Company of Heroes: Eastern Front
Eastern Front Mod (Read-Only) => Strategy and Tactics => Topic started by: irik on March 15, 2011, 12:59:27 AM
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Can you explain what it is, how it's done, and its effectiveness? I've heard of it a few times, and I want to try it out.
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Pure piospam involves only spamming pioneers. This is different to a support strat where your force is primarily pioneers + a few support weapons, since they benefit from the same vet. Piospam is pretty crap against anyone but Brits since their soldier armour is weak against flamethrowers and they do relatively little damage to elite armour, which vet 2 pios gain. Properly played piospam, transitioning to grenspam, is actually impossible for a Brit to beat on most 1v1 maps without using BiB.
Basically, only build pioneers for the first part of the game (no WQ). Use these to cap out the map very quickly and build OPs on your resource points nice and early. Then get kampkraft and vet 2 on them as fast as possible and get flamers. From there, just blob up and roast his blob. If by some miracle he hangs on you can easily move into grenspam and have loads of OPs to spam shreks and firestorm.
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But Piospam dosnt work that well in EF since you need to get Pioneers to vet 3 (instead of vet 2) to get elite armor.
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True, forgot about that. Are grens the same? I think they are in the balance beta.
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Tried it out some time again. Beat a Brit in only 13 minutes
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With the upcoming Relic patch, build a Piospam is more difficult because for building the Kampfkraft Centre you need at least one base building or a Field HQ, that need resources which delay your spam.
But anyway, I'm always against any kind of spam in CoH, and a good player (about Ranked lvl. 16/17 and more) often beat a spam with a normal number of units.
QUALITY OVER QUANTITY FTW
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