Profile of drChengele

I have to repeat myself since people still don't get it. Anyone who thinks that custom commanders would be released without some ways to limit ability combinations really, really needs to get their head checked.

And no, it wouldn't be just CP based, that would be daft. Rarity is one possible candidates but there are so many ways to go about this that it is trivial to design a system that will be guaranteed to NOT result in more impact than certain commanders already have on the meta.

Are you guys honestly saying that there would be a possibility for imbalanced doctrines? THEY ARE ALREADY INSANELY IMBALANCED BETWEEN EACH OTHER! Rifle company / Recon Support? Shock Rifle Frontline vs Defensive? The only reason people aren't up in arms over that is that each faction has enough affordable quality commanders that it doesn't matter the other 80% are shite.

If you guys are concerned about single-commander meta I'd like to say we are pretty much already living in a very limited meta. Roughly 80% of OCF Wehr play was Mechanized Assault and the other 80% would've been Rifle company if they hadn't been banned.

Anyone who thinks that custom commanders would be released without some ways to limit ability combinations really, really needs to get their head checked.

It's comparable to saying "hey guys, this faction can build Panthers, Jagdpanzers and Kingtigers nondoctrinally, AND have a Jagdtiger call-in. How will I deal with all those heavy tanks on the field at once???"

Btw some leaked strings from 3 patches ago imply abilities for customs would come from a separate, limited pool, where none were gamebreaking.

Also how do we know this was abandoned and where does this image come from?

Once again this unit is not a bad tank and its very cheap and cost effective for a medium tank.

Wow I suppose we have all been using this unit wrong all this time, I mean the T34/76 threatens to outright dominate the meta with its cost effectiveness, here I thought the T34/76 sucked but it turns out it doesn't at all, through the power of sheer will that it be true.

Though after all this salt I will even grudgingly admit that the T34 might only SEEM crappier than it is because it is up against superiour armour and Schreck wielding infantry all the goddamn time.

Compare StuG III for something nearer to T34's pricetag than a P4 and tell me they have comparable performance.

I don't care what people say, Schrecks are such a huge source of assymetry that it isn't even funny. I am not saying they are OP or anything, I am saying they introduce a new factor into Allied armour equation that Axis just doesn't even have to worry about. The problem is, Allies are supposed to be the flanking faction against the superiour Krupp steel (at least that's how the game was designed), but any Allied flank is like 60% guaranteed to earn a warm Schreck + PaK welcome. This affects all the Allied tanks, but T34/76 has such lackluster performance against infantry that enemy squads, which should be its natural prey, just laugh at it most of the time (if it hits, it hits for good damage and occasional squadwipe, but such inconsistency and RNGesus based gameplay is just frustrating for both parties).

Seconding doctrinal T34/76, that would be awesome.

I would love to see it played more as the Osttruppen of tanks. Make it a unique thing where you can get 2 for 550MP/150F or, if one dares to dream, three for 720MP/200F. Getting a single 34/76 never solved anything except chasing off light vehicles and providing XP to Volksgrenadiers.

The idea is, if you give a bonus/incentive to get more (through cheapness via "opportunity cost" of getting two or even three at once) you suddenly provide them a role - cheap, spammable armour that ALWAYS comes in packs (thematically appropriate), which in numbers can theoretically threaten other medium and heavy armour.

In this arrangement you could have them a call-in at 9CPs not tied to tech (consider them the Soviet variant of a "heavy" call-in), or, if you want them kept non-doctrinal, the double / triple tanks could now freely be moved to T3 as a buildable "bundle", because their arrival time would be gated by the high-ish fuel cost of the entire group.

Tl;dr make T34/76s the Zerglings of tanks. Build from T3 (or doctrinal call-in), in packs 2 or even 3 at once at a discount, keep the crappy stats. Fits theme, gives them a role, avoids homogenization, makes for hilarious gameplay.

It's not free. You're paying MP and Fuel for it.

This argument sort of sounds like having your cake and eating it too. If Royal Engies are what you pay for by researching Hammer, does that mean that Churchill unlock, Airburst shells and increased LOS around points come free of charge?

No. Hammer is already useful, and would arguably be useful even if it unlocked Churchills alone (as a sort of a T4 building for Brits).

You pay manpower and fuel not for Heavy Engineers, but for an entire array of stuff varying from not very useful to insanely useful (Churchill unlock, Heavy Engies unlock). Considering what you get for the upgrade, it is not really fair to justify everything the Heavy Engineers do with "Hammer costs fuel and manpower". Well, so does Battle Phase III, which gives nothing to Grenadiers, Pioniere, or PzGrens.

I would pay good ammo per squad for the insane repair ability alone, and count myself lucky.