Fallschirmjaegers: A small re-design

Jump back to quoted post10 Aug 2015, 02:55 AMnee

True but none of these units are found in the same commander; JLIs also have a sniping role, while Panzerfusiliers have flares, G43s and AT rifle grenade (and better than Riflemens' too, ironically).

I just thought of anther way Fallschirmjaegars can be deployed differently:

Have them deploy in a 250 halftrack. Sure it's pretty much clown car strat, but they come rather late, it adds costs fuel to cost, but you gain a powerful infantry squad that has mobility, which also removes the whole spawning issue. For a doctrine that doesn't feature vehicles a 40fuel transport carrying FG42 troops would seem more reasonable than paradropping or nerfing their weapons.
This would give them a more unique fire-brigade sort of role that doesn't really overstep stock units. It might replace the Luchs if you're focusing on infantry, but it does shift the resource burden and, if used soon after unlocking, might mean setting back your tech/ vehicle strat, which of course might not be a good idea since it comes at a time where light vehicles/ AT guns are coming out.
So rather than being that behind-enemy-lines unit it becomes a sort of spearhead infantry.

Jump back to quoted post9 Aug 2015, 18:11 PMdaspoulos

Despite heavy paratrooper casualties. The brits still couldn't beat the germans.

Jump back to quoted post10 Aug 2015, 06:13 AMJohnnyB

Despite heavy casualities, heavier than anybody's else, soviets won the war and took Berlin. So it doesn't realy matter.

Jump back to quoted post6 Aug 2015, 16:46 PMG4bb4_G4nd4lf

Fallschirmjaegers: 440MP; can spawn out of buildings; fully equipped with 4 FG42s.

Falls are a strong unit when they first enter the field to flank snipers or support weapons but they are pretty inefficient afterwards TBH.

They cost more to deploy than Obers; they cost almost as much to reinforce and they lose models faster than Obers (which reduces their DPS significantly).

Their DPS is fine; it's just that the way they deal damage is pretty ineffective. It simply takes ages for them to actually kill models because their FG42s aim at different targets.

So, what's my idea?

I basically want to reduce their shock value and increase their long-term permormance in return.

Here's how:

Falls spawn with 4 Ober Kar98s and can upgrade 2 Fg42s for 90MU. Those FG42s would deal slighty less DPS (combined) than the old 4 FG42s to compensate for the two Ober Kar98s.

They would, however, deal more DPS individually and thus kill models faster. Losing models also wouldn't reduce their DPS as much as it currently does.

Their initial MP cost should be reduced to 380-400.