Barbed wire cover?

[76561198844130532]

Why players put a barbed wire in in front of sandbags? Green cover does not disappear.

[Katitoff]

Its denial of cover for opponent.
If you set it like that, even if opponent can get close enough to benefit from cover, its almost certain that not all of the models will and will be easily killed off.

[76561198844130532]

Hm... It seems like they all have green cover in fornt of wire, especially british troops or osttruppen.

[Dugo]

Then the wire is to close to the sandbag i guess ? The yellow box (when you put down barbed wire) need to touch the sandbag. If the sandbag is inside the yellow box, then yes, there will still be some cover

[ShodaN]

Originally posted by \T/:

Hm... It seems like they all have green cover in fornt of wire, especially british troops or osttruppen.

You need to get the spacing just right. Also don't take the shield icon on the squad decorator as an indication. Better to hover your cursor over the ground at that area to have a look at the dots, which mark the position each soldier will take. That's what counts.

[COMP DBD 1V1]

Originally posted by \T/:

Why players put a barbed wire in in front of sandbags? Green cover does not disappear.

the icon is misleading, if over half the units are in cover its considered green cover
take for example where this issue is very common: conscripts are behind a tiny sandbag, it displays green, but the mg42 pins them down in one volley
why? because there were 2 units sticking out, even though the theyre behind green cover, those models did not received the cover thus they take the full supression values to the face and apply them to the rest of the squad

also barb wire denies the green cover completely, you need to be in a minimum range to get the cover received acc bonuses, and the spacing between a wire and sandbag is too far

[76561198844130532]

Originally posted by missharvey <intel>:

Originally posted by \T/:

Why players put a barbed wire in in front of sandbags? Green cover does not disappear.

the icon is misleading, if over half the units are in cover its considered green cover
take for example where this issue is very common: conscripts are behind a tiny sandbag, it displays green, but the mg42 pins them down in one volley
why? because there were 2 units sticking out, even though the theyre behind green cover, those models did not received the cover thus they take the full supression values to the face and apply them to the rest of the squad

also barb wire denies the green cover completely, you need to be in a minimum range to get the cover received acc bonuses, and the spacing between a wire and sandbag is too far

Do you mean that green spots in front of barbed wire are fake?

[Graephen]

You are all forgetting one important thing - all cover, except craters, is directional.
Even though Brits and Osttruppen still get their performance bonus when touching the cover, even though they are not actually using it - broken crap since CoH1.

A unit has to be directly next to the cover (it's dot has to) and it has to face the right direction, unless it's a crater. And the only craters, that provide heavy cover are Soviet demo craters.

This is why there is also that broken crap with everyone building sandbags next to points from their side, so that they can cap no problem and defend the points no problem. I miss the first CoH's capping system.