The new pop cost of infantry

Jump back to quoted post11 Dec 2015, 18:04 PMTeryuo

Why did they bother to make the pioneer's population cap higher?

Did they increase the combat engineer's to 6 as well?

What about rear echelon?

Jump back to quoted post12 Dec 2015, 13:18 PMmedhood

Pioneers are probably the 2nd best non-doctrine Engineer unit after Sturmpioneers thanks to their flamethrowers and increased sight so Im not surprised to see them at 6 pop instead of 5 ( compared to echelons and soviet engineers )

Jump back to quoted post12 Dec 2015, 13:43 PMRMMLz

Sappers say Hi.

Jump back to quoted post12 Dec 2015, 13:45 PMmedhood

Royal Engineers dont have extra line of sight or flamethrowers and while they have the anvil upgrade thats locked behind tech

Pioneers have their line of sight and flamethrowers which is used and is effective through out the entire game

Royal Engineers while a good unit dont have as much utility as pioneers in my opinion and the utility they do have can also be fulfilled by other infantry units of the UKF kind of like Rear Echelon and even Rear Echelon can get flamer throwers

and while the wasp on the Bren Carrier does exist that thing tends to have a short life span

Royal Engineers are probably only useful when you get triple lmgs which will cost you 190 munitions but you can also give those lmgs to your Infantry Sections kinda like Rear Echelon you can give them bars or give it to Riflemen the choice is up to you

Jump back to quoted post11 Dec 2015, 04:34 AMAppleseed

i think shock should have 10 pop same as obers, it got smoke and very good CQC and good armor. if grens have no lmg, shocks can 1 on 3 sqs easy. but obers can't 1 on 3 conscripts even with lmg upgrade.

Jump back to quoted post11 Dec 2015, 04:52 AMatouba

But why increase the pop of OST poineers? Is the performance too good? The poineers is the busiest worker as the same as soviet combat engineers. They both have to retreat for building. They both have poor combat performance and suffers from slowest repair speed.Just wonder why the poineers cost 6 pop now. Always sucks at late games because you have no pop space to build more poineers.

Jump back to quoted post12 Dec 2015, 13:45 PMmedhood

Royal Engineers dont have extra line of sight or flamethrowers and while they have the anvil upgrade thats locked behind tech

Pioneers have their line of sight and flamethrowers which is used and is effective through out the entire game

Royal Engineers while a good unit dont have as much utility as pioneers in my opinion and the utility they do have can also be fulfilled by other infantry units of the UKF kind of like Rear Echelon and even Rear Echelon can get flamer throwers

and while the wasp on the Bren Carrier does exist that thing tends to have a short life span

Royal Engineers are probably only useful when you get triple lmgs which will cost you 190 munitions but you can also give those lmgs to your Infantry Sections kinda like Rear Echelon you can give them bars or give it to Riflemen the choice is up to you

Jump back to quoted post12 Dec 2015, 15:44 PMRMMLz

Aside from LoS, Sappers are better. 210MP, best repair, very good damage. I would take sappers' stens over pions MP40s any day. Sappers are also in a faction that doesn't have to build stuff so they are basically front line units. I'm not saying they are OP or anything, just saying they are the best "engineer" unit in my opinion.