Epic Indian Artillery!!! - Company of Heroes 3 - 2v2

An insane match against the over powered launch edition Luftwaffe battlegroup from Wehrmacht. I hope you enjoy this match.
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[@Damo20]

This was so incredibly satisfying to watch! Particularly enjoyed the combined arms, the direct arty hits on his massive blob, the clever positioning of AT guns and the 17pdr, and your unit preservation is first class. Learning a lot from watching you. Thank you for smashing this absolutely broken Wehr strat!

[@danielanzelmganszky2075]

Thank you Hans for beating this strat. Even if I lose to it personally, I can sleep happily having watched this. GG WP!

[@Rather.Splended.Cromwell]

I feel the same fam

[@Highskill3r]

:D

[@williamgrand9724]

Just need those big fuck-off artilery guns!

[@sgtsmith501]

31:18 The heavy mortar has smoke barrages besides other very powerful barrages that can decimate inf blobs. Just really felt underutilised here since the micro was focused elsewhere

[@sedghammer]

Machine guns SHOULD be the counter to blobs of infantry, but they don't suppress fast enough right now.

[@GuzzBermudez]

😢E

[@dominikschrader5930]

"I need to get some smoke." *clicks mortar without using smoke*

[@21gunsalute14]

classic coh2 brit simcity, even get full HP when recrewed. RELICCCCCCCC

[@aziouss2863]

The full HP is a bug the game is unpolished as fuck! It is kinda fun tho XD If not for that would we get SUCH JUCY arty shots?

[@williamgrand9724]

Seeing the artillery fucking smash those AA guns was so satisfying.

[@m00tes]

33:03 damn that looks satisfying af

[@Ashmole3]

Played against a guy who tried to justify the cheesiness of this strat by saying you beat it but I'm glad you said it's BS and broken at the start of the game!

[@ThishandlefeatureISdumb]

Incendiary mortars would wreck these blobs. You need vet1 but at this point if the blob is that big, you should have a vet1 mortar. I find that if you are against Wehr with paratrooper doctrine, you should expect a whirlwind by the 5 command points mark and have an anti gun ready at the front. Push with anti gun, infantry, and flares then they’d never get the opportunity to build such a big blob. Plus anti gun is best for dealing with those bunkers. But yeah in 2/3/4 vs 2/3/4 matches, Wehr with paratrooper doctrine is very hard to dig out once dug in.

[@tirushone6446]

23:27 relic please make this a voiceline for a feature British unit

[@TurboPepsi]

LOL

[@Damo20]

My thoughts exactly!

[@swbf2fan2510]

Love seeing some good siege gameplay! That was awesome!!!!

[@Rather.Splended.Cromwell]

God, im so happy you won but I gotta say, seeing shit like that makes me want to go back to COH2, 1 way ticket lol

[@dalakhsarothal9624]

Holy moly did NOT expect bloody Verdun when I clicked that vid. Wp mate.

[@catalintrandafir9736]

really nice outplay of the enemy's entrechment... a lot of things are busted in this game for now, emplacements and crewable things like ATs with full health, and the rocket airstrikes from the allies that can oneshot tigers in the first wave

[@McSqu1zzy]

Awesome video Hans, i imagine you know but in the event you or anyone else doesnt, you can double click the T1-3 buildings and itll auto pick an available spot and build them for you :D

[@5x385]

the reason people don't do this is because buildings count as reinforce points so by building them along the edge you extend the area you can reinforce from. It's a remnant from CoH2 micro.

[@McSqu1zzy]

@@5x385 ah thank you for letting us know, as a new COH player trying to get used to anything is a struggle xD especially against the people that are fairly decent at it all

[@5x385]

@@McSqu1zzy they added it for newer players so they can focus on getting better at other more important stuff, so I'd stick to using the auto feature until you find yourself in a situation where getting units moving out of base 1 second faster does something for you

[@Damo20]

This is very helpful, thanks for sharing. I had no idea we could do that!

[@kyle6597]

I think everyone keeps forgeting about bishops.

[@nhifuu]

LMAO the emplacement fixes itself when it gets recrewed

[@maxg1836]

Huh at 12:25, Hans recrewed an MG using a medical truck ability. Never noticed that, great little tip there

[@laskos16]

FYI all trucks in the game can do that, not only medical.

[@Finndu]

I think the para dropped howitzer is good against that blob.

[@DobromirManchev]

I am Axis main, always have been... But i gotta admit, this new strat is broken. Especially with the medical bunkers, which is a level over the half-track strat. It DID make a sick game tho, and a reason to use the indian artillery emplacement. Come to think of it, maybe we NEED this to make use of the Indian arty, what else would you use it for? *ponder*

[@kidgameerboy9932]

18:17 perhaps use art flare on the suppressed units to force a flight or die situation? 24:30 nice. 32:20 oh you ain't seen bad till you use the p3 wow that man shot himself in the foot by playing so passive gg!

[@danieleriksson8686]

Great game! Arty is the medecin for sim city :)

[@directorscut4707]

37:17 nice bunker explosion :D

[@KingTiger10588]

no British veterancy upgrades from HQ lol.. The other guy gassed out

[@AstonHodge]

FLARES!!! Use the damn FLARESSSS!

[@MrFoxulet]

You need to keep scouting with flares early, he's not using them at all. Not using at all the HQ artillery early game which is cheap and can break up the blob a bit for your troops to keep fighting. You start using it after you upgrade your troops to recce + AT rifles. And late game you use the artillery emplacement against their emplacements, then push with troops and tanks. Take them over or destroy them. Artillery is a support mechanic, not going to kill much by itself. It's not hard to fight against the strategy but it needs attention. The heavy mortar has very long range, don't keep it near the front line. Matildas are slow, the medium tank is cheaper and faster. The brits machine gun is useless, small area of supression, just skip it or steal from the enemy if possible.

[@joshuahiatt9064]

Wow, that was an intense match

[@fgh976]

Thank you Hans

[@aziouss2863]

The AT guns ARE BUGGED! They heal back up every time they are recrewed btw! That is why you cant kill them! The pio grenade spam def needs a nerf. But so do the AT sections they are BS!

[@Phonourm]

This. AT encampment drinks blood of fallen soldiers and heal itself.

[@furens-aru]

They have separate health and you always damage the crew health first. I dont know why they implement this mechanic.

[@Phonourm]

@@furens-aru After neutralized, Hans used his AT to attack the encampment to almost destroyed several times. As soon as it got re-manned, the encampment health become full again after another neutralizing.

[@Phonourm]

This bug has been fixed by 1.0.5 patch :D

[@tokyozombe]

This exact game is how all my ukf games go. Just blobs everywhere, tons of flak guns on one point and no real way to deal with it. My MG can only do so much.

[@Dean4412]

I meen watching that I can say somewhat balanced because the fact that you could hit it over and over again with arty and he couldnt do anything XD. Well played was great to watch

[@punisher9899]

Solid persistence, nicely done.

[@robertsandiford6223]

I'm not playing the game - but why didn't you build Grants? Matilda has a 40mm AT gun, Grant has a 75mm dual purpose gun + 37mm AT. Applying real world knowledge - the 2 pounder didn't even have HE shells most of the war (too small), but 75mm was designed for that. Doesn't the Grant work against inf blobs?

[@Land967]

I only recently found this out but yes, Grant is fantastic against infantry blobs. not much front armour though.

[@RowdyHorse4]

For a second, i thought you were Jonathan Ferguson, a weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum

[@Skerra-kk6sm]

I didnt realize how powerful those 17lb guns are and I find the Grant's far more effective than the Matilda's. The front armour actually bounces rounds surprisingly enough.

[@Colonelkrazykenny]

i love my rolling barrage and danger close

[@theguardlorenzo5898]

weapon emplacements are very out of control, its specially a problem with the artillery emplacements, since they more often than not are not something you can at least take to fight the enemy.

[@FatLittleButterfly]

its satisfying to watch blops blown up by artillery

[@DonSaidTV]

Company of Heroes 3: The Battle for the Flak 88 😜

[@willberry6434]

The whirlberwind comes out WAY too early. Shit is broken af at its current timing

[@jorgeclarkson8286]

My experience of dug in Germans who blob is artillery spam, it absolutely fucks them.

[@DayWalker_83]

Flare from the heavy mortar would have given you all the recon needed :D it's so good

[@dudeguybro]

Funny the day you upload this that they fixed it. Lol

[@Damavik]

I'm not normally a vocal person especially on KZbin, but the amount of ads on your videos are on the spectrum.

[@havocgr1976]

I mean you HAD a mortar that can smoke, I fail to see why you d need more ;p GJ beating that turtle, so glad those emplacements are banned on the league till they fix them to not be full health everytime the crew dies.At one point when your smg got totally destroyed by the blob(you had one job smg to stop blobs ffs)if he pushed your at and truck were toast, luckily he didnt.

[@carlostorres6908]

this video made me think...imagine being under heavy fire and you got to call your tank mathilda in a serious manner..way to troll ....

[@rockmcdwayne1710]

So blobs are a problem in CoH3? I mean, any chance they became a problem because they kind of nerfed MG's suppression? For instance, in CoH2 when a blob like that walks infront of an MG they gonna be suppressed pretty much instantly. You really need to spread out more to avoid that happening.

[@bro3217]

There seems to be more individual suppression as units get pinned faster at least for the mg42 but unlike coh2 the suppression doesn’t seem to spread to other squads at fast so blobs have an easier time

[@rockmcdwayne1710]

@@bro3217 Truth be told, to me it felt like the entire ''rock, paper, scisors'' mechanic is really busted in CoH3 compared to 2. Regular infantry can shred half trucks with small arms fire while lightly armored halftracks are supposed to counter them really easily. You need to use some munition power to take em out or have shreks, zooks to do so! Same thing can be said about unarmored utility trucks taking a hit from AT gun or tank and ''walking it off''. That was not the case in CoH2. Unarmored vehicles got 1 shotted by any high caliber weapon!

[@mindrust8365]

After playing for a few days now, I really think that it should be a lot more punishing to have units under fire without any kind of cover. Blobbing in CoH3 is really effective and requires no effort for the player controlling the blob. I remember in CoH1 how more tactical it was to keep your units alive, it was still difficult to play against blobs but a lot more managable unlike CoH3.

[@klosterdude]

Infantry interactions with buildings has been driving me insane. It's almost just not worth it with how unpredictable and slow they are to input commands. Glad I'm not the only one and I hope it gets addressed!

[@wheelhouse3221]

Not sure what you are on about, game is super balanced. Allies are super OP. J/K I always lose to this start and it makes me want to pull my hair out because Allies have so few counters to it. Atleast you were the British with their arty, if you were US it’s GG.You were smart to wrestled the second point back early on a 2v1 before it got crazy and you could just play defense long enough to hold the tide back. Well done.

[@juliang2]

At 9:00 mark the doorway was previously destroyed therefore unit had to use the other one

[@KommandantKavu]

9:10 the door is destroyed by the wirbelwind resulting in your units using the farside door.

[@KommandantKavu]

I forget if tightrope or someone else covered the building destruction affecting the building exit paths. It’s in a COH3 meta video somewhere.

[@blackhole5173]

23:27 epic

[@DayWalker_83]

If you retreat units out of buildings rather than tell them to exit they will get out the closest door to your base

[@RADWHL]

remember when stuarts had cannister shot ,

[@CoolSmoovie]

Combat engi blob Infantry section blob Pathfinder blob Luftwaffe blob So many blobs lol

[@okerbel]

luftvaffe is a blob doctrine in coh 2 too lol

[@rumdrunk]

"victory point is being crawled over" what a meat ginder this was..

[@TheAndresun]

GG

[@claybillings]

There were playtests and betas, how in god's name did this strat get past the dev team?

[@plutodestroyer12]

i recently got back into COH 2 and didn't buy COH 3 because well... looks more of the same but i do damn sure enjoy a good match between really high skill players

[@dean8525]

Theres no punch in the audio in the new COH

[@johnwinn489]

GG. Hans, your fanatical link.... will it still give you a kickback if I were to buy the premium edition there? Your link here takes me to fanatical page / STANDARD Edition (with "helping hans" in the url) , but if I click the premium ed it doesnt have you in the URL anymore. I'd like to support you but would prefer the prem Edition if i can. Is this broken or will you get a kickback even though you''re not in the URL anymore after I click the Premium edition? Hope this makes sense. Loving the content. Thank you :)

[@Kaigunmedicae]

Why not use Gurkhas with Tommy guns and smoke. I find they take over AT emplacements wonderfully.

[@Nel8571]

Amazing. Don't even use grouping.

[@niko_b9758]

I think the M3 Stuart is borrowed

[@jaggerrossd]

it was a fun game like 5 days ago nos it just flammer spam and At inf spam

[@Colonelkrazykenny]

we need to play a match sometime,col.krazy Kenny

[@tommyv711]

Proper Anti Simcity warfare

[@rodneywalker9858]

Do you have a beginner guide?

[@zbigniew2628]

Aim artilery at infantry. Defenses are cheap to repair and hurwitz deals less dmg to buildings. Bishop is for it.

[@soundsfest]

GGs, some of your twitch viewers are absolute fucking rems though lol

[@whyme943]

After seeing this, would love to see a matilda CS gun conversion

[@robertsandiford6223]

Or use the Grant, which has pretty much the same gun?

[@yaoiryuu]

No training facility?

[@donovangray7518]

i feel like UK needs a rework to there tanks they all feel lackluster or should be doctrinal not the main tanks of the army the crusaider and matilda do no bmg the grant is realy situational and geds rekt if hit in the flanks the stuart feels two expensive to get the first one out

[@zbigniew2628]

He should refund light tanks...

[@havocgr1976]

To be fair thats historically accurate, there is a reason they were called "pea shooters".The only WW2 British tank worth a damn was the firefly that was basically a Sherman that they added their awesome gun on.

[@robertsandiford6223]

@@havocgr1976 Not really - the Brits in multiplayer are pretty much equipped with an earlier era of equipment. Crusaders, Matildas and Grants were used almost exclusively in the North African campaign 1940-1943. By Italy 1943 and Normandy 1944, these were replaced with Cromwells, Churchills (which they have), and Shermans. Meanwhile the US forces are equipped with Sherman 75s (1943), Sherman 76s (1944), Hellcats (1944) and Chaffees (1944). M3 Stuarts were used North Africa but continued until the end of the war. M3s were produced until 1943, M5 Stuarts until 1944 and Chaffees were produced 1944 on, but they all were all kept in used until the end of the war as far as I know. Brit's best tank was probably the Comet, a very well balanced tank. Sherman fireflies were powerful but cramped, very slow to load, and kicked up a lot of dust making second shots hard. They were vital against German Panthers and Tigers in Normandy, but came with compromises.

[@havocgr1976]

@@robertsandiford6223 AH yeah the comet.Didnt know about the firefly details,cool.

[@MasterBlast1337]

Hans some US gameplay?

[@LucasCrispe]

how to rotate map?

[@TobyDK91]

Why the hell does the anti tank emplacements get full health when recrewed, that's so dumb. They should make it so I'm there is a chance they can be recrewed and they would then have low health.

[@QCMercer]

Definitely needed a 2nd MG for those stupid blobs

[@jonathanwennstromm1578]

3:10 Well how do you use greandes? I have come to the conclusion that grenades are really strong but good players always dodge them and they start to feel usless unless you fight in 3 fronts at the same time and they have a hard time managing

[@dalakhsarothal9624]

Suppression => nade, can't dodge if you can't move.

[@furens-aru]

When they attack, you would best bet they micro that. When they are defending, they are less likely to react. Sometimes grenades could be used to deny cover.

[@Supergforce777]

Like something out of ww1

[@kal2352]

why doesn't he use number groupings?

[@PeterDavidLauwers]

It just dawned on me how my yelling they do in battle... which is really not very realistic. They sound like what I would think Vikings would sound like.

[@user-uy7qg3ot4n]

This is what relic gets for not adding good rocket artillery to all of the factions and instead making blobs a stronger strategy.

[@AmazonWebService98]

DW guys they will nerf BOYS AT cuz they so OP. Hans really n eed to use his flare. Current state of the game with the reinforce bunkers/ht/ truck is just breaking the game

[@Vsjxnndhxk]

the dingo has better off map artillery compared to recon section

[@SkillZyZlE]

I mean just uppgrade your troops for the reload and AC speed

[@amrok9596]

You smashed his strategy

[@AhmadHando87]

Name of the map?

[@stsk7]

the toxicity is strong with this one

[@zbigniew2628]

Maybe this door was destroyed?

[@nameisbad]

As someone who didn't have issues dealing with this thanks to delayed HE barrages, demo charges, outplaying etc it's wild to see this, I honestly didn't realize how bad hans is. And by the comments, how bad the playerbase is in general, when people get better it's going to be wild what you guys will see but right now it's the wild west of people getting away with so much.

[@SuperBROKEN81]

You have Bishop tanks, Grant and you are still stuck doing things that don't work...

[@yaka169]

How do you get out from certain door?

[@AhmadHando87]

U can't

[@pepsacola259]

Select your unit, press tab, then right click on the side you want your unit to come out from.

[@Forgotten_Foods]

Hello chat

[@SuperBROKEN81]

Grant kills blobs

[@Kaneisback2]

To be fair that Blob (early game), was both of them, on your side, and you still held mid and left. Your ally should of base pushed harder to split them up, or at least apply pressure. Also he didnt have the sherman upgrades at 36 mins. :/

[@m00tes]

the wehr guy playing against you on your side such a bellend, meta slaves these people and the rankeds arent even in the game yet

[@KpK1Cioby]

gets shot without cover "see how strong those guys are?" Also every early release "good player" plays so poorly until they memorize and discover the unbalanced stuff and cheese moves. Like at first he runs away with his unit from you even tho he's winning, then he keeps his engineers shooting at a building which they will clearly never win, it's like people forget logic or how to play every new release of a strategy game