COH: Europe In Ruins

On June 22nd, 1941, five million axis soldiers crossed the borders into the Soviet Union, beginning the largest, most ferocious and bloodiest theatre of war in history. This is the Eastern Front.

http://www.moddb.com/mods/coheastern-front

While you download, why not join our brand new Teamspeak 3 server? Download and install TS3, and then come to the release party. It is going to be the central point for all things EF in the future. Heres the server data:

IP-Adress: 85.25.143.145
Port: 2017
Password: ef

Also, keep in mind, while we are trying to do things as professional and high quality as we can, the first time is always difficult. If you encounter any bugs or have balance suggestion, please post them in our forums at:

http://www.easternfront.org/

Cheers man! YOu guys did an awesome job there!

Can I get a special officer unit called Apex with authentic sound and all?

FUCK YEAHH!!!

Nice, gonna try it out.

downloading off moddb servers is incredibly slow :(

5 mins left!

All mine since an hour ago (rapidshare ftw), muahahahahahah.

conscript spam ftw

I think the release trailer could have incorporated more fo the Mod in it. It was entirely war footage(cool by itself but your not trying to peddle a war) OTher then that I'm gonna download EF when i get home and give it a shot. Great work EF team

 ;D

First impression, russian units are a tad overpowered, at least the tanks :P Will see after more games.

First impression, some of the 1vs1 maps are atrocious.
Little cover, some are too big, some have areas without sectors, long strings of adjacent sectors with strategic sectors, spawn bunkers covering cut off points, very few to no buildings, ...

Guess I'll have to try Angoville :p

Can't comment on anything else yet really.

That mortar is fucking insane.

IS-2 are fucking rape I had 4 shrek hits at point blank bounce off it

easy front mod

Juggernaut 1 hits ATGs

Unless they changed the panzershrek in EF, it has no relation between range and pentration - only the accuracy matters.

Personally I don't like it that much, seems like it takes the spam to a whole new level. Just not my kind of play, that and I absolutely despise vCOH gameplay nowadays. It's probably mainly the latter.

That being said, it's astonishing to see what they've pulled off, everything looks pretty professional, so many congrats on getting it released..

the gameplay is of course vastly similar to the vcoh, and as for the quality of the soviet faction they have really outdone themselves. it feels like something relic spent money on making, a really professional job of art no doubt about it. but i'll not be playing vcoh or rather this mod because of it, becaue the gameplay = vcoh and thats just retarded at times.

Game needs to be balanced way better, Russians are way too imba.

Was searching thorugh the EasternFront fourms, they say a balance patch is in the works.

I had a lot of fun playing it, def seems imba, but I'm absolutely astonished at the work they put in, it's really incredible. i know its hard enough balancing PE/CW/US/WM, but I'd love to play with the Ruskies in an EIRR setting. Very cool, great work, I hope to see improvements in the future =)

DLing now, will report pro balance tipz after game(s).

I agree. I'd love to see the Ruskies played in EIR, albeit balanced. The great thing is, cuz its not a relic product, the EIR devs could code the stats to work within EIR better. There's a serious lack of an hmg and light vehicles. That mortar is pure rapeness and my <3

That'd be funny. Have fun keeping vet with russian infantry in EIR  :D

mmm no retreat button...would u guys put one in or u could just make us walk them back to the spawn lol.

Nope. You would have to win the game with the units to retain vet.

I wonder how we would do it to be honest. Mainly because the Russians didn't fight with the Americans or British in any battles. They weren't really Allies in a true sense of the word either.

Lol? what would we do?

When they get down to one man squads, just stick em in a corner somewhere and wait till the end?

I think if we do put russians into EIR. No retreat button, but manual retreat off field, like we do with armor already.

Just because they can't retreat in EF doesn't mean we wouldn't allow them to retreat in EIR.

No retreat in EIRR! it'd be a key factor of russians tbh.


Russians would fit perfectly the way they are in the EIRR gameplay.

Well, thats debatable. I remember hearing that with the PE

lol I was just kidding. I actually have no idea what we should do about the Russians. I haven't been keeping up with Eastern Front.

Well heavy tank IS2 would fit in nice,as a counter to KT spam,then again you could have IS2 spam,but i just think overall it would be really refreshing....or a balance headache whichever.

Yeah, Russians would be nothing more than a tank focused army. Spam is already a problem in EIR; I don't see adding the RUssisans working in favour of reducing it :P

Their mortars would make all the whermatch support spammers shit their pants in fear though, lmao. Those things are even good at killing tanks <.<..

That's the most imbalanced thing about the game...that god damn mortar killed my p4....was really sad,4 or 3 of those = 105 howitzer.

And as far as reducing spam...Supply pool!

Ehh... no, their mortars fire 105 shells, in fact, I would take a russian mortar over a howie anytime.

Don't see why they wouldn't get retreat options. It was only certain times when they were shot for retreating. a Retreat or withdraw is an important tactic. especially at conserving troops strength.

If they did make it in you just create a battle advantage for one of the doctrines called Order 227. which removes your ability to perform traditional retreat for the duration but boosts combat performance. would retain to no retreat feel someties without screwing a faction over.

Can't wait to try them out, I'll have to wait till tonight though...  :'(

whats the reload time on a the is2, i would figure it would be quite a bit of time..

It's about the same of a Tiger if i am correct. The super heavy tank ISU 150 or whatever it's called has a logner reload time, probably around 10-20 secs, but that thing 2 shots most german tanks, e.g. P4s and Hetzers. Frontally.

RGDs say, ISU 152: Reload = 15 Damage = 300

That's like, 75 dmg above a flak 88

Also, it's health is like 1400... kinda low for a super heavy when Jadg is like 1600 and KT is 2000

Anyone know if the russians have repair units outside of that dedicated "mecanic" squad in the breakthorugh tree?

Cause if so, if you want to repair your ISU152, you gotta wait for like 10-12 CPs to do it. Getting ISU152 first, then mechanics, or mechanics then a later ISU

Idk, i need to play around with it a bit more.

THe normal engineery squads can repair afaik.

Dude, I just used that thing, it makes bbqsauce out of anything, it has a lot of range, (more than 45 I'm sure), it seems even harder to penetrate than a jagdpanther, and the damage per shot... is just insane <.<.

I never said it wasnt OP.

Just putting out the stats.

Henschels.  But its dumb you can get more than 1 per game

IS-2 is massively overpowered, even for its relatively high cost. Wehrmacht has no weapon that can match it, even for the price. Two paks, even three paks cannot contain one IS-2.

And it's impenetrable by panzerschrecks up front :D.

And panzerfausts, and panthers, and...

I mean I know it's 150 fuel, but if you try to kill one with a Panther you get pimp slapped like a cheap hooker.

the flame soviet upgraded engineers are the most op thing ever.  heroic charge into a giant blob with a command squad = gg.  so spammy

Katyusha wrecks cant be driven over, jsut like all the other russian tank wrecks afaik. Pretty dumb when the blitzkrieg Tiger stops fullspeed infront of that little wreck.

that was my first comment in octobrary when i sarted to played the EF closed beta
nfortunately there are some russian fanboys (like greenapple) like in allied fanboys in EiR
the isu152 was first at 1600HP with jagd armor and the 300dmg per shot and awesome penetration against everything

it was just ridiculess especially since this thing was in same doctrine like expert machanics who can retrieve carcases and overrepair

you had easy times with it against a flak88 and it completely trashed infantry because of huge splash

Also kind of dumb that those little things can crush infantry

also dumb that u can win in the first 3 minutes of the game =)

That mortar.... lol its just nucking futs!

and oh yea, you can't recrew anything, that really blows, thats the worst part tbh. Their AT gun is woefully inaccurate. The AT rifles dont do....anything really, just a waste of pop. The SVT guys suck, its supposed to be a semi auto sniper rifle and well it's really not. Can't even tell if its shooting. Their tanks are crap if you don't go the tank doctrine you have to go with the IS just to combat their dang tanks. The funny thing is, some things are OP and some things are UP and just useless. I def think it could be integrated in EIRR but it would really need some work, but I can see it being viable and have quite a few ideas on how to fit things into it.

uhm...l2p russians  :D

and oh yeah, they need Vet.

they some kind of vet system for their inf

strelky= sucky inf + upgrades= ok inf
elite strelky= ok inf + upgrades= very good inf
guards= rape everything inf + upgrades= OMGWTF

You don't need to recrew you can spam shit. AT rifles are so overpowered, you can tear down tanks like hetzers in mere seconds. I mean that thing penetrates tigers...

Their tanks just rape. "you have to go IS2 to blabla". Man that thing is a mixture between panther and pershing. Not to mention the big ISU152 is jsut restricted by popcap.

i'd still like to be able to recrew my at gun and mortar for god sakes instead of having to buy another one.

and when you say At rifles are over powerd, do you spam those as well? Just buy 10 of them? asnd i dunno, i had issues with their lower tiered tanks. Basicaly just wait til you got 400-150 and get the big ass tank.

No re-crew on your support weapons = fail.

In great need of balancing.

Overall a fantastic mod.

some ppl just dont get it  :D

Ah, but the masses will speak out, then they will have to adjust!

If they allow recrew for the soviet weapons, then theyd have to allow recrewing of all weapons.

With it being so easy to overrun machine guns, im sure we wouldnt want to see the russians get their hands on some MG42s, then the offensive human wave suddenly has a suppression tool, which would make them even more broken.

No recrew needed. All their shit has 4/5 man crews. pull back and reinforce.

I HATE THE SOVIETS! EVERYTHING THEY HAVE IS OP!!!!

Someone needs to build like 20+ conscript squads and let me drive through them with an M10

Seriously, has anyone here ever won a game against the soviets?

yeah me vs tinglecurly^^

there where some problems with modding coh and an additional faction
when they tried to give sowjets retreat or recrew possibilities the game crashed afaik

maybe they is a fix to it meanwhile

This is why we didn't let Apex balance EIR.

Haha just kidding mate  :-*

teammates?

several actually...but against competent relatively equally skilled players, I never had a chance...


Cannonball beat O4b and Gunny 1v2...there's a lot of broken shit that needs fixed, but its still an amazing mod.

In a mod where you can teamkill  ;)

SU is destructible but the Russian faction is impossible to destroy the big games 3 / 3, 4 / 4 because they are probably free tanks and infantry to tanks in the receiving unwanted junk. The worst thing is that the Russians came from the Allies all good ... sniper team,trenches for the tank, the advantage of the larger partition (which does not surprise me and this just me or do not mind) but when the heavy tank trenches and not alone is so glorious march ... Perhaps they did not make balance test

http://easternfront.org/forums/index.php?topic=2015.0


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Huh?? Wtf happend?

You might actually need to read the thread.

it doesn't say why...

Why apex "left"? It's right there.