Cooldown bulletins- how good are they?

Jump back to quoted post16 May 2015, 06:50 AMelchino7

Did the math.

Notes:
-I expect the Reload bulletins affecting Reload duration and not Reload frequency.
-I made the calculations based on the Gren Kar at mid range. Cooldown modifiers are better at longer range than at close range

+3 Accuracy: increases damage by 3%
5% cooldown: increases damage by 1.21%
3% Reload: ... by 0.27%
2% Reload + 2% Cooldown: ... by 0.66%

Basically using all 3 bulletins gives you a 5% increase damage.

Jump back to quoted post17 May 2015, 07:08 AMnee

None of the bulletins bring anything above like 5% to cooldowns, the highest is 10% and that's only for building units.
You'd have to both stack bulletins that offer the same benefit, AND really focus on the units they affect to really make "super" units out of them. This naturally limits the most useful units to simple T0 ones like grenadiers or conscripts, you know the ones you will always be needing throughout a game.
You can of course try to stack bulletins for units like Tigers, but then their benefit only really comes out when you have a tiger called in.

Jump back to quoted post15 May 2015, 19:06 PMZombiFrancis

Incidentally, I believe reload bulletins have more of an effect than cooldown bulletins due to reload times are usually greater than cooldown for most weapons.

It's the difference of a few percentage points off a 3 second reload versus off a 1 second cooldown.

A small difference, but if you're min/maxing the spreadsheet it can be meaningful.

Jump back to quoted post30 Sep 2015, 01:16 AMhannibalbarcajr

True but for Kar98 for instance the shooter has to cool down 4x for every 1 reload since it's a 5 round magazine. So even a 3% reduction of say 1 second per cool down x4 cool downs is better than a 5% reduction per reload x1 reload. Or am I seeing this incorrectly?

Jump back to quoted post16 May 2015, 06:50 AMelchino7

Did the math.

Notes:
-I expect the Reload bulletins affecting Reload duration and not Reload frequency.
-I made the calculations based on the Gren Kar at mid range. Cooldown modifiers are better at longer range than at close range

+3 Accuracy: increases damage by 3%
5% cooldown: increases damage by 1.21%
3% Reload: ... by 0.27%
2% Reload + 2% Cooldown: ... by 0.66%

Basically using all 3 bulletins gives you a 5% increase damage.

Jump back to quoted post1 Oct 2015, 01:06 AMGrumpy

I tested with con's and it seemed like reload with cons was slightly better than cooldown. Did you also crunch the numbers for cons? I tested by attack-moving blobs into each other, and every time that a test was flawed (like models from one squad finding nearby cover), the flaw in the test overwhelmed the difference in the bulletins.

My favorite bulletins are the 3% JT penetration bulletin, and the 1% accuracy and 2% cooldown RE bulletin, for equal and opposite reasons.