COH3 Snares: Explained, Compared & Improved?

A deep dive into snares such as the panzerfaust or anti tank grenade in Company of Heroes 3. Learn the mechanics stats and areas they need to be improved.
00:00 Intro
00:30 How snares work
01:25 Crew Shock
01:45 Engine Damage
02:26 Pivot Rate
03:49 Crew Shock numbers
04:27 Snare Damage
04:48 Snare Penetration
05:24 Snare Range
06:20 Snare tracking COH2 vs COH3
07:22 Snare times
08:07 OTO Mod. 42 unique
08:43 Which model snares?
10:11 Snare Push Bug
10:35 Cooldowns & Veterancy
11:14 Snares vs Buildings
11:47 Hotkeys
12:24 Final Thoughts
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[@tightropegaming]

After this video relic made quite a few changes to snares: It is much harder to dodge snares by driving out of range Allied and DAK AT-nades got increased to 120 damage Most squads get +40 damage on their snare at vet 2 Grenadiers get 5 bonus snare range at vet 3 Push bug got fixed

[@DaSwede1997]

Love these types of videos! They are so good they should be on the game's home menu!

[@StephennJF]

Thanks Tightrope! Great summary and comparison of snares. I agree with all your points and hopefully Relic can make some of these changes. I wasn't even aware if two snares hit a vehicle above 50% HP it results in a engine crit! I always find some little gems in your videos. Cheers! :)

[@Leeright37]

The most underrated content creator in this COH community is for sure tightrope. We must protect this man at all costs!

[@Astruyk]

You had a lot of fun with the effects on this one. lol. Great job as always.

[@thergmtk]

Another great video for the CoH series, tightrope. The effects at the 06:08 mark was a little bit too trippy, but otherwise a perfectly well made dive into the mechanics of snares.

[@haaansolo8568]

Great overview. Since axis OP and I think the coh3 snaring system kind of makes taking put superheavies more difficult, I generally don't like it too much...

[@ashxu]

Love the new editing haha

[@SneakyFridge1]

Your editing is so good, well done

[@schmidbag]

Awesome breakdown, thanks tightrope!

[@arcturus64]

I didn't even know about the double snare giving an engine damage above 50%HP. In CoH2 it always felt wasteful to spam AT nades on full health meds and heavies but now it does feel like it is actually dangerous to dive 2 inf squads with snares with a lone tank.

[@johnstopka180]

Thank you tightrope!

[@GeneralsGentlemen]

Nice video! I like the point you mention about snares being too important in Coh2 and it makes specialists very hard to use.

[@ccettel3275]

Thx so much. I love this detailed explanation

[@LordChaos36]

What a hero! 🎉❤

[@zoidberg1576]

once again, totally awesome video

[@Schaden-freude]

that model pushing thing i think is what has fucked me over the most. for months i was wondering why my units were not doing the orders i gave em and i was losing my mind

[@tightropegaming]

Yes, hopefully now they can fix it.

[@avengedsavagez7536]

Let’s hope it doesn’t take another year for a big update to fix these issues among others that still seem to have lingered since the last update. Great video Tightrope.

[@BlackwingDK]

Great and informative video! Love the dictionary entry :D

[@colonel_moss5663]

I dunno if I'm just bad or maybe it's the coh3 cancel bug, but lately I've been having a lot of trouble with snares simply not happening. Also, the other day I weird bug happened: a squad threw a snare but it stopped right in front of them seemly stuck to a heavy cover wall, the timer ran out and the blast went off by the wall and the target vehicle, that was far away remained undamaged and so did the wall, though iirc there was no blast sound. It's interesting that it wasn't simply a visual bug, but it was actually "simulated" as if the snared missed.

[@malph7823]

Good to understend, nice work ,keep that way🤙👍👍👍

[@lordschwefel3487]

Good work ^-^ It would also have been nice to see how things have changed from CoH 1 to now. Just for fun :D

[@jimhall1728]

Good work :)

[@estrategiaenespanol1329]

your videos are always very good

[@AECoH]

best video yet! gg wp

[@crazymazzei2]

I hope they undo the crazy vehicle acceleration changes, so many bad interactions now.

[@rainbowstarunicornprincess4391]

Some of their animations are so borked. The tossed ones especially.

[@samwu1836]

It's rather astounding that we have tanks moving like sports cars...

[@darek4470]

🙌🙌

[@gringokillah9543]

Wow, 300 years to remove PFaust from from Fjaegers in CoH2 just to give them PFaust back in CoH3 with infinite range. WP

[@whiteflash4444]

Much improved in COH3

[@isaiahsmith6016]

I appreciate it when you make videos like this but I wish the game itself did a better job of explaining this to the player so they don't need to search for extraneous information outside of the game.

[@volknetai.3690]

It's kind of wierd to hear that the CoH2 snares penetration are dependent on range. It is a shape charge so the penetration power is from the explosive inside ( Imagine an infantry throwing anti tank weapon with just kinetic energy that their penetration are dependent on distance. Something like that would only have scratch your car paint )

[@Schaden-freude]

i wouldnt think too hard about it. most tank battles in ww2 took place over a thousand metres and in game its basically point blank

[@spinosaurusiii7027]

I assume it's for a mix of balance and for the reason that the game does not really account for weak spots and such, which you are less likely to hit at range, decreasing your chance to pen.

[@krzakijegogoebie3599]

perfect good night story goodsleep everyone

[@temrenalican4570]

10:11 the snare push bug literally made me quit this game. Frustration of this bs is way too much.

[@submale5892]

It's so brain-dead that they would allow such a ludicrous issue to exist in the game for so many months. They are such clowns.

[@temrenalican4570]

@@submale5892 Dude I thought I was going crazy. So many times I would spam the snare button for it to work, only to not have it go off and my snaring squad dies or stays a little too long etc. It's just Relic being Relic.

[@MatthewMartinezStrangelyTrue]

Bring back satchel supremacy from company of heroes 2, it's so horrible when you can't even throw a satchel next to a tank

[@Deniz-il2tq]

I feel like the game lacks alot of content for multiplayer even a year after launch, any opinion on that?

[@krzakijegogoebie3599]

no need for more opinions... you are right my friend

[@pascalbourelier3463]

With 4 factions and much denser battlegroups/doctrine, definitely not. Especially with 10 maps being added in february & this month! Crazy amount of maps for the anniversary! CoH1 & 2 didn't get that much content that fast, so let's wait it out. Really hoping for campaign stuff personally

[@jamesnugent6451]

Some of my favorite kills are sneaking 4 costal units behind enemy lines and using the Molotovs to kill artillery units

[@submale5892]

The snare animation being cancelled when a tank is right next to them is really Really ****ing annoying and should have been fixed so many months ago. 🤡

[@Damo20]

Amen! Enraging when you’re hanging around with low health infantry trying to get that snare off so they don’t get wiped on the retreat, only for them to just die anyway because the goddamn snare animation keeps getting cancelled. 😡

[@phoenixdelta346]

Well that explains why every match turnes into an axis blob fest. But still better than CoH2.

[@mcilveen11]

What a shock that axis is better in basically every category

[@Raposa234]

Axis is quality, allies quantity. It is like this since CoH2.

[@brandonturpin8932]

Great vid as always. Side point but I hate snares. Genuinely don’t see why this was ever needed as it straight up makes no sense that a tiny genade destroys an engine. Yet somehow tank shells do not

[@diego2817]

Snarw should be 10 range it is more realistic

[@spinosaurusiii7027]

What? Do you want to give the Panzerfaust 60 range too? and tanks 1000?

[@diego2817]

Snares needs to be close range...

[@diego2817]

Snares should be difficult to land on light vehicle, speed is their obly defense