Generals,
the Headquarters have been busy. We have now, with the help of our
skilled scientists, successfully uncovered the secret of the first
novelty weapon system. Brace yourselves for the Self-propelled Artillery! Core features of these new units are:
Bugfixes:
The HQ has of course also been taking care of bugs:
Balancing:
Finally, we also made some tweaks to our existing arsenal to better meet the expectations on the battlefield:
adjustments to your combat strategy to compensate for the changes.
We wish you a successful exploration of the new unit!
Your Call of War Team
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There are more balance changes planned regarding ships, planes and secret weapons, these changes were the first step. So it is good that you are making suggestions.
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Just the railgun lacking in power (not in range, thats fine). Though intertwined the arty and railgun are due to their nature, they are still 2 vastly different units in purpose (tactical vs strategical)aDudeWhoDoesThings wrote:
But you just complained about them being imbalanced
Please reduce the coast of manpower for the infantry and militia and rise the coast for ships and planes in goods and maybe some rare material. (this both resources are in the mid- and late- game often penny stocks)
It will be great if I have the choose between cheap infantry (e.g. 1000 Man + only less resources) or a medium tank (1000 Man + much more resources) This will be a good balance: more resources = more speed or more special ability.
Railguns should not be very powerful here, I don't remember them ever being very effective at all in history. If I had captured one through riot or capturing of a province where one was in production, or provided one in the Med. map, its crippling speed keeps it a more defensive unit, operating by having its fire range encompassing varied, city, or mountain provinces, where it can put the movement reduction to effect, and of course, coastal guard. Relying on this hinders your ability to have your front continuously moving, instead remaining stationary to accommodate the weapon.
Railguns was used during the war to protect the coastline against enemy ships, this must be there unique use in CoW!
i don't use rail-guns but by that reasoning they really are useful!
I build a wide variety when possible...depending on the situation. But the support guns are just as high in manpower needs...not to mention the manpower maintenance requirements.Butter Ball Bill wrote:
Same. Maybe if people built more tanks, planes, ships and support guns they wouldn't have to complain.
It seemed like such a waste to destroy an entire battle station just to eliminate one man. But Charlie knew that it was the only way to ensure the absolute and total destruction of Quasi-duck, once and for all.Personally I think Xarus summed things up nicely. Have a choice that boils down to many cheap units or few tech heavy units. Bit of the Sovjet or German approach, as it were. Or do British, a bit of everything
Changes of resource cost and upkeep are ok, not great but fair enough. But range of Arties, and range and speed of SPA is not ok.
SPA has double HP of artie, only .3 damage lower, but in average 2 times higher speed. ok 20 km extra range for artie make it fair vs SPA, but 50 km range of SPA and 70 km range of arties are overpowered for none-range-units!!!
SPA would be ok with lvl1->30kmh 30km range, lvl 2 35 kmh 40 range, lvl 3 40 kmh 50 range.
Artie would be fair with 45-50-55-60-60 km range, each lvl upgrade.
70 km lvl3 Artie disadvantages weak railgun one more time. rail gun need buff vs naval units!!!
Oh God no. Do NOT do that!!!Xarus wrote:
rise the coast for ships and planes
aDudeWhoDoesThings wrote:
Railguns should not be very powerful here
They are not very powerful or useful at all! It makes sense why they travel so slow. I think the damage against ships should be increased, while the cost of upkeep decreased.V1nd1cat0r wrote:
i don't use rail-guns but by that reasoning they really are useful!
Took that out of context Squiggles, I was saying they're not, but going against one who offered buffing it. I don't remember them ever being effective, maybe against structures but that's about it, they could never hit a ship realistically, a convoy maybe but not combat ships. You can deal with ships with subs or naval bombers, but if you want to arty a ship, just argue for coastal batteried
I have nothing to add, but WOW this thread is intense. 
If I'm going to use railgun sI use them for defense, they don't have such a punch, but the range can cover a large area.
Coastal batteries are not a bad idea.....aDudeWhoDoesThings wrote:
Took that out of context Squiggles, I was saying they're not, but going against one who offered buffing it. I don't remember them ever being effective, maybe against structures but that's about it, they could never hit a ship realistically, a convoy maybe but not combat ships. You can deal with ships with subs or naval bombers, but if you want to arty a ship, just argue for coastal batteried
back to thread theme please!!! Also new changes are not really a success, not a disaster. arties and SPA are OP now, SPA are OP OP OP now, 500 menpower needed, is it Introductory price for new unit? when will it rised? how much will cost it after a whille? Good nes, increased menpower costs for arties make it not as overpowered at strikeforce building, but a comparison of lone unit, or of already rised armies without loking at ressources, shows artie is overpowered now. Even 60 km for lvl 1 are to great range. 10 km more are 30 min. up 4 hours (in average 2 hour) longer bombardiment without own damage. Yes arty was weak up yet, but as strong it is now is destructive for game balance.
And i repeat 45-50-55-60-60 would be fair.
SPA 30-40-50 km, 30-35-40 kmh!!!
Too high range for artie, too high range for SPA, too high speed for SPA are too great advantages for too active players.
At least 70% players dont want come back from whatever they must, and see they losed already 50% of provinces and strikeforces. Ans 20 km more range of attacking Artie are ca, 2 hours earlier bomberdement, and SPA are killer for 2 times a day online player. With that speed and that range.
Game gonna be only for hardcore players. It is not that goal what devs had it before!
That's just another reason to buy High Command, so you can have your own arty that can fire back.f118 wrote:
Too high range for artie, too high range for SPA, too high speed for SPA are too great advantages for too active players.At least 70% players dont want come back from whatever they must, and see they losed already 50% of provinces and strikeforces. Ans 20 km more range of attacking Artie are ca, 2 hours earlier bomberdement, and SPA are killer for 2 times a day online player. With that speed and that range.
Game gonna be only for hardcore players. It is not that goal what devs had it before!
i don;t know what games you looked at regarding manpower
manpower is in excess only in final stages of the game, when everything is already decided
This is actually a big problem...
I agree with patch and corrections. It's logical active players are better than others. In a game, there are 45% of casual gamers, 5% of active players which are always connected and attack in the evening to beat you, with the 50% inactives players.
I don't want and can't be connected all the day, but I don't lose all my games, even with the recent patch. So to my mind, everyone can have fun on CoW. You can't win all the game because of many reason. But even you are not a big player, you can win too...
I think the goal of the devs is to let the casual gamers activate the range of their artillery during the day. 'Cause, yup, I have to go to school. This is not for bad reason and to make this game a pay to win...
Prepare your strategy against this method...
I haven't really seen manpower that much of a problem. You get an abundance of manpower after like the 20th day. During the beginning of a round, I do have to admit that you run low at times.
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