[1.4.0.0] The Red Tide

[Walentin 'Walki' L.]

Hello,
I just played a 2vs2 in CoH:EF. The game was pretty balanced. Two soviets against me (wehr/blitz) and another guy with PE.
Then it happend. The soviet attacked me with his blob of marine infantry, conscripts and tank hunters. My 3 stuh's vet 3 easily hunted them down and I told my teammate that the middle vp is cleared so he moved in. Then he moved in and the same blob as the one I killed stood in front of him and then the soviet player said: "Red Tide ftw".

Now my thoughts. You get the Red Tide ability with 4 commandpoints and it's for. It respawns all infantry units which are killed while the ability is active and it's for free. Now lets look at "the counterpart" of the US Army. They need 3 commandpoints to get the ability to respawn two tanks after they were destroyed and this ability costs 200 ammo.

So in opinion (and/or):
 -The Wehrmacht/PE should see if the Red Tide is active.
 -Higher the cost of the Red Tide
 -Lower the duration of it.
 -Respawn only 3-4 killed infantry sqauds (conscripts doesn't count).

[Joshua9]

Wow, didn't know it was free.  so long as the first wave isn't a pyrrhic victory for wehr, then its not so bad, but that's a lot of free units.  I don't really think there should be a limit on how many units return(then the weakest squads will respawn and tap the russian out)  but it should probably cost 150 munitions.


Munitions absolutely do not seem hard to come by for Russian at the moment, so anything to spend them on is a good thing, now that they apparently start with a natural munitions income.  Played a game against my friend, and he had an is-2, a couple t-34's, an is-3 as his second wave of tanks, after previously having 3 su 85's with a couple t-34's and 2 t-90's.  He also had shock guards, upgraded tank hunters, and about 20 mines placed about the map...air strikes also came aplenty(are these still only 150?).  yes it was a long game, but he never seemed to suffer from muntions taxes enough to have to make any decisions about their use.

My biggest complaint about the red-tide is that we don't get to know that somebody pulled that trigger...there are no icons above the units, no sound effects(or is there and I just don't know it-there are a couple sound cues that send me into a panic but I don't know what they refer to).  Is it the opinion of the developers and balancers that such information would make the ability worthless?  I don't think it would myself, and it would have the added benefit for the user of letting him know when his squads were still under the ability's protection.

[RedGuard]

do you have a replay?

you should've been set up if he can amass an army of cons, TH's and NI you should've had more than 3 STUHs

a few MG42's will kill endelss amounts of infantry if supported correctly

I havent even seen any good players use red tide

[Chancellor]

1-The Wehrmacht/PE should see if the Red Tide is active.
 2-Higher the cost of the Red Tide
 3-Lower the duration of it.
 4-Respawn only 3-4 killed infantry sqauds (conscripts doesn't count).

I agree with points 1 and 3.

[Cranialwizard]

1-The Wehrmacht/PE should see if the Red Tide is active.
 2-Higher the cost of the Red Tide
 3-Lower the duration of it.
 4-Respawn only 3-4 killed infantry sqauds (conscripts doesn't count).

I agree with points 1 and 3.

As do I.

[GodlikeDennis]

Hmm, I only agree with point 1 at this time.

[Blackbishop]

We can add the same animator that allied war machine uses.

[Paciat]

Hmm, I only agree with point 1 at this time.

Same here, I could also agree with point 4.
Red Tide has a long cooldown and the whole point of having that ability is to get free units. Soviet player dosnt win anything if his troops die, he just looses vet, and vet 2 constripts and tank hunters are to valuable to just sacrifice them.

[IJoe]

Hmm, I only agree with point 1 at this time.

Same here, I could also agree with point 4.
Red Tide has a long cooldown and the whole point of having that ability is to get free units. Soviet player dosnt win anything if his troops die, he just looses vet, and vet 2 constripts and tank hunters are to valuable to just sacrifice them.

That taken, I don't see why an enemy should have such an information - that will make the ability pretty much useless against someone not totally dumb.

[Blackbishop]

Hmm, I only agree with point 1 at this time.

Same here, I could also agree with point 4.
Red Tide has a long cooldown and the whole point of having that ability is to get free units. Soviet player dosnt win anything if his troops die, he just looses vet, and vet 2 constripts and tank hunters are to valuable to just sacrifice them.

That taken, I don't see why an enemy should have such an information - that will make the ability pretty much useless against someone not totally dumb.

You can see when an US player uses allied war machine... why that wouldn't fit Red Tide as well?

[IJoe]

You can see when an US player uses allied war machine... why that wouldn't fit Red Tide as well?

That's easy - tanks don't go to waste in a matter of seconds just by hmg fire, or even a minefield. They are also highly more mobile.
And, I think, since axis "instant resources" aren't visible (if I remember correctly), this ami feature shouldn't be visible for them (just another example of how wehr is OP to ami  ).

[RedGuard]

this might come as shock to some people but I do think activation of red tide should be visible

and I dont agree with any other nerfs someone already pointed out that if you do have to use red tide you're throwing vet away, which in the end game is extremely valuable to have

[IJoe]

this might come as shock to some people but I do think activation of red tide should be visible

and I dont agree with any other nerfs someone already pointed out that if you do have to use red tide you're throwing vet away, which in the end game is extremely valuable to have

I just don't see it, why should it be changed in any way, from what it is now? Just because 1 dude got upset, that his ally encountered a blob, that he had just recently killed? Not much of  a reason for me
Don't take my words for rage - I don't care, since I never use that crap anyway (for reasons mentioned).

[RedGuard]

My reason that swayed my mind was because I couldn't find any other activated ability that didn't signal its activation.
 whats fair is fair, and I believe either way you will still achieve your goals upon activation.

but yeah joe theres a lot of whining on here from these random players with questionable motives, you just have to decipher the legitimate from the bogus.

[IJoe]

My reason that swayed my mind was because I couldn't find any other activated ability that didn't signal its activation.
 whats fair is fair, and I believe either way you will still achieve your goals upon activation.

but yeah joe theres a lot of whining on here from these random players with questionable motives, you just have to decipher the legitimate from the bogus.

...axis "instant resources" aren't visible (if I remember correctly)...