Profile of PanzerErotica

Even with all its shortcomings, company of heroes franchise (and dawn of war too because of similar mechanics) is far superior compared to any other rts available. For me at least.

One of the reasons is that there isn´t such a hurry in what you do, ie. you have usually plenty of time to react to things like your units getting killed (sudden squadwipes aside) and it´s more about the decisions you make rather than just being faster to manage resources/build/spam/issue commands and being everywhere at once.

The gameplay as a result feels much more relaxed than in more traditional games like starcraft or c&c where you must master superhuman amount of actions per minute (feels more like a work than game) to be able to compete.

Also the controls, and to some degree user interface, are very intuitive when compared to men of war for example. Coh mostly plays very smoothly though I admit things like lag spikes and pathfinding issues happen frequently.

On the topic, other rts games I have found quite entertaining are:
-C&C3 and RA3: I feel like both of these have aged very well, both featuring three distinctly different factions with interesting units and visually both games look decently pretty for their age. I hear there is now some third party software available for online play.
-Sins of a solar empire: games tend to take a little longer on this one but I really do enjoy it time to time. I especially love the diplomacy and research aspects of this game. Resource system is quite similar to coh and supreme commander but the overall pace is much slower.
-Wargame: different take on the realism side and scale is much larger. Not many hours logged in yet but so far I like it.

*flanking speed for t34
*temporary rate of fire boost for kv1?
*temporary accuracy / scatter bonus for is2?
*smoke barrage for kv2?
*area denial flame attack for kv8?
*merge recon mode and capture mode for t70 since they both disable main gun already

I like the idea, it would likely open up many possibilities. I would take this instead of the cold system we have now. But as WhySooSerious said, it might be better left to coh3 if one ever comes.

That's why we need hold fire instead.

Not instead. Prioritize vehicles, when it works, has been one of the best additions to units Relic has given us. Not everyone wants to micro their fragile tank destroyers and at guns like crazy when they should have no business shooting infantry altogether. If you must replace something, then make it three-way toggle (i.e. you go from fire at will through prioritize vehicles to hold fire, and then start over). Either that, or make all the appropriate units fire at vehicles only at default and infantry only when told to.

I´d like kv-2 to be more like coh1 stuh42, with a turret (check eastern front mod if you are not sure what I mean). We already have isu-152 which performs the role of a long range howitzer, so this would only make sense. You could remove the long range mode altogether and make it little cheaper in the process, with adjustments to the fire rate as well of course.