Know Your Commanders - OKW
Mainline infantry with flamers was a bad idea from the get go, so I think it's good that we won't have what will essentially be Axis Rifle Company.
Then Rifle company flamers should get removed too. This probably won't happen.
Flammerwerfer 35: Sturmpioneers are now able to equip themselves with a Flammerwerfer 25 Flamethrower.
This is just weird. Why flamethrower on Strumpios?
USF Rifle Company already grants Riflemen to have flamethrowers.
If Volks get flamethrower, they won't be able to upgrade Panzerschreck.
Sturms is busy upgrading mine detector kit.
And making another squad of Strums sounds like a over-investment.
What do you guys think?
Volks should have gotten it like with Rifle Company.
Why?:
Imo the problem is that Sturms are expensive, expensive to reinforce and have a very high population cost.
(9
okw, double compared to others: 4
usf, 5
soviets, 5
ostheer) =
not many Sturmpionner squads.
It's
best to pick up abandoned
flamers with Volksgrenadiers.
If you
upgrade Sturms with flamethrower, that will be a
too big dps loss.
It't will depend on
Recoup Losses ability, can it make this viable.
I can't see this happening on the long run.
p.s.: I wonder, will the
flamethrower upgrade disable the mine detector upgrade? Either way its terrible.