Recrewing weapons

I know that this has been in the game since CoH1. But why do reinforce cost of a recrewed team weapon (captured Maxim with Combat Engineers) orient itself at the cost of the squad that captured the weapon and not the weapon that was recrewed.

As of now you have to pay more to reinforce the team weapon if the squad you captured it with was more expensive. For example if I recrew a ZiS with three Shock Troops I have to pay 240 to reinforce the Shock troops back to 6 men plus 240 to reinforce the ZiS up to 6 men. that is 480, a whole new Shock Troop or a new ZiS and change. Sure you can say: "do not capture it with Shock Troops in the first place", but on the other hand what will be the benefit of a ZiS crew consisting of Shock Troopers; do they act like Shock Troops? Do they retain their armor and combat values? Do I want that?

I'm all in favor that if you reinforce a team weapon that it gets reinforced with original team members for the original cost. If I recrew a team weapon with expensive units like Shock troops and Panzergrenadiers, then I should have to pay only their high reinforce costs. And not also for extra Panzergrenadiers or Shock Troops sitting next to a Mortar, doing mostly nothing but being overly expensive.

Of course the trick might be to not let them die in the first place and that the recrewing and paying a higher reinforcement cost (and losing the experience) is kind of a punishment. But should it be in there, is it warranted?

I'm sure many new players have wondered why they are out of manpower after reinforcing team weapons that have been recrewed. The cost being related to the squad that captured it rather than the team weapon is not clearly explained.

Jump back to quoted post30 Jun 2013, 06:36 AMAdder

They definitely keep their armor when recrewing. I think they take on the weapons of the weapon crew (which generally will be worse than whatever they previously had).

Jump back to quoted post30 Jun 2013, 17:50 PMSeb

I think in coh1 surprisingly you would actually reinforce the type of unit you recrewed with. I'd say it needs further testing.