unit so they can counter snipe.

[@karlhans6678]

Or you know, balance COH2 instead of making an entirely new similar game.

[@bencarmine3032]

Lol Jezus can i get a f####### wipe. Al while playing soviets haha. They are not good at wiping with small arms, not even their nades or tank shells do that effectively. I had a single pgrens model retreat right throug 3 4men ppsh cons and he lived. Great game though

[@okss1991]

T34 and sniper are bad at wipes? Not in CoH2

[@bencarmine3032]

@@okss1991 to me wiping is more about quickly killing/destroying a target. One shotting or nearly one shotting with lil follow up neccesary to wipe. Soviets are not well equiped to do this. They lack nades and their aoe and rof is generaly lower, plus their inf isent well suited at long range to get the last shots in. while the t34 does okay for its low cost. Every other medium wipes better. The sov sniper also has the lower rof and no inc ap round to kill multyple (damaged) models in one shot. Imho the only real wipe tool sov has is the katty. The rest got nerfed/removed.

[@okss1991]

OKW player super toxic gameplay lol early sturm blob late ober blob + panther spam...

[@diego2817]

Panther are useless in this game, they miss a lot, have short range and for no logic reason they sucks vs infantry

[@jellybyun9411]

Cry more noob

[@Lex-dw7ng]

They have 50 range, beating everything except dedicated tank destroyers. Their accuracy is above average (though still awful when moving like all tanks except Shermans and the cromwell using the vet 1 ability). They perform very meh against infantry because if they did it all there would be no reason to buy any other tank ever.

[@diego2817]

@@Lex-dw7ng they should do ok vs inf not as good as p4 but at least useful... Is a 190 tank ...

[@RabbiJochanan]

@@diego2817 I agree. It's completely ridiculos that it performs so much worse than the comet vs infantry.

[@huntermad5668]

Actually, Panther gunner optic is geared toward engaging at long range against armor. Its 2 option are far and very far so its close range effectiveness is worse than you think. 75mm is a anti tank gun through and through. It has better performance than even 88 on tiger. But it make HE rounds firing from it ineffective with so little HE.

[@evanvoss9457]

Hwy Tightrope. as someone who's computer has been down for the better part of a year, I just want to say thanks for scratching my CoH2 itch