company of heroes blitzkrieg mod airborne rangers

Salvos are very cheap, though, and their range isn't bad.Īs a general note for the mod as a whole, I feel like tanks should be tougher. It's good against infantry, but then infantry are very squishy anyway. The howitzer doesn't seem to be terribly effective against emplacements. I find the 101st somewhat underwhelming (especially their AT weapon) but they can be given 2-3 mgs, so that does mitigate that a little bit. Sounds like they're not really supposed to be used in a 1v1. The forward HQ also needs to be much easier to build.

It might be okay if their airstrikes were much cheaper and recharged much more quickly (perhaps with an upgrade) to offset the other disadvantages - either that or they need better on-map artillery that can deal with emplacements and light vehicles. It might be okay if the airborne infantry could camouflage, but it doesn't seem like they can. They also get no heavy armour whatsoever so they get to have their Shermans popped by Pumas firing at their front armour. Their airborne forward HQ thing is a great idea, but it requires a thousand square miles of perfectly level terrain to be built.

Their airborne infantry units are passable, but aren't even nearly good enough to make up for the rest of the doctrine's shortcomings - compunded by the fact that the 101st's recoilles rifle takes about 300 years to actually fire, whereupon it'll more often severely damage (rather than outright destroy) pumas and half tracks, and will more often than not simply ping off the armour of Panzer IVs - and that's provided that it doesn't just get shot wildly into the sky. They have an almost complete lack of on-map artillery, their air strikes are prohibitively expensive, their air strikes can be shot down by AA and their air strikes can't attack into the fog of war.

Company of heroes blitzkrieg mod airborne rangers